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My Weather Indicator, an Ubuntu AppIndicator for displaying the current weather on the panel, was updated to version 0.6.8 today, receiving numerous bug fixes as well as a few other changes.

My Weather Indicator and one of its optional desktop widgets

• displays current temperature, humidity, wind, sunrise, sunset, etc. in the indicator menu;
• supports the following weather services APIs: Open Weather Map, Yahoo!, Wunderground and World Weather Online (the last two require an API which you can obtain by registering on the corresponding website);
• weather forecast;
• multiple locations support;
• optional notifications support;
• supports imperial and metric units;
• if you need more than just an AppIndicator, My Weather Indicator can also display (optional) various weather widgets on your desktop (the current version comes with 8 different widgets).

• weather applet crashes frequently in 14.04;
• crash w/ coredump on first run in some cases;
• my-weather-indicator blocks suspend / standby on Ubuntu 14.04 in some cases;
• crash with OpenWeatherMap;
• Forecast not fitting on 1024X600 screen;
• characters outside of the widget;
• weather applet crashed on login if there is no connection;
• get_dew_point raises unhandled ValueError with negative humidity;
• widgets close when reducing all windows;
• font characters in widget showing as squares in some cases;
• added support for Vietnamese font;
• local time incorrect when 24 hr format used as system time;
• Evolution crashes with yahoo service;
• Yahoo weather service always showing forecast conditions the same as current;
• Shows all day sunrise as all day sunset;
• wrong time in Dawn/Sunrise/Sunset/Dusk (i.e. "20:60");
• weather doesn't update in some cases;
• second weather location displays wrong time by -2Hrs;
• no forecast data for the next 4 days from Yahoo;
• current weather symbol for the secondary location is wrong;
• evolution only on Second Location and not working properly;
• occasional HTTP 503 errors causes applet to stop updating;
• time not synchronized from widget to PC;
• weather applet doesn't start in some cases;
• second location missing from panel after reboot;
• incorrect icons: daytime ones displayed at night;
• day/night time weather icon problem for the second location;
• auto location not working at all;
• My-weather-indicator crashes on Ubuntu 13.10 in some cases;
• crash on startup after changing weather source;
• wrong Sunrise and Sunset time;
• more.

Install My Weather Indicator in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator python3-requests

• 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

• new commercial features:
• edit Android ID and Device ID (IMEI/MEID number) values from Genymotion;
• a new "pixel perfect" mode was added - in this mode, each pixel of the device will be displayed using only one pixel of your monitor;
• factory reset;
• clone virtual devices;
• new features for all users:
• Genymotion now supports copy/paste from the host to the virtual device, or from the virtual device to the host using Android built-in copy/paste feature;
• virtual device CPU number and memory size can now be modified from the device settings;
• bug fixes:
• you can now resume virtual devices download;
• when downloading a virtual device, Genymotion could crash if a timeout occurred. This issue is now fixed;
• the window size of the virtual device is now correctly resized to fit the host screen when rotating;
• when uninstalling Genymotion on Linux, the directory specified on installation was deleted, sometimes deleting non-Genymotion files. Genymotion now uses its own directory to fix the problem.

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• added option to switch position of categories and launchers;
• added waiting for grabs;
• allow modifier as shortcut;
• added padding to username;
• added single panel row option;
• added about entry to context menu;
• the applications are now loaded immediately;
• recognize keypad enter as return for searching;
• the menu window type hint is now set to DIALOG;
• translation updates.

Install / upgrade to the latest Whisker Menu in Xubuntu or Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

xfce4-panel --restart

• added a Soundcloud plugin;
• added the ability to clear, re-fetch and manually set cover art using the song info window;
• added support for disc and track total tags;
• various style and layout fixes;

Install Rhythmbox 3.2 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox

apt-cache policy lxsession

lxsession:
Installed: 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1.1 0
400 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

• round-trip interoperability with Microsoft OOXML, particularly for DOCX, as well as legacy RTF, has improved considerably;
• a new import filter for Abiword documents has been added;
• improvements to other import/export filters;
• a new engine for Calc - massive parallel calculations of formula cells using GPU via OpenCL are now possible thanks to the new formular interpreter;
• better integration with Windows 7 and 8, with thumbnails of open documents now grouped by application and a list of recent documents, both showing on the task bar, along with other Windows-specific improvements;
• power and enterprise users on all platforms will like the new Expert Configuration window, which has been added to the Options tab;
• new start screen with a cleaner layout that makes better use of the available space - even on netbooks - and shows a preview of the last ODF documents;
• Writer: A New default template;
• GNOME3 Application Menu integration;
• support MATE and XFCE Desktops (native Open/Save dialogs);
• a new set of icons has been included in LibreOffice 4.2. This icon set, named Sifr, was designed to reach the goal of having beautiful non-distracting icons to help the user concentrate on the document;

GNOME 3 Application Menu integration

LibreOffice Sifr icon theme (not enabled by default)

New LibreOffice start screen

LibreOffice 4.2 in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr

Download LibreOffice 4.2