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1. is known in chromium parlance as kiosk mode and starting in kiosk mode was as simple as appending kiosk to the end of our arguments in the config autostart chromium browser desktop File and what it gets up to The show is presented by members of the UK s Ubuntu Linux community Because It Is covered by the Ubuntu Code of Conduct it is suitable For all Exec usr bin chromium browser url kiosk The show is broadcast live every Fortnight on a Tuesday evening British time and is available for Note that I ve put url in place download the following day of where that nasty URL goes With chromium loading the podcast ubuntu uk org NN Full circle magazine 62 25 B contents his month rather than discuss an actual Windows feature we ll look at Linux equivalents to Windows applications Please bear in mind that although an application may be listed as KDE it will still run in Gnome XFCE and LXDE and vice versa so don t think you re limited by your desktop So let s look at equivalents for Office including at least a word processor and spreadsheet Media Player Image Viewer Document Viewer Photoshop Outlook Express Internet Explorer and the all important Solitaire Since Kubuntu is KDE based I ll list the KDE equivalents of the LOSING WINDOWS a Duntu Equive Hle Edit View Insert Format Frames Tools Settings Help 9 tal E cx
2. CC Hits many HAM s who use Linux and love it Three logging programs APRS Automatic Packet Reporting Igate Digipeater and such I know hams would love to see an article every now and then L B Little Ronnie says Any HAM radio operators out there who d like to write an article on Linux software My Desktop ey just want you to the mag Having peeps show off their mods themes is awesome and it would be nice to have them available for download You should have a contest to see who can have the sickest theme am a HAM radio operator and Jason Gunther hanks for listing some great music sites just wanted to draw your attention to a project I run called CCHits net It s a site which promotes Creative Commons music and its artists and shows both radio and podcasts which play it The site also features daily weekly and monthly podcasts playing a track each day reviewing those tracks each week and playing a top forty chart show each month It s been running For about a year and a half with currently over 600 internal daily weekly monthly shows and know that my desktop nearly 150 externally listed shows is by far the best part of The site currently lists 644 tracks but I m always on the lookout for more great tracks Full circle magazine 62 41 Every month we like to publish some of the emails we receive If you wou
3. to you to install the proper version Allows unknown developers to park programs here so know what you re getting before committing The primary KDE package Good Can update installed programs as well as the OS itself Remove the titles and you d swear it s Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center at first glance Offers a good selection of programs Intuitive interface and nearly every program has rating up front instead of having to dig Bad Also unknown outside of Full circle magazine 62 38 KDE circles because many assume these programs can t be run the same PlayDeb net Sister site to GetDeb net above this one lists games about 100 spread out over 26 pages Offers emulators For long extinct and modern gaming systems although you ll have to cough up the game ROM chips or code to run them You can link from GetDeb net or to www playdeb net welcome Good Offers some games not Found in repositories along with website links and videos Narratives give what Ubuntu versions each game will work on instead of finding out the hard Way Bad After the fifth page so contents REVIEW the links are mainly dead and some won t install because developers defected to non deb standards No clue as to file size is tar deb or otherwise so have Alien at the ready Sometimes Windows and OS X programs g
4. congratulations and gratitude to the people involved in the development of Ubuntu and wish that their concept is compatible with the majority of the users both the skilled and the unskilled ones To my greatest sorrow it is a little late For me to learn programming so deeply that permits me to participate with the Ubuntu developers guess am helping more if continue to recruit and teach new Ubuntu USers In Full Circle Magazine issue 56 A contents UBUNTU ceo user VORE Jer enotudgn CDUTLCU VE QOC dB BNO IDL MOre Ubuntu User is your roadmap to the Ubuntu community In the pages of Ubuntu User youll learn about the latest tools best tricks and newest developments in the Ubuntu story JUN A 15 5 UF z re Wine Wey ett JN nist IS JOUN LH Neil Patel Meet Unity s sais Technical Lead e Put an Internet ready server on id your local network h MEM SSL TLS AN UNCHARTED JOU ee s The Software Center get smarter X uL E ILIT disk We review a hard drives the world 0S wars A rmultme F 5 Beating the UBUNTU USER COM SUBSCRIBE NOW Full circle magazine 62 34 M contents REVIEW Written by Art Schrekengost he most often asked question when discussing Ultimate Edition UE d
5. reduces the search time l immensely It is supposed to be the default for Unix systems but it doesn t hurt to be certain The way Ehis works is that it reads a file s modification times during the first pass so it can ignore any files that dontchmod Unison tries to keep permissions the same which ignore This option tells Unison what files to ignore In my sshargs passes arguments to the ssh session The option C tells SSH to compress any of the inFormation being sent theoretically reducing transfer time per file I haven t tested to see if this slows the entire process down since the files need to be compressed but for my rather large Music folder it doesn t take Eoo long to synchronize the changes these days Keep in mind that the first run through will take a while since Unison has to assume every file is new The first Few times you run Unison I highly recommend manually checking the sync settings for each file that pops up options are right to left left to right skip to make sure you re not losing gaining any Files you don t want Once you re satisfied with Full circle magazine 62 6 how Unison is handling it you can configure it to automatically accept non conflicting changes Do Ehis by adding auto true to the prf File You can also have Unison accept the non conflicting changes while ski
6. who are currently using the big boys Calc MS Excel might find they prefer the simple functional and blazingly fast perFormance of Gnumeric for most if not all of their work And yes both AbiWord and Gnumeric can save to a wide range of file formats for data porting including of course MS file Formats ODF CSV and LaTeX The default media players installed with Lubuntu Audacious for audio and Gnome Player audio video Don t be Fooled by the extraordinarily simple interfaces of each of these applications they are both very powerful and very good at what they do Audacious is a Fantastic audio player capable of playing a wide range of audio file types CDs and URLs It provides versatile playlists a surprising number of contents CLOSING WINDOWS XBR eo X dv PRE DP Ble 58 oO Om d 2 Scale From 0 audio effects and an audio equalizer Gnome Player is a Full media player capable of playing pretty much everything Audacious database all with some surprising and useful features can play plus DVDs VCDs and TV analog and digital The default web browser in Lubuntu is Chromium the open source version of Google s Chrome For viewing images you have GPicView a more than capable image viewer designed specifically for LXDE Although there is no web browser Sur
7. As usual the code has been put See you next time M 18 LL Greg is the owner of RainyDay Solutions LLC a consulting company in Aurora Colorado and has been programming since 1972 He enjoys cooking hiking music and spending By the way you can push y time with his family His website is directly to your smartphone or tablet in the same way contents HOW TO Written by Elmer Perry mpress is LibreOffice s presentation program and is equivalent to Microsoft Office s Powerpoint With Impress you can create professional visual presentations that include graphics pictures videos audio spreadsheets and charts Impress has a presentation wizard that is very useful for setting up a new presentation and getting you started on the right track and a main window that helps break the process down into tasks The Presentation Wizard You can create a new blank presentation by going to File gt New gt Presentation However to start the presentation wizard click on File gt Wizards gt Presentation IF you want to start with the wizard every time you create a new presentation you can turn itonin the settings While in Impress click on Tools Options LibreOffice Impress General and check Start with wizard under New document The first screen of the wizard right lets you pick from an empty presentation a template oropen an exist
8. I m going to continue expanding my preferences files as get more comfortable with Unison and will mention any further tips I discover as time goes on As always if you have any questions suggestions or comments you can reach me via email at Iswest34 Q9gmail com IF you do decide to email me please put C amp C or FCM in the subject line so that don t overlook it SOL Unison Manual http www cis upenn edu bcpier ce unison download releases stab le unison manual html usingit Ubuntu Wiki page on SSH keys https help ubuntu com communi ty SSH OpenSSH Keys 63 Lucas has learned all he knows from repeatedly breaking his system then having no other option but to dices how to fix it You can email Full circle magazine 62 7 CODEWORD Every number in the codewords grid is code for a letter of the alphabet At the end you should have a different letter in each numbered box and a word in English in each of the horizontal and vertical runs on the codeword grid COPAGO HOEK O G og 25 20 9 2 20 26 6212117 E mm mm Pap 21 5 26 15m e 2 6 29 25 15 26 10 20 K EE 23 T EU 10 25 21 aats 7 221 8 al 5 2 13 22 16 gt UN 2 NM ABCDEFGHIJKLMMOPQRSTUVWXYZ Solutions are on the second last page puzzles are copyright and kindly provided by The Puzzl
9. the presentation or not Check Create summary to create summary of your slide sections the Slide pane the Workspace pane and the Tasks pane You can hide the Slide and Tasks panes by clicking the X in the upper corner of each pane To show the panes again use View gt Slide Pane or View gt Tasks Pane Alternatively you can use the Hide Show markers circled in red the image to hide and show the panes The Slide Pane Full circle magazine 62 12 The Slide pane shows thumbnails of all the slides in your presentation in the order in which they will appear in the presentation In the Slide pane you can add delete copy paste move duplicate rename or hide slides Clicking on a slide in the Slide pane places it in the Workspace pane where you can change and modify it The Workspace Pane The Workspace pane is the main work area for editing slides You have five tabs in the Workspace pane Normal View contents HOWTO LIBREOFFICE Pt15 IMPRESS Normal View is where you make changes to individual slides Here you can add images modify and add text animation effects and more Outline View The outline view displays an outline of all the text in the default text boxes on each slide Each slide is numbered You can use the outline view to proof and change the text on your slides as well as add text t
10. 5 Enable 10 07 Sky http goo gl ryhaV is pretty much apocketsky map Youcan AstroPanel usethe GPS http goo gl HxXS1a is last but and or internal not least It s a small app that tilt sensors when given your location will give your Android you a weather forecast for several device to show days ahead with astronomical which star information such as moon general you re holding Visibility and cloud cover m lunar temp C O 00 tude 20 9 24 10 wxAstroCapture arnholm org astro software wxAs troCapture isn t technically an sd tini mes application rorstackingimages oo ee eer but For taking images to stack It gt wi t vouch for their user recognises and connects to most 191655 OF tack or your phone up to Next month I ll discuss a quick way of remote viewing your scope edi more n OpenPHD 3 SkEye http qoo ql KY5Xt is which can also be used to remotely eatures such as long exposures iF 7 supported code google com p open phd d A paio pic qud image video capture While it quiding Vinili seems to have active Yahoo i Group cue E inca Lounge Forum pygtkindiclient sourceforge net the sky 3 http tech groups yahoo com gro ahount http staraazerslounae com up wxAstroCapture the EO Pol Al ap
11. Now we ll add some more code top right 11 KB s 570 bytes in 0 046s This part of the code will look at the data passed back by the button press event We check to see if the response has a which key and if so it s a legitimate button press for us We then check to see if the result is a positive Ok button response If so we ll create another alert dialog but this time we will add a list of items For the user to choose from In this l m sure you can figure out that case we offer the user to select Select a game to play A contents HOWTO BEGINNING PYTHON 34 From a list including Checkers Chess Hangman and Thermal Nuclear War and we assign the values 0 to 3 to each item Is this starting to seem familiar Yes it s From a movie We then display the dialog and wait for a response The part of the response we are interested in is in the form of a dictionary Assuming the user tapped clicked on Chess the resulting response comes back like this Result id 12 above right result u item 1 In this case we really interested in the result portion of bottom right button presses here program As you can see SL4A gives you Full circle magazine 62 10 1 and is held in the item key Here s the next part of the code we check to see if the respons
12. Statistics Data Ge umr Book1 gnumeric Gnumeric Help Sans A1 e Hello world Eg EN B e un E Bo wu C D E Gi For word processing and Gnumeric gThumb which has the benefit of not only showing you a single For spreadsheets Both of these applications have familiar interfaces For word processing and spreadsheets and offer support For the popular document formats The media player that comes with Xubuntu is Parole which offers the basic requirements of a media player for playback as well as streaming and DVD support when you have the corresponding libraries installed In addition to this media player gmusicbrowser is also included for indexing and playback of your music collection The default image viewer is showing you thumbnails of other images in the same directory giving you a more comprehensive image browser experience Just like Gnome Xubuntu comes with GIMP for image manipulation and Evince for viewing of PDF files FireFox and Thunderbird are the web browser and email client of choice for Xubuntu Finally it pulls from Gnome s suite of games to offer Aisleriot Solitaire along with e x9 e most Linux distributions support applications regardless of the deskto
