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As you probably know, the Unity notification area (systray) whitelist is no longer available in Ubuntu 13.04 so you can’t whitelist applications to be able to use the systray. If you can’t live without an application that still uses the old notification area, here’s how to get the Unity systray whitelist back in Ubuntu 13.04 [...] Ubuntu 13.04 will be available for download in a few hours and since many of you will be installing it as soon as it’s released, here are 7 useful things you can do right after the installation.1. Tweak Unity.Unity Tweak Tool is a pretty new application that’s available in the Ubuntu 13.04 repositories, which you [...] Google Chrome can’t be installed in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (fresh install) for now because of a missing dependency: libudev0. Until Google fixes this, here’s how to install the missing dependency so you can use Google Chrome (any version) in Ubuntu Raring. You can use Chromium instead of Google Chrome, but you won’t get the extra [...] Some Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail users are having issues with Skype not starting when using the proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers (it crashes / segfaults). So here’s a work-around you can use to get it to work until this is fixed in Ubuntu / Skype.Get Skype to work In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (with proprietary Nvidia [...] Like I was telling you a while back, Gvfs has been updated in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, bringing a new MTP backend which allows users to access Android 4.0 devices which do not support the USB Mass Storage protocol, along with many other changes. Since it’s unlikely for the latest Gvfs (1.15.2) to be backported [...] Facebook doesn’t currently work with Gwibber (the Facebook feeds aren’t updated – bug HERE) and this bug affects Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and probably older Ubuntu versions as well.There is, however, a work-around which I can confirm it works for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal and 12.04 Precise Pangolin – so here’s how to apply it and [...] If you’re using Steam for Linux beta on 64bit, chances are you can’t watch game trailers because Steam can’t find Flash Player and you get a message similar to the one below:”You need to have a specific Flash Player installed to view video content in Steam. Please follow these directions to get the right version [...] It’s time for another fix, this time for wired / wireless network not working after resume from suspend. In Ubuntu, sometimes when resuming from sleep, the wired network doesn’t work and I keep getting “disconnected” notifications. I’ve read that some users are having similar issue with the wireless connection but for me, it’s always the [...] Some Ubuntu users are reporting LightDM errors when using a SDD: about half the time when starting the computer, LightDM (the default Ubuntu display manager) doesn’t load correctly and only a black screen and a blinking command line cursor shows up. The issue isn’t limited to those who are using a SSD, but it’s a [...] Google Earth 7 was released more than a month ago, however, the new version doesn’t work for most Linux users. Here’s how to run Google Earth 7 on Ubuntu right now.Google Earth 7 (7.0.1) features new 3D imagery and a virtual tour guide which highlights interesting places around the world. You can read the official [...] There are various reasons why you may need to find out to which PPA a package belongs to, for instance, in case a package in a PPA breaks something on your system, if you want to install a package which is already installed on your computer on some other machine but you don’t know the [...] If you’re experiencing screen tearing in Xfce 4.10, you’ll be glad to know there’s a patch that fixes this, which you can install right away.The patch adds Sync to VBlank support to the Xfwm compositor and while it’s not perfect, it should fix most of the tearing on computers using Intel GPUs (might work with [...] Sputnik Kernel PPA is an official Canonical Hardware Enablement Team PPA that provides an updated Linux Kernel which fixes some Dell XPS 13 laptop issues on Ubuntu:Backlight brightness not adjustable by default on Dell XPS 13 laptops: bug #954661 (this fix may also work for other laptops with Intel graphics processor that are having this [...] |
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