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Evince – Intro to the Default Ubuntu Document Viewer Application

Document Viewer or Evince is the default PDF reader application on Ubuntu. It originates from GNOME and its real name is evince. As its name suggests, Document Viewer’s purpose is to display various digital documents and electronic books, like PDF and …

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Disks – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Disk Utility Application

Disks, or GNOME Disk Utility, is the Ubuntu default disk storage management application. Its purpose is to manage everything about hard disk drives and other storage on your Ubuntu computer — including optical discs (CDs, DVDs) and USB flash drives. T…

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Collection of Ubuntu 24.04 Tutorials Part III: The List, Cursor Size, Thunderbird Emails, Winamp-like Player and the Recommendations

This is the third compilation of our Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat tutorials, which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024. In the last compilation, we talked about useful things like Telegram and Synaptic, among others. In this episode, we…

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How To Report A Bug You Found on Ubuntu with Examples

Do you want to contribute to the community as an Ubuntu user? One of the simplest methods is by reporting a bug that occurs on your Ubuntu system if any. That way, the developers along with community can address and fix the issue to later they publish …

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How To Use Transmission BitTorrent Application

Transmission is a download and upload manager application or technically called a BitTorrent client preinstalled on Ubuntu. It is one among a few Ubuntu default applications with a longest history and never had been replaced with any other along with F…

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Collection of Ubuntu 24.04 Tutorials Part II: CHM, AppImages, Telegram and Synaptic

This is the second compilation of our Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat tutorials which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024. In last compilation, we talked about downloading Ubuntu up to selecting our repository server among others. In this …

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Characters – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Emoji/Unicode Application

Characters or GNOME Characters (not to be confused with Gucharmap) is Ubuntu default special character picker application. Speaking about its daily uses, you can use it to insert an emoji to your group chat text, or your national flag to your document …

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How To Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 to a Higher Point Release with Command Lines

Do you want to upgrade Ubuntu Noble Numbat from 24.04 to 24.04.1 or later? If so, then that means you are looking for how to upgrade Ubuntu system to a point release. The term “Point Release” to Ubuntu users is more or less similar to “Service Pack” kn…

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Find and Replace – a Firefox Addon So Useful for Online Text Editing

Find and Replace for Text Editing (or simply Find and Replace) is a Firefox addon to do what its name says by Blake Altice (originally written by Dalimil Hajek). It has capabilities to find text based on regular expression (regex) as well as simple pla…

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How To Install Tux Typing Game on Ubuntu 24.04

Tux Typing (or tuxtype) is free software education game designed for kids to learn keyboard typing and English vocabularies by playing. As part of The Tux4Kids Project, Tux Typing is a sibling to Tux Math, a similar education game but for studying math…

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Collection of Ubuntu 24.04 Tutorials Part I: Downloads, Installation Guides, Repository and Wifi Hotspot

Since last year, we have written many articles about Ubuntu 24.04 “Noble Numbat” (click to view them all). Now, we planned to make a compilation of those in a periodical way i.e. tri-monthly like this. We hope this helps you to learn using Ubuntu for y…

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Camera – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Photography Application

Camera (GNOME Camera) is the default Ubuntu application for taking photos as well as recording videos. In other words, it is the application used to access webcam device in laptop or PC. It is useful i.e. in live streaming and video conferencing (for s…

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Sections in LaTeX with Gummi Editor

After successfully creating a sample LaTeX document in the previous tutorial, now we will try to understand the document structure in LaTeX with our Gummi Editor. We will learn, with pictures and examples, about sections (or similar to “headi…

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Calendar – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Calendar Application

Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let’s start rea…

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Calendar – An Intro to Ubuntu Default Calendar Application

Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let’s start rea…

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How To Install Canon MP160 Printer on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you install Canon MP160 printer + scanner on Ubuntu LTS “Noble Numbat” 24.04. We will use the free software driver called printer-driver-gutenprint to do so. We will be able to print, scan as well as photocopy on Ubuntu by using…

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How To Install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04. VLC (Video LAN Client) is the most famous audio and movie player everybody who uses computer and phone knows and it is a free software licensed under GNU GPL. Its logo is the orange …

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How To Create and Edit Custom Desktop Shortcuts on Ubuntu GNOME

This tutorial will help you creating desktop shortcuts with icons on GNOME desktop environment in general and Ubuntu 24.04 computer system in particular. We divide this tutorial into three sections, first is to create basic shortcut on desktop, second…

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How To Write a Simple Article with Gummi/LaTeX

This tutorial will help you make your first document by writing one page article in LaTeX using Gummi Editor part of our ongoing Gummi+LaTeX series in The Ubuntu Buzz. We intend this to students (and any other people) who begin their academic writings…

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How To Prevent Ubuntu Files from "Jumping Down" the Dash when Accessing Disk Partitions

Did you find Ubuntu Files (also known as Nautilus File Manager) behave inconveniently when you access a disk volume or a flash drive? Yes, when accessing volumes, Files icon is inactive in the Ubuntu Dash (left panel) even though Files window is active…

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