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• for input sources, HandBrake supports most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection;
• supported outputs:
• file containers: MP4 (M4V) and MKV;
• video encoders: H.264 (x264), H.265 (x265) MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), VP8 (libvpx) and Theora (libtheora);
• audio encoders: AAC,, MP3, Flac, AC3 and Vorbis;
• device presets;
• title / chapter selection;
• chapter markers;
• queue up multiple encoding jobs;
• subtitles support (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT);
• constant quality or average bitrate video encoding;
• video filters: deinterlacing, decomb, denoise, detelecine, deblock, grayscale, cropping and scaling;
• live video preview;
• comes with graphical and command line interfaces.

Install HandBrake with Unity patches in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10 and 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mdeslaur/handbrake
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake

• Extra Pane feature (can be enabled via View menu or using the F3 key) as well as an option to always start in split-pane mode;
• Unified, configurable toolbar: you can add/remove the following: up icon, refresh icon, toggle button for the location bar / path bar, home icon, computer icon and search icon;
• Treeview sidebar option;
• Detachable tabs;
• Re-worked statusbar with zoom controls as well as options to toggle displaying the places sidebar, treeview or completely hide the sidebar;
• The  main toolbar, menubar and statusbar can be hidden;
• Option to show the full path in the titlebar and tab bars;
• Displays an "elevated privileges" banner when running as root;
• Built in "Open as root" context menu item which uses pkexec instead of gksu;
• Built in "Open in terminal" context menu item;
• Added GTK bookmarks to the MoveTo/CopyTo context menus;
• Added "Set as Wallpaper" to the context menu;
• Switch view buttons on the toolbar (Grid, List and Compact views);
• Drag and drop support for the bookmarks in the sidebar;
• Sidebar: indicators under each drive, displaying the free/used space;
• Type-ahead find feature similar to the one removed from Nautilus starting with version 3.6;
• Collapsable sidebar categories;
• List view:
• columns are now re-orderable by drag and drop;
• you can now right-click a column heading to add or remove visible columns quickly;
• Improved the Open With dialog - you can now add custom mime-type handlers on the fly;
• Much more!

Nemo dual pane and an "elevated privileges" banner displayed when running Nemo as root

Toolbar options

Nemo Unity integration

Nemo Media Columns extension adds new audio and image tags to the List View

Install Nemo file manager in Ubuntu (Unity)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/nemo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo nemo-fileroller

Optional: install Nemo extensions

sudo apt-get install nemo-compare nemo-dropbox nemo-media-columns nemo-pastebin nemo-seahorse nemo-share nemo-emblems nemo-image-converter

sudo apt-get install nemo-rabbitvcs

Nemo Terminal extension

sudo apt-get install nemo-terminal

killall nemo
nemo

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0

sudo apt-get install git automake
sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus
git clone https://github.com/daschuer/nemo.git
cd nemo
git checkout generic
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Optional: Set Nemo as the default file manager

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true

xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

sudo apt-get remove nemo nemo-*
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/failsdownloadsteam-nemo-*.list

Install Unity LauncherSwitcher

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vlijm/lswitcher
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lswitcher

• added a plugin manager which allows easily enabling and disabling Nemo actions, extensions and scripts;
• all toolbar buttons now use symbolic icons (except pathbar icons);
• simplified context menus (with an option to show all available actions);
• improved thumbnail generation;
• bookmarks are now sortable;
• improved Preferences dialog;
• fixed support for org.freedesktop.FileManager1 dbus interface - this should allow apps that support opening a folder and highlighting a file in that folder to work properly (like Firefox - clicking on the folder icon from Downloads);
• added a simple transition when toggling the location bar/pathbar;
• show icons for templates in the "create new document" menu;
• show location entry when "/" is entered;
• file operations (such as 'copy') now use a queue system (paused until the previous job completes however, you can manually start new jobs).

• in the Plugin Manager, you'll notice two "Change Desktop Background" Nemo actions - that's because one is for Unity and one for GNOME (Shell) and it's only used if you enable Nemo to draw the desktop;
• the "Create a new launcher here..." Nemo action only shows up in the Nemo context menu on the desktop and it requires gnome-panel to be installed or else it won't work.

