This is a beginner’s guide shows how to set custom keyboard shortcut to tile windows in Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. Ubuntu 23.10 introduced enhanced tiling window support with a new system extension. With it, user can easily arrange all opened windows side by side by either mouse dragging or keyboard shortcuts. The extension supports both […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Clang compiler 17 and/or 16 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu includes several versions of Clang in its system repositories. But, it rarely builds newer releases into Ubuntu stable repositories. You can easily install Clang 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 by […]
This simple tutorial shows how to add a “Show Desktop” icon to the top panel in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.10 with default Wayland session. I’ve written about how to add ‘Show Desktop’ to the left dock panel, however, it works for the class Xorg session only. Since 22.04, Ubuntu switched to Wayland as its […]
For those who prefer the new ‘App Center’ in Ubuntu 23.10, it’s easy to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 and here’s how! The new App Center is also the snap-store but re-built with Google’s Flutter UI toolkit. It’s fast and always works! With it, the software app will never stuck at “Downloading Software catalog” or […]
For those who prefer the old system font, now it’s easy to get it in Ubuntu 23.10 via a new package! Since Ubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu takes use a new slim font for the text in system menus, documents, and app windows. Some users do NOT like the change, because the new font is thin and […]
This simple tutorial shows how to reset Ubuntu Dock, the left panel, to its original status in Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 23.10. As you may know, Ubuntu Dock (aka Dash-to-Dock) is an extension to the GNOME Desktop. It has many configure options, however most of them are hidden. In Ubuntu 23.10, it finally provides a […]
For best integration, the LibreOffice PPA is finally updated with the LibreOffice 7.6.x packages for Ubuntu. LibreOffice 7.6 was released almost one months ago. It features document themes support, zoom gestures in the main view, new “Page Number Wizard” dialog for Writer, new compact layout for pivot tables in Calc, and various other changes. See […]
Have many extensions installed on your GNOME desktop? Here’s a new tool to help managing them with a more efficient way. Without launching Gnome Extensions app or Extension Manager every time, the new “Glass Grid” allows user to either press a keyboard shortcut or click the indicator on panel to quickly trigger an overview of […]
The popular free open-source Kdenlive video editor released version 23.08.0 more than a week ago. For those who are sticking to the native .deb package format, the official Ubuntu PPA finally updated with the new release package! Kdenlive 23.08.0 introduced 2 new effects Audio Seam and Auto Fade, added AV1 NVENC profile, and had bug-fixes […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Firefox Nightly in all current Ubuntu releases! Firefox Nightly is the bleeding edge version of the web browser that updates twice a day. It contains features that are still in developments months or even years before they become mainstream. The Nightly build is more likely to […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest PyCharm IDE in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. PyCharm is available to install in Ubuntu via different ways. They include Snap, Flatpak, official tarball, and Ubuntu PPA. Choose either one that you prefer. Method 1: Install PyCharm via Snap package JetBrains provides official Linux […]
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Intellij IDEA 2023.2 in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. Intellij IDEA is available to install in Ubuntu via different ways. They include Snap, Flatpak, official tarball, and Ubuntu PPA. Choose either one that you prefer. Method 1: Install Intellij IDEA via Snap package JetBrains […]
This simple tutorial shows how to replace ‘Recent Used‘ with current working directory as default in GTK file chooser in Ubuntu. Many apps use “Recent Used” as default in their “Open File” dialog. It’s great, but there’s a choice to make it default to the directory of current editing files. This is quite useful when […]
Ubuntu 23.10 with GNOME 45 has replaced the top-left ‘Activities’ with a workspace indicator. By hovering over it, you can use mouse scroll to switch workspaces. This is done by a simple extension called “Workspace Scroll”. Like the volume icon, with that extension, you can move mouse cursor over the top-left indicator, then scroll the […]
Want to install the latest Linux Kernel 6.5? It’s there in your Ubuntu 22.04 system repository! Linux Kernel 6.5 was released a week ago with exciting new features, including initial USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 support, much faster parallel direct I/O overwrite on EXT4, Acer Aspire 1 Arm laptop, Sony Xperia M4 Aqua phone, open-source driver […]
Wine, the popular software library to running Windows apps on Linux and macOS, announced a new development release one day ago. It’s Wine 8.15 that features TEXT print processor support, cycle collection support in MSHTML, and cross-process memory notifications in Wow64. There are as well a total of 19 bug-fixes for applications including TrackMania Nations […]
For those who are sticking to Firefox ESR, the latest 115 release is now easy to install in all current Ubuntu releases via PPA. Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) is a slow moving release series target for organizations, including schools, universities, businesses. It has different release circle compare to the general Firefox series. Mozilla keeps […]
In the recent update of Ubuntu 23.10 daily build, the GNOME desktop has been updated to v45 beta. And, here are some visual changes. The default wallpaper now has a dark variant. Meaning changing Ubuntu Desktop to dark style will also change to dark style wallpaper. Though, the final wallpaper is not revealed yet! The […]
Shared Folders feature does not work for your OS in VirtualBox Virtual Machine? Here’s a quick workaround to transfer files between host and VMs. VirtualBox has port forwarding feature that allows to access a service or an app running in VM from the host or even the internet. With it, you can setup a quick […]
Transmission, Ubuntu’s default BitTorrent client, announced new 4.0.4 release with various bug-fixes. For users of Transmission 4.0.x, it’s recommended to update to the new release for stability improvements. For me, the last 4.0.3 crashes often when downloading Kali Linux image in 7z format. Now, it’s working good in the new 4.0.4 release. For Qt client, […]