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GNOME 46 Officially Released with Improvements Galore

The GNOME project today announced the stable release of GNOME 46 “Kathmandu”, the latest update of its hugely popular open-source desktop environment. And what an update it is. I ran through the best GNOME 46 features earlier this week…

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GNOME 45.5 Is Here with Small Updates for GNOME Shell, Mutter & GNOME Tweaks

The GNOME Project released GNOME 45.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series, addressing various bugs or regressions and updating language translations.
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GNOME 45.5 Is Here with Small Updates for GNOME Shell, Mutter, and GNOME Tweaks

GNOME 45.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 45 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and updated translations.
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GNOME 46: The Best New Features

GNOME 46 is released on March 20 and the update will be at the heart of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release — so are you wondering what sort of improvements it brings? Well, I gotcha’ covered, innit. In this post I run-through the best GNOME 46 fea…

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How to Install GNOME Shell Extensions on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

Discover a step-by-step guide to setup GNOME shell extensions on Ubuntu and other Linux distros, and later install your favorite GNOME extensions.
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System 76 Says Cosmic Desktop Is Late but on Schedule

While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that’s not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
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Try Out the Latest Linux Gnome DE With DistroBox

Discover a step-by-step guide to installing and experiencing the latest Linux Gnome desktop environment with DistroBox.
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Install Reading Strip to Help Focus on Reading in Ubuntu

For Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with GNOME Desktop, there’s an extension to help you focus on reading on the screen. It’s Reading Strip, a free and open-source app written in JavaScript. With it, a horizontal (and/or vertical) strip will be displayed and follow around your mouse cursor. By settings its background color and […]

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Fedora 41 Drops the GNOME Xorg Sessions

Fedora Workstation 41 will not include GNOME Xorg sessions by default, as the team leans towards embracing Wayland’s benefits.
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Fedora Project Now Considering Dropping XOrg Session from Fedora 41 Workstation

Fedora Project is considering dropping the XOrg session by default in the Fedora Linux 41 Workstation edition featuring the GNOME desktop environment.
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openSUSE Leap 15.6 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing With GNOME 45

Powered by the Linux 6.4 kernel series and built on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6 (SP6), openSUSE Leap 15.6 Beta ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS and GNOME 45 desktop environment series.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Drops GNOME Games from the Default Install

With a focus on a clearer desktop experience, Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) says goodbye to the GNOME games in the default installs.
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GNOME 46 to Add “Variable Refresh Rate” Configure Option

GNOME 46, the default desktop for Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, will finally have the option to enable Variable Refresh Rate. Variable Refresh Rate, VRR in short, is a feature for TV, monitor, and other displays, allowing to adjust refresh rate on the fly to match the frame rate of the graphics card. Which, is […]

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How to Install VNC Server on CentOS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the VNC server on CentOS 8 Server. We use TigerVNC as the VNC server and Gnome Desktop for the graphical user interface.
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GNOME 46 to Ship With Experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Support

Yes, you’re reading it right. After more than three years of work by the Mutter (GNOME’s window and composite manager) developers, the variable refresh rate (VRR) support has been merged today and will be available as part of the upcoming GNOME 46 desk…

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Install GNOME Loupe Image Viewer & Set Default in Ubuntu 24.04

Loupe is the core image viewer app for GNOME since version 45, but it’s so far not made default in Ubuntu. It’s a fully adaptive image viewer that supports mobile form factors. It’s touch-friendly that supports 2-finger swipe left/right to navigate, 2-finger pinch/stretch to zoom out/in, and 2-finger gestures to rotate images. Other features of […]

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GNOME 46 Beta Released for Testing

GNOME 46, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, now is in Beta stage. It’s now the best time for developers to test their applications and shell extensions. Gnome 46 features explicit Global Search for the Files, redesigned Privacy settings page, added new System panel in Gnome Control Center, and support […]

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How to Disable Mobile Broadband Menu Option in GNOME

This simple tutorial shows how to get rid of the “Mobile Broadband” menu option from the upper right system status menu in GNOME Desktop. GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation, has built-in support for mobile broadband. If your computer (usually laptop) has a built-in SIM card slot, then it will show you […]

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How to Get Classic GNOME 2 Session in Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04

This simple tutorial shows how to install and enable the Classic Gnome 2 style desktop session in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 24.04. Though the title said for Ubuntu, this tutorial also works in Debian 12 & 11. Fedora, Arch, and their based systems also have corresponding packages for the similar job. As far as I […]

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Top New Features in GNOME 46, the Desktop for Ubuntu 24.04

GNOME 46 reached UI, ABI/API, and feature freeze stage today. Let’s see the top new features in this popular desktop environment. GNOME 46 will be the default desktop environment for Fedora 40 Workstation, Ubuntu 24.04, and optional in Arch, Manjaro, etc Linux. It continues polish the desktop appearance by redesigning the improving the core app […]

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