13. along with alternatives Descriptions are concise and Forums well staffed should you have more questions Unlike other OS based sites that give a listing but no way to download programs Full circle magazine 62 36 oxi Bad Unless you re using Bodhi you can t just download from the website you ll have to add the repository deb http packages bodhilinux com bo dhi to another package handler for that duty Due to bod file extension even Bodhi users must go through Firefox or Midori browsers nothing else works Dedoimedo com Devoted to providing Linux information along with program offerings this site plays equally across all offerings and it s possible to find tutorials about Suse Debian and Puppy Linux as well as Ubuntu and variants Found at http uters new cool list linux html www dedoimedo com com Good Gives in depth tutorials on how to install nearly any Linux offering while throwing a Few programs in the mix too Bad Confusing mishmash of new and old You ll see an article for the newest version of Ubuntu contents REVIEW but go to tutorials and it mentions Ubuntu 9 10 Karmic Koala is going to be released soon which makes that part about 3 years out of date not to mention offering Firefox 3 1 from 2008 Finding programs can be a trick and make sure what you choose is the
14. current version DVDs Since Canonical doesn t offer downloads of its program library at least not as a whole unit you can buy a copy at places like EBay ElectroDisc OSDisc or LinuxCD org Good No Internet connection without reliable internet service Bad You have to pay up to 30 For this free software and the average collection seems to range From 8 to 12 DVDs requiring a lot of swapping to access contents Depending upon how radical the next Ubuntu upgrade is these libraries could be outdated in as little as 6 months If it s the standard Ubuntu library you ve already got it in Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center Eve Installer oki downloaded from websites and sources outside the repositories Dumped from Ubuntu after 10 04 it can be added via Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center or through https launchpad net qdebi Great if you re in the habit of grabbing deb packages from online sources GDebi doesn t list programs as much as offering a way to install them without having to use the more bloated Ubuntu Software Center Relatively unknown this manager installer is fairly elusive although it can be downloaded via Xo y make sure you get the proper version it s offered in both English and Spanish http apticon wordpress com 201 1 05 19 eve installer 0 9 3 51 3 Good Offers repositories and sources along with a F
15. is no longer active Bad A parking lot for table of contents per se so plan on playing hide and go seek Older programs may come with dependencies no longer necessary _ While those marked as beta or standards to tar thereby canceling more to the developers than actual users many may find some of the lingo outside their realm of unstable may not work Geared knowledge LinuxAppFinder com rne manager about 90 of the included programs will work just Fine in other shells Relatively unknown outside of KDE circles for some reason Can be found in the Ubuntu repositories Recent updates have turned it into a software center package manager 3 and update manager Specializes in the listing of Linux applications but this site also comes with a listing of Linux alternatives to Windows or OS X programs and mixes free with commercial Good Wide range of programs just about the whole of what you might find in Synaptic and then some Has both free and Bad Some listings are merely links to other sites especially commercial applications Can t tell 32 From 64 bit processors so it s up outside that desktop not true Unfortunately the 1096 that won t work can really gum up your system Mainly a 11 x and 12 x proposition at this point it s nice but Synaptic offers pretty much Muon Package Manager NIU
16. is zukitwo shell The dock below is awn dock and I also added some screenlets on the right The desktop icons are custom used to be an Ubuntu user but switched to LM 12 recently Anuvab Full circle magazine 62 conrete Folder ing 16 ibems vite amp think liNUX l m running Linux Mint 12 with the Cinnamon desktop on a Gateway NV59C notebook computer Specs Intel Core i3 2 27GHz with 4GB DDR3 RAM 3 6 Usable 320GB HDD and 128MB Integrated Intel HD Graphics personally prefer dark themes and if this theme were in red would have it in red But the blue looks great too on top of the black Cinnamon Theme Dark Cold http cinnamon spices linuxmint com themes view 1 6 GTK Theme OMG Dark http gnome look org content show php OMG Suite content 149294 Window Theme OMG Light http gnome look org content show php OMG Suite content 149294 Icon Theme malys uniblue http gnome look org content show php malys uniblue content 146392 Devon Day 52 TT MY DESKTOP 5 15 g Aare City 42 ubuntu ie This is my desktop oo tat etl Bs d umen OS Xubuntu 11 10 Theme Ambiance Orange Xfce LXDE Icons Faenza ambiance System monitor Conky customized CPU Intel Core i3 2330m RAM 4GB HDD 500GB Hello I m Moussa come from C te d Ivoire I d like to use this opportunity to show you my desktop I ve used Ubuntu since 2008 and like it Sy
17. it s not a click and ignore Ailurus system Some links are dead or outdated and be wary of the junk File removal system it once attempted to remove an active kernel from my system Alien Package Converter Option for installing foreign packages outside the deb arena Alien is often passed over because it s a command line proposition The addition of the Package Converter GUI changed it from difficult option to an easy to use program Excels in taking various File packages from other Formats such as tar and converting them to deb Alien is in the Ubuntu repositories Package Converter is available at http code google com p foxoma unusual projects in here that may eventually make it to the mainstream Good When it works it can convert foreign non deb files to something Ubuntu can digest The worst it can do is refuse and no damage is done in the process This places Alien in the safe never know until you try category Bad Seems to be a 50 50 Full circle magazine 62 35 installing Software proposition with some files refusing to convert Many users who are turned off by the command line interface are cxx unaware of the GUI available with Package Converter Alioth Debian org ox Website that is a parking place for Debian Windows and Mac developmental programs Often has a
18. just as we did with ellipses last month You can also use the Select tool to move resize rotate and skew them and if you hold down CTRL while skewing a rectangle it s a lot more obvious what s happening than it is with an ellipse Now that you can create rectangles and squares why not enhance that snowman you drew last month by adding a hat and pipe Useful Links Keys and Mouse Reference http tml inkscape org doc keys048 h r Mark has been using Linux since 1994 and uses Inkscape to create two webcomics The Greys and Monsters Inked which can both be Found at http www peppertop com Full circle magazine 62 20 CODEWORD Every number in the grid is code for a letter of the alphabet Thus the number 2 may correspond to the letter L For instance All except the difficult codeword puzzles come with a few letters to start you off je 7 1 2 4 E DA 8 titit 1916 9 140 5 3 B C 7 B 3 je 1 59 la j8 F 47 __ 5 F 4 98 2 E La 121815119115 Solutions are on the second last page Puzzles are copyright and kindly provided by The Puzzle Club www thepuzzleclub com A contents HOW TO e Guidelines he single rule for an article is that it must somehow be linked to Ubuntu or one of the many derivatives
19. listing of 10 to 20 projects available For download with many being either beta or final releases Good You can find some Bad Website speed is measured in minutes and navigation is largely a matter of luck Some projects may not be ready for prime time so download anything with a great deal of caution contents REVIEW Apt Get XXe Aptitude Package Manager Command line protocol for the retrieval of programs from the Internet Requires nothing more than a terminal and the ability to type sudo apt get install plus a program name Since all Ubuntu variants come with a terminal it could be stated that apt get is standard equipment Good Requires just a terminal and keyboard Can also be used to remove programs no longer desired but see note below about exact names For those desiring older program versions over the current apt get commands can be altered for this bushel most of which aren t necessary To avoid this you must be versed in the sudo apt get install no install recommends not even aware of Requires exact program name and that may not be what you think Less effective as a method of uninstalling programs often leaves stray files and dependencies and users must know the difference between purge and remove in this category GUI front end for apt get Aptitude goes one step further by allowing users to search without having to dig thro
20. of Ubuntu Kubuntu Xubuntu Lubuntu etc Write your article in whichever software you choose would recommend LibreOffice but PLEASE SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECK IT Writing There is no word limit for articles but be advised that long articles may be split across several Non English Writers issues In your article please place where you would like a particular image to be Please do not use any Formatting in your document Images 800 pixels in JPG format and use low compression Written by Ronnie Tucker IF you are writing a review please Follow these guidelines For a more detailed list of the style rules and common pitfalls please refer to https wiki ubuntu com UbuntuM agazine Style in short US spelling 332 speak and no smilies When you are ready to submit your article please email it to articles fullcirclemagazine org IF you can t write articles but hang out in Ubuntu Forums send us interesting Forum threads that we could print IF your native language isn t English don t worry Write your article and the proof readers will read it for you and correct any grammatical or spelling errors Not Images should be no wider than only are you helping the magazine and the community but we ll help you with your English Full circle magazine 62 21 Write For Full Circle Magazine REVIEWS Games Applic
21. on the laptop and it works nicely but not the way I work The desktop installation went smoothly My primary computing environment is defined by where my real email is and where run Miro my podcast catcher I still use Evolution for email and have become expert at backing it up here and restoring it there Similarly export my web bookmarks here and import them Ehere I m chicken so I still backup my files before installing a new version even though I ve never lost anything during installation Cinnamon is not perfect I ve run into a couple of minor bugs Full circle magazine 62 47 but I could work around them I expect it will only get better Even though I test new versions distros frequently moving to a new version is not my favorite activity Like Ubuntu 12 04 Mint 13 is a long term support release It s possible I will use it until 2016 when Ubuntu 16 04 will go up against Mint 17 By then might even find a compelling reason to get a new computer My Phenom Il is almost three years old Or maybe by then we will all be using tiny low power computers based on the ARM architecture Ain t change great M a After a long career in the computer industry including a stint as editor of Computing Canada and Computer Dealer News Gord is now more or less retired contents he old saying you
22. to DEB by using the Alien terminal command A space simulator differs from a sky map in that you can zoom out HOWTO AMATEUR ASTRONOMY Pt1 into the milky way and see the planets their placements and their orbits Celestia www shatters net celestia seems to be the one that most people use and is in most repos But like everything on Linux there s an alternative OpenUniverse www openuniverse org Which have been updated in a while RegiStax www astronomie be registax index html Probably the most widely used application in image stacking and while it s hugely complex it can give some amazing results to what initially looks like hundreds of blurry images RegiStax 5 and 6 run quite flawlessly in Wine Image Stacking These applications veer into astrophotography While most while looking nice doesn t seem to People will use a DSLR camera worth several hundred pounds you can get surprisingly good results using a basic digital camera even webcam hundreds of images and some nice software Most Folks swear by Registax which is unfortunately Windows only but to that later since Linux native apps is what we really want While not the most user friendly AstroStack www astrostack com allows you GIF Load te
23. type computers as well It is obvious that a monochrome monitor was used or it could be used with a normal TV set Being a Hungarian had to use accented characters and the first thing to do was to replace the built in character set with a matching Hungarian font set both For the printer and the monitor Thanks to the Peter Norton books and the built in assembler program as well as the corresponding literature of the Commodore Machine achieved the necessary knowledge to do the job It was necessary as worked after office hours as a technical translator into and from English and Spanish languages and the built in word processing program was a great help for me Later got my first IBM 286 machine 16 MHz processor 2 MB RAM and DOS 3 3 The same MY OPINION happened as had to use the Hungarian accented font set and it was my job to provide it both for the keyboard and the monitor Programming in various BASIC E i languages was a common task For me being also a radio amateur in helping to home build my own receivers and transmitters required for my hobby When the First Windows operating systems became available ceased programming since it was a too complicated and time consuming job However from time to time made some BASIC programs and converted them into com and exe Forms At the beginning used the Internet through a dial up phone Full circle magazine 62 line and o
24. use more than one visual style in the presentation Layouts The prepackaged layouts are shown here You can select a layout and use it as it is or modify it Unfortunately you cannot save custom layouts to the layout lists Table Design Standard table layouts are shown here You always have the option of changing the layout and the table will behave much like a table in Calc Custom Animation With custom animations you can control when and how elements appear on the slides You have many different options that help create the visual effects you need as you give your presentation Don t go overboard here unless you have a good 3 reason While animations make your presentation visually pleasing and interesting they can also make your presentation look unprofessional and overwhelming full circle magazine 62 13 On the other hand if you need to make an emphasis on a certain point custom animations can help you accomplish such emphasis Slide Transition The Slide Transition section gives you access to changing how one slide replaces the next You have the choice of many different transitions as well as the speed of the transition If you use automatic transition you can also control how long the slide will display This has been a quick overview get you started working in Impress encourag
