Want to insert special characters (e.g., e.g., ©, ®, æ, ß, ¼, º) and/or diacritical characters (e.g., á, ä, é, ẽ) in your Ubuntu desktop? Without coping from web or using an app (e.g., Gnome Characters), you can type them directly via your physical keyboard. And, below I’m going to show you how to do […]
Read MoreLooking a way to automatically type text on your PC by speaking? Here’s a new app to do the job in Linux desktop! It’s Speed of Sound, a free open-source tool that uses local AI model to convert your speech to text and write anywhere that’s currently in focus. The app comes with a Whisper […]
Read MoreLibinput, the input device management library for most modern Linux distributions, released new 1.31.0 version few days ago. The new version of this input handling library added support configuring the timeouts of disable-while-typing and disable-while-trackpointing, allowing to set how long the touchpad or trackpoint should be should be inactive after key presses. The feature of […]
Read MoreLibinput, the free open-source input library and driver, released new 1.29.0 version few days ago. Libinput is a popular input library, that’s default in Ubuntu, Fedora, and many other Linux Distributions, for handling mice, keyboards, touchpads/touchscreens, and other input devices. The new release of the library introduced new libinput debug-tablet-pad command line tool. As you […]
Read MoreThis tutorial shows how to disable your mouse forward/backward buttons in Ubuntu. Though the title said for Ubuntu 24.04, this tutorial should also work in most modern Linux, such as Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Many mouses today have extra buttons on the side, allowing to navigate forward and back when working with web browsers, file […]
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