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 […]
Read MoreThere 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, […]
Read MoreWine, 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, […]
Read MoreGoing 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 […]
Read MoreThere 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 […]
Read MoreI 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. […]
Read MoreWhen 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 […]
Read MoreFor 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 […]
Read MoreKodi 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 […]
Read MoreKid3, the free and open-source Qt app for editing audio tags, now is 20 years old! It was January 12, 2003, exactly 20 years ago, when the first version 0.1 of Kid3 was released. And, it’s the first app that I used to edit music tags in Ubuntu when in 2008. To celebrate it, the […]
Read MoreKeePass password manager released new 2.53 version a few days ago. Here are the new features as well as PPA packages for Ubuntu users. The new release enhanced the History tab in Edit Entry. When editing an entry, the History tab contains the ‘Dialog (unsaved)’ to represent all data entered in the current dialog, and […]
Read MoreConverseen image converter announced 0.9.10.0 release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. Converseen is a free and open-source tool for converting or resizing a large quantity of photo images to another format with a few mouse clicks. The new 0.9.10.0 release redesigned the Images Settings dialog. Previously, it automatically […]
Read MoreLiferea, Linux Feed Reader, finally announced the new stable 1.14 release series! Here’s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 22.10. Liferea is a news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface for easy organizing and browsing. It features offline […]
Read MoreGnome, the default desktop environment in Ubuntu & Fedora Workstation, is going to replace the app menu with a new window animation, for indicating window focus. Meaning it will remove the app menu for current window, in the top-bar beside ‘Activities’ button. Because, it’s always confusing users who are new to GNOME. Instead, when switching […]
Read MoreOBS Studio, the popular free and open-source video recording and live streaming software, announced a new major 29.0 today. The new release came with great improvements for Windows users, including AMD AV1 Encoder for the RX7000 series GPUs, Intel AV1 Encoder for Arc GPUs, and Intel HEVC Encoder. It also introduced native HEVC and ProRes […]
Read MoreKrita graphics editor 5.1.5 released few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 22.10 via PPA repository. Krita 5.1 was released months ago with improved Webp, photoshop files support, extended fill tools, and configurable touch controls. The 5.1.5 is a new point release with following bug-fixes: Fixed issue with banding […]
Read MoreFor Pinta users who do NOT like the Snap and Flatpak packages that run in sandbox. Here’s how to build the 2.1 release from source tarball in Ubuntu 22.04 & 22.10. Pinta has switch to .NET 6.0 framework since version 2.0. Which however needs internet connection to fetch something for the first time during the […]
Read MoreThe free and open-source Paint.Net 3.0 clone, Pinta image editor got a new major release after 1 year of development. The new Pinta 2.1 came with some exciting new features, including WebP image support via webp-pixbuf-loader library, and updated icons with improved support for dark theme and HiDPI displays. The Gradient tool now has a […]
Read MoreUbuntu by default play a short alert sound when you plug in/out USB drive, power supply, or hit tab function key in terminal. This is useful for indicating certain type of system messages and events, but it’s easy to mute these type of sounds in case you don’t like them. And, here’s the quick tutorial […]
Read MoreFor Chinese users or those who have friends or business in China, native QQ app is finally working well in Linux by releasing the 3.0 version! QQ is one of the top popular instant messaging apps in China. It has an official Linux client since 2019, which was however old, crash often, and not suitable […]
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