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Install Legacy “xorg” Apps on Unity 8 in Ubuntu 16.10

You can install and use legacy “xorg” apps on Unity 8 Desktop Session on Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.10 comes with an optional Unity 8 pre-installed. Using Unity 8 on a Ubuntu 16.10 machine is actually a good experience. You can install more ‘Snap’ apps, like photo gallery, from the command line using: sudo snap install --edge --devmode gallery-app But what happens when you need the classic apps that we all know?

How to install VirtualBox 5.1 to RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

VirtualBox is a software that created for virtualization and it is open source x-platform. It is possible to be installed in all operating systems and give to user the capability to install and run a lot of “guest” operating systems in the same machine. A simple example is that if you install it in your Linux machine, then, you can ran Windows OS as a GuestOS and also the opposite. Same concept applies to more OS, which means that you can compine more than 2 with only limitation is your hard drive capacity and ofcourse your systems memory.

Fedora 26 removes the synaptics driver

Jan Kurik , Red Hat’s Fedora program Manager informed us about a system-wide change on the fedora 26 release. His proposal is the retirement of synaptics X11 drivers , provided by xorg-x11-dvr-synaptics package. Ferora project’s dev team decided the removal to offer users a better touchpad experience from the default install on Fedora 26 Linux default install that is released in june 2017. For users who prefer synaptics instead of libinput can still install it.

Wine 1.8.5 with Nvidia GT 740M fix and many more

Windows Movie Maker 2.x needs ole32.dll.StgOpenPropStg Microsoft Publisher 2007 and 2010 crash when opening documents/templates Windows utility ‘relog.exe’ crashes on unimplemented function ‘pdh.dll.PdhGetLogFileTypeW’ PDF Factory 3.x/4.x installer fails to install printer drivers (winspool.SetPrinterW lacks support for level 8, global default printer settings) CAPCOM games using gamepad start with axes X/Y pressed up/left SmartMusic 2012/2014 crashes on startup (Core Audio adapter ‘PKEY_DeviceInterface_FriendlyName’ property not supported) Photos opened in Nikon Capture NX 2.

Kdenlive 16.08.2 released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> This cycle saw the launch of the <a href="https://kdenlive.org/toolbox/">Toolbox</a> section of the website, a collection of posts covering in depth reviews of new and existing tools and features. </p> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">Kdenlive 16.08.2 Changelog</span> </h3> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Fix MLT Playlist proxying after recent proxy profile changes </li> <li> Fix proxy profiles to keep aspect ratio </li> <li> <span class="commit_title">Fix broken keyframes on image/title clips</span> </li> <li> Fix automatic playback of file with space in name </li> <li> Fix simplekeyframe effects (eg.