<p><strong>Say aloha to Ubuntu&rsquo;s new desktop&nbsp;background, the one&nbsp;that you, me, and thousands of other Ubuntu users will stare at for the next six months.</strong> Every new Ubuntu release ships with a new desktop wallpaper (well, almost; Ubuntu 14.10 didn&rsquo;t) and the upcoming release of&nbsp;<a href="../../../../blog/ubuntu-19-04-release-date-planned-features-updated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ubuntu 19.04</a>&nbsp;is no exception. It&rsquo;s something of a design tradition, but it&rsquo;s also practical: distinct desktop wallpapers make it far easier to &lsquo;spot&rsquo; Ubuntu in use in the wild!</p>
<h2>The Disco Dingo Wallpaper, Revealed!</h2>
<p>Topping the cutesy&nbsp;<a href="../../../../blog/ubuntu-18-10s-new-wallpaper-is-cosmically-cute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Cosmic Cuttlefish</em>&nbsp;wallpaper</a>&nbsp;was always going to be a challenge, but the creative bods at Canonical have had a crack at it anyway. And the result of their diligent designing is this dapper desktop drape bearing the recently revealed&nbsp;<a href="../../../../blog/meet-the-official-ubuntu-19-04-disco-dingo-mascot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disco Dingo mascot</a>: <img class="aligncenter wp-image-189 size-full" src="../../../../uploads/1744863956266-disco-dingo-750x422.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="422"> Pretty&nbsp;<em>delicious</em>, right? The orange-y purple gradient keeps things looking familiar and Ubuntu-ish, and there&rsquo;s a greater use of symmetry In the lines and folds (geometry?) backing this wallpaper compared to the past few. Do you dig what you see? If so, you can download the official Ubuntu 19.04 wallpaper direct from Launchpad, where it&rsquo;s available in 4K resolution and in a greyscale variant. <a class="omg-button omg-button--grey-66" title="Link to Download Ubuntu 19.04 Wallpaper" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/+bug/1819744/+attachment/5246108/+files/Disco-Dingo_WP_4096x2304.tar.xz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="omg-button__content">Download Ubuntu 19.04 Wallpaper (tar.xz)</span></a> If you&rsquo;re running Ubuntu 19.04 daily builds you should get the wallpaper as a software&nbsp;<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/+bug/1819744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">update to the ubuntu-wallpapers package</a>&nbsp;at some point in the next week.</p>
<hr>
<p><strong><em>I&rsquo;ve updated our article showcasing&nbsp;<a href="../../../../blog/look-back-at-every-default-ubuntu-wallpaper-ever">every Ubuntu wallpaper, ever</a>&nbsp;to include the latest design, so if you&rsquo;re feeling nostalgic, go and check &rsquo;em out!</em></strong></p>

Say aloha to Ubuntu’s new desktop background, the one that you, me, and thousands of other Ubuntu users will stare at for the next six months.