25. ve got already halts the process before creating additional problems Bad Has a cruel streak of listing dependencies and then refusing to install them until yet another dependency is located yet will offer to install them all occasionally Largely ignored for website links For those desiring Bad Site appears to have a random update schedule and anything after page 10 is almost guaranteed to be inactive No clue to file size until you opt For contents REVIEW installation and some are deceptively large Contains programs that defected from deb installation attempts Launchpad net Xov Devoted to Ubuntu software and appropriate given it is currently maintained by Ubuntu developer Canonical Mainly a place to keep and maintain software projects you can find everything from completed programs to those in alpha beta stages Located at https launchpad net Good If it s Ubuntu related it s probably here including long Forgotten apps and libraries left to commercial applications for those who prefer those choices and offers alternatives for those switching from Windows or Apple Allows visitors to sign up For weekly emails that highlight new applications just entered development programs there is no the dustbin of time This is where most people are directed to if they are doing a Google search for a specific Ubuntu program that
26. ELOAD usr lib i386 ag i linux Ubuntu 12 04 doesn t like gnu libv4l v4llcompat so Skype It seems v4l1compat so moves When I try to open and then closes before get a chance to use it Run these commands sudo apt get update sudo apt get upgrade How do I set Shotwell NOT to start when I insert a disk or SD card or Flash drive with Software Center it opens IF you re on Precise the setting is in System Settings System Details Removable Media My wacom tablet doesn t work in ubuntu 12 04 Google Wacom tablet drivers launchpad Download the deb file install it and reboot Full circle magazine 62 45 How can install Sopcast peer to peer streaming mostly Chinese TV in a recent Ubuntu Add the following to your software sources ferramroberto sopc After a reload you can install sopcast Where are the log files in ubuntu 12 04 Thanks to cc7gir in the Ubuntu Forums var log syslog have a printer attached to my Ubuntu desktop would like to it from my Windows 3 netbook See EIE web page ubuntu com My computer has a GeForce FX5200 video card Aptitude won t install the nvidia 173 contents amp A Thanks to papibie in the Ubuntu Forums The oldest versions of the driver 173 and 93 are not compatible with the new versions of Ubunt
27. Following line in etc Axdm lIxdm conf and uncommenting it then inserting the appropriate username By default most Linux LINUX LAB TWEET SCREEN Pt1 distributions are set up to display a screen saver after a short period This is a good practice for security but not so great for our Twit Screen project To disable the screensaver click the Lubuntu button Preferences Screensaver Ehen select Disable Screen Saver from the Mode dropdown option thought that Midori might be tad lighter on memory than Chromium but discovered when I ran cat proc meminfo grep MemFree that Chromium was slightly lighter The load process For Chromium also felt slightly faster and since Twit Screen should act like an appliance and the CPU is already slow any extra speed was beneficial The next step was figuring out how to display live Twitter Feeds in a cool manner For that found Cameron Adams visibletweets com Visibletweets has a couple of nice Features like a choice of 3 types of animated tweets and more importantly you can use Twitter search operators Visibletweets also doesn t require a login Since already knew wanted to search for multiple tags and twitter accounts the OR operator came in handy As a test entered QWorkingCentre OR chaslinux OR kwartzlab OR Computer Recycling Tweets started to appear beginning with Computer Recycling twe
28. Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE 62 June 2012 Fes is Dubhe L Ld 1 eene a T g Jupiter E Regulus AMATEUR ASTRONOMY LINUX TAKES TO THE SKIES Full Circle Magazine is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Canonical Ltd THEINDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Columns X l HowTo e Opinions m asd RS BEAM KI h u le E B Options Window dne E 7 4 es 4 ii Linux News p 04 Audio Flux m p 48 My Opinion p 32 fain alias to make the command more detailed alias ls ls la color always classi Command amp Conquer p 05 RTE p 49 Think p 43 Linux Labs p 23 Q amp A p 45 Review p 35 A 2 T 1 IONTE Inkscape Part 2 4 Graphics The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons 5 Alike 3 0 Unported license This means you can adapt copy distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions you must attribute SUE the work to the original author in some way at least name email or URL and to this magazine by name Full Circle Magazine and the URL www fullcirclemagazine org but not attribute the article s in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work If you alter transform or build up
29. HOWTO INKSCAPE Pt2 tool previous page pointer icon then clicking a second time to enable the rotation and skewing handles Hold down CTRL as you rotate your object and you ll find that the same snapping action occurs It also happens for skewing but that s a little less obvious with an ellipse so we ll Click on the ellipse again to switch back to the move and scale handles If you try dragging your ellipse around you ll Find that the CTRL key locks you to only horizontal or vertical movements Now try resizing with the arrow handles and you ll discover that of your ellipse you can make it bigger and smaller but it will keep the same ratio of width to height IF you use a mouse witha wheel then the CTRL key has another feature hold it down as you scroll the mouse wheel in order to quickly zoom in and out of your document While you re playing with the mouse wheel try using it to click and drag the canvas around a much faster way to pan around your drawing than using the scroll bars Now let s consider the SHIFT key Try holding it down while drawing a new ellipse Notice that it s being drawn relative to the center of the ellipse rather than the corner One of the most common uses for the SHIFT key in Inkscape is to change the starting or reference point for an come back to that one a little later operation Select an ellipse using the Select tool then hold SHIFT
30. IF you re a fan of Twitter then you might want to look at Charles s Linux Labs article as it deals with turning a spare machine into a Twitter display that d be useful for a kiosk or something similar As ever feel free to send in your articles and letters the best and keep in touch Ronnie ronnie fullcirclemagazine org Full circle magazine 62 3 LibreOffice The Document Foundation This magazine was created using Desktop Publishing for Linux y coereative commons Full Circle Podcast Released monthly each episode covers all the latest Ubuntu news opinions reviews interviews and listener feedback The Side Pod is a new addition it s an extra irregular short Form podcast which is intended to be a branch of the main podcast It s somewhere to put all the general technology and non Ubuntu stuff that doesn t fit in the main podcast Hosts e Les Pounder i Jon Chamberlain Tony Hughes Oliver Clark http Fullcirclemagazine org gt DE d LUPIPEDLI contents Canonical To Use Efilinux For UEFI Secure Boot anonical will drop Grub 2 in Favour of Intel s efilinux as its bootloader n From Torvalds it might be more miffed that it has lost a huge order from the Chinese government for the same reason The Chinese its plans to ensure that Fedora will Wanted to order ten million GPUs that would work with its Longsoon process
31. P As Unda Reda Cut Ci Paste SERIE x L ER UR 29 About KWord l Ihe User Interface l l The defaults The defaults of KWord are unlike other word processors based around wide screen computers and the fact that most word processing is done in portrait mode the panels and the toolbox use the sides of the screen which when done this way provides more room for more information about the tools or allows for Sot es ee ee E E more tools ta be shown at once This better suites the needs of today as opposed to the design of word processors for computers several years Fit Page Width 4 ee 000 3 C a b lar in B D 4 p E j 0 ago with small screens It is important to note that document related tools can be found in the right panel which includes drawing tools Windows applications listed above While most distros install LibreOffice I ll let someone else talk about it KDE does have its own Office suite called KOffice Full circle magazine 62 which is made up of KWord word processor KCells spreadsheet and Showcase presentations For playing media KDE comes with Dragon Player but the ever faithful VLC can be installed with just a KPatience Faty amp bgt 26 gt couple of clicks KDE s image viewe
32. TENCEE SHIFEFCETLEP Inkscape Preferences Shift Ctrl P Xj Transforms Steps Clones Clippaths and masks Arrow keys move by 2 0000 E px Filters Bitmaps gt and scale by 2 0000 B px Colour management Inset Outset by 2 0000 2 px Qu Compass like display oF angles SVG output Save Rotation snaps every 15 degrees Import Export Zoom in out by he E Yo Mouse Scrolling Snapping InterFace Windows find that you can no longer smoothly adjust the width and height of the ellipse but rather that it snaps to fixed ratios of 1 1 1 2 3 1 and so on So the answer to the question of how to draw circle is simply to hold down CTRL whilst drawing an ellipse As well as locking the ratio when you first draw an object the CTRL key can also be used to snap your subsequent edits to defined values Try selecting your ellipse Full circle magazine 62 18 move the small circular control handles to turn your ellipse into a segment or arc while holding the CTRL key You ll Find that the handles snap to particular angles defaulting to 15 You can change that value via the File gt Inkscape Preferences gt Steps dialog where you can choose from a selection of other angles via a drop down list although the default is a good choice for most uses Now try selecting an ellipse using the Select contents k
33. as you resize it with the arrow handles Notice how the reference point for your actions has switched to the center of the ellipse Try pressing and releasing SHIFT while you re in the middle of resizing the ellipse to the CTRL key locks the aspect ratio make it more obvious You don t Click the ellipse to switch to rotation mode and hold SHIFT While you rotate or skew using the handles You should see the small cross that indicates the rotation center jump to the opposite corner or side from the handle you re moving and your ellipse will rotate or skew around that reference point You can also combine the CTRL and SHIFT keys Press both as you draw with the Circle tool in order to create a perfect circle drawn out from its center point or while you rotate your ellipse to rotate it in 15 steps around the opposite corner from the rotation handle Let s finish this month with a new shape there s only so much you can draw with circles and ellipses so we ll create some rectangles and squares instead B have to press these modifiers right at the start of an operation you can press and release them at any point The only thing that matters is whether they re pressed when you release the mouse button For Ehis we ll use the Rectangle tool shown by clicking on the button in the toolbox then drag your shape out o
34. ations When reviewing games applications please state clearly title of the game who makes the game is it free or a paid download where to get it from give download homepage URL is it Linux native or did you use Wine your marks out of five asummary with positive and negative points Hardware When reviewing hardware please state clearly make and model of the hardware what category would you put this hardware into any glitches that you may have had while using the hardware easy to get the hardware working in Linux did you have to use Windows drivers marks out of five asummary with positive and negative points You don t need to be an expert to write an article write about the games applications and hardware that you use every day contents CC CC Access all your data in one de duplicated location Configurable multi platform synchronization Preserve all historical versions amp deleted files Share folders instantly in web ShareRooms w RSS Retrieve files from any internet connected device Comprehensive zero knowledge data encryption 2 GBs Free 10 per 100 GBs Unlimited devices https spideroak com Secure SYNC Online BACKUP Easy SHARING Whether you need to access a document you have stored on a remote server synchronize data between a Mac Windows or Linux device share important business documents wit
35. bout a few new examples from Linux Focused vendor System76 he new EeePC 1225C is an 11 6 inch notebook device that features the all new Intel Atom Cedar It s becoming increasingly EPUB Finally we have mobile editions of Full Circle on the downloads page At the moment there are only a couple of issues online but we re hoping to have back issues online shortly If you ve any problems with the epub File Formatting you can drop an email to Jens at mobile fullcirclemagazine org Big thanks to Jens and the beta testers For making them a reality Asus it should be noted already has Linux friendly history too this time last year was writing about a MeeGo based offering in its lineup For example Now this latest entry from Asus adds another compelling choice to the mix Source pcadvisor co uk full circle magazine 62 4 Google Currents Google Currents has been released worldwide so install it on your Android Apple devices search for Full circle in the app and add issues 55 60 to your app Or you can click the links on the FCM download page for those issues A contents COMMAND amp CONQUER Written by Lucas Westermann efore begin with the actual article thought it might be useful to address a question got via email A reader was asking where best to place my wallpapers sh script and in doing so reminde
36. ce after a certain 3 amount of time The choice will depend on the presentation and is beyond the scope of this article Presentation Wizard Recommendation of a Strategy Describe your basic ideas What is your name or Ehe name of your company Elmer Perry What is Uhe subject af your presentation fine Further ideas tp be presenbed The key to an open scource office Help Cancel xx Back a Presentation Wizard Recommendation of Strategy Choose your pages Pie Overview Long term goal e E The Present Situation t E Development up La present F E Potential Albematives E Recommendation Cancel xx Back Click Next gt gt to move to the SIDEBAR You can always use the Back button to move back Click Next to move to the Fourth wizard screen Here you can give a topic company name or and change elements of your presentation Click on the Create button and Lu Impress will create the slides for E Preview LibreOffice Elmer Perry ha key to en open sounce atfice your new presentation The Main Window The main window for Impress 3 above is divided into three Fifth wizard screen IF you selected a template on the first screen of Ehe wizard you can use this screen to preview each of the slides after your changes You can select whether a slide will be included in
37. cie plo Bud a thet fot Loss dest to stack images or frames from a video if you buy the Full version which it will combine into one image which should in theory have more detail in it Its downside is that it s a bit slow as it s written in Java Another step up the ladder of complexity is ImageJ imagej nih gov ij It s primarily used by scientists and after looking at it briefly can see why It s certainly powerful albeit that it too is written in Java but it s ImageJ File Edit Image Process Analyze Plugins Window Help Image 1 38e 1 5 0 09 Full circle magazine 62 15 contents HOWTO AMATEUR ASTRONOMY Pt1 really not all that user friendly M MR No article on astronomy would gm m Qs be complete without mentioning s Avistack www avistaccde is nmm several of the helpful Android apps BS another image video stacking tool 7777 that are out there in the wild EE A 4 J OLI Qi which runs on Linux but it requires Show Reticle d h the user to signup and install the IDL VM which at over 200MB turned me off right away Many tong exposure people swear by it but they re Wee 3 probably Windows users who don t soe meter need the IDL VM whatever it may ms _
