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Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus Beta 1 Flavors Available For Download

| Date: February 24, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: kubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu budgie, ubuntu gnome, xubuntu, Zesty Zapus

The official Ubuntu 17.04 flavors are available for download. Here's a quick look at what's new in the latest 17.04 beta release of Ubuntu Budgie, Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, and Kubuntu.

Alternative Global Menu For MATE And Xfce: Vala Panel AppMenu [PPA]

| Date: February 16, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: customization, global menu, linux, mate, tweaks, ubuntu mate, vala panel appmenu, xfce, xubuntu

A while back I wrote about TopMenu, a panel plugin that provides global menu (AppMenu) support for MATE, then also included support for Xfce and LXDE.

The problem with TopMenu is that it only partially supports GTK3, it doesn't support LibreOffice, and with Ubuntu 16.04, it doesn't support Qt (4 or 5) applications.

Here's where Vala Panel AppMenu comes in.

Vala Panel AppMenu is a global menu panel applet for Xfce, MATE and Vala panels, which uses unity-gtk-module as its backend, and it works with all the applications supported by Unity's AppMenu.

Global Menu Linux Mint Vala Panel AppMenu

Recent Notifications Indicator Lets You Access Missed Desktop Notifications

| Date: November 18, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: appindicator, customization, featured, linux, notifications, recent notifications, ubuntu, ubuntu mate, unity, xubuntu

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.

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

| Date: November 10, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: notifications, xfce, xubuntu

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.

How To Install Avant Window Navigator In Ubuntu 16.04 Or Linux Mint 18

| Date: September 07, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: avant window navigator, customization, dock, lubuntu, ubuntu mate, xubuntu

Avant Window Navigator is a dock / task manager for Linux, which was very popular a while back. Its developers lost interest with the introduction of Unity, and after several years of inactivity, the project was taken over by a new maintainer.

Unfortunately, the new maintainer isn't too active either, but at least Avant Window Navigator was updated to work with recent Linux distributions.

Avant Window Navigator Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

Mike Baum created an Avant Window Navigator PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18, because the official AWN PPA wasn't updated in a while.

There are a few AWN applets from this PPA that can't be installed, so I decided to rebuild the packages in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Update: I added Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17.x packages to the PPA.

Multiload-ng 1.2.0 Released With Color Schemes Support, More

| Date: August 30, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: applets, lubuntu, lxde, mate, system monitor, ubuntu mate, xfce, xubuntu

Multiload-ng, a graphical system monitor for Xfce, LXDE, and MATE panels, was updated to version 1.2.0 recently, getting color schemes support, a redesigned preferences window, and more.

Multiload-ng

Alternative System Monitor Applet For LXDE, Xfce, And MATE: Multiload-ng

| Date: August 15, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: applet, customization, linux mint, lubuntu, lxde, mate, ubuntu mate, xfce, xubuntu

Multiload-ng is a GTK2 graphical system monitor for the Xfce, LXDE, and MATE panels, forked from the old GNOME Multiload applet. It can also run in a standalone window.

Multiload system monitor Lubuntu LXDE

How To Get A Unity-Like HUD (Searchable Menu) In Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint, More

| Date: June 24, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: customization, desktop environment, hud, linux mint, menu, tweaks, ubuntu mate, xubuntu

You're probably familiar with the Unity HUD, or Head-Up Display, which lets you search through and application's menu. Thanks to Rafael Bocquet's i3-hud-menu (and J.A. McNaughton's fork), you can use this menu search feature in pretty much any desktop environment (and in any Linux distribution in which you can install unity-gtk-module).

i3-hud-menu allows searching and navigating through an application's menu using the keyboard, with the use of dmenu (dmenu doesn't have mouse support by default). Here's how it looks like in Xubuntu 16.04:

i3-menu-hud Xubuntu

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