The Official Ubuntu 19.04 Wallpaper Is Revealed - TCMHACK

The Official Ubuntu 19.04 Wallpaper Is Revealed

<p><strong>The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.</strong> This date appears on the draft release schedule for Ubuntu 19.04 (named the &lsquo;Disco Dingo&rsquo;), which was recently added to the official&nbsp;<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ubuntu Wiki</a>. Dates for the other milestones that typically take place during an Ubuntu development cycle are also pencilled in, including the following freeze points:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Feature freeze:&nbsp;</strong>February 21, 2019</li>
<li><strong>UI freeze:</strong>&nbsp;March 14, 2019</li>
<li><strong>Kernel freeze:</strong>&nbsp;April 1, 2019</li>
</ul>
<p>Once again<strong>&nbsp;there will be no alpha release</strong>&nbsp;during the &ldquo;Disco Dingo&rdquo; cycle&nbsp;but an official Ubuntu 19.04 beta release will be&nbsp;available&nbsp;to download and&nbsp;test in March:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 19.04 beta release date:</strong>&nbsp;March 28, 2019</li>
</ul>
<p>All going to plan the final, stable release of Ubuntu 19.04&nbsp;will strut on to the dance floor in mid-April:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 19.04 release date:</strong>&nbsp;April 18, 2019</li>
</ul>
<p>At this early juncture it&rsquo;s worth noting that all of these dates are subject to change. So, if you&rsquo;re making a note of them, best jot them down in pencil rather than biro, eh?</p>
<h2>Ubuntu 19.04 Features: What to Expect</h2>
<p>Wondering what to expect in Ubuntu 19.04? You needn&rsquo;t scratch your head too hard. The &lsquo;Disco Dingo&rsquo; will ship with the latest&nbsp;<strong>GNOME 3.32</strong>&nbsp;release, offer&nbsp;<strong>Mesa 19.0</strong>, and make use of&nbsp;<strong>Linux Kernel 5.0.</strong> A number of features initially planned for the&nbsp;Ubuntu 18.10 release, which postponed until the&nbsp;<em>Disco Dingo</em>&nbsp;development cycle, are, alas, passed over once again. For instance, Ubuntu 19.04 was to include support for Android integration using GSConnect, a native JavaScript implementation of the KDE Connect protocol, out of the box. This lets users to&nbsp;connect an Android phone to Ubuntu&nbsp;wirelessly. <strong>GSconnect won&rsquo;t be default in Ubuntu 19.04</strong>&nbsp;(but is available in the repo). Also seeing little improvement is Ubuntu Software. The&nbsp;Ubuntu Software mockups&nbsp;we&rsquo;ve written about before haven&rsquo;t inched any closer to reality this cycle. &nbsp;Indeed,&nbsp;<strong>Ubuntu 19.04 ships with Software 3.30</strong>&nbsp;and not the very latest release. Other proposed plans that have made it include making the open-source&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chromium web-browser</a>&nbsp;available as a Snap app in the Snap store; offering to enable geo-clue location detection (useful when travelling) during set-up, and offering&nbsp;better integration of Canonical&rsquo;s LivePatchservice. Ubuntu 19.04 has fractional scaling support in the (optional) Wayland session. It also includes a hidden and highly-experimental option to enable&nbsp;<strong>experimental fractional scaling support</strong>&nbsp;on Xorg for HiDPI displays. <strong>Performance patches</strong>&nbsp;feature heavily in this release. Memory and CPU optimisations mean the entire desktop feels more fluid and responsive. <img class="aligncenter wp-image-189 size-full" src="../../../../uploads/1744863956266-disco-dingo-750x422.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="422"></p>
<figure id="attachment_138955" class="wp-caption aligncenter" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-138955">
<figcaption id="caption-attachment-138955" class="wp-caption-text">The brand-new Ubuntu 19.04 wallpaper</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>The&nbsp;Nautilus file manager no longer supports desktop icons. To fill the gap Ubuntu devs ship the&nbsp;<a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">desktop icons extension</a>&nbsp;by default. It&rsquo;s a workable solution, but far from perfect. Finally, and most noticeably, Ubuntu 19.04 sports some visual changes. There&rsquo;s a new desktop wallpaper (see above), and the&nbsp;Yaru icon set has been revamped&nbsp;to look less uniform.</p>
<div class="callout"><strong>We&rsquo;ll be keeping this article up-to-date during the Ubuntu 19.04 development cycle</strong></div>
<div class="callout"><strong>What features do you want to see in the Disco Dingo? Let us know below!</strong></div>

The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019. This date appears on the draft release schedule for Ubuntu 19.04 (named the ‘Disc...

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Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features (Updated)

<strong>The public beta of <a href="/ubuntu-19-04-release-date-planned-features-updated" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Ubuntu 19.04 (opens in a new tab)">Ubuntu 19.04</a> ‘Disco Dingo’, the next major update to the hugely popular Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, is now available to download.</strong>

The launch of the beta, the only one planned in the current development cycle, will allow enthusiasts and developers to help test the latest update ahead of its stable release next month.

Not long now; the final, battle-hardened version of Ubuntu 19.04 will be released on April 18th — if you haven’t already, do pop the date in your diary!
<h2>Ubuntu 19.04 Beta Download</h2>
You probably want to know what’s new, right?

We recap all the key Ubuntu 19.04 features &amp; release details in a separate post. Rather than repeat all of that here (again), I recommend you go check that post out for the full skinny.
<h4>A Sizeable, if Sedate, Update</h4>
Ubuntu 19.04 is a sizeable update — literally: the ISO is larger than usual at 2.1GB— if also a somewhat sedate one.

That’s not to say there aren’t new things to play with, but anyone who’s toyed with or run Ubuntu 18.10 will find there’s little material difference on offer here.

GNOME 3.32 delivers a bevvy of performance enhancements, keenly felt throughout the entirety of the OS.

Nautilus is now the latest version, meaning features like file favourites and elegant resizing are on offer.