Install Nemo 2.6 (with Unity patches and without Cinnamon dependencies) in Ubuntu

• Launcher look: change size, opacity, background color;
• Launcher behaviour: change visibility, reveal trigger, edge responsiveness, reveal pressure, autohide animation, urgent animation, launch animation, backlight mode;
• Dash: change size, blur, enable or disable apps available for download, recently used apps, search all files, online search results;
• Panel: change opacity, opaque if maximized, show real name on the panel, show/hide battery status;
• Indicators: show/hide bluetooth and sound indicators, set which media players are ignored by the Ubuntu sound indicator;
• Windows: set minimize animation, overlay scrollbars behaviour (including an option to disable it), enable/disable global menu, HUD, click to focus, auto raise, set the automaximize value, enable LIM;
• Fonts: change the font (for the desktop, window title, monospaced, etc.), hinting and antialiasing;
• Desktop: change the number of workspaces, enable/disable icons on the desktop, shortcut overlay, alt-tab behaviour, set the next monitor pressure
• Themes: options to change the theme: GTK, window, icon or cursor theme. There's also an option to force low graphics mode;
• GTK: show mnemonics, display icons in buttons or menus, cursor blink
• Keyboard: position of Ctrl, compose, Euro and Rupee keys, layout of numeric keypad;
• Privacy: disable online search results, change the SmartScopes base URL, enable/disable Zeitgeist, HUD usage data and Ubuntu GeoIP service, clear recently data.

Install Unsettings in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unsettings

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Unity changes in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr final beta

• Ubuntu 14.04 ships with Unity Control Center and Unity Settings Daemon, forked from GNOME Control Center and GNOME Settigns Daemon so it doesn't interfere with Ubuntu GNOME;
• Unity now uses GTK3 CSS themed window decorations, instead of the Compiz decorations. The new decoration support full GTK 3 theming and they introduce improved resizing speed and anti-aliased corners as well as a fix for an old regression: the panel is now right-clickable when a window is maximized with global menu enabled, displaying the same menu that's available when right clicking an unmaximized window titlebar (lets you minimize, unmaximize, set the window always on top, move to workspace, etc.);
• two years after this feature was first announced (and then abandoned), Unity finally got locally integrated menus (LIM). Locally integrated menus are displayed in the window decorations for unmaximized windows, instead of the default Unity approach which is to display the menu on the top panel. There is one thing that the default Unity menu and LIM have in common: both are displayed on mouse over and there's no option to make the menu permanently visible, at least not yet. LIM can be enabled via System Settings > Appearance > Behavior > Show the menus for a window > in the window's title bar;
• Unity Spread (triggered by clicking on an application icon in the Launcher which already has focus and has multiple windows or for all open windows, by pressing SUPER + W) has received support for filtering windows by title. The search field is not displayed by default in the Unity Spread, but as soon as you start typing, the windows are filtered by their title and a Dash-like search is displayed on top of the spread view;
• Unity got its own lockscreen, designed to look like the Unity Greeter (login screen);
• a lot of HiDPI work: Unity got improved support for HiDPI screens, though from what I've read, there are still some bugs regarding this (and I can't test it since I don't have an high pixel density display). The UI scale can be set from System Settings > Displays;
• you can now set Unity to allow minimizing applications by clicking their icons in the Unity Launcher. This option is not enabled by default and it can be enabled via CompizConfig Settings Manager (Unity Plugin > Launcher > Minimize Single Window Applications (Unsupported)). This feature only works for single-window applications so if an application has two windows, it won't work;
• "live" window resizing. Until now, resizing windows in Unity would only display a frame with the new window size and the actual resize would only happen after you were done resizing the window but starting with Ubuntu 14.04, the windows are resized in real time;
• the default Ubuntu 14.04 themes (Ambiance and Radiance) no longer use window borders;
• Unity global menu can now be disabled for individual applications (via Dconf for now);
• the Unity launcher can be scaled down to 8px.

