{"id":11675,"date":"2014-12-29T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:55:54","slug":"more-on-the-raspberry-pi-desktop-updateupgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11675","title":{"rendered":"More on the Raspberry Pi desktop update\/upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pprefs.jpg?resize=560%2C336\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simon Long is the user interface guru at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is the one responsible for the desktop updates featured in the new Raspbian. He&#8217;s written about some of the process he went through to improve the desktop and has listed many of the new features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/changes-to-the-raspbian-user-interface\/\" target=\"_blank\">here, on the Raspberry Pi blog<\/a>. He&#8217;s also described how to change the position of that pesky task bar\/start menu if you&#8217;d like it returned to the bottom of the screen (thus neatly side-stepping the argument about whether it should be at the top or the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>To get the new desktop, you can either use the new version of NOOBS or Raspbian, or alternatively type the following into an existing installation.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"terminal\"><code>sudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get dist-upgrade\r\nsudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods <\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Long is the user interface guru at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is the one responsible for the desktop updates featured in the new Raspbian. 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