Dash-to-panel, the popular GNOME Shell Extension, got a update few days ago with the latest GNOME 46 support. For those who don’t know about dash-to-panel, it’s a free open-source extension for GNOME, which replaces the default panel and dock with ...

Want to play some soothing sounds in your Linux Desktop? Here are 2 applications can do the job in current Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04. To improve focus and increase your productivity, or easy to fall asleep, there are a ...

When using pip command to install a Python package in Ubuntu 24.04 will output “error: externally-managed-environment“. Here are a few workarounds to ‘fix’ the issue. As the terminal output shows you, it’s the change due to PEP 668. Since Ubuntu ...

Kooha, the small free open-source screen recording app, release new 2.3.0 version a few days ago. Kooha is one of the first apps support Wayland, the default display server in recent Ubuntu and Fedora workstation releases. Since GNOME’s built-in screenshot/screencast ...

GNOME Desktop considers adding a new core application for audio playback! It’s Decibels, a basic free open-source audio player that is supposed to fill the gap of GNOME currently not having a Core app that is designed to open single ...

After installed Enlightenment desktop in Ubuntu 24.04, the classic Xorg session is missing from the login screen. And, here’s a quick fix for it. Enlightenment released version 0.26.0 last year with experimental Wayland session support. Which is however missing the ...

For Thunderbird users, there will be a thunderbird.tmp sub-folder in Downloads in Ubuntu 24.04. Here are the workarounds to get rid of it! As you may know, the Thunderbird package in Ubuntu 24.04 is a Snap package that runs in ...

For Thunderbird users who don’t like Snap package, here’s step by step guide shows how to replace the pre-installed snap version of the mail client with classic Deb package in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Like Firefox, the Thunderbird Email Client in ...

This tutorial shows how to install and setup Veyon for classroom management in Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 and Debian 12, though it should also works in Windows 10 & 11. Veyon is a free and open-source software for monitoring and controlling computers ...

GNOME, the popular Linux desktop environment, announced new 46 stable release this Wednesday! The new GNOME 46, code-name“Kathmandu”, will be default desktop for Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 planned for next month, and optional for Arch, Manjaro, etc. The Files, ...

Oracle announced the release of JDK 22 GA this Tuesday. “JDK 22 delivers 12 enhancements that are significant enough to warrant their own JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), including seven preview features and one incubator feature. They cover improvements to the ...

Mozilla announced a new monthly release of its Firefox web browser on March 19. In the new release, the caret browsing mode, keyboard navigating just like in text editor, also works in the built-in PDF viewer. The Qwant search engine ...

The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, was finally released this Tuesday! Similar to the one for current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the new wallpaper uses gradient color background (from purple in top-left to orange in bottom right?) with ...

This tutorial shows how to disable USB, either the full sub-system or for certain USB ports, in Ubuntu. For server or production machines, disable USB can be useful for data privacy, virus protection, and other security reasons. For Ubuntu