Run Ubuntu on laptop or other machine with touchscreen? You can enable touch feedback with an extension. It’s ‘Touch X‘, an extension that support GNOME from version 40 to 44. Meaning for Ubuntu 22.04, 23.04, Debian 12, RHEL 9, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro and other Linux with recent GNOME. In these systems, it supports ripple feedback […]
Read MoreMPV media player released new 0.36.0 version a few days ago. Here’s how to install it for those sticking to the classic .deb package format. MPV does not provide official packages for Ubuntu Linux. It’s however easy to install the latest version via different sources. Linux Mint 21 can directly search for and install VLC […]
Read MoreInkscape, the popular free open source vector graphics editor, announced the 1.3 stable release few days ago! Here’s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases. Inkscape 1.3 features include: New shade builder tool (shortcut X), with ability to select multiple overlapping shapes and create new shapes. New ‘Document Resources’ dialog from File menu. […]
Read MoreThe Shotwell photo manager and viewer got a new point release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.04. The new Shotwell 0.32.2 added .hif file format support. It’s a HEIF variant usually taken by Sony Mirrorless Cameras. Other changes are mostly bug-fixes, they include: Fix using wrong data folder […]
Read MoreUbuntu 23.04 and Debian 12 excluded rabbitvcs-nautilus package in their repositories, since RabbitVCS 0.18 does not support the GTK4 version of Nautilus file manager. Now, RabbitVCS 0.19 is released! Which, added back plugin support for the newer versions of Nautilus. The new release has been submitted into Debian new packages queue. It should also be […]
Read MoreWant to configure the OSD (on-screen display) pop-up in Ubuntu and other Linux with GNOME? There’s an extension to do the job in GNOME 42 ~ 44. When changing volume, screen brightness, device status (e.g., Bluetooth), etc via keyboard shortcuts in GNOME, there will be on-screen pop-ups indicate the status changes. By default, these pop-ups […]
Read MoreLinux Mint announced the new 21.2 point release this Sunday! The new release introduced Cinnamon Desktop 5.8 with built-in gestures support for touchpad and touchscreen. With the touchegg service running in the background, System Settings now provides a ‘Gestures’ option, allowing to configure actions for 3-finger/4-finger swipe, 2-finger/3-finger/4-finger pinch, and activation thresholds. Another big change […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to enable RDP remote desktop for extended screen in Ubuntu 22.04 and higher with default GNOME desktop. Since Ubuntu 22.04, the default GNOME desktop has built-in RDP support. The function has feature to share screen in ‘extend’ mode. In this mode, Ubuntu won’t mirror the primary display, but create virtual […]
Read MoreStill looking for an alternative screen recording application for GNOME Desktop? Try this one! GNOME, the default desktop environment of Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation, lacks good screen recorder after switching to Wayland. Kooha is a good choice that support recording voice and multiple monitors, which works in both Xorg and Wayland. In this tutorial I’m […]
Read MoreGIMP image editor announced a new development release for next major 3.0 this Sunday! It’s GIMP 2.99.16, the last release in the 2.99.x series. The release has finished the GTK+3 port. It adds ability to assign several shortcuts for a single action. And, the action search dialog also shows results’ own menu positions. The GEGL […]
Read MoreFor those who prefer light theme, there’s an extension now to make all the GNOME Shell components to be light! Ubuntu so far has light and dark mode options available in the ‘Appearance’ settings page. It can switch the color scheme for system menu, notification, and app windows. However, other components, such as panel and […]
Read MoreFor those hate Snap but prefer Flatpak, there’s now a script to automatically remove all the snap apps installed on your system, and install them back as Flatpak in Debian and Ubuntu. It’s Unsnap, a free and open-source script written by Alan Pope and some other contributors. The man was an employee of Canonical (the company […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to install the DVD authoring tool, DVDStyler 3.3 Beta, in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 23.04. DVDStyler is a free software for creating professional-looking DVDs. It provides many built-in buttons, templates, and file browser to make easy to burn DVDs. I was maintaining a PPA with DVDStyler package for Ubuntu users, […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial is going to introduce the new Ubuntu PPA for installing VLC media player as native .deb package format. VLC is easy to install in Ubuntu through either Snap (available in Ubuntu Software) or Flatpak. If you don’t like applications run in sandbox, then a third-party PPA can be a good choice besides […]
Read MoreLinux Kernel 6.4 was released a few days ago. Ubuntu users can now install it from Kernel Mainline PPA. Linux Kernel 6.4 features initial Apple M2 processors support, Realtek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu, rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs WiFi hardware support, Turtle Beach and Qanba gaming controller support, and many Kye/Genius drawing tablets, such as EasyPen M406 / M506 […]
Read MoreLinus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 6.4 few days ago on Sunday. He wrote: Hmm. Final week of 6.4 is done, and we’ve mainly got some netfilter fixes, some mm reverts, and a few tracing updates. There’s random small changes elsewhere: the usual architecture noise, a number of selftest updates, some filesystem fixes […]
Read MoreFor users switching from macOS, there’s an extension can replace top-left ‘Activities’ with ‘Apple Menu’ in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.04. It’s ‘Maccy Menu’, which adds a menu in top-left with following options: About This PC, System Preferences (Settings), App Store (Ubuntu Software / Gnome Software) Recent Items (Recent Files) Force Quit (xkill) Sleep Restart […]
Read MoreDarktable got a new major release few days ago! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 23.04 via PPA. Darktable 4.4.0 is a big release with many new features. They include: Ability to define multiple automatically-applied presets against a single processing module. A global “right-click-and-drag” operation to allow image rotation to […]
Read MoreONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, the free and open-source offline use office suite, released new 7.4 version a few days ago. The new releases feature a “Plugin Manager“, allows to easily install external functions support, such as ChatGPT, YouTube, OCR, and more. User can of course submit its own plugin to the market place for other user […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Cinnamon Desktop 5.8 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 23.04 via PPA. The source of Cinnamon 5.8 was out a few days ago! It will be officially announced later in this month along with Linux Mint 21.2. Cinnamon 5.8 features built-in touchpad / touchscreen gestures support! There […]
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