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

HalfTime Emerald theme

Divergence IV “A New Hope” Emerald theme

Radial Emerald theme

LittleGlass Emerald theme

Ordinary Emerald theme

Install Emerald Window Decorator in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install emerald

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

That’s it!

Reverting the changes

sudo apt-get remove emerald

Author: Andrew
Source: www.webupd8.org

[Tech] Catalyst Leadership

I read a list post thread tonight that saddened me. I won’t say what community it is part of, or point out the participants, because it is far too common in many of our community meeting places, whether they be lists, IRC or forums. Stereotypes are used rather than names here.

Newperson speaks up, I think for the first time, wondering when a new project result will be put to use, and offering a possible sample.

Longtime Devel speaks up, using rather angry questions about how the old symbol came to be displaced.

Another Oldtimer speaks up defending the symbol, accusing Longtime Devel of being out of touch.

And on. And on. The listowners don’t redirect the discussion, and when questions are asked, they are answered angrily.

Newperson probably has departed by this point.

This seems like a small occurrence, but it is bad for every single participant, and each bystander has the power to change the conversation at each point.

This blog is a call for each of us to think about our power to influence the community spaces we inhabit, to exercise leadership, to become a catalyst for dialog, to open up trust. When I was first asked to become an IRC channel operator, I was asked to read the Freenode Philosopy: Catalysts. Whether or not you use IRC, I recommend reading this page to change your thinking about how you interact with others in your free software project. In fact, these ways of thinking about personal interaction would transform business, education and politics if put into wide use.

We know that bullying in schools can be brought to a stop by bystanders who show the courage to immediately speak up on behalf of the victim, and walk away from the confrontation. While I don’t want to label those who use abusive language as bullies, we can transform tense situations in similar ways by speaking up in a positive, calm manner, as outlined in the Catalyst page.

Labeling people as trolls doesn’t defuse the situation, or create an atmosphere of trust and dialog.

Please folks, if you are in an IRC channel, on a list, or help out on a forum: read the Catalyst page, and remind yourself often to be the change you want to see in the world. You don’t need to be an op, a listowner, or a moderator, to be a leader; bloom where you are! Our Codes of Conduct aren’t bludgeons to be used against evildoers; rather they are guides to our everyday interaction with one another.
Author: Valorie Zimmerman
Source: linuxgrandma.blogspot.com

Unity Tomboy Lens Available For Ubuntu 13.04, Supports Dash Previews

Unity Tomboy Lens - Dash preview

Install Unity Tomboy Lens in Ubuntu 13.04 or 13.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:remi.rerolle/unity-lens-tomboy
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-tomboy

If you encounter bugs, report them @ GitHub.
Author: Andrew
Source: www.webupd8.org

Sikuli (Atomation Tool Using Images) 1.0.0 Released

Sikuli supports the following actions:

• find: find, findAll, wait, waitVanish, exists;
• mouse actions: click, doucle click, right click, hover, drag and drop;
• keyboard actions: type text, click on component to gain focus and type text, paste, click on component to gain focus and then paste;
• event observation: on appear, on vanish, on change and observe.

See the documentation for how to create automated tasks using Sikuli.

Sikuli 1.0.0

• revised the main window;
• new options: no command bar, vertical split (left code, right messages), no HTML creation, do not delete unused images, image path for IDE to store images;
• improved Preview (displayed when clicking on a screenshot);
• improved dirty-handling (when the script is edited but not saved): Sikuli is now aware of changes in Preview, there’s an option to autosave before run, etc.;
• the auto update feature is now be aware of beta versions;
• better error handling;
• totally revised the debug interface;
• revised the command line usage to allow running Sikuli scripts;
• command line: totally revised the ImagePath feature and the usage of ImageLocator;
• other changes and many bug fixes.

Below you can watch a quick video I’ve recorded, demoing the latest Sikuli 1.0.0 in Ubuntu 13.04:


(direct video link)

How run Sikuli in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libopencv-highgui2.4 libopencv-imgproc2.4 libopencv-core2.4 libpng12-0 libtesseract3 liblept3

• “Sikuli-IDE-1.0.0-Lnx64.zip” for 64bit
• “Sikuli-IDE-1.0.0-Lnx32.zip” for 32bit

chmod +x ~/Sikuli-IDE/{sikuli-ide,sikuli-script}

5. And finally, run Sikuli by double clicking the “sikuli-ide” file and selecting “Run”, or from a terminal (once again, assuming you’ve extracted Sikuli in your home directory):

~/Sikuli-IDE/sikuli-ide

If you want to run a Sikuli project from the command line, use:

~/Sikuli-IDE*/sikuli-script -r /path/to/project.sikuli

Download Sikuli for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.

If you encounter bugs, report them @ Launchpad.
Author: Andrew
Source: www.webupd8.org

Skype 4.2 For Linux Released With Minor Improvements And Bug Fixes

Changes in the latest Skype 4.2 for Linux:

• add subscription status and link to the account brief view in the main window;
• increased the stability when logging in from a Microsoft Account;
• add a button to enable voice message from the options dialog;
• you no longer have to re-type your password when entering via “My Account” if you are already logged-in with the client;
• when sharing the screen in a multiple monitor setup, share the one where the call window is at the moment;
• add Messenger predefined group when logged-in with your MSA account;
• create an entry point to hold a conference call from the conversations view;
• new sizes for the Skype icon.

Among the bugs fixed in this release are:

• artifacts in the contact list after changing topic or picture in a multichat;
• searching in the chat window when ‘Ignore poster names’ is set might lead to client crash;
• Skype crashes on attempting to stop sharing selection being in a call on hold
• disabling Birthday notification doesn’t work;
• clicking on certain contact request notifications lead always to the wrong contact request against ‘live’ contact;
• call hold overlay icon goes away giving the idea the call is resumed when is not;
• do not show the login window if autologin plus start Skype minimized are enabled;
• do not allow more than 256-length conversation’s topic;
• more.

