Chromium Daily Builds Add Ubuntu Global Menu Support by Default

Ubuntu global menu support has been added by default in Chromium Daily Builds. Earlier, it was more of an experimental feature as users had to enable it from about:flags page in Chromium.

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Ubuntu 11.10 Daily Builds Available Now

Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' daily builds are available now for download. You can try the images in Virtualbox or can install them on a spare system. 

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[Ubuntu 11.10 Updates] Ubuntu Classic No More an Option in GDM

Warning: The development cycle for Ubuntu 11.10 has started only few days back and most of the things are unstable and broken. DO NOT try Ubuntu 11.10 on your production system as it has not even reached Alpha 1 Milestone. In fact, I got a broken system after today's update as there are some issues with GDM and was greeted by this after I logged into Gnome session via recovery console:

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Elementary Lion: Elementary Theme, Mac Style

Elementary Lion theme combines styles of both Elementary and Mac themes into one. The theme is created by deviantARTist Dolsilwa and is available for both Classic Gnome and Unity.

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Hacker Evolution Duality : New Hacking Simulation Game Coming to Linux

Hacker Evolution Duality, new hacking simulation and strategy game developed by Exosyphen studios will be available for Linux and you can pre-order the game now for $19.95.

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Install Updated Overlay Scrollbars in Ubuntu 11.04

A new version of overlay scrollbars has been released bringing in smart edge detection behavior, new orange highlight around the thumb and many other fixes.

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Screenshots: Unity and Gnome 3 in Oneiric

This is follow up to our yesterday's post about the new Unico GTK3 theming engine in Oneiric. I will skip  providing instructions on installing the new Ambiance theme (based on Unico engine) as you will have to tweak lots of system settings using gsettings and dconf-editor. Also I think, sooner or later you will be able to change most of these settings from a GUI. 

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Meet Unico, The New GTK3 Theme Engine in Ubuntu 11.10

Gnome 3 stack is steadily landing into Oneiric. Work is also being done to port default themes Ambiance and Radiance to GTK3.

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New Version for Xnoise Brings Tags Editing and Subtitles Support

New version for lightweight music player Xnoise brings tag editing and subtitles support for video playback.

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Psensor 0.6.2.8 Released, The Best Way to Display System Temperatures in Unity

Psensor 0.6.2.8 has been released and is now available in its unstable repository. Psensor is a graphical temperature monitoring tool for Linux. Psensor has already been added to Ubuntu 11.10 archives so it will be available to download from software center in Oneiric.

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