This simple tutorial shows how to edit .desktop files, the config files for your apps shown in start menu (app launcher), in Linux via single command. In most Linux, the app icons (and their names) you see in dock & launcher are handled by .desktop files. If need, user can edit them by using […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Android Studio 2023.1.1 or 2023.2.1 in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10. Android Studio, the official IDE for Android app development, is easy to install in Ubuntu in different ways! They include Snap, Flatpak, and official tarball. Method 1: Install Android Studio via Snap package The easiest […]
This is beginner’s guide shows how to install and setup Waydroid to run full Android system as well as Android applications in Ubuntu. I’ve written about this by using Anbox, which is however no longer in active development. This is a re-write with free and open-source ‘Waydroid’, which is a container-based approach to run […]
Transmission, Ubuntu’s default BitTorrent client, announced a new bug-fix 4.0.5 release a day ago. The release fixed the following bugs: the IP address field in UDP announces were not encoded in network byte order. json string serializer improperly escaping characters decreased download speeds for people who set a low upload bandwidth limit. magnet data invalidates […]
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install LibreWolf web browser in Ubuntu and its based systems. LibreWolf is a free and open-source web browser fork from Firefox. The browser focuses on privacy and security, and has uBlocker ad blocker out-of-the-box. The browser website has an official guide for installing […]
I’m using Virtualbox to try out different Linux Distributions in virtual machines. It always has 2 logo icons on Ubuntu dock: one for the manager, and another for VMs. The VM and VM manager icons on the dock are totally same, causing me to make mis-clicks frequently. And, all the opened VMs are grouped into […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the Waterfox web browser from its official tarball & create app shortcut in Ubuntu Linux. Waterfox is a free open-source fork of Firefox, claims to be ethical and user-centric, emphasizing performance and privacy. The browser provides official Linux package through the portable tarball package, though a community maintained […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest qBittorrent 4.6.2 (the Qt5 build) from PPA in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. qBittorrent has an official PPA, which however seems no longer updating for Ubuntu 22.04 since v4.6 release series. User can choose to install the Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox. But if you prefer […]
There are so many tutorials teaching how to install the latest Kernel, while, this one is going to show you how to downgrade to the original GA (General Availability) Kernel 5.15 in Ubuntu 22.04. The GA Kernel is shipped by default in the first stable release of Ubuntu 22.04. By rolling out Ubuntu 22.04.1, 22.04.2, […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install ungoogled chromium web browser in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and their based systems. Ungoogled-chromium is a free open-source variant of Chromium web browser, that removes all Google web services. The project was started in 2015. It retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. But disables functionality […]
Looking for app to convert your photo images into other formats? Try Switcheroo. For batch image processing, I’d recommend to use Converseen. However, stupid simple applications are always good choices for beginners. And, Switcheroo is one stupid simple app for converting photo images, while having modern look and feel in today’s Linux desktop. With it, […]
Have 2 or more PCs connected to a single external monitor? If you run Ubuntu (or other Linux) on one of the PCs, then here’s how to add a keyboard shortcut to switch video source on the monitor. Most external monitors today have more than one video input ports, e.g., HDMI1, HDMI2, DP1, allowing to […]
Fedora workstation displays Fedora logo on the desktop for the default wallpaper, now there’s an extension that can do the similar job in Ubuntu 23.10, Arch, and Manjaro Linux with GNOME 45. It’s “Logo Widget”, which allows to add any user selected image into desktop as background logo, resize and place it in top-left, top-center, […]
Mozilla announced Firefox 120.0 a day ago as the latest stable release of the popular web browser. The new release continue adding new security improvements. In the right-click menu of web links, there’s now “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” to ensure that copied links no longer contain tracking information. The ‘Privacy & Security’ setting page […]
For Ubuntu 23.10, Fedora 39, Arch and other Linux with GNOME Desktop 45, there’s now new system tray applet to monitor system resource utilization. There are quite a few tools for monitoring system resource utilization. While, Gnome-Stats-Plus is a new one that adds real-time graphs in right-corner of top-panel, allowing users to keep a close eye […]
Microsoft announced .NET 8 a few days ago. Here’s a step by step guide shows how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. .NET 8 is a new LTS release with 3 years support. It features new code generator “Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization” (PGO), AVX-512 instruction set, out-of-the-box AI features, first preview of .NET Aspire, native […]
For HandBrake users who prefer the classic .deb package, there’s now new PPA for all current Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and their based systems, such as Linux Mint 20/21, Pop! OS, Zorin OS 17. HandBrake announced the new major 1.7.0 release a few days ago. The release features new AMD VCN […]
Shotwell photo viewer and organizer released new 0.32.3 version a day ago with minor updates. The release came with some bug-fixes and minor changes, they include: Fix asking twice on closing viewer with modified image Do not try to reload photo on shutdown Do not abort if new thumbnail size does not exist Open fullscreen […]
For LUbuntu 22.04 users, the latest LXQt desktop 1.4.0 is available to upgrade now through the official PPA. LXQt, the lightweight Qt desktop environment, announced the release of 1.4.0 more than a week ago. Changes in the new desktop release include: lxqt-menu-data is released to replace lxmenu-data anywhere needed. In file manager, user can add […]
In Ubuntu 23.10 with default GNOME 45 desktop, there’s no longer app menu indicator in top-panel next to workspace indicator (previously ‘Activities’). It’s an indicator menu for current running app window in focus, which has few basic options such as “New Window” and “Quite”. GNOME has proposed to replace the app menu with a new […]