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• 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

GNOME 3.16 video

Changes in GNOME 3.16

• OpenGL support;
• GTK+ now includes a display system backend for the Mir display server;
• themes can now simultaneously support multiple GTK+ versions, by including version-specific CSS;
• a new widget called GtkPopoverMenu was added and it can be used for creating menus contained with popovers;
• many GTK+ Inspector changes including a much improved user interface.

• the initial setup assistant now includes a section on privacy controls;
• updated high contrast accessible theme;
• search has been added to the standard file chooser dialog;
• Wayland improvements, such as support for input configuration and pointer barries - with these changes, the Wayland port is "approaching its final stages";
• many other minor improvements and tweaks.

GNOME applications

• contact search: if contacts have address information associated with them, you can search for them directly from Maps
• improved state handling: Maps now gracefully responds when there is no network connection, or when location services are turned off
• route drag and drop: it is now possible to adjust routes by dragging them on the map

• Calculator now displays previous calculations so you can easily copy previous figures;
• Boxes comes with an updated properties interface, a new menu makes it possible to send keyboard shortcuts that cannot be entered directly into a box and more;
• smart playlists have been added to Music, so you can view frequently played and recently added tracks. It is now also possible to star your favorite tracks;
• Photos and Music have received performance improvements;
• improved GNOME Document Viewer sidebar;
• in Contacts, maps are now shown for contact addresses;
• automatic codecs installation has been integrated into Software;
• two new games were added: a sliding blocks game called Taquin and 2048.

Getting GNOME 3.16

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

Download Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)

TopMenu - GTK2 app

TopMenu - GTK3 app

TopMenu - Qt app

TopMenu Firefox extension

• TopMenu is not considered stable and according to its homepage, GTK3 is only partially supported, so you may encounter bugs or it may not work at all for you;
• I had to tweak TopMenu GTK3 to render properly (some colors were hard-coded and it didn't respect the panel colors) but it's still not perfect and some stuff won't look properly - for instance, when using a transparent panel;
• if you want to remove TopMenu installed from our PPA, use "purge" instead of remove (this should completely remove it: "sudo apt-get purge libtopmenu-*") - that's required to remove the script the package adds under /etc/profile.d/;
• the PPA provides the latest TopMenu from Git;
• TopMenu from our PPA only works with MATE 1.8. To be able to use it in Ubuntu 14.04 (if you don't use Ubuntu MATE 14.04), you'll have to install the latest MATE via PPA.

How to get a global menu under MATE 1.8 with TopMenu in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/mate
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-topmenu-applet

sudo apt-get install libtopmenu-gtk3 libtopmenu-qt topmenu-mozilla-extension

1. Install Ubuntu AppIndicators (applets)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calendar-indicator

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-indicator

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

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install variety

sudo apt-get install indicator-cpufreq

2. Tweak Unity

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope', 'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope']"

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

3. Fixes

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386

sudo apt-get install sni-qt:i386

4. Web browser (Firefox, Google Chrome / Chromium) tweaks

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight-multi

sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

sudo pipelight-plugin --enable widevine

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

5. LibreOffice tweaks

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr

6. Nautilus "tweaks"

Recursive search

Type-ahead find

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search false

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search true

7. Nvidia Optimus tweaks

sudo apt-get purge bumblebee*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install prime-indicator

8. Laptop tweaks

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw
sudo tlp start

9. Install codecs, Java and encrypted DVD playback

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin openjdk-7-jre

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

10. Other tweaks / things to install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse

google-drive-ocamlfuse

mkdir ~/gdrive

google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/gdrive

gksu gedit /etc/default/apport

sudo service apport stop

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danjaredg/jayatana
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jayatana