Package: baobab Description: GNOME disk usage analyzer Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven application to analyse disk usage in a GNOME environment. It can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). It also auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device. Disk Usage Analyzer also provides a full graphical treemap window for each selected folder. Homepage: live.gnome.org

en.wikipedia.org In graphical computing, a desktop environment (DE) commonly refers to a particular implementation of graphical user interface (GUI) derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed specific operating system (OS) features. The GUI usually does not afford access to all the many features found in an OS. Instead, the traditional command-line interface (CLI) is still used when full control over the OS is required in such cases. A desktop environment typically consists of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers and desktop widgets (see Elements of graphical user interfaces and WIMP). A GUI might also provide drag and drop functionality and other features that make the desktop metaphor more complete. A desktop environment aims to be an intuitive way for the user to interact with the computer using concepts which are similar to those used when interacting with the physical world, such as buttons and windows. While the term desktop environment originally described a style of user interfaces following the desktop metaphor, it has also come to describe the programs that realize the metaphor itself. This usage has been popularized by the Common Desktop Environment and the K Desktop Environment.

Getting a classic GNOME desktop in Ubuntu 12.04 is incredibly easy.

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In this HakTip we’re setting up Festival for the GUI in Linux

Preview of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin. In this video I show the new Heads Up Display (HUD) and Unity 5. HUD provides a method of accessing Application Menus via the Keyboard and typing the function that you want, it also learns from previous selections that you’ve made. At the moment Its in development and doesn’t work well in all programs. New features on Unity 5: Custom Colour on Unity Bar and Dash Switch Blur effect on & off on the Dash Unity Bar less sensitive when moving mouse to the left-hand side (no more making the Unity bar appear when trying to press Back button in Firefox) Other new features coming to Ubuntu 12.04: LTS Supported for 5 years Better support for Dual Monitors Global Menu can be switched off Unity Lens for using on Smart TVs Multiple Screenshots in Software Centre Customise wallpapers in Light DM wiki.ubuntu.com

Package: dconf-tools Description: simple configuration storage system – utilities DConf is a low-level key/value database designed for storing desktop environment settings. This package contains the command line tools. Note that DConf is not connected with the older Debian package named dconf. Homepage: live.gnome.org ****** Description: Cinnamon desktop Cinnamon redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME. Later, it will introduce a new applets eco-system and offer new solutions for other desktop features, such as notifications and contacts management. Cinnamon is intended to replace functions handled by the GNOME Panel and by the window manager in previous versions of GNOME. Cinnamon has rich visual effects enabled by new graphical technologies. Homepage: live.gnome.org

Hi all first of me short shorts on Ubuntu Linux 11.10 and what a fab os it really is, and all this running off an 8Gb USB drive…….how bloody kewl is that. Just bought a few 8Gb sticks so I can do me reviews and shorts live as I hate virtual box, enjoy all.

Hi all here we use our live Puppy Linux Lucid 5.28 running on a USB pen drive and we back it right up to me Ubuntu HD on me PC, kewlio or what, oh yea took me about 2 mins hehehhehe, terrible thing you know…………ENVY.

A video captured with Kazam Screencaster showing Cinnamon a fork of Gnome 3 created by the Linux Mint Team… www.linuxmint.com launchpad.net cinnamon.linuxmint.com