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Gnome’s New Director Tackles Funding, Pride and Prejudice

Given the current political climate in the US and parts of Europe, it’s not surprising that the haters have been targeting one of open source’s most beloved projects.
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GNOME 48.2 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

GNOME 48.2 desktop environment is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment series.
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GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS

GNOME is looking to jettison X11 session support – as soon as this year, which may impact Ubuntu’s plans for its next long-term support release.
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Context Menu Compare Extension “nautilus-compare” is back in Ubuntu

For those who need to compare files, folders, and version controlled projects regularly, Debian and Ubuntu are adding back the nautilus-compare extension for GNOME Files (aka Nautilus) in default repositories for current development releases. nautilus-compare is a Nautilus extension that adds “compare” option to right-click menu of selected files/folders, allowing to quickly launch Meld tool, […]

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GNOME 49 Finally to Use Showtime as Default Video Player

Due to GTK4 port, GNOME introduced some new core apps to replace the old ones. They include Loupe Image Viewer, Gnome Console, Gnome Camera, Decibels Audio Player, Gnome Text Editor. Now, the developer team is going to replace the default video editor Totem with Showtime in the next 49 desktop release. Showtime is a video […]

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Configure Hidden Options for Built-in Break Reminders in GNOME 48+

GNOME 48, the default desktop for Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42, introduced built-in break reminders support to protect your eyes from eye strain. The Settings (aka GNOME Control Center) however offers only few configure options for it. For those who like this feature, there are more configure options about it, though hidden by default. And, […]

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GNOME Replaces Totem Video Player with Showtime

Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have cast a new video player for a staring role in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream change now merged, the aged GTK3 video player Totem has been replaced by newer, f…

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CamPeek – MacOS Hand Mirror Inspired One-click Camera Check for GNOME

Looking for a MacOS Hand Mirror alternative app for Ubuntu? Here’s one for the GNOME desktop. It’s CamPeek, an extension adds an icon on GNOME top-bar, allowing to one-click to preview your webcam. It’s lightweight and fast! And, it streams your webcam feed directly without recording or saving any data. This is ideal for quickly […]

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Download Fedora 42 Full Editions (Workstation, Server, IoT Included)

The forty second release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It’s released on Wednesday, 16 April 2025 or near Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” release date. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly: Workstation, KDE Plasma Edition (new!), Server, IoT, Cloud …

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Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is Released with Download Links, Mirrors and Torrents

Congratulations to Canonical Ltd. and Free Software community for the release of Ubuntu 25.04! This release. codenamed Plucky Puffin, is out on Thursday 17 April 2024 or six months after the previous version 24.10 last year. We presented here a compila…

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An Everyday User’s Guide to Ubuntu’s New 25.04 Plucky Puffin Release

Although Ubuntu’s latest and greatest has no shortage of features aimed at developers, for this article we’re concentrating on what it offers the average user.

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GNOME 48.1 Desktop Is Out to Improve HDR Support and Fix Various Issues

GNOME 48.1 is now available as the first point release to the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment series with improvements and bug fixes.
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GNOME 47.6 Fixes Black Screen Issue on Multi-Monitor Setups with NVIDIA Driver

GNOME 47.6 desktop environment is out now to fix a black screen issue on multi-monitor setups when using the NVIDIA graphics driver and other bugs.
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Fedora Workstation 42 is upon us!

We are excited about the Fedora Workstation 42 released today. Having worked on some great features for it. Fedora Workstation 42 HDR edition I would say that the main feature that landed was HDR or High Dynamic Range. It is … Continue reading

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Serigy – New Concept to Selectively Pin Clipboard for GNOME

For Linux, there’s now new “Clipboard Pinner” app called Serigy for GNOME desktop. It’s NOT a clipboard manager that can save and manage clipboard history. It works by selectively pinning (copy) clipboard content (text, image, URL, etc) into app window, then easily copy back to clipboard when needed with one click. As the app does […]

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How To Create and Edit Custom Desktop Shortcuts on Ubuntu GNOME

This tutorial will help you creating desktop shortcuts with icons on GNOME desktop environment in general and Ubuntu 24.04 computer system in particular. We divide this tutorial into three sections, first is to create basic shortcut on desktop, second…

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How To Prevent Ubuntu Files from "Jumping Down" the Dash when Accessing Disk Partitions

Did you find Ubuntu Files (also known as Nautilus File Manager) behave inconveniently when you access a disk volume or a flash drive? Yes, when accessing volumes, Files icon is inactive in the Ubuntu Dash (left panel) even though Files window is active…

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Calculator – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Calculator

Calculator is the default calculator application of Ubuntu. This program, originated from The GNOME Project, has simple interface, provides basic calculation ability useful in daily life as well as advanced and programming calculation abilities includi…

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GNOME Has A New App for Daily Wallpapers from Bing, Wikimedia

Want to get refresh of your desktop background with new wallpapers every day? Here’s a new app to do the job for Linux with GNOME Desktop! It’s Picture of The Day, a GTK4 application written in Rust programming language. With it, you may get wallpaper images from the following sources: NASA Astronomy Picture Of The […]

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How to Install GNOME’s New Adwaita Fonts in Ubuntu

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to manually download & install the new Gnome Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono fonts in all current Ubuntu releases. GNOME introduced new interface font in version 48, named Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono. While, Ubuntu does not ship Adwaita fonts in system repository, user can […]

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