Making your own dynamic backgrounds for use in GNOME 42 just got easier thanks to a new GTK4 app. It makes light/dark wallpaper creation a cinch.
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A short guide on how to install Firefox from a PPA on Ubuntu 22.04 and remove the Firefox Snap. Doing this gets you a faster Firefox that can do more OOTB.
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Looking for a simple, focused, no-frills music player that fits in beautifully on the modern GNOME desktop? Check out Amberol. “Amberol aspires to be as small, unintrusive, and simple as possible. It does not manage your music collection; it does not l…
A new month, a new release of Mozilla Firefox — though as we’ve come to expect from its expedited release schedule, the changes are relatively minor. What’s new? Well, a lots of folks, including Mozilla are hyped about Firefox 99’s su…
Various new features are coming to Thunderbird, the open source email client. In this post we look at the biggest ones, like the all-new address book.
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A major —nay, colossal update to open source reference management tool Zotero is available to download. Zotero 6 is billed by its developers as the “biggest upgrade in Zotero’s history”. What makes it so substantial? An array of new feature…
If you use Logitech’s Unifying Receiver on Linux check out the open source ‘Solaar’ app. It makes it easier to pair and manage wireless keyboard and mice.
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Firefox 98 won’t go down as one of the browser’s greatest releases but there’s still stuff to talk about, like a download flow that’s a bit more chill.
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If you’re yet to settle on a note-taking service that works across platforms you may want to check out a new option now available for Linux: UpNote.
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GDM Settings is a new GTK app for configuring the GNOME login screen from a simple GUI, with options to change background, font, top bar items, and more.
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Clipboard managers are handy, and there are plenty to choose from. A new contender is the performance-minded ‘Clipboard History’ GNOME extension.
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Control Elgato key lights on Linux desktops like Ubuntu using a free, open source app that lets you adjust power, brightness, and colour temperature.
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A new version of Mozilla Firefox is now available to download. But don’t get too excited as Firefox 97 is a very minor update with few major changes.
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This nifty utility makes it easy to copy test from anything you see on your screen straight to your clipboard, ready to paste someplace else — nice!
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ONLYOFFICE 7.0 is now available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. As the first major update to this free, open source office suite this year you won’t be surprised to hear it’s a fairly big one with a wide range of tweaks, features,…
Rnote is a seriously impressive freehand note taking app written in Rust and GTK4. I came across it on Flathub this week and, within seconds of installing it, I knew I had to give it a bit of a spotlight. If you’ve got a laptop with a stylus or t…
It was inevitable that the popularity of viral word guessing game Wordle would inspire clones, and thus only a matter of time before one of them popped up on Linux. And lo, it has. elementary OS gets to call first-dibs with Warble. Built by Andrew Voja…
Want to install GNOME extensions without using a web browser? Check out the new ‘Extension Manager’ app. Full details on this super handy tool inside.
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With a new year starting you might be planning to indulge your creativity side this year — and if so, take a look at the latest stable release of open source image editing app Pinta. Pinta 2.0 is major new release that completes the app’s transit…
Thunderbird is Ubuntu’s default e-mail client but it’s not the most well integrated of tools — at least, not by default. For instance, some Linux apps (e.g., Telegram) show an unread count on the Ubuntu dock while the app is running. This m…