KDE Plasma desktop announced the new 5.27 release today! It’s a LTS release with support until 2024! Plasma 5.27 features new window tiling system. By enabling it in “System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects“, user can press and hold Shift key and then drag app windows to auto-resize and place them in the […]
The lightweight audacious music player announced the beta release of the next v4.3 a few days ago. Usually, the final release will be out in next or next few months with mostly no change since beta. So far, this beta release include the following new features. The new release added plugin support for Pipewire, which […]
The Transmission BitTorrent client released version 4.0.0 a few days ago. Here’s PPA repository contains the package for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Linux Mint 21/20. According to the release note, transmission 4.0 features new C++ and gtkmm code-base, with much less CPU and memory usage than before. It also adds support for using […]
Ubuntu has an indicator applet to quickly prevent screen goes blank, lock screen, and/or automatically suspend on system idle. It’s “Caffeine”, a more than 10 years old tool, that’s now available as Gnome Shell Extension. Which is useful when watching movies, or doing automation process that needs screen to keep alive. Previously, it acts an […]
Ubuntu has an indicator applet to quickly prevent screen goes blank, lock screen, and/or automatically suspend on system idle. It’s “Caffeine”, a more than 10 years old tool, that’s now available as Gnome Shell Extension. Which is useful when watching movies, or doing automation process that needs screen to keep alive. Previously, it acts an […]
Transmission, the default torrent downloading app for Ubuntu, announced the new major 4.0.0 release today! The new release migrated the codebase from C to C++ programming language. And now it uses the gtkmm toolkit instead of GTK for its user interface. With the code improvements, it can even have 50% less CPU and 70% fewer […]
Want to hear your sound in microphone? Here’s a stupid simple tool to the job in Linux. It’s Whisper, a new free and open-source GTK4 application, allowing listen to microphone through your speaker. Which, is useful for testing your microphone or for listening to your voice. As the screenshot shows, the app is quite easy […]
This simple tutorial shows how to easily check your SSD health in Ubuntu and/or Linux Mint desktop. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my old laptop for about 7 years. Everything works well, but it recently refuses to boot sometimes when pressing on the physical power button. Not sure what’s the problem, but I guess […]
LibreOffice, the default office suite in most Linux, announced the new 7.5 feature release today! The new release has greatly improved the dark mode support. It now has fully dark appearance, instead of leaving the document background white in dark mode. LibreOffice 7.5 now has new icons for standard app shortcuts, MIME types, and macOS […]
Elementary OS 7 is finally released! Here’s how to enable the “Minimize” title-bar button in its app windows. Elementary OS 7 is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It was released on Tuesday with many improvements on its core applications as well as desktop experience. Like Fedora workstation, this Linux Distro does not has a ‘Minimize’ […]
OnlyOffice announced the new 7.3.0 release for its desktop editors office suite one day ago. For Linux users, the new release now use native dialog windows (e.g., file manager and print). And, it adds support for xdg-desktop-portal in the file dialog window, meaning better desktop integration for application installed as Flatpak and/or Snap packages. This […]
There are several Gnome Shell extensions to display system resource usage in Ubuntu, but in this tutorial I’m going to introduce an indicator that works in not only GNOME, but also Unity, MATE, and Budgie desktop environments. It’s Indicator-SysMonitor, a free and open-source applet developed by the leader of Ubuntu Budgie team. With it, user […]
There are several Lightroom alternative applications for editing your photos. LightZone is one of them works in Linux. It’s a free and open-source professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor written in Java. It has less features than the popular Darktable and RawTherapee, but it’s good at processing black and white photos. LightZone features include: Windows, […]
Wine, the compatibility layer for running MS Windows apps in Linux and macOS, announced new stable 8.0 release after 1 year of development. Wine 8.0 has finally completed PE conversion. All modules can be built in PE format. Meaning various features to be supported, such as copy protection, 32-bit applications on 64-bit hosts, Windows debuggers, […]
Going to buy a new monitor or laptop, or want to calculate whether it’s a HiDPI display? Here’s a handy app can help! I previously thought that 4K and 8K displays are HiDPI, but 720p that I’m being using is LoDPI. It’s 100% wrong! HiDPI, stands for High Dots Per Inch, also known by Apple’s […]
There are quite a few ways to transfer files between different machines. For Ubuntu and most other Linux, here’s an easy way for choice. Usually, I use a USB cable or a messenger app for transferring photo images between my personal PC and mobile devices. However, my USB cable is always NOT near at hand […]
I don’t remember when’s the last time auto-save session feature works correctly in my Ubuntu machine. While, enabling hibernation could be the best choice now to save and restore all open app windows in Ubuntu. But for those who really like the auto-save session feature, here’s an Gnome Shell extension can do the job partially. […]
When first time logging in a user account, it always pop-up a welcome dialog to setup online account, livepath, privacy, etc in Ubuntu. It’s quite annoying if you create new user accounts regularly, since all options in that dialog are also available in system settings. In this case, you can follow this tutorial to disable […]
For those who want to try out the latest Linux Kernel 6.1.x, the Mainline Kernel PPA finally works again. Ubuntu developer team maintains the Mainline Kernel PPA with latest Kernel packages. It however failed to build for all the Kernel releases since v6.0.10. After more than a month until the release of Kernel 6.1.4, the […]
Kodi media center finally announced the new major 20.0 release! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu/Linux Mint based systems. Kodi 20, code-name ‘Nexus’, is a big release with 4,600 commits since the last v19. It features AV1 media decoding support for several platforms. As well, it allows add-ons using […]