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Nemo 3.4 With Unity Patches And Without Cinnamon Dependencies Available In New PPA For Ubuntu

Update: the article initially mentioned Nemo 3.2. The PPA now provides Nemo 3.4 for Ubuntu 17.04 and 16.04 (Ubuntu 16.10 is no longer supported by Canonical, so Launchpad doesn't allow uploading new packages for it).

To make it easy to go back to Nemo 2.8.0 for Ubuntu 16.04 users in case something doesn't work properly (because there were quite a few under the hood changes in Nemo), I decided to upload the latest Nemo 3.4 to a new PPA.

Nemo 3.2.0 Unity

Vivaldi Browser Sees New Stable Release

Vivaldi browser

Vivaldi, the browser aimed at power users, was updated to version 1.5 today, bringing support for bulk tab commands, smart-home lighting integration, and more.

Recent Notifications Indicator Lets You Access Missed Desktop Notifications

Recent Notifications is an Ubuntu Indicator that collects desktop notifications, displaying them in its menu. This is useful if you missed some important notification for various reasons, like being away from the computer, etc.

Ubuntu recent notifications

I've covered Recent Notifications before, however, the last article on WebUpd8 dates back to 2011, so I decided to post another article about it (and redirect the old ones to this one), especially since the indicator changed / improved since then.

Bypass ISP Website Censorship With Alkasir 2.0

Alkasir is a free, open source website censorship circumvention tool, available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Android and iOS versions are "main objectives for 2016". For now it only works with Google Chrome.

alkasir website censorship circumvention tool

Get A Live Preview Of A Window From Another Workspace With WindowSpy (Unity)

WindowSpy is a new Unity AppIndicator that allows displaying a small live (well, almost) preview of a window on another workspace.


Xfce Gets A `Do Not Disturb` Mode And Per Application Notification Settings

The Xfce developers are busy porting Xfce applications and components to GTK3, and in the process, they are also adding new features.

"Do not disturb", a much requested feature, landed in xfce4-notifyd 0.3.4 (the Xfce notification daemon) recently. Using this, you can suppress notification bubbles for a limited time-frame.

Cross-Platform RTS Game 0 A.D. Alpha 21 Available For Download

0 A.D., a free, open source historical war and economy game has reached alpha 21. The new release includes new maps, new game modes, as well as the official introduction of the Seleucid Empire.

0 A.D. alpha 21

Ubuntu Budgie Becomes An Official Ubuntu Flavor

Quick update: Ubuntu Budgie is now officially an Ubuntu flavor. The team behind Ubuntu Budgie aims at making 17.04 (expected in April, 2017) its first release.

Budgie Remix 16.10
Budgie Remix 16.10

Tilix (Previously Terminix) 1.3.5 Released With Quake Mode Improvements

Terminix (update: the app is now called Tilix) is a GTK3 tiling terminal emulator. The application allows splitting terminals horizontally and vertically, arranging them using drag and drop, along with quite a few other useful features.

Terminix terminal emulator