38. d me that haven t ever explained how best to go about this My approach is to store all my scripts in a single Folder either a Folder called scripts or if want to save some visual space in my home folder I ll call it bin or scripts so the Folder is hidden Make sure any script you place here is executable chmod and that they specify in the first line which interpreter is required bin bash usr env python etc otherwise calling it will not work Once that is done you could create a symbolic link to the script in usr bin with method is to add the Folder into your SPATH variable This can be done with export PATH S PATH lt folder gt replace Folder with the actual created in etc profile you can also simply add the path to the scripts folder at the end of this path I recommend avoiding any files in etc and instead organize all your scripts within HOME This is due to the problems that can arise when creating system wide sudo ln s path to script usr bin script settings using files that not all users can access The problem is that anything in HOME is However this can be complicated if you start removing scripts it will leave broken links in your usr bin directory Another The rest of my family has recently moved over to MacBooks for mobile workstations and for most of them keeping files organized is fairly
39. d will have a Mac and Linux port of the game For sale and releasing at the same time as the windows version inally another Kickstarter project Legends of Eisenwald http www kickstarter co m projects 1684781151 legends 49 of eisenwald this time a real time strategy action RPG The developers have pledged to bring out Mac and Linux versions of their game if they successfully get to 100k The project met its basic pledge amount of Fifty thousand dollars but didn t quite make it to the 100k reaching only 83k We can but hope that they ll maybe use the extra 33k for a Linux version v __ lone Wolf Protector is part 2D platformer and part tower defense Originally created in less than 48 hours as a Ludum Dare submission in 2011 Jaroslav Meloun aka Jarnik has since expanded it into a Full game with eleven levels and ten bosses spanning five environments Story You play as Wolf a bearded carpenter who lost his family and entire village inspiring him to begin his journey to protect others Throughout his travels Wolf meets plenty of helpful citizens who aid him during his quest to defeat the monsters that plague their villages It is a straightforward story of a hero on a quest with plenty of comical bits and classic references thrown in The jokes are well timed and well placed alluding to the classics without overt mockery or trite which is refreshing to see Gamep
40. e output medium for the presentation normally screen but other options are available should you need them Click Next to move to the Full circle magazine 62 11 Selecta slide transition Effect Shape circle Medium Select the presentation type amp perault automatic Duration af page DX OXID Duration af BE Preview Show 0 Help Cancel E Preview C Bonet show this wizard again Presentation wizard Recommendation of a Strategy ma third wizard screen You can pick a slide transition for changing from one slide to the next There are many different transitions to choose from When you select a contents HOWTO LIBREOFFICE Pt15 IMPRESS transition you get a preview on the effect in the preview window You can also adjust the speed of the transition You can change the transition for individual slides your name if your presentation is not for a company and the ideas behind your presentation The information you use here will plug into your opening slide later but the transition along with the background is one of the things that create consistency in your presentation On this screen you can also pick the presentation type Default advances the elements and slides through mouse clicks or the keyboard Automatic allows you to set each slide to advan
41. e In a very short time it has become a very good and popular program It contains all necessary parts word processor Write Spreadsheet Calc drawing program Draw presentation creator viewer Impress One of the nice things in the Linux office programsisthe export to PDF option No hassle of installing a pdf printer or buying an expensive option in MS Office no it s just there and delivers high quality PDF files from your documents Evince is the standard Gnome PDF viewer What I say It s a program made for the job and it Full circle magazine 62 27 does that job very well For viewing pictures use F Spot It s small it s simple but it does what it is supposed to do show pictures The photo editing software for Linux is of course GIMP No doubt about it It s an extensive program which matches Photoshop almost Many things Photoshop can do GIMP can do as well although sometimes with a different name for the function XFCE Rather than shipping with a full office suite Xubuntu simply provides Gnome Office s contents CLOSING WINDOWS File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table RDF Collaborate Documents Help 227 ie Page Width IR d 2 un Normal Times New Roman r 4 le c x 12 File Edit View Insert Format Tools
42. e Club www thepuzzleclub com contents HOW TO Beginning Python Part 34 Written by Greg D Walters his time we ll finish up using SLAA We ll make a import android larger program and then droid android Android send it to the virtual uname droid dialogGetInput Hello What s your name machine via ADB droid makeToast Hello 5 from python on Android uname result Let s deal with our code first In this we ll simply be Yng out droid dialogCreateAlert uname result Would you like to play a game some of the widgets that are droid dialogSetPositiveButtonText Yes available to us when using SL4A droid dialogSetNegativeButtonText No Start on your desktop using your droid dialogShow Favore drca P while True wait for events for up to 10 seconds response droid eventWait 10000 result if response None Enter the code shown top right break and save it but don t try to run it m puse name dialog as atest py droid dialogDismiss The first line imports the android library We create an code above buttons one with the text Yes droid eventWait value call The instance of it in the second line 3 which is a positive button and response either positive Line 3 creates and displays a dialog Save your code as atest1 py one with the text No a negative will be returned in box with the title Hello the W
43. e has the key item and if 50 assign it to the variable sel Now we use an if elif else loop to check the values and deal with whichever is selected We use the droid makeToast function to display our response Of course you could add your own code here Now for the last of the code As you can see we simply respond to the other types of Save push and run the if resp result has key item sel resp result item if sel O droid makeToast Enjoy your checkers game elif sel 1 droid makeToast I like Chess elif sel 2 droid makeToast Want to hang around for a while else droid makeToast The only way to win is not to play the returned data The selection is elif result negative droid makeToast Sorry elif rdialog has key canceled print Sorry you can t make up your mind else print unknown response response print Done See you later the ability to make GUIfied applications but not full gui apps up on pastebin at This however should not keep you Lttg pastebin com REkFYcSU from going Forward and starting to write your own programs for Android Don t expect to put these upon the market Most people really want full GUI type apps We ll look at that next time For more information on using SL4A simply do a web search and you ll find lots of tutorials and more information
44. e ll be sending this to our virtual negative button The positive you guessed it the response prompt of What s your name a machine after we discuss whatit and negative buttons refer to the variable If response has the name text box for the user to enter their does response returned either of dialog then we will break out name and two buttons OK and positive or negative The next of the loop and return the Cancel Once the user presses Take a look at the first Four lines line then shows the dialog The response If nothing happens OK the response is returned in we just entered We create an alert next seven lines wait for a before the timeout occurs we the variable uname The last line type dialog asking Would you like response from the user simply break out of the loop The so far then says Hello to play a game In the case of an actual information returned in the username from python on alert type dialog there s no text We create a simple loop while response variable is something like Android This isn t new we did to enter anything The next True then wait for a response for this assuming the positive or this before Now we ll add more two lines say to create two _ up to 10 seconds by using the Yes button is pressed Full circle magazine 62 8 B contents HOWTO BEGINNING PYTHON 34 u data u which u positive
45. e you to begin to play with the different views sections and layouts to get a feel for how they work and what you can do with them Next time we will begin work on editing slides adding text and adding graphics to our slides i Elmer Perry s history of working and programming computers involves an Apple IIE adding some Amiga a generous helping of DOS and Windows a dash of Unix and blend well with Linux and Ubuntu contents ith the once in a liFetime opportunity to see Venus crossing the Sun having passed at the start of this month I thought it would be quite topical to write about free and open source software and my new hobby astronomy Having recently taken an interest in astronomy decided that my software should be free and or open source where possible Thankfully it seems that Linux isn t left short when it comes to astronomy applications The one thing that Linux isn t short on is sky mapping software The idea behind these pieces of software is to load up a database of known stars constellations nebulae etc and show you where they are right now Also in most of these applications you can fast Forward and rewind time quite often use the fast Forward feature to see where a particular star planet will be at a particular time of night Quite probably the most widely used is Stellarium It s very polished and has a lovely plug in s
46. easy For one of them the MacBook is the only computer and for the other it s a path to the folder you created To work machine where only make it permanent you can either company related files need to be place it in your bashrc your xinitrc iF you start your interface with startx or in any other script that gets called when you log in I ve had some hit and miss experiences with this but generally Jetc environment works well Since however the PATH is synchronized However for the latter person whose PC runs both Arch Linux and Windows it s a little more complicated At first thought I d use rsync in a custom script to synchronize the Folders one after the other but since changes may be madeoneither machine needed a robust method to synchronize them including deleted files Rsync may be able to do this but have yet to get it working at 10096 As such I began looking at unison again which has resulted in me adopting it For my backup needs as well Below describe my method for configuring Unison which is available from the universe 3 restricted access wise to your user repository account And now on to the actual article From the Unison manual Unison is a File synchronization Full circle magazine 62 5 tool for Unix and Windows It allows two replicas of a collection of Fi
47. een switched from a Windows server to a Linux one just a couple of years back Cost was lower and had enough information to know what was doing So I gave up Windows for Linux installing Ubuntu Linux again choosing a Debian variant as did when I previously used Mepis And of course my Linux server was running Debian itself It was familiar and even seemed friendly to me This was about 3 4 years ago haven t looked back since sold my Macbook great resale value in a Mac And now I have replaced already as a binary file Some of course I have installed from source with little or no difficulty And now constantly read more on the command line and evangelize the simplicity ease and low cost of contents MY STORY Linux to anyone who will listen And even to some who will not Linux provides everything that Ehe site Why Linux is better located at http whylinuxisbetter net ithas ton of information available on that subject environment even someone who need in an operating system for both the desktop or server environment And at a fraction of the cost that Windows or Mac can offer Using a desktop is totally used to Windows can make the switch to Linux In fact even a person who is not technically inclined can do it Linux without making any permanent changes to your system You will be ama
48. et tossed in with Linux so watch what programs with no indication of OS limitations until you click on the header Page loading can be tedious Most of what I saw can be generate Debian sources most of which can be used in Ubuntu You can actually choose sources from various countries why don t and some are humongous Hardly know you Click retrieved easier from already inspires confidence by indicating existing sources on your computer they don t guarantee quality or Bad As with all PPA sources SourceForge net content some are dead out of the gate Synaptic Package He te Le Le Ue Mose have no doubt a few of these are repogen simplylinux ch unstable or beta sources so be Site offering roughly 650 Linux careful what you download Not a program manager or listing agent this site specializes in creating PPA source lists that you can copy and paste into another package manager This in turn allows For programs to be listed and eventually downloaded Go to http repogen simplylinux ch for additional information Good Very comprehensive listing of sources just about everything is covered here from the well known to the obscure You merely click on what you want and press Generate to create listing that can be exported to your manager of choice Easy interface that anybody can understand and has a separate link titled DebGen that wi
49. ets At the moment typed in the search one company s tweets kept coming up withthe same message in a really spam like fashion learned that the minus operator NOT seemed more appropriate but didn t work can be used to limit results and you shouldn t include the Q sign when eliminating particular results from a twitter user just username revised test QWorkingCentre OR chaslinux OR Gkwartzlab OR Computer Recycling 60IT This kept 60IT results from showing in the tweets also noticed that if I left off the quotation marks around Computer Recycling visibletweets seemed to display only computer recycling tweets Normally it displays the most recent tweet So if you re testing against multiple words put them in quotation marks Next I took note of the URL that resulted when I typed in the query it wasn t pretty http visibletweets com query 1 changed into the config Folder I noticed there was no autostart Folder so made one imputer Recycling 60IT A nimation gt About gt Ewaste Recycling Tips If youre planning on recycling your old computer there are a couple of things to keep t co yBhGaVZk eWasteDirect 1 day ago Full circle magazine 62 24 Ochaslinux 200R 20 40kwartzl ab 200R 20 22Computer 20R ecycling 22 20 60IT amp animati
