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Terminal Emulator `Terminator` Sees New GTK3 Pre-release 1.91

| Date: February 27, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: gtk3, terminal emulator, terminator, utility

Version 1.91 (GTK3) of the powerful terminal emulator Terminator was released yesterday, bringing a few enhancements, as well as numerous fixes.
Terminator terminal emulator

Tilix (Previously Terminix) 1.5.0 Released With Initial Bookmarks Support, Other Improvements [PPA]

| Date: February 20, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: gnome, gtk3, linux, terminal emulator, terminix, ubuntu, utility

Terminix 1.5.0 (update: the app is now called Tilix) was released recently and it includes initial bookmarks support, a reworked terminal menu, a new feature to raise a notification when inactivity is detected after a specified period of silence, and more.

Terminix terminal emulator

Terminix is a GTK3 tiling terminal emulator. The application allows splitting terminals horizontally and vertically, arranging them using drag'n'drop, save and restore terminal layouts and more.

The so called "Quake" mode feature is also supported. Using this, Terminix behaves like a drop-down terminal, invoked and hidden using a key.

Add A Searchable Command Palette To Any GTK3 Application Using Plotinus

| Date: January 18, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: customization, gtk3, hud, linux, tweaks, ubuntu

Plotinus is a library that adds a searchable command palette to any GTK+ 3 application, similar to the Atom and Sublime Text Command Palette feature (or Unity HUD).

Plotinus with Gedit

gtk3-nocsd (Module To Disable Client-Side Decorations) Sees New Release

| Date: June 02, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: customization, gtk3, tweaks, ubuntu

gtk3-nocsd is a module used to disable client-side decorations, either globally (for all applications) or only for certain applications.

Audacious Switches Back To GTK2, Adds New Qt-Based User Interface [Audacious 3.6 Alpha 1]

| Date: December 10, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: audacious, gtk3, linux, music player, qt, ubuntu

Audacious is a fast audio player that focuses on high audio quality and low resource usage, which comes with a pretty large plugin list and until now, it shipped with two interfaces: a GTK+ interface and a Winamp 2.x like interface (and so, it supports Winamp 2.x skins).

As we pointed out a while back, the Audacious developers aren't very happy  with GTK3 and for the latest Audacious 3.6 alpha 1, released recently, they've switched back to GTK2 by default. 

Also, since the long-term goal is to completely switch to Qt, Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 includes a new Qt5-based user interface which is already usable, but not as feature-rich as the GTK+ interface. The new Qt interface can be installed alongside the already existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces.

How To Disable GTK3 Client-Side Decorations (Header Bars)

| Date: August 26, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: customization, fix, gnome 3, gtk3, linux, tips n tricks, ubuntu

Starting with GNOME 3.10, some GNOME applications have switched to "header bars" or "client-side decorations". These CSD (client-side decorations) don't work properly in some desktop environments / shells - for instance, in Ubuntu 14.04, Unity doesn't support CSD and because of this, some applications look broken. Luckily, there is now a relatively easy way (unofficial) of disabling client-side decorations. Read on!

Spice Up Your Linux Desktop With The Moka Project GTK / Icon Themes

| Date: May 27, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: customization, eyecandy, gnome shell, gtk3, linux, moka, themes, ubuntu

Many of you are probably already familiar with the Moka Project but, since I never covered it, and the project has evolved a lot recently, I though I'd write an article about it now.

Stark Ceru GTK theme / Faba Ceru icon theme in Unity (Ubuntu 14.04)

Moka started as a single icon theme but it has evolved into an entire project which includes multiple GTK and icon themes for the Linux desktop as well as icon themes for Android, all designed / developed by +Sam Hewitt.

Currently, the Moka Project consists of 3 beautiful GTK themes (Moka, Orchis and Stark) and 3 icon themes (Moka, Faba and Faba Colors) for Linux desktops, accompanied by a GNOME Shell and a Plank theme.

GTK 3.10 Lands In Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

| Date: December 10, 2013 | View Comments | Tags: gnome 3, gtk3, Trusty Tahr, ubuntu

Ubuntu Trusty GTK 3.10

Despite Sebastien Bacher's (software engineer at Canonical) initial proposal to stay on GTK 3.8 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, GTK 3.10 landed in the Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr proposed repositories.

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