A new desktop icons extension comes pre-enabled by default to replace the functionality Nautilus lost, namely on-desktop icon support.

Broadly speaking the desktop icons extension works okay, but there are some niggling issues.

For instance, you can’t (currently) drag and drop files from the desktop on to an app to open or move it. There are several minor regressions like this which, one hopes, will be resolved in future updates to the extension.

Updated apps on offer include the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice.
<ul>
 	<li><strong>GNOME Shell 3.32</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Ubuntu Linux Kernel 5.0</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Mesa 19.0</strong> <strong>available</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Yaru icon set update</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>New Desktop Icons extension</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Updated apps</strong></li>
 	<li><strong><a href="/the-official-ubuntu-19-04-wallpaper-is-revealed/">New wallpaper</a></strong></li>
</ul>
And that’s more or less it!
<h3>Downloads</h3>
<p class="has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-vivid-red-background-color"><strong>Caution</strong>: We don’t recommend you install the Ubuntu 19.04 Beta on your main computer. Beta software may have stability issues or contain bugs and quirks that are yet to be fixed. Stay safe and use live media, a test partition or virtual machine to try it out.</p>
You can download the Ubuntu 19.04 beta ISO from the official Ubuntu release server, linked below:
<p class="wp-block-omg-buttons ta-center"><a class="omg-button omg-button--orange-ef" href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/disco/ubuntu-19.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="omg-button__content">Download Ubuntu 19.04 Beta (64-bit .ISO)</span></a></p>
You can use a tool like <a href="https://etcher.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Etcher (opens in a new tab)">Etcher</a> to flash the ISO image to a USB stick to boot Ubuntu 19.04 beta (or install it) on your computer.

For a complete look at all of the new features you can expect to see in Ubuntu 19.04 next month, make sure to check out our full Ubuntu 19.04 roundup.

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Ubuntu 19.04 Beta is Now Available to Download - TCMHACK

Ubuntu 19.04 Beta is Now Available to Download

<strong>FFmpeg</strong> is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion. It’s also useful to convert multimedia files between various formats. FFmpeg includes libavcodec audio/video codec library in it.

This tutorial will help you to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu Ubuntu 18.04 &amp; 16.04 LTS systems with easy steps.
<h2 class="heading1">Step 1 – Setup FFmpeg PPA</h2>
FFmpeg 4 is the latest available version for installation on Ubuntu. To install the latest version, you need to configure PPA on your system. Execute below command to add FFmpeg PPA on Ubuntu system.
<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4
</pre>
<h2 class="heading1">Step 2 – Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu</h2>
After enabling the PPA, Lets exec below commands to install ffmpeg on Ubuntu system. This will also install many packages for the dependencies.
<pre>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
</pre>
<h2 class="heading1">Step 3 – Check FFmpeg Version</h2>
After successfully install FFmpeg, let’s check the version installed on the system.
<pre>ffmpeg -version

ffmpeg version 4.0.3-1~18.04.york0 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)
...
</pre>
<h2 class="heading1">Step 4 – FFmpeg Basic Commands</h2>
Here is the list of the ffmepg basic command options used with ffmpeg command line tool.
<div class="pretty-label">FFmpeg command examples</div>
<pre><strong>ffmpeg -version: </strong>show version
<strong>ffmpeg -formats: </strong>show available formats
<strong>ffmpeg -codecs: </strong>show available codecs
<strong>ffmpeg -decoders: </strong>show available decoders
<strong>ffmpeg -encoders: </strong>show available encoders
<strong>ffmpeg -bsfs: </strong>show available bit stream filters
<strong>ffmpeg -protocols: </strong>show available protocols
<strong>ffmpeg -filters: </strong>show available filters
<strong>ffmpeg -pix_fmts: </strong>show available pixel formats
<strong>ffmpeg -layouts: </strong>show standard channel layouts
<strong>ffmpeg -sample_fmts: </strong>show available audio sample formats</pre>
<a href="https://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> to read more about ffmpeg on its official site.
<h2 class="heading1">Step 5 – Basic Examples</h2>
Below are some examples of uses of ffmpeg command line.

<strong>Reduce .mov File Size:</strong>
<pre>ffmpeg -i in.mov -c:v libx264 -c:a copy -crf 20 out.mov
</pre>
<strong>Convert .move To .mp4</strong>
<pre>ffmpeg -i in.mov -vcodec copy -acodec aac -strict experimental -ab 128k out.mp4</pre>

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