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How To Install Emerald In Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 Or 12.04 [PPA]

Emerald Window Decorator development may have stopped and the package is no longer available in the Ubuntu repositories for a few releases, but there are users who want to continue using it, so to make it easier to install, I uploaded Emerald to the main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04.
Emerald is a window decorator for Compiz that allows full composite window decorations. There are many themes out there that come with frames, titlebars, buttons and so on that you won’t see in other window decorators, this being the main reason why Emerald was so popular a while back. Emerald is also highly customizable.

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Unity Tomboy Lens Available For Ubuntu 13.04, Supports Dash Previews

Unity Tomboy Lens has been updated to work with the latest Unity available in Ubuntu 13.04. Also, the lens now supports Dash previews so you can quickly take a look at your note contents by right clicking the note in Dash.

Unity Tomboy Lens

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Sikuli (Atomation Tool Using Images) 1.0.0 Released

Sikuli is a tool available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X which automates tasks using images: you take a screenshot of what you want to click, right click, hover, drag and drop and so on and Sikuli performs those actions automatically, when you need it, either by using the GUI or running it via command line.

It can be useful for running repetitive tasks automatically, running some actions remotely via the command line and so on.

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Skype 4.2 For Linux Released With Minor Improvements And Bug Fixes

Skype 4.2 Linux

Skype 4.2 for Linux has been released today and it includes various bug fixes, increased stability when using a Microsoft Account, optimized Voice messaging as well as some minor new features.

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Gnome Encfs Manager: Cryptkeeper Alternative With Ubuntu AppIndicator Support

Gnome Encfs Manager (GencfsM) is a tool to manage EncFS filesystems. The tool is a great alternative to Cryptkeeper (but with some extra features), which can’t be used in Ubuntu 13.04 unless you install a patched Unity to support the old systray whitelist.

gnome encfs manager

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Quelques améliorations après installation de la 13.04

Depuis quelques mois, il semble que la tendance soit à des interfaces simplifiées, dépouillées parfois et offrant d’origine peu de possibilités de customisation. C’est le cas de Gnome que j’utilise et en particulier de Nautilus. Mais c’est aussi la tendance en dehors de la sphère Linux si on en croit la nouvelle présentation de Google plus, sortie il y a quelques jours et qui offre aussi une nouvelle version très dépouillée.
Certaines des décisions prises m’horripilent car c’est souvent des fonctions qui disparaissent. Dans ce cas, je tente de les retrouver par loi-même. C’est le cas de certaines que je présente ici.

Réinstaller gksu

Bizarrement, depuis la version 13.04 d’Ubuntu, le paquet gksu n’est plus installé d’origine. Cela veut dire que vous ne pouvez plus utiliser gksu ou gksudo pour lancer une application depuis une ligne de commande. Ce n’est pas très grave en soi mais quand on utilise régulièrement la ligne de commande, ce choix de ne plus l’installer est étrange. Pour retrouver gksu et gksudo, il suffit d’installer le paquet gksu:

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Video Transcoder `HandBrake` 0.9.9 Released With Blu-ray Subtitle Support, More

Handbrake, a free, open source video transcoder for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, has been updated to version 0.9.9 recently, getting Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support, better audio remix support, updated built-in presets, additional video framerates and more.

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Desktop Search Tool `Recoll` Updated With Significant Improvements

Recoll

Recoll is a full text search tool for Linux that comes with a Qt GUI, an Ubuntu Unity Lens and it can also be used via command line. The application can find keywords inside documents as well as file names.

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Install Weather Indicator With New Location And Forecast Fixes In Ubuntu

Weather Indicator used to be one of the most popular Ubuntu appindicators but unfortunately, it doesn’t work properly any more: it crashes when trying to add a new location and the weather forecast doesn’t work – because of this, it was even removed from the Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) official repositories.
Weather Indicator

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Get Better Linux Desktop Performance And More With pf-kernel

tux logo

pf-kernel is a custom Linux Kernel that comes with some popular patches not merged into the mainline Kernel, such as:

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