For Ubuntu 22.10 and upcoming Fedora 37 with default GNOME 43 desktop, there’s now an extension to add user’s icon or figure (aka avatar) to the top-right corner system tray menu, which is also known as quick settings. With it, the ‘Quick Settings’ menu will look like the screenshot below shows you. The avatar can […]
After installing Ubuntu 22.10 today in my desktop PC, the dual-boot Windows 10 disappeared from the startup boot menu. If you run into similar issue, here’s the quick tip to fix it. This is definitely not bug, but a policy change since GNU Grub 2.06. The default boot-loader uses external os-prober tool to discover other […]
This simple tutorial shows how to reboot your machine into another OS or grub boot menu entry directly from Ubuntu. Say you have Ubuntu dual- or multi-boot with other operating systems, and want to reboot directly into a specific OS when working done in current Ubuntu. Or you want to reboot with another Kernel or […]
GIMP image editor got a new update for its 2.99 development release this Friday. Here’s the new features as well as how to install guide for Ubuntu users. GIMP 2.99.14 is the 7th development release for the next major 3.0 release. It reworked the Align and Distribute tool to make it easy to use. Target […]
Want to display digital clock, system memory and CPU load in your Desktop? There’s new circular widget for Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora 37, and other Linux with GNOME 43. There are quite a few tools to display system load widget in desktop. Here I’m going to introduce the one that has a Conky look alike circular […]
This simple tutorial shows how to add world clock in top panel, so you can have a glance at what time is it now for different countries and locations. Say you have business world-wide or family members or good friends live in different countries, a world clock can be quite useful to know the time […]
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is building the popular Steam game platform as Snap package! The Ubuntu developer team is going to improve gaming experience on this popular Linux distribution. The first step is to simplify the process of setting up gaming environment. As the number 1 game platform, Steam to be first one they […]
Ubuntu finally added support for disabling automatic updates for snap applications, though it’s currently considered experimental at the moment of writing. As you may know, Snap is an universal package format runs in sandbox. It’s developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, as a competitor to Flatpak. The pre-installed Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04+, and Ubuntu […]
As you may know, icons on Ubuntu desktop is handled by an extension called “Desktop Icons NG”. While GNOME has been moving to GTK4, the extension so far still uses GTK3 toolkit to implement all the functions. A GTK4 port of this extension now is in development, with all previous functions, bug-fixes, as well new […]
A new monthly release of Firefox web browser to be released soon! Users of Mozilla team PPA should already received the updates. Though it’s not officially announced at the moment of writing, user can however check what’s new in the release via the Github Releases page. And, here are the changes in Firefox 107 according […]
The classic VLC media player got a new release after more than half a year of development. Here’s the changes and how to install guide. VLC 3.0.18 is probably the last release of the 3.0.x series, as VLC 4.0 is under developing now. It features: Support RISC-V CPU architecture Add support DVBSub subtitle in MKV […]
The pre-installed Firefox Snap package in Ubuntu 22.04 & 22.10 now works again for native messaging support. Meaning user can now make it work with GSConnect, KeePassXC, Plasma extension, and/or installing Gnome Shell Extensions, As you may know, Ubuntu switched to the Snap version of Firefox that runs in sandbox since 21.10. Which, however broke […]
Prefer macOS spotlight or Alfred style search system? You can now get similar feature in Ubuntu via an extension. It’s ‘Search Light‘, an extension so far supports for Gnome 42 & 43, meaning for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora 36/37, Arch and Manjaro Linux. With it, you may press a custom shortcut key on keyboard […]
There are quite a few weather applications for Linux desktop. GNOME, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu, Fedora, and some other Linux, also has a core weather application. With the core weather app, user can either open the app window to get current weather condition, hourly and daily forecast, or open the clock menu to […]
Have multiple monitors connected into your Ubuntu machine? Here’s the quick tip shows you how to configure which one to display the login screen. It’s quite easy to set primary display in Ubuntu with default GNOME desktop. However, the login screen is always sticking to the built-in display in my laptop. In case you use […]
HPLIP, the open-source HP printer and scanner driver for Linux, released version 3.22.10 today with new Linux distributions support. The installer script for the new release is now working on Manjaro 21.3, Suse 15.4, RHEL 9, Linux Mint 21.0, Mx Linux 21.2. The release does not include any new HP printer and scanner support. Meaning […]
The free open-source kart racing game, SuperTuxKart, released the new stable 1.4 version. Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu Linux. SuperTuxKart 1.4 fixed a dependency bug for MacOS user, meaning it’s now running again for macOS ranging from 10.9 to 10.14 (Mavericks to Mojave). The release also introduced experimental support […]
For Ubuntu 22.10 and other Linux with GNOME 43, it’s now easy to add Media Control, Notifications, or Volume Mixer to the top-right corner system status menu (aka Quick Settings), or remove useless buttons. It’s ‘Quick Settings Tweaker‘, an extension for the new GNOME desktop. With it, your system menu can be configured to look […]
NVIDIA 520, the latest feature release of NVIDIA driver for Linux, is available to install in all current Ubuntu LTS releases. So far, it’s NVIDIA 520.56.06 released few weeks ago with following new features: Implement over-the-air (OTA )updates in the Proton and Wine NVIDIA NGX build, though needs to set “PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER” to 1 to enable […]
The popular Python programming language released version 3.11 today. Here’s the new features and how to install guide for all current Ubuntu releases. Python 3.11 claimed to be 10-60% faster than the previous 3.10, and features: Exception Groups and except* to raise and handle multiple unrelated exceptions simultaneously. Add add_note() method to BaseException to enrich […]