Download Skype 4.2 for Linux

sudo apt-get remove skype skype-bin

cd
sudo dpkg -i skype*.deb

sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386

Author: Andrew
Source: www.webupd8.org

[Tech] Why we do this crazy thing we do

Looking through a nice blog by Andreas Schilling, I found this classic linked:

Author: Valorie Zimmerman
Source: linuxgrandma.blogspot.com

Gnome Encfs Manager: Cryptkeeper Alternative With Ubuntu AppIndicator Support

Install GNOME Encfs Manager in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gencfsm/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-encfs-manager

Author: Andrew
Source: www.webupd8.org

[Linux] Opinion: Respect in Community

Having just read Respect in Community Discussion and Debate by Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon (May 20, 2013), I couldn’t let it lie. Expect Jono to run for office sometime soon. I won’t be voting, however.

Recently there was yet another storm in a teacup (several storms in the bay, actually) that distracted us from creating and sharing Ubuntu and our flavors with others… at the heart of this case was a concern around the conduct in which some folks engaged around something they disagreed with.

‘With which they disagreed’, JB! And no, the heart of several coinciding issues is Canonical’s behaviour which, rightly, has annoyed a lot of people)


This is not the first time we have seen disappointing conduct in a debate, and I wanted to share some thoughts on this too.

(If that was disappointing to you, then get used to disappointment because Canonical has triggered a whole wave of it.)

In every community I have worked in I have tried to build an environment in which all view points that challenge decisions or decision makers are welcome with the requirement that they are built on a platform of respectful discourse; this is the essence of our Code Of Conduct. 

Irrespective of the voracity or content of an opinion we must never forget to be respectful and polite in the way we express and engage with others, irrespective of whether you are a volunteer, Canonical employee, or otherwise. Respect must always be present in our discourse, irrespective of the content of our opinions; without it we become a barbaric people and lose the magic that brought this wonderful set of minds together in the first place. There is simply no excuse for rudeness, and inflammatory FUD that has no evidence to back it up other than presumed ill-intent serves nothing but to demotive folks and ratchet up the flames, as opposed to resolve the issue and make things better.

Did anyone remind Mark about this?

Trust needs to be earned, but trust should always be built within the wider context of a set of contributions and conduct. Unfortunately some folks consider decisions they disagree with to be a basis for (a) entering into a paranoid debate about the “real reason” the individual or company made that decision (and typically not believing the rationale provided by said decision-maker) and (b) seemingly forgetting about all the other positive contributions that the person or company has contributed. I can assure you there is no nefarious scheme at place at Canonical; our goals are well known in the community. If I felt Canonical was fundamentally trying to demote and shut the community out, I wouldn’t work here; I have no interest in working for a company that doesn’t understand the value of community, and I am not worried about finding suitable employment elsewhere. I work at Canonical because I believe our goals with Ubuntu are just and the company’s commitment to our community is sincere.

Just? See China deal. Oh, sorry, you have. Just going where the money is? Great.

Glad to hear you’re sanguine about your employment prospects.

Can we just mention expectation management? You can’t blame the community for kicking off after Canonical telling everyone for the last eight years this is a Community Distro, that everyone counts, the Circle of Friends is your emblem, Ubuntu belongs to everyone: until this year we found it doesn’t.

Ubuntu is not a consensus-based community. Consensus communities rarely work, and I am not aware of any Open Source project that bases their work on wider consensus in the community. It would be impossible and impractical to notify our community of every decision we make, let alone try to base a decision on a majority view, but we do try to ensure that major changes are communicated to our leaders first (this is something we have been driving improvements in recently). We always need to find the right balance between transparency and JFDI, and sometimes the balance isnt’t quite there, but that does not mean there is some kind of illuminati-ish scheme going on behind the scenes.

Denying any Illuminati-ish schemes is all very well until you take the covers off your own secretly developed graphics engine (MIR) and cut a deal with the Chinese state to deploy Ubuntu. The former inflames the developers and the second just doesn’t reconcile with the Circle of Friends with which we began in 2006.

Community for Canonical just ain’t what it used to be. RC

Author: Robin Catling
Source: catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com

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

• Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support that works with Foreign Audio Search, can be Burned-In and can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4);
• additional video framerates: 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps;
• use some system libraries rather than bundling: fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libass, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora and libsamplerate;
• double framerate (“bob”) mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters;
• better audio remix support;
• allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate;
• allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate: 8, 11.025, 12, 16 kHz;
• audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC;
• support for x264’s preset, tune and profile options;
• updated built-in presets;
• improved Retina-resolution icons within the application.

Install HandBrake in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake

For source files, Windows or Mac OS X binaries, see the HandBrake downloads page.
Author: Andrew
Source: www.webupd8.org

[Android] Install Android Studio on Ubuntu with error of “Plugin com.intellij failed to initialize and will be disabled”

Just try to install the Early Access Preview of Android Studio on Ubuntu 13.04. But error of “Plugin com.intellij failed to initialize and will be disabled:null” happen…!

It’s due to IntelliJ IDEA need fixed installation of JDK, it have to be one of the following location:

• /usr/java
• /opt/java
• /usr/lib/jvm

Remark: After you installed JDK in the location, you have to set environment parameter point to the installed location. In my practice, I use the following commands in Terminal to update alternatives:

$sudo update-alternatives —install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/java/bin/javac 1
$sudo update-alternatives —install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/bin/java 1

where /opt/java/ is the location of my installed JDK.


Author: Andr.oid Eric
Source: android-er.blogspot.com