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Install Unity LauncherSwitcher

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

If you encounter bugs, report them @ Launchpad.

Changes in Fedy 4.0:

• fully native GTK3 UI;
• rich plugins list with icon and description;
• ability to search the plugins list;
• easy overview of what's installed and what's not;
• easy way to undo tasks;
• tasks continue to run when the window is closed;
• revamped plugin system to make it easier to write plugins (with a JSON formatted metadata file);
• for plugins downloaded from third-party sources, Fedy now tries to detect and prevent malicions commands from running.

Install Fedy

su -c "curl https://satya164.github.io/fedy/fedy-installer -o fedy-installer && chmod +x fedy-installer && ./fedy-installer"

To download the source, report bugs, etc., see the Fedy GitHub page.

Changes in Laptop Mode Tools 1.65:

• fixed grep error on missing $device/uevent;
• ethernet: replaced sysfs/enabled by 'ip link down';
• wireless-iwl-power: sysfs attr enbable -> enabled;
• wireless-iwl-power: added iwlwifi support;
• Runtime Power Management Framework is more robust now. Deprecates module usb-autosuspend;
• fixed multiple hibernate issue;
• when resuming, LMT now runs in force initialization mode;
• added module for Intel PState driver;
• GUI: implemented suspend/hibernate interface.

Install Laptop Mode Tools 1.65 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

If you don't want to add the PPA, you can download Laptop Mode Tools deb files from HERE.

Once installed, it's probably best to restart your laptop.

gksu /usr/sbin/lmt-config-gui

For other Linux distributions, see the Laptop Mode Tools downloads page.

Report any bugs you may find @ GitHub.

Flash 11.2 (Firefox) without hardware acceleration

Fresh Player Plugin (with Flash 18 from Google Chrome, used in Firefox) with hardware accelerated video decoding enabled (VA-API)

To enable hardware accelerated video decoding via VA-API and VDPAU (Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04 only), copy the example freshplayerplugin configuration file from /usr/share/doc/freshplayerplugin to ~/.config/ (and remove ".example" from the filename) - to do this, simply use the following command in a terminal:

cp /usr/share/doc/freshplayerplugin/freshwrapper.conf.example ~/.config/freshwrapper.conf

Then open ~/.config/freshwrapper.conf with a text editor, search for "enable_hwdec = 0" and change its value from "0" to "1". There are separate options for enabling/disabling VA-API and VDPAU too - look for "enable_vaapi" and "enable_vdpau" in the same file.

Install Fresh Player Plugin

If you use Ubuntu / Linux Mint and derivatives, you can install Fresh Player Plugin by using the main failsdownloads PPA. For installation and configuration instruction, see: Install Fresh Player Plugin In Ubuntu Via PPA (Pepper Flash Wrapper For Firefox)

Here are the results to expect after following the steps below:

Install and tweak the GNOME Flashback Session in Ubuntu 14.04

1. Install the Flashback GNOME session

To install the Flashback GNOME session, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-flashback

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

3. How to add applets to the panel


4. Get a Unity-like appmenu (global menu)

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-appmenu

5. Get a searchable menu: Cardapio

• fixed the GTK3 bookmarks path;
• fixed GNOME session logout/shutdown;
• fixed panel icon not being displayed
• fixed panel icon padding Cardapio using the wrong icon;
• fixed "Applet" tab in Cardapio preferences not being displayed in GNOME Flashback session.

You can install it in Ubuntu 14.04 by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cardapio cardapio-gnomepanel

Or download the debs from HERE.

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

To install it in Ubuntu 14.04, use the following commands:

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

To install Variety in Ubuntu, use the following commands:

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

Or install it from the command line:

sudo apt-get install indicator-cpufreq

Note that Cpufreq Indicator doesn't work with Intel P-State (see 8.2).

For more Ubuntu indicators, see our AppIndicator tag.

2. Tweak Unity

Or, install it in Ubuntu 13.10 via command line:

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

2.2 Privacy





To disable a plugin, click it and then simply click "Disable":

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']"

Update: Unity Tweak Tool was updated with an option to enable minimize on click for the Unity Launcher.



Or, to install it via command line, use:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Note that this feature only works with single window applications.

2.4 Try the new locally integrated menus (LIM)

3. Fixes

3.1 Get Firefox to support H.264


Before:


After:

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

3.2 Fix Skype not using the correct system theme on 64bit


Before:


After:


To fix this, you need to install the 32bit Murrine and Pixmap GTK2 engines:

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

3.3 Fix missing Skype tray icon / appindicator on Ubuntu 64bit


On 64bit, the required package to get a Skype tray / appindicator icon is not installed automatically. To fix this, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install sni-qt:i386

The Skype tray icon might disappear after you log in, but it should show up after a few seconds.

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

Then, install the Silverlight plugin using the following command:

sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

To install the Widevine plugin, use the command below:

sudo pipelight-plugin --enable widevine

A lot more about Pipelight, here: Pipelight: Use Silverlight In Your Linux Browser To Watch Netflix, Maxdome Videos And More

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

For more about this, see: Pepper Flash Player Installer For Chromium Available In The Ubuntu 14.04 Repositories




The extension is available HERE and doesn't require restarting the browser after it's installed.

5. LibreOffice tweaks

Or, install it via the command line using:

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

More info: Nautilus Type-Ahead Find Feature Enabled By Default In Ubuntu 14.04

6.2 If you don't like Nautilus 3.10, switch to Nemo



Since there are some quite a few things you should know before replacing Nautilus with Nemo in Ubuntu 14.04, I won't post the instructions here, but you can read all about it in an article I posted a while back: Install Nemo With Unity Patches (And Without Cinnamon Dependencies) In Ubuntu (it includes instructions for replacing Nautilus with Nemo, installing some Nemo extensions as well as how to revert the changes in case you want to go back to Nautilus as the default file manager).

7. Nvidia Optimus tweaks

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

7.2 Prime Indicator (requires the nvidia-prime package, see 7.1)

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

8. Laptop tweaks

8.1 Improve battery life



To install TLP in Ubuntu 14.04, use the commands below:

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

For more information, see our article on TLP.


8.2 Thermald + Intel P-State

9. Install codecs, Java and encrypted DVD playback

Or install it using the following command:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Or by using the following command:

sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra

Or by using the following command:

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

Or by using the following command:

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

And mount Goole Drive using the command below:

google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/gdrive

That's it.

More info: Mount Google Drive In Linux With google-drive-ocamlfuse

gksu gedit /etc/default/apport

and change "enabled" from "1" to "0", then save the file.

sudo service apport stop

More info: How To Get Rid Of Internal System Error Apport Popups In Ubuntu


10.3 Unity global menu & HUD support for Java swing applications

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

Once installed, log out and log back in.

More info: Get Unity Global Menu / HUD Support For Java Swing Applications With JAyatana



Since there are a few things you should know and the instructions include 2 use cases, I won't post the instructions here and instead, I'll add a link to our libvdpau-va-gl article: Adobe Flash Player Hardware Acceleration on Intel Graphics Cards