50. ew programs Although the programs are limited the listing is still more than Ubuntu Tweak and the like worries here mate Great for those Ubuntu Tweak and Ailurus and that isn t bad Looks like a hybrid between Bad It s really a front for Unknown developer so will it be around long GDebi L 2 2d GUI for installing deb files than Ubuntu Software Center USC that replaced it although 3 the gap seems to be lessening as automatically running terminal apt get commands so you can t just Click and forget remain seated in case questions up Currently pegged for Ubuntu 11 x and Mint 12 50 those using earlier or later versions should be careful Canonical updates USC Full circle magazine 62 37 USC Installs but not much else GetDeb net Xo vvv Both a website and a program The site www getdeb net welcome contains Debian programs but you have to add it to your software sources Offers almost 25 pages of programs roughly 120 in all Link For games goes to separate site PlayDeb net that offers a like number of games Good Installs programs with a single click and listing does offer some programs not found in the usual repositories some dating back to 2009 Offers program Good Faster to install programs additional information before committing Attempting to install what you
51. g a perfect circle The secret to drawing a perfect circle is actually the secret to making the best use of Inkscape in general you need to use the keyboard purposes depending on what you re doing in Inkscape at the time that you press them but very broadly speaking they usually have the following effects 3 CTRL Lock or snap some aspect of Ehe operation SHIFT Affect the center or starting point for an operation An operation in this case refers to drawing rotating skewing or otherwise manipulating an object Let s look at each of these keyboard Inkscape has a huge number of keyboard shortcuts and modifiers Last month mentioned using the Plus and Minus keys to zoom in and out but there are hundreds more listed on the Inkscape Keys and Mouse Reference the URL is at the end of this article but you can also get to it directly via the Help menu in Inkscape Such a large number of shortcuts can be overwhelming so I m just going to introduce them a few at a time starting with the CTRL and SHIFT keys These keys serve different modifiers when used with our Circles and Ellipses tool Select the Circle tool by clicking its icon or by pressing the e for ellipse or the F5 key Now hold down CTRL while you drag an with the Circle tool active then aon key ellipse out onto the canvas You ll Inkscape 2 Inkscape PTETE
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54. ick Filters Artistic Softglow Move the sliders until you get something pretty used a high brightness and glow radius The good thing about doing this in a non destructive manner is that you can change anything at any time without having to completely redo chunks of the image I m going to use an S curve now on the tree as think it needs to have brighter highlights on it and that Full circle magazine 62 GIMP The hollow should be nice and dark One last thing is that I m going to add some stars to the sky so it s time to bring in the image of the stars place the layer below the moon layer and make it about 300 pixels wide This time though make the layer mode Lighten only From the dropdown menu The last thing to do is give the stars a layer mask that will Fade them out midway down the image 17 PN X in om 4 PUS Next month we ll have a tutorial From Thomas Standiford on making your photo look retro Ronnie is the founder and editor of Full Circle an official Ubuntu member and part time artist whose work can be seen at 7 HO Written by Mark Crutch ast month we learned how to draw ellipses using the Circle tool But you may have noticed that we didn t actually draw any circles despite the tool s name You may have got close by adjusting an ellipse by eye but that s not quite the same as drawin
55. ind of device in our computer recycling shop displaying tweets including our organization s tag and tweets by other computer refurbishers considered doing this project with an Arduino and LCD but it seemed more fitting to use one of the older notebooks donated to our project After sorting through a bunch of notebooks missing parts Full circle magazine 62 chaslinux It looks like we might need to find a new location for Ubuntu hour next month P RyanFox 1 day ago S managed to build a functional IBM Thinkpad R31 The R31 is a vastly underpowered notebook by today s standards but Thinkpads were generally well built notebooks Our R31 had a Celeron 1066MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM which we bumped to 512MB A notebook with built in wireless would have meant one less cable but I chose the R31 because it was one of the few notebooks in salvageable condition Because we wanted the notebook to do one task serve our twitter updates choosing a lean OS was important Lubuntu seemed a practical choice it s current lightweight and uses a 23 modern browser Chromium as its default It was also a snap to install since our project uses a PXE boot server to deploy Ubuntu Lubuntu and Xubuntu images All of our Linux images are set to autologin so didn t need to modify but for the sake of completeness you can set an account 0 autologin in Lubuntu by finding the
56. ing presentation If you select From template there are two default templates in Impress Both come with predefined slides recommend you have Preview checked as it allows you to see a visual of your presentation as you create it in the wizard At any point in the wizard you can click the Create button to create a new presentation This allows you to use only the parts of the wizard you need Select a slide design Presentation Wizard Recommendation of a Strategy Presentation Backgrounds zx Green with white Limes Keyboard Light Blue Shapes Paper Vo eom be om nb Select an medium Original Screen Qyerhead sheet 1 Slide EM Preview Paper Help Cancel x Back M LibreOffice Pt15 Impress Presentation wizard Recommendation of a Strategy 7 Empty presentation e From template Open existing presentation Presentations 2 Introducing a New Product Recommendation of a Strategy Help Cancel Click Next gt gt to move to the second screen of the wizard On this screen you can pick from many different backgrounds for your presentation You can change the background for individualslides later but this will become the basic background for your presentation You will also want to select th
57. itories which are two mouse clicks away from the client and xChat as your IRC client desktop Next month we ll talk about sharing files and or folders through a network Full circle magazine 62 29 Coming Soon podcasters but the will be the same reviews and intervie Your new team is e Les Pounder Tony Hughes Jon Chamberlain Oliver Clark Blackpool UK LUG Keep an eye out For our debut episode coming soon The Full Circle Podcast Returns It may be a new team of Format We ll be talking about Full Circle Magazine news WS All are members of the http blackpool lug org uk agi contents MY STORY Written by Chris Rheinherren et me start off the story here with the past was in the beginning a diehard Windows user not only with desktop machines but also with servers have owned several servers that were running Windows NT and later Windows 2003 server using IIS For the web server software have used Windows 3 x 95 98 98 SE ME 2000 and XP for my desktop OS systems Even when my servers were networked to other servers ran Windows while the other servers in the network were running on Linux did defend Microsoft and Windows right and left against all attacks on them by others who thought less of the company and the operating systems it produced But even then I did from time to
58. lay UBUNTU GAMES Written by Jennifer Roger For those familiar with the concept and gameplay of Braid getting used to the mechanics of Cloning Wolf will be a breeze Other players may Feel a little clumsy trying to maneuver numerous clones around for the first time but the controls are simple enough to get used to quickly time but there are moments when requires you to focus on controlling your clones rather than you re better off hacking at the enemy rather than trying to build or rebuild Graphics The game was built on the Flixel engine and runs via Flash which provides a mostly smooth glitch free experience on Ubuntu 12 04 During the first playthrough there was an instance of unresponsive You can use the cloning powers of the magical medallion to help Wolf to reach higher places simultaneously Fight incoming hordes from both sides of the 3 screen and target the weak points of the bosses that you encounter Wolf s wood crafting skill is a nice touch that allows you to rebuild damaged houses and construct palisades to keep your foes at bay This works pretty well most of the keys in full screen mode but it seems to have been an isolated incident The pixel style graphics are appropriately complemented by a chiptune soundtrack by Fuxoft There isn t a lot of variation to the en
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60. les and directories to be stored on different hosts or different disks on the same host modified separately and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other To synchronize across multiple machines the first thing you need to do is configure SSH on one of the machines I did this on my mother s to minimize any possible security holes which would arise from a laptop with SSH enabled in public networks It is also extremely important that you enable key based logins on SSH This is Fairly easy with the following two commands ssh keygen b 521 t ecdsa C id un hostname S date rfc 3339 date This creates the key Follow the on screen instructions Keep in mind that entering a passphrase requires you to type this in when you use it which defeats the point of a key based login contents COMMAND amp CONQUER scp ssh id ecdsa pub username remote server org ssh authorized_ keys This will copy the File into the authorized keys of the server meaning that if you try ssh IP without a username it will automatically log you in using the key without prompting for a password Note If your version of ssh doesn t support ecdsa rsa keys are fine too Now then on to Unison The easiest way to manage multiple synchronization folders is to create weren t changed
61. ll Softpedia com Mix of Windows Mac and Linux programs this site offers nearly 900 Linux apps some of which don t appear readily available via the usual repositories or other package managers Good Wide mix of programs and descriptions are better than most Users reviews are often included and those utilizing RSSOwl or other RSS readers can set up a feed that provides the top 10 to 20 programs of the day Bad Not everything is a program and some links go to ads No way of knowing if your program programs this is a distant kin to Softpedia mentioned above and Xo vx of the Few sites know of where Linux listings outnumber those for Windows has programs for Windows OS X Good Good number of programs along with user ratings and screenshots Using the advanced search function you can separate the expensive programs from the free offerings In advanced mode hovering over a program s title causes the area to expand with more information such as user rating an in depth description and last update status Good search and filter options Allows the option of using older sources For those preferring earlier or discontinued programs Bad Unless you use advanced search options pages are a mix of Windows OS X and Linux Full circle magazine 62 39 ook Standard equipment up through Ubunt
62. meaning the modification times are the same as what was stored in the database On the second pass it generates a fingerprint and compares it to the ast contents to be synchronized multiple profiles prf files Since the options are all the same I will cover only a single example My Music sync profile looks like this Unison preferences label Music sync root home lswest Music root ssh user IP home lswest Mu ae is Fine For syncs with Linux Unix systems on either end but for anything stored on NTFS or witha Windows server you will need to turn this off to prevent dozens of permission warnings Leaving this option isn t bad as the permission settings simply fail but it does slow down the transfers sic Hyperion fastcheck true dontchmod true ignore Name ini ignore Name jpg ignore Name jpeg sshargs C From top to bottom the settings do the following label assigns the name of the profile for the GUI s list of profiles case l ignore all the ini files that Windows is so fond of creating since my media is on an NTFS hard drive shared between Windows and Arch on my PC and any of the cover art since use a different method in Linux root These are the sender receiver in that order It shouldn t be possible to use more than 2 roots though I haven t tested this Fastcheck Find that this
63. means they contents you could stick something in Full Circle each month for us to print out and pass around Jim Bainter Ronnie says Anyone looking for were in line with my own views rants guess So cheers Robin hope you put in some guest appearances on the new show Good luck to Les Pounder and his team Les Waters Ronnie says Yes in case you missed the current Full Circle Side pod Robin and Dave are handing the main Full Circle Podcast over to Les Pounder and the Blackpool LUG who are hoping to release a regular monthly podcast with Robin and Dave releasing a Side pod when possible Best of luck to Les and co ve been using Ubuntu for about four years and have a Windows machine for a couple of programs but have almost managed to eliminate Windows by using Wine also have an Asus netbook with 2Gb of Ram and a 250Gb hard disk which use quite a lot and got enticed to Linux Mint 12 installed Mint my netbook and it even recognized the extra touch pad button to turn it on and off Even Ubuntu didn t recognize this button Now regarding the Unity Windows 8 tablet debacle so clearly described in the FCM 60 article by Art Schreckengost can understand why Canonical is going the Unity route as this is the way Windows 8 seems to be heading It is aimed at tablet touch screen computers and TVs On several trips to computer and mobile phone shops I have had a look at some non Ap
64. n the drawing canvas just as you ve been doing with ellipses You should now have a nice rectangle Notice how your rectangle has Full circle magazine 62 19 small square and circular handles like those on the ellipses The two square handles are used to adjust the width and height Hold SHIFT as you move them to constrain your changes to just one direction the other The circle handle like that on an ellipse is actually a pair of handles on top of one another Move just one of them or hold CTRL whilst moving either of them and you ll get nice symmetrically rounded corners to your rectangle like a quarter of a circle Move both of them and you ll get an elliptically rounded corner instead If you want to go back to perfect 90 corners simply SHIFT click one of the circular left Press F4 or r Start end of the Tool Control bar just above the canvas handles or use the button at the contents HOWTO INKSCAPE Pt2 The CTRL and SHIFT keys work in a very similar way with the Rectangle tool as they do with the Circle tool hold down CTRL while you draw your rectangle to constrain it to fixed ratios if you want to create a perfect square or hold down SHIFT if you want to draw from the center outwards rather than corner to corner Of course you can change the color of the fill and stroke for your 3 rectangles
