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Fixes to bugs encounterd after moving to Gnome 3.12 on Xubuntu 14.04

2016-02-24 / / 0 Comments

I just moved to Gnome and noticed several bugs! First of all I didn’t know how to go to sleep mode!

That was very easy, click on the right corner and hold ALT and the power off button will change to sleep. That’s great! But now that I can go to sleep mode, the computer won’t wake up!

 

It doesn’t show up anything! Just a laminated dark screen and I have to power it off to be able to use the computer!

I looked up dozens of pages without finding a single clue, many people assumed it was a video driver issue or something. It wasn’t the video driver!
The answer was right under my nose!
Coming to gnome I noticed that it still used the “ugly” login manager LightDM-GTK-Greeter. So I used the command to change the login manager to GDM, Gnome’s default login manager, that’s where the problem started!
As soon as I chose LightDM-GTK-Greeter and rebooted, I’ve been able to sleep and wake at will! No problem at all!
So that’s the fix! Install LightDM-GTK-Greeter.
First of all add it to the repositories via this command:
Then install it via this command:
Finally: Use this command to make it the default login manager.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
My problem wasn’t “fixed” 100%. I was feeling bitter-sweet!
I fixed the sleep issue, and now the extensions remain after reboot too! But the login manager is hideous! Isn’t there a way to make it pretty?
Why is it hideous you ask? It was a part of the XCFE interface and when I removed it, it lost the visual elements it had and went back to defaults. And that’s not pretty at all!
Ubutu Tweak couldn’t customize it, and the Tweak utility provided by Gnome had no options for it.
The question remained: How to customize LightDM-GTK-Greeter?
It’s very simple actually! There is a package called: LightDM-GTK-Greeter-Settings. All you have to do is to install it. And use it to customize LightDM-GTK-Greeter to look better!
I began by adding it to the repositories via this command:
Then install it via this command:
sudo apt-get install lightdm-webkit-greeter
From the menu I ran it and it needs administrator rights so I had to enter my password to start it.
I had several options to choose from like theme and position and what tabs to be displayed. It looks so much better now and it gets the job done.
Not as pretty as GDM of course, but at least it works!

In addition to the sleep and wake bug fix, and the extensions staying enabled after reboot, the Gnome classic mode loads an interface rather than just a background with a mouse cursor, but it looks the same as Gnome. I’m yet to figure that out!

My fix to that was very simple, Installing Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.4 a fresh install.

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Bugs faced after moving to Gnome 3.12 on Xubuntu 14.04

2016-02-22 / / 0 Comments

One of the major issues I felt in Gnome was the extensions installed get disabled after restart (since I can’t go to sleep anyway). The fix suggested was to use the “System default”.

 

 It didn’t fix other issues like the sleep mode not waking up and the classic mode not showing any elements, but I am tackling issues one at the time.

Message tray pop ups

Message tray, it looked big and annoying ( it responds to every mouse gesture no matter how small)

Size

It’s also very big in size, it took 5GB more than XFCE took, even with cleaners like Bleachbit, I was running low on space.

No sleep

I didn’t even know how to go into sleep mode, turns out you need to press and hold ALT while the menu is popped out to go to sleep menu.

Doesn’t wake up from sleep

I couldn’t find an explanation for this bug! The computer displays a black screen whenever waking from standby and stays that way until I turn it off manually!

No classic mode (just a background)

It only loads a mouse cursor and a background with no visual elements until I turn it off manually! No easy fix or workaround for it (yet).

Extensions won’t install

I wasn’t able to install extensions from the extension site, extensions.gnome.org even after enabling the addon in my browser and adding the site to trust list. It was resolved on it’s on.

After install won’t stay enabled after reboot

Even the extension that is supposed to make it less sensitive resets on reboot. The fix was to choose the “System default” from the login which (worked for me like many other people). It wasn’t convenient but it was an easy fix.

I’ll post that has a fix for most of these issues very soon 🙂

LibreOffice 5.1 is out! New features in here

2016-02-13 / / 0 Comments
LibreOffice 5.1 was released after months of anticipation, it’s a milestone release following the big 5.0 and it comes with it’s fair share of improvements!
Actually the list is so long I don’t know where to begin! for a full list of improvements read the list on this link.
The new interface looks remapped, and I like how it can handle remote files like the files saved on Google drive, there has been work all over, I can see that.
One of the big changes I noticed was the styles menu, which you had to navigate to under format and styling in older versions.

LibreOffice 5.1 writer menu

Adding sheet menu to calc with related functions, and image control in impress, with the redesign of master sheets.

Did you install LibreOffice 5.1? Did you like what you saw?

*Update: I had to delete the configuration file of the old versions to fix some old issues like the webpage wizard crash, and to see the changes in looks.

Openshot 2.0.6 beta 3 review

2016-02-11 / / 0 Comments
Openshot is a free and open source video editing program, known for it’s ease of use, it’s popular on Linux (frankly there aren’t many other options in that division) and it has been on version 1.4.3 for quite sometime now!

Recently Open shot 2.0 was released as a Beta for people who funded the kickstarter campaign back in 2013, and today it was released for the public. I downloaded it and gave it a spin.

Openshot 2.0 main interface 
Openshot is cross platform, which means you can enjoy it on any platform you work on, and it’s also free of charge, I’ve been using the older version 1.4.3 and it’s easy to use, all you have to do is read the included help file and you are good to go. The new version is even easier to use!

What’s new with the new version?

t comes with it’s fair share of improvements, and if you like to read them all you can go to the announcement page on the developer site, I think the most important feature is the autosave and recovery after crashes, it’s been quite a hassle to lose your work between saves, so saving automatically is something good!
t still crashes, a lot! It crashed several times while testing for this post! It’s a beta and I understand work needs to be done, but crashing like that is very bad..
‘m planning to post more about open source multimedia tools, this was the video editing tool, it’s still needs work to do but I think it’s a good project and a good effort!
hope the final version is ready in time for the release of Ubuntu 16.04, that will be awesome! 

Download 

I wouldn’t recommend installing

it now being a beta and all,  but if you want to give it a go, I’ll be sharing the links!

Download for Windows, an installer

(Direct download). 

Download for Mac, a dmg file.

(Direct download). 

Download for Linux provided a PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/libopenshot-daily

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

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