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Wildfire Games recently announced the eighteenth alpha version of its real-time strategy game 0 A.D. The code name is Rhododactylos. The new release comes with some new features: Nomad Game Mode: Players start with only some citizen soldiers and female citizens, and no civil center, and must build a base from scratch. In-Game Technology Tree: Allows players to see which ...

Xfce team recently announced the Xfce Desktop 4.12, a new stable release that supersedes Xfce 4.10. The new release comes after 2 years and 10 months of work and features: Alt+Tab dialog with optional windows preview and a list mode (Settings Manager -> Window Manager Tweaks) Xfce panel intelligently hide and GTK3 plugins support. Better multi-monitor support. Allow set different ...

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install the popular Faenza Icons set in the next Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet. Two ways: you can select install the icon set from either the source tarball or a .deb binary created by developer. Install Faenza from source package Installing Faenza icon theme from its source tarball is quite easy ...

  The default desktop wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet was announced today. Will Cooke, the Ubuntu Desktop Engineering Manager at Canonical, today posted this purple wallpaper as the official Ubuntu 15.04 wallpaper. Also there’s an alternative greyscale version:   Both wallpapers can be downloaded at bugs.launchpad.net (attachment)

BirdFont font editor reached the 2.2.0 release on 09 Mar 2015. Here’s the changes and how-to-install/upgrade instructions. BirdFont is a free font editor that lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT & SVG fonts. It is developed by Johan Mattsson with a good number of people contributing translations and patches. The editor is written in Vala and has ...

As you’ve probably already noticed, Ubuntu shows Amazon ads in Unity Dash search results. Here is the quick guide how to disable it in Ubuntu. First open System Setting on the Launcher, then click Security & Privacy. Under Search tab, turn off “When searching in the dash: Include online search results” Just so easy!

Otter Browser is a free and open-source project aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. The last update of Opera for Linux was 1 year ago, and there probably won’t be a new release. Does Opera abandon the Linux platform ? Clearly, it does! See the Hacker News. Now Otter Browser may be a good choice for Opera ...

A display manager is a program that provides graphical login capabilities for the X window system. Ubuntu uses LightDM as its default display manager since Ubuntu 11.10 Unity. If you installed Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, and/or other desktops on Ubuntu, you may have multiple display manager packages on your system. However, only one display manager can manage a given X server ...

Audacious is an open source music player with a focus on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It is the default audio player in Lubuntu and in Ubuntu Studio. Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS. Since v2.1, it includes both the ...

Clementine is an Amarok 1.4 inspired music player focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. The Ubuntu 14.04 default repositories provide Clementine 1.2.0, while the latest has reached release 1.2.3 which fixed poor search performance with sqlite 3.8 and some minor bugs. To install the latest Clementine player: use a PPA or directly download ...