65. nly e mail sending and receiving was available using Win 3 1 The opening of the window to the world happened when got a broadband cable connection and changed the operating system to Win 98 and afterwards to Windows XP For curiosity test the new beta Microsoft operating systems Win 7 Win 8 but I hardly believe that I will like the Metro graphic environment due to the reasons detailed below In 2002 met first with a Linux operating system Lindows later 32 Linspire and afterwards tried various Linux distributions e g UHU Knoppix Suse Fedora Kubuntu Xubuntu Ubuntu Debian etc Finally selected the one that was the best the most user friendly the easiest to use and install and the fastest It was Ubuntu started with Ubuntu 6 04 then all the following ones were tried and installed including later the previous distributions also 4 10 5 04 The best was 8 04 4 and Finally stopped at 10 10 The highest score was given by me to the 8 04 LTS due to its ease of installation with Windows with using the wubi exe Any newcomer could easily install it without the risk of harming any existing operating system s The later distributions abandoned this installation mode in reality it happened at the introduction of the 10 04 distribution fi MY OPINION The second highest score was given by me to the 10 04 LTS 10 10 that still used the Classic Look Gnome environme
66. nt The later distributions abandoned the Classic Look Gnome environment and introduced Unity without an option to choose the Classic Look This facility would mean that users would remain faithful to Ubuntu while without this facility a lot of people would choose another Linux version and abandon Ubuntu 3 The reasons for my decision are find the required program or a utility to adjust and or set some parameter even if the names are in ABC order and written in lower case The selection of the categories are well hidden and it is very slow to locate them change from one workplace to another also takes a lot of time until a window opens in the actual workplace to show the selection icons In a desktop machine with or without a touch screen all these facilities are hard to use or useless and slow down the user s uploading files after 2 to 3 months practical at all in a productive business environment Even if From the first encounter with Ubuntu have recruited a lot of Ubuntu fans spreading free of charge a large number of Live CDs and teaching them how to use it There are also among them a lot of First time computer users including people over 80 years of age Even these old people male and female on their own could use Ubuntu for sending receiving e mails browsing the Internet watching videos listening to music using video
67. o all the puzzles are on the second last page of this issue No peeking Full circle magazine 62 43 B contents Web Performance and Operations Velocity is the conference where people talk about how to get things done in the real world if you want to know how the best in the world handle their operations Velocity is the place to learn ADAM JACOB OPSCODE Velocity is much more than a conference it s become the essential training event for web professionals from companies of all sizes Q amp A IF you have Ubuntu related questions email them to questions fullcirclemagazine org and Gord will answer them in a future issue Please include as much information as you can about your problem have a high end Nvidia graphics card and it at all the BIOS boot to get a Grub menu Press e getting the Grub menu Using the arrow keys navigate to and delete quiet and splash and type the word nomodeset in their place Press Ctrl x to boot Add this in Software Sources ppa ubuntu x swat x updates Now you can install a later version of the video driver which works for most systems am using Ubuntu 12 04 64 bit Skype sees that I have a webcam but it doesn t send images Install the ia32 libs Launch Skype with this command To boot hold shift from around from version to version e on pictures on it Compiled by Gord Campbell bash c LD PR
68. o the slides The outline Notes View You can use the Notes View to add notes to individual slides You can change the size of the note box under the slide by clicking on the border and dragging the handles The notes will not show in the presentation but you can print them and use them during your presentation or as handouts Handout View how your handout of the presentation will print IF you select Layout in the Tasks pane you can set the number of slides that show on each page of the handout up to 9 slides per page You can also use this view to determine what information will print on the handouts Slide Sorter View The Slide Sorter view works much like the Slide pane but gives you more space to work You can add delete move copy paste duplicate rename and hide slides You can also work with groups of slides by selecting more than one slide names are not included in the gt slide The Tasks Pane The Tasks pane has five sections You expand a section by clicking on the section name You can only expand one section at a time Master Pages Here you define the page style for your presentation Impress contains many predefined master pages you can use You can modify the look of a master page using In Handout View you can setup Styles A single presentation can contain more than one master page allowing you to
69. oes have it as standard Offers nearly 100 programs but it can also clean junk Files list device information edit repositories and provide Linux tips and tutorials It can be found at http code google com p ailurus or in the getdeb repository Ubuntu basics How do add programs While could end the conversation with Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center the fact remains that there are other avenues some of which are unknown to even seasoned users Over time l ve created a partial information along with helpful hints and programs to add Gives apt get commands in program listing of websites managers and sources I ve Found of interest Undoubtedly I ve missed a couple and ignored others like rebranded managers that are merely fronts For another but you ll get some idea of what exists Named after a Chinese red panda Ailurus is an add on Good Offers system notes should you go that route Puts already installed programs at bottom of listings instead of mixing with new ones Installs tar files without having to extract Stars below the title indicate my personal score out of five For the purposes of this listing Ubuntu refers to not only that OS but any fork or variation based upon it compile etc Bad Basically a GUI front end 3 For apt get so users do have to watch for questions that may pop up when the terminal starts its work
70. of the story the latest news and issues facing Exec usr bin chromium to eventually be inaccessible Ubuntu Linux users and Free behind the screen needed a Next month Tweet Screen Part2 Software fans in general The ERROR to remotely administer the system Hacking the hardware show appeals to the newest user pacte 9 i to apply updates and perhaps and the oldest coder Our URL from visibletweets When setting the system up for other E RADIOS logged out and logged back in functions at a later date and SSH development of Ubuntu but visibletweets now started with the is my favoured method 3 aee mites We sre operators 3 B lucky enough to have some Nice but I could still see LXDE s 8 dala pn Pues Charles is a step father husband great guests on the show telling similar system to display KDE UNA NEAR UN us First hand about the latest interface As an appliance wasasuccess e EN ee photograp profit computer refurbishing project exciting developments they are wanted this to disappear The i initially but learned the hard way When not breaking hardware servers working on in a way that we can solution run chromium browser in that you have to be very careful E maintains ink at ERE Full screen mode Full screen mode about Electro Static Discharge http www charlesmccolm com
71. on 2 The idea is that just after autologin l d start chromium in Full screen mode with the search URL LXDE does have some applications that can be enabled just after logging in by clicking the LXDE button gt Preferences gt Desktop Session Settings but out of the box it doesn t seem to have a graphical way of adding applications to startup the way Gnome does To start an application its desktop file needs to be copied to config autostart When At first thought there was no chromium desktop file until remembered the full filename is chromium browser so needed to run locate chromium browser desktop then copied the file to the config autostart directory usr share applications chrom ium browser desktop contents LINUX LAB TWEET SCREEN Pt1 config autostart website in full screen on autologin ESD My photobox worked well the last step on the software side but the back end stuck out of the But also wanted it to start of things was to install SSH photo frame When went to O bu B Lu with that nasty URL sol changed remove more components from WE um into the config autostart folder sudo apt get install ssh the notebook I forgot to properly and changed the line that read ground myself and you probably The Ubuntu Podcast covers all Sincethe keyboard was going know the rest
72. on this work you must distribute the resulting work under the same similar or a compatible license Full Circle magazine is entirely independent of Canonical the sponsor of the Ubuntu projects and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed to have Canonical endorsement gt EDITORIAL 2 back with more of the same buntu goodness This month we have the usual Python and LibreOffice tutorials with the addition of a two part article l ve written on my latest endeavour astronomy Like any good Linux user I wanted to avoid Windows software where possible and thankfully it s been easily possible So the first part of my How To is a list of Linux astronomy applications Welcome to another issue of Full Circle Mark s Inkscape series continues with keyboard shortcuts For the basics and my GIMP Beanstalk tutorial ends but we have more GIMP tutorials coming Don t worry IF you need some music in the background while you work on this month s tutorials then you should read Nicola s Audio Flux article which recommends some free Creative Commons tracks Even if you haven t been following the Closing Windows articles you might find this month s article useful since it discusses the various Linux equivalents to common Windows applications We my co authors and tried to keep the article non personal by listing the apps that come with that particular desktop rather than listing our personal favorites
73. ontains Friday 08 June Gnome shell Unity In Gnome the standard web browser is Mozilla Firefox Not a bad choice might add Especially give the program a lot of Functionality My favorite browser however is Google Chrome also extendable with extensions The standard e mail client in Gnome is Evolution adored by many hated by others What can Say you can t argue about taste with everything an email program should have including a calendar Function When you use an Outlook Exchange server at work you can install an extra option in Evolution so the program can very easily make contact with that server thus making it possible to read your 3 company emails at home It s called with the use of extensions you Can Evolution Exchange andit works with Outlook Web Access so it is important the email server has that enabled For listening to music and or watching movies you can choose either Rhythmbox or Banshee Not typical in Gnome but very popular is VLC which plays almost Evolution is a good email program everything audio video The office program for Gnome 119 Summa Click to add a Rhythmbox Music Edit View Control Help e Not Playing Library v Play Queue Music Podcasts Radio Last fm Libre fm o E Browse Show All Import r Ato albums 0 Q Search Album aa w is LibreOffic
74. or written only chat even downloading and of active use Thanks to Ubuntu 8 04 9 04 10 04 These people claimed the user Friendliness after updating the distribution and seeing the Unity environment in the crowded big size icon mass it is laborious to experience This theme is not some people temporarily like this appearance the serious computer user will quickly lose his her interest in this laborious and difficult approach The inexperienced users are afraid to install the newer Ubuntu distributions to avoid risk to their actual running systems They will not upgrade if they have an old windows already installed and they do not have the necessary money background to buy a new operating system Partitioning is hard to use by unskilled people have seen an article describing how to re establish the Classic Gnome Look That is fine but it is very difficult to visit every unskilled user and do the job for them one by one Why can it not be done only once as part of the Full circle magazine 62 33 development steps In sum these business politics do not help to spread Ubuntu among prospective users Finally have to say am happy to have discovered the wonders of the Ubuntu operating system and now understand why some people cry if somebody takes his her toy should like to express my
75. ors and home built Linux Secure Boot mechanism Canonical based OS in order to comply with Microsoft s UEFI Secure Boot Following Red Hat announcing not fall afoul of Microsoft s UEFI has detailed how it plans on working with Microsoft s Feature by modify Intel s efilinux 25 and Nvidia s Linux driver doesn t support that architecture For 10 million GPUs Nvidia should have shared the driver source code to get the MIPS capable but it seems that the company did not want to bootloader to add a menu interface For machines that come preloaded with Ubuntu Canonical will store the Ubuntu key in Firmware The company will require would cost it millions to do that As result the order was given to the more open source friendly AMD Being stubborn cost Nvidia about 500 million machines that have Ubuntu certified labels to have the Ubuntu key stored in the UEFI signature database Source Thelnquirer net LINUX NEWS Nvidia Stuffs Up Huge Chinese Order hile Nvidia probably does not care too much about the one Fingered protest Longsoon chips are MIPS based do that either claiming that it Source techeye net 3 New Asus PC Comes with Ubuntu Trail dual core CPU and Canonical s popular Ubuntu Linux operating system common to see PCs preloaded with Ubuntu and it wasn t long ago that PC Advisor wrote a
76. p environment e g KDE Gnome LXDE etc for which it was specifically written Lubuntu is no exception and it will happily run such behemoths as LibreOffice OpenOffice GIMP Digikam but since the larger more heavyweight applications are discussed in the context of the distributions that are deliberately designed for newer and more 3 powerful hardware e g KDE image when you load it up but also FreeCell Mahjongg Mines and Sudoku LXDE As already mentioned above Gnome Unity this section will Focus on the lightweight applications that correlate with older or less powerful hardware that is targeted by Lubuntu The default word processor in Lubuntu is AbiWord It is a lightweight and very fast application It is easy to use and surprisingly capable providing 80 of what most people will want need in a word processor including styles backgrounds embedded images hyperlinks Full circle magazine 62 28 tables and collaboration tools to name just a few The default spreadsheet application is Gnumeric which is a marvel of conservation and Functionality Most users would not know that they were using super lightweight application because so much functionality is provided in Gnumeric so much so that it s not even worth trying to enumerate Ehe features In fact many people
