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How To Install Budgie Desktop In Ubuntu 16 04 Or 15 10 Via PPA

In other Budgie Desktop news:

• Solus 1.1 was released yesterday featuring the latest Budgie Desktop and various improvements. See THIS article for more information;
• Budgie Remix is a new Ubuntu (16.04) based Budgie Desktop Linux distributions which, from what I understand, might be the foundation for a new Ubuntu flavor. Right now, this is work in progress and should only be used for testing. More info HERE.

Budgie Desktop video

(direct video link)

Install Budgie Desktop in Ubuntu 15.10 or 16.04 via PPA

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Important update for Ubuntu 16.04 users.

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:budgie-remix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install budgie-desktop

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu: ,Gtk/DecorationLayout: <menu:minimize,maximize,close>}"

Purging the PPA

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:budgie-remix/ppa

Available link for download

Grive2 Grive Fork With Google Drive REST API And Partial Sync Support PPA

• supports the new Drive REST API
• added partial sync
• major code refractoring: a lot of dead code removed, JSON-C is not used any more, API-specific code is split from non-API-specific
• some stability fixes
• slightly reduce number of syscalls when reading local files
• bug fixes

Also, just like the old app, Grive2 does NOT support:

• continuously waiting for changes in file system or in Google Drive to occur and upload. A sync is only performed when you run Grive, and it calculates checksums for all files every time;
• symbolic links;
• Google documents.

Install Grive2 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

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

If you dont want to add the PPA, you can download the deb from HERE (for Ubuntu 12.04, youll also need yajl2 - get it from HERE) but installing the debs manually means you wont receive automatic updates.

Arch Linux users can install Grive2 via AUR (its actually the old "grive" package, updated with the new Grive2 fork).

For other Linux distributions, see the Grive2 GitHub page.

Using Grive2

mkdir -p ~/grive

2. Next, navigate using the terminal into the newly created "grive" folder:

cd ~/grive

grive -a

grive -s SUBFOLDER

(replacing "SUBFOLDER" with the name of the subfolder you want to sync)

To see all the available options, type:

grive --help

Available link for download

How To Install Cinnamon 3 0 In Ubuntu 16 04 Or 15 10 Via PPA

• panel with a menu, launchers, window list, system tray;
• support for panel applets and desktop widgets (Desklets);
• supports desktop animations and transition effects;
• highly configurable: users can customize the panel (besides applets, the panel supports autohide and the panel layout can be changed: you can use one panel or two panels like the old GNOME 2 layout), easily change themes, customize desktop animations, hot corners, etc.;
• much more.

Changes in Cinnamon 3.0 include:

• window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows
• improved out of the box touchpad support (edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling can now be configured independently and are both enabled by default)
• new accessibility and sound settings (both rewritten as native cinnamon-settings modules)
• battery powered devices can be renamed
• different favorite applications can now be set for plain-text, documents and source code files
• panel launchers now include application actions
• animation effects are now enabled by default on dialogs and menus
• favorites and system options can now be disabled in the menu applet
• the photo-frame desklet now also scans subdirectories
• improved support for GTK 3.20, Spotify 0.27, Viber

Here are the new Cinnamon accessibility and sound settings:

Install Cinnamon 3.0 in Ubuntu 16.04 or 15.10 via PPA

Important: if you want to install Cinnamon in Ubuntu and youre using the WebUpd8 Nemo PPA, purge that PPA before proceeding. Also, dont add this PPA if you use Linux Mint.

The PPAs that uses to provide Cinnamon stable werent updated with the latest Cinnamon 3.0. I did find 2 PPAs with Cinnamon 3.0:

• Sunderland93s Cinnamon PPA (Ubuntu 16.04 only - its still in the process of being updated at the time Im writing this article)
• embrosyns Cinnamon PPA (for Ubuntu 16.04 and 15.10)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cinnamon blueberry

Once installed, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen:

Tweaks

sudo apt install numix-gtk-theme

• mint-themes (youll also need libreoffice-style-mint because mint-themes depends on it, as well as mint-x-icons and mint-themes-gtk3, both linked below)
• mint-themes-gtk3 (download the 3.18 version - its for GTK 3.18, available in Ubuntu 16.04)
• mint-y-theme
• mint-x-icons
• mint-y-icons
• cinnamon-themes

sudo dpkg -i ~/deb/*.deb

2. Shutdown fix

If you have this issue, fix it by using the following commands:

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind false

... and restart the session (logout or restart the system).

I should also mention that I didnt encounter this issue in Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks to Kevin @ AskUbuntu for the fix!

How to revert the changes

A) Completely remove Cinnamon 3.0

Firstly remove the PPA:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/embrosyn-cinnamon*.list

Then, to completely remove Cinnamon, you can use the following command:

sudo apt purge cinnamon* libcinnamon* nemo* libnemo-extension1 cjs libcjs0e blueberry gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0 gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 libmuffin0 muffin-common

sudo apt autoremove

B) Purge the PPA

sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon

Available link for download

GNOME Twitch 0 2 0 Adds Chat Feature Ubuntu PPA

Install GNOME Twitch in Ubuntu

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

If you dont want to add the PPA, you can grab the deb from HERE.

Available link for download

Get New Wine Features Faster With Wine Staging PPA

The latest Wine Staging provides the following extra features and bug fixes:

• CSMT (Commandstream multithreading) for better graphic performance
• CUDA / PhysX / NVENC Support for NVIDIA graphic cards
• DXVA2 GPU video decoding (experimental)
• EAX 1 support
• Fixes for various upstream regressions
• Job Object support
• Loading of .NET CLI images without entry point
• Named Pipe message mode support (Linux kernel >= 3.4 only)
• Performance improvements for IO-heavy programs and memory allocation functions
• S3 texture compression (DXTn) support
• Threadpool API support
• Various improvements to d3dx9
• Various speed improvements (shared memory, RT priority)
• Windows ACL support
• Wine PulseAudio driver

For a complete list, see the Wine Staging GitHub page.

Install Wine Staging in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64

The Wine Staging executables arent installed in /usr/bin (and arent available in your PATH by default), but under /opt/wine-staging/bin/. Thanks to this, you can continue using the regular Wine version as well as Wine Staging - to run any Wine Staging executable, simply add "/opt/wine-staging/bin/" in front of the executable, like this:

/opt/wine-staging/bin/wine
/opt/wine-staging/bin/winecfg

... and so on.

sudo apt-get install wine-staging-compat

For more information, see the Wine Staging Usage page.

Available link for download

How To Install The Latest Nvidia Drivers In Ubuntu Via PPA

Install the latest Nvidia graphics drivers in Ubuntu via PPA

1. Add the PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update

2. Install (and activate) the latest Nvidia graphics drivers



After the driver is downloaded and installed, restart your system. Thats it!

apt-cache search nvidia

or:

apt search nvidia

Available link for download