Borderless window decorations

HiDPI (UI scale) settings

Locally integrated menu settings

Locally integrated menu (LIM)

The new Unity lockscreen

Anti-aliased window corners

The new Unity Spread filter

Other changes

Type-ahead is used by default in Nautilus, instead of recursive search

• libimobiledevice was updated to the latest Git code, so it now supports iOS 7 properly.;
• the volume can now go past 100% (see System Settings > Sound);
• the Ubuntu Sound Menu icon turns red if it's muted and some application, like a music play for instance, plays some music / sounds;
• Nautilus was updated with a patch that allows switching between the type-ahead find (interactive search) feature that was available in Nautilus 3.4 and the new recursive search that was introduced with Nautilus 3.6. Further more, the default behavior in Ubuntu was set to type ahead find, instead of the recursive search that was used in the previous Ubuntu versions (and which is default in upstream Nautilus).

Default applications

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Changes in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet final beta

• Dash, HUD and the logout dialogs now work over fullscreen windows;
• tweaks to animations for faster startup and shutdown experiences;
• fixes for various problems that occur with the nVidia proprietary driver (mostly blank or black windows);
• many bug fixes and small improvements.

Applications / packages

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systemd available but not used by default, improved hybrid graphics support, Linux Kernel features

• nvidia-prime and gpu-manager now support GDM (these changes were backported to older Ubuntu versions, but without the GDM patch that allows this);
• added support for "gpumanager_uxa" and "gpumanager_modesetting" boot parameters, so that there is an option to force NVIDIA Optimus systems (that don't work well with Intel/SNA) to use either Intel/UXA or modesetting);
• allow RandR offloading even without bbswitch;
• more.

• zram is considered stable with Linux 3.14; zram received LZ4 compression support;
• stable support for Intel Broadwell CPU graphics (3.14);
• the SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class was added to the Linux scheduler in version 3.14 of the Linux kernel mainline;
• faster resume from suspend;
• EFI mixed mode support: 64-bit kernels can be booted from 32-bit firmware (with Linux 3.15);
• various Nouveau improvements, including initial NVIDIA Maxwell GPU support, initial GK20A and GK110B GPU support as well as support for allowing to change the frequency of the GPU from the BIOS predefined values for nv40, nvaa, and nve0 clock types;
• Radeon performance improvements through improved APU power management have been enabled in some APUs;
• Intel Cherryview graphics support;
• NVIDIA Tegra PRIME support;
• Broadwell support for the Intel P-State driver (3.16);
• various other improvements to audio and sound, btrfs and ext4 improvements, better support for newer laptops and much more.

Applications / packages

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Changes in Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf final beta

• new dconf setting to control the delay to show the menu when pressing the Alt key;
• dragging an app from Dash to the Desktop should now work properly;
• added option to enable and disable Unity low graphics mode on the fly in CCSM or via gsettings;
• fixed issues with "Always on Top" windows and Dash / HUD.

Applications / packages

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The Telegram Ubuntu webapp uses Webogram (an unofficial Telegram Web App) under the hood and features Unity Dash integration so you can launch Telegram from Dash and also, you get Unity Launcher / Messaging menu conversations unread count.

Install Telegram WebApp in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/unity-webapps-telegram
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-webapps-telegram

Changes in Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop (Vivid Vervet)

With Ubuntu 15.04, Unity has received a minor for some, yet important change, requested ever since Unity was first introduced on the Ubuntu desktop: an option to disable the Unity menu autohide (called "always-show-menus"). This feature works with both the AppMenu (global menu), displayed on the top Unity panel as well as LIM (locally integrated menu), displayed in the window titlebar:

• Dash, HUD and the logout dialogs now work over fullscreen windows;
• tweaks to animations for faster startup and shutdown experiences;
• fixes for various problems that occur with the nVidia proprietary driver (mostly blank or black windows);
• many bug fixes and small improvements.

Applications / packages

Document Viewer (Evince)

Videos (Totem)

GNOME System Monitor & Disks

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