77. ple tablets on the market The tablets on sale are very confusing as some have a USB port some don t most have reduced storage capacity and memory some are cheap but most are very expensive and as someone who is a gadget freak the tablet is one thing I have not rushed out to buy Why buy a tablet with reduced specs when you can get a high spec netbook at a better price In my opinion the tablet is not going to last in the market Allan Hambidge 2022 Facebook has become the dominating religion O a Q O o o Q O C o D O E May 12 You ve been seen at a party having fun but neglected to post the fact within the allotted time Modern Times http orassicpark blogspot com full circle magazine 62 42 Edward Kilb Josh Dollins Boriss Redkins Dragan Ralic Keith Bowerman Congratulations You should hear from the author shortly My inbox is looking rather empty again Folks Surely you have something on your mind that you want to say Doesn t need to be just about Ubuntu It can be about any of the other buntu s in fact it can be about anything Linux Whether you ve written an app need help with something have a quick non technical question or just want to show us something you ve done this is the place For it Send it to letters Qfullcirclemagazine orq IF you would like to submit puzzle fo
78. plication hasn t been updated vi ignmen since the time of 10 x and shows code google com p eq polar waving your device around NT our head lt screens from Kubuntu 8 but it s alianment imn can 53 still a Firm favorite IF you d like to write a follow up according tO Ronnie is the founder and editor of piece to this about motorized 2 the creator be Full Circle an official Ubuntu Scope Control mounts feel free strapped to your OTA to be used member and varili me artist whose asa PUSHTO guide Not work can be seen at i http ronnietucker co uk These are applications which somethina I ve tried nnietucker c di Android g Full circle magazine 62 16 B contents e re almost done with the beanstalk image but I d like to add some random bits and bobs to give it some pizzazz Sources Moon http Stars http www sxc hu photo 1126941 www sxc hu photo 1005288 YouTube Video http www vyoutube com watch v HZcoOx940x8 Copy paste the moon image into the beanstalk scene I m keeping the moon layer at about 150 wide and have Flipped it horizontally nHOW 1O This time in the dropdown menu above the list of layers choose Screen the black in the layer will vanish and the moon will blend in nicely Although a glow around it wouldn t go amiss We ll cheat with the glow and use a filter Cl
79. pping any conflicts with batch true Whether or not you can make this a completely automatic process I m not sure However you can minimize the input that is required using the above steps To find out more about Unison check the Further Reading section for a link to the user manual If you want to simply mirror a Folder in one direction i e copy it from one machine to the next without synchronizing then would still highly recommend rsync instead due to the fact that it doesn t require any input when run properly It s also extremely well documented in the manpage making it quite easy to use As a Final note want to point out that both Unison and Rsync work for local folders too meaning you can use it to create backups on a USB drive as well If you decide to run these commands automatically on a schedule would recommend creating a script to first check if Ehe USB drive is connected or to check that you have the correct contents COMMAND amp CONQUER Uni Further Reading remote IP address or can ping the router s IP This is to avoid using resources to run a command that will simply Fail It also avoids opening SSH connections with computers that have the same IP but aren t your intended target which could lead to problems down the line hope at least some of you have Found this interesting or helpful
80. prise Google Chrome is NOT open source and tracks every move you make Chromium doesn t In case you wanted to know Sylpheed is the ST at Ie db AS 6 0 Green 0 Blue 0 Huelo Saturation 0 Value 0 000000 To t RGB Create Cancel Preview OK ocal eMail client and Osmo is a very nifty personal organizer Featuring notes tasks and a contacts You ll find Pidgin as your IM document viewer installed by default Evince and other viewing apps are readily available in the repositories Lightweight and graphics editor seem to be an oxymoron when used together but that s exactly what you get with mtPaint This program is certainly not in the same league as GIMP and Adobe Photoshop but as with the other lightweight applications you ll Find by default in Lubuntu it will surprise you It has robust color brush and shape palettes supports channels overlays layers and masks and has many visual effects drawing tools and view And yes Lubuntu comes with games the default selection being Ace of Penguins which isasetof l solitaire games including Canfield Freecell Golf Mastermind Merlin Minesweeper Pegged Solitaire Spider Taipei with a level editor and Thornq And of course there lots more games of all kinds in the repos
81. prise of the year for Full circle magazine 62 46 external monitor with my There are two methods m This was the biggest me My Sennheiser HD 201 headphone works fine with Windows 7 and even with my Galaxy smartphone But when use it in Ubuntu I can hardly hear any sound The volume is very low http www ubuntugeek In ALSAmixer change the Front Side and Center levels Even though the headphone value stays at zero the headphones should work nicely Where should I put environment variables See https help ubuntu com community Environmen tVariables System wide environment variables Put them in etc environment contents amp A have a 70 GB SSD anda large hard drive in my laptop want to ensure my personal data is encrypted but still take advantage of the speed of the SSD for loading programs How should I set it up During installation put the SSD and home and swap on the hard drive Specify that you want home encrypted Select a powerful password more than eight characters with upper and lower case letters numbers and other symbols A lot of the space on your SSD will be wasted but that s life Why does Ubuntu use the Linux kernel instead of the Linux libre kernel Thanks to 3rdalbum in the Ubuntu Forums It s better to enable people to use Linux than to prevent them from using Linux you
82. r is called Gwenview While wouldn t recommend it for sorting your family photos digiKam is best For that it s fine for quickly viewing and rotating images Okular is the KDE document viewer and will display all your files including PDFs While there is GIMP to replace Photoshop KDE does come with a nice drawing application called Krita which has recently undergone a complete revamp and is trying to emulate real world media We artists can but hope Your emails can be sent received by Kmail recently updated to version two and part of the KDE Kontact suite of apps Kmail even looks similar in layout to Outlook While KDE s file manager Dolphin can technically speaking be used as a browser KDE comes with Rekonq It s OK as a quick temporary browser but I d recommend installing Chrome if you re serious about your browsing Fear not office workers you are also looked after with KPatience You can put that pack of playing cards away CLOSING WINDOWS Calendar Evolution File Edit View Actions Search Help F amp F Calendar Friday 08 Jun 2012 Show v On This Computer Personal v Contacts _ Birthdays amp Anniversaries 10 arm 11 17 ps June 2012 I1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 17 142 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 227 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 gm Any Category lt gt _________ GS pay MM workWeek BB week fA Month BU Search Qi summary c
83. r publication please D U Z Z ES email it letters fullcirclemagazine org Solutions are on the second last page of this issue No peeking 3 4 5 Across EAn DIL LL I umm 3 Release anteater left to sleep then returns to cut down trees at home 8 10 Note man heard and left message 5 10 11 Means of communication for aerial exercise 5 12 The French exam is most recent 6 B NM iM D B 14 Permissions not left to superuser initially 6 16 To do list from reportedly a male or a Female 6 19 See 27 24 Remember topless hot stuff 5 25 Embarrassed interpreter hides in a shed 7 26 Annoyed after new Unity starts to unravel in alpha 8 xs own Queen on ship right in front ahead of navigators 8 Visitor from east in blast 5 sail on clumsily into meeting 7 D 1 19 20 21 22 2 Fashionable North Atlantic terminal 5 4 Ladies with 9s upgrade these months 6 23 gt 7 Valueless countries up to 50 50 4 i aa 8 Challenge in a class of its own 6 13 Recklessly lend a car to get to appointments 8 15 Perform not much for some data 7 17 Apple contains meat 6 26 18 Get away From shenanigans having lost recent years 6 20 Extreme emails removed from criminal senders and geeks 5 22 More than one Eth0 This sets the scene 5 23 Old boys go to university nowadays this is global 4 Crossword by Marlon Mann The solutions t
84. r root partition on Tips and Techniques It s Mint CCOO iCcgariec pring of 2012 was time to choose a new primary computing environment to use for the next Few 3 years For me 64 bit Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon is the answer was happy with Ubuntu 10 04 but 10 10 improved the support for my AMD Phenom II processor It Was my primary system until April 10 2012 when Canonical dropped support They could have atleast kept it going for the few days until Ubuntu 12 04 was released had an open partition so I installed Mint 12 with Cinnamon It works the way work All my hardware works it took about 20 seconds to install my printer can share a folder and access shared Folders My video adaptor is well supported There s a program menu and a single panel at the bottom so most of the screen real estate is available Conky works there s a weather applet the date is available in a pleasing format It uses Nautilus as its file manager AR wanted to like Kubuntu but its file nM ul LU IT buttons are like them m Menus are part of the program s window Skype works see above and the Youtube HD extension automatically picks the resolution prefer manager made me crazy The When Mint 13 became available installed it on my laptop Works nicely I also have Ubuntu 12 04
85. rclemagazine org Send your comments or Linux experiences to letters fullcirclemagazine org Hardware software reviews should be sent to reviews fullcirclemagazine org Questions for Q amp A should go to questions fullcirclemagazine org Desktop screens should be emailed to misc fullcirclemagazine org you can visit our forum via www fullcirclemagazine org Full circle magazine 62 55 Full Circle Team Editor Ronnie Tucker ronnie fullcirclemagazine org Webmaster Rob Kerfia admin fullcirclemagazine org Comms Mgr Robert Clipsham mrmonday fullcirclemagazine or Podcast Robin Catling odcast Qfullcirclemagazine or Editing amp Proofreading Mike Kennedy Lucas Westermann Gord Campbell Robert Orsino Josh Hertel Bert Jerred Our thanks go to Canonical the many translation teams around the world and Thorsten Wilms for the FCM logo Deadline for FCM 63 Sunday 08th July 2012 A Release date for FCM 63 Friday 27th July 2012 contents
86. request to be sure and one easily accepted by disabling any ad blocker for their site This is a multi player game based on the Quake game engine It is produced by FrozenSand which does a good job living up to its motto of fun over realism Their website describes the game as an unique combination of realism and fun a Hollywood tactical shooter would have to agree that it is indeed both an enjoyable and addictive game After the game is first installed and run a short tutorial demo is played It really doesn t require any interaction from the player It just runs through the basic default keyboard and mouse commands There are other commands that are not mentioned in the tutorial but are found throughout the website including tweaks and tips that can be found in the forums Once the tutorial is finished you set your username which can be changed as well as other inFormation about your in game character weapons armor and extra equipment plus whatever color you want added to your default uniform to set you apart Full circle magazine 62 from others Then it is on to a server There are thousands of them each running different types of games some are password protected You have to be a member of a specific game group called clans to join and play on their servers You also have the option of starting a local game that can be played over a LAN or even running a Full server that would be added
87. rom left to right they are Run in a dialog window window Edit Save Delete and Open in an external editor Right now tap click on the far left icon Run in a dialog should see atest1 py Tap click on atest1 py and Run outside of a window so you can see what happens droid dialogCreateAlert Play a Game droid dialogSetItems Checkers Chess Hangman Thermal Now on the Android emulator if rdialog has key which start SLAA result rdialog which if result positive You should see all of the python Nuclear War 4 0 1 2 3 scripts and droid dialogShow in there you resp droid dialogGetResponse Full circle magazine 62 O 9 if response None print Timed out else rdialog response data this set of code simply checks the response and if it s None due to a timeout we simply print Timed out And if it s actually something we want then we assign the data to the variable rdialog Now add the next bit of code below You ll see the first dialog asking e next bit of code below for your name Enter something in the box and tap click the Ok button You ll see the hello message Next you ll see the alert dialog Tap click on either button to dismiss the dialog We aren t looking at the responses yet so it doesn t matter which one you choose
88. standard Offers a handful of programs maybe 30 to 40 but will also clean up junk files and dead kernels add repositories and can be used to tweak desktop settings at leastin Gnome to ubuntu Eweak com for information Although primarily a Gnome manager it ll work just Fine on KDE and other shells albeit with Full circle magazine 62 40 reduced functions Available from the getdeb repository as ubuntu tweak Good Pretty much does it all and seems to excel in everything offerings are side by side so watch what you click Loads of dependencies without regard to usefulness and offers no way of deleting them If the program source is slow it can jam the works and the cancel button doesn t Probably the best of the group and undoubtedly one of the safest avenues for removing unnecessary Files and installation leftovers better than BleachBit or Computer Janitor Bad Miniscule program listing Get the proper version for your OS the main one at the website is for 11 x and above and loading it on earlier versions may cause problems Reduced functions in other than Gnome and now that Canonical is canceling that for A contents HAM Radio articles please have been one since 1974 sure would like to see some reviews or articles on the many HAM radio programs available in Linux have spoken to
89. stem specs Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot on Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 32 bit Intel Centrino 1 6 GHz 80 GB HDD 512 MB RAM graphics Nvidia Geforce4 420 Go Webster Harewood like Ubuntu s philosophy and its slogan Linux for human beings Moussa Full circle magazine 62 53 M contents PUZZLE SOLUTIONS L AI 3 ejos Ara e s B 16X16 SUDUKO ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWAY Toe ER Brains Drs Dinan nmn LIBE BER HIE i e Vv Vv O cc Hi Codeword and 16x16 Suduko puzzles are copyright and kindly provided by The Puzzle Club www thepuzzleclub com c A L N D A cz pt m CIE E m m Full circle magazine 62 54 B contents HOW CONTRIBUTE We are always looking for new articles to include in Full Circle For article guidelines ideas and for issue translation please see our wiki htEp wiki ubuntu com UbuntuMagazine FULL CIRCLE NEEDS YOU A magazine isn t a magazine without articles and Full Circle is no exception We need your Opinions Desktops and Stories We also need Reviews games apps amp hardware How To articles on any K X Ubuntu subject and any questions or suggestions you may have Please email your articles to articles Fullcirclemagazine org IF you would like to submit news email it to news fullci
90. time dabble with Linux I attempted to install Redhat once and failed at that the install was highly complex and it didn t work afterwards So returned to Windows wouldn t try Linux again for several more years I MEPIS My second attempt at using Linux was with Mepis had a thing for the egyptian theme It installed wonderfully and I did it as a dual boot option 50 didn t have to fully give up my beloved Windows OS and applications that loved so much But of course by this time had already begun some tech support for Linux servers at my job and was beginning to see the difference Needless to say like a nOOb hosed my Linux system and when it came to having to reinstall every bit of software used to use on Windows and Mac with something freely available in Linux Most software is in the repository From scratch again opted to shelve Linux and reclaim the hard drive space for Windows Mythird and final attempt came Shortly thereafter At this point was using both Windows and Mac OS X but Mac OS X didn t let me easily install anything from source code The differences between Full circle magazine 62 30 Darwin and other systems was too great and it would require too much editing of code was also using Windows less and less My server had already b
91. to the list Gameplay itself is set in one of several maps which have their own challenges including weather conditions There are several modes of play The modes do not change from round to round but the maps will The various game modes provide several team based Urban Terror modes Bomb amp Defuse Capture amp Hold Capture the Flag Follow the Leader Team Deathmatch amp Team Survivor and the non team mode of Free for all With each round respawning after death may occur within the round or at the end of the round depending on the game mode The map will change at the end of the round as well Depending on the play mode the rounds can be timed or until a specific event occurs Then of course a winner or winning team is declared Personally I m not much of a computer gamer am an old school paper and pencil gamer So when find a computer game that like tend to stay with it For some time currently play on the pm Pizza Militia servers Why Well because connected to it once and someone was helpful to me asa nOOb playing the game do intend on setting up my own server in the near future and hope to get a Following going If that happens I may register an official clan with Urban Terror as well JJ oo This is my desktop Linux Mint 12 Lisa 32 bit running on an Intel Core 2 Duo 2 93GHz processor with 2GB RAM and 500GB of disk space The shell theme
92. two notes at the same time or maintains a drone with a whistle Very interesting download some of their music from Freemusicarchive org Nicola is a freelance musician translator and web whiz He can be seen on the stage behind the scenes and in the zone for whatever task is at hand 48 TT THEE 9 asteland 2 the crowd Funded kickstarter project has finally settled on a game engine for the game the two semi finalists were Unigine s game engine which produced Oil Rush and Unity not the Ubuntu interface Unigine was offered free of charge to Wasteland 2 but it lost out to the Unity 3D Game engine as the final choice Unlike Unigine currently there is no Linux version of Unity 3D engine No official reason was given why Unigine lost out to Unity but conjecture is that it s easier to import assets into Unity 3D than Unigine Also while Unigine was offered for free to use support would cost extra and the developers would have no access to the source code On the other hand the source code of Unity3D has been given to the Wasteland 2 developers to build a linux version of the game engine A list of Unity powered games can be found here http unity3d com gallery made with unity game list am Familiar only with Rochard and Ballastic Full circle magazine 62 aT Ne ext up The Shadowrun Project has completed its kickstarter run earning over 2 million in crowdsource funding an
93. u actually any Linux distribution using an up to date version of Xorg For now would recommend using the default open source driver called nouveau These days it is working pretty well supporting Nvidia cards How can I create a list of all the programs on my PC Open Terminal and paste this command That will put a file on your desktop listing all the packages on your computer with descriptions The list is probably a lot longer than you expected How to play rm files in Ubuntu 12 04 64 bit Those are Real Media Files Use Gnome mplayer VLC might handle them to shut down it goes through all the motions Ehen it stays on Add acpi force in grub with these commands gksudo gedit etc default grub 1 gt Desktop applist txt Find the line which looks like this GRUB CMDLINE LINUX Change it to GRUB CMDLINE LINUX acpi forc e save the file and exit then run sudo update grub It won t help until after you When tell my computer visual Front end for xrandr html as if it will shut down but reboot How can use an Asus netbook Install Arandr For more information com arandr a simple How can l install TTF Fonts in Ubuntu at http www wikihow co m Install TrueType 3 Fonts on Ubuntu Can develop and run Visual Basic applications in Ubuntu Yes See http monodevelop co sur
94. u 10 04 this and various Linux alternatives One manager was replaced by Ubuntu Software Center Offers over 30 000 programs shells drivers and codecs across a wide spectrum Gnome KDE Unity e17 etc If it s not already installed go to System Administration you can get it from the Ubuntu repositories KDE version was called Adept but that has been replaced by Muon Good Terrific number of programs Adding PPA sources can increase that number greatly contents REVIEW Bad Installs outdated and or useless dependencies galore sometimes hundreds of megabytes beyond what the actual program carries May uninstall another program for the one you choose so read the warning box that pops up before authorizing installation Descriptions especially for earlier programs can border on cryptic works Interface is getting old Ubuntu com What better website than the developers sponsoring the OS you re using Just go to http packages ubuntu com Good You can spend days perusing the listings and it has active collections back to Hardy Heron as well as current and beta releases Ancient history buffs can Find releases going back to 2004 Warty Warthog If it s here it s safe as a new Ubuntu version is released is just begging to test the old adage slow as molasses Often defeats itself by stating the same programs are offered through proper soft
95. u name u dialog u time 1339021661398000 0 You can see that the value is passed in the data dictionary the dialog key is in the name dictionary and there is a time value that we don t care about here Finally we dismiss the dialog box Before we can send our code to the virtual machine we have to start the virtual machine Start your Android emulator Once it starts up notice that the title bar has four digits at the start of the title This is the port that the machine is listening on In my case and probably yours it s 5554 Now let s push it to our virtual machine Open a terminal window and change to the folder you saved 7 the code in Assuming you have set your path to include the SDK type adb devices This asks adb to show any devices that are connected This can include not only the Android emulator but also any smartphones tablets or other Android devices You should see something like this List of devices attached emulator 5554 device Now that we are sure that our device is attached we want to push the application to the device The syntax is adb push source filename destination path and filename So in my case it would be adb push atestl py sdcard sl4a scripts atestl p IF everything works correctly you ll get a rather disappointing message similar to this you ll see a popup dialog with 6 icons F
96. ugh repositories or knowing exact program titles Few know this exists because 1 5 tucked away in the System menu in the Administration sub category if it s there IF not get it from the Ubuntu repositories Good Allows for program driver and codec searching with Bad Adds dependencies by the just a partial aue Also does complete purging of installed programs should something you add be stubborn unlike other managers that may leave residual command line something most are File traces For those thinking it looks little familiar Synaptic Ubuntu Software Center and Adept all have similar interfaces and borrow heavily from Aptitude Ehis one provides all services Bad If any of your repository sources are slow to respond it can drag Aptitude down takes an inordinate amount of time to pass over an unresponsive source Canonical passes it for their Ubuntu Software Center naturally BodhiLinux com Main website For Ubuntu based Bodhi Linux You can t actually download specific programs without pulling a few tricks but this one is stellar in its listing of programs alternatives and descriptions for both Over 2GB of listed programs and packages and some of the narratives are more in depth than what the individual developers provide Good Comprehensive listing of packages and individual programs
97. vironments other than a Few changes in color scheme and minor details But this isn t a huge deal as the pacing of the game Full circle magazine 62 50 Clone Wolf the scenery Overall Clone Wolf Protector is a clever hybrid of side scrolling platformer and tower defense goodness with a story that is as Fun as the gameplay Clone Wolf is part of the Indie Underdog Pack Bundle along with four other DRM free games for just 3 99 You can also purchase it on Desura or direct from Jarnik s site http wolf protector www jarnik com 1062 clone Pros e fun addictive gameplay e good graphics and soundtrack humorous twist on a classic plot Cons e fairly short can be completed quickly environments lack some variety oe x x 53 Jennifer is a fine arts student from the Chicago land area You can find her on Google or Follow missjendie on Twitter contents v JBUNTU GAMES rban Terror is a multi platform first person shooter for your home computer It runs natively in Windows Mac OS X and Linux This is how a game should be designed Open to game players of any operating system not just Windows And like many games available on Linux Urban Terror is freely available to all users The website itself http www urbanterror info is ad supported with banner ads and they request that you do not block them A minor
98. ware channels such as USC below or Synaptic Old programs may come with dependencies no longer necessary Ubuntu Software and the screenshot function rarely Center Centre USC replaces Synaptic as a manager and GDebi as a package handler Much like Synaptic it offers roughly 35 000 packages but this figure increases as users add sources and can decrease if you trim the fat Some variants delete it For Synaptic but it can be added Ubuntu with some like UE and oddly enough via Synaptic Once called AppCenter 12 04 version has an area just for periodicals including Full Circle Magazine Now standard in Ubuntu USC Good Allows users to peruse the program catalog while 1 downloading others unlike Bad Can get pokey and visiting Synaptic which freezes out additional activity during that phase Better descriptions than what Synaptic offers and since everything is geared to Ubuntu you don t have to worry about compiling unpacking etc Bad Commercial and free always respond If you don t have USC be careful of the version you install since so many are offered Ubuntu Tweak X Xo x Unity what ll happen to Tweak Before adding sources make sure you read the descriptions since some are unstable or in beta Tweak is an add on for Super OS providing it as
99. ystem which includes plug ins to simulate telescope viewing and a plug in to remote control a motorized scope Its only downside is that it won t run on older machines laptops But never fear Full circle magazine 62 Amateur Astronomy URSA MINOR i URSA MAJOR Kstars edu kde org kstars will run on older hardware and while not as fancy looking as Stellarium and being KDE based which might upset some purists out there it s certainly up for the job of showing you stars and controlling your telescope It also has some nice Features not in Stellarium such as being able to right click on stars view images from the Internet and add notes log entries Both Stellarium and Kstars are in most repositories A more technical looking 14 strasbg fr I ve used it only briefly while working through an Open University course and while it certainly has some nice layering technical Features it is certainly used by the professionals since it can load the industry standard FITS files One thing I have to say though is that it is Java based so you ll need to have Java installed on your system to use it But since it s Java you can actually use the application on their website without downloading it Another equally scientific looking and tricky to use app is XEphem source though but if you look around the Internet enough you ll Find a pre compiled RPM that you can convert
100. zed and wonder how Windows or Apple are able to remain the computer business with Linux out there and it is a rising Force really is easy to learn It has options for those power users far more options than Windows will ever have via the command line But that s not necessary for a general user who is going to surf the web check email and play some games IF you are considering Linux suggest strongly in checking out You can always ask me about Linux will be happy to show itto you can even provide you witha live CD so you can try out Linux RERDHE aos lt Russ quoe Ia Pragram Manager USING h File Options Window Help Accessories Full circle magazine 62 31 16x16 SUDOKU Numbers 0 to 9 and letters A to F are to be filled into the 16x16 grid so that every row every column and every 4x4 box contains 0 to 9 and A ar er toy lel 1L LETS _____ _ 7 30 69 2 5 F 7 Solutions are on the second last page Puzzles are copyright and kindly provided by The Puzzle Club www thepuzzleclub com A contents j d j d j F j a yi um m am 79 retired basically an electronics oriented person I had my first computer in 1985 a Commodore Plus 4 with an external floppy drive and a 9 needle dot matrix printer that were usable with C 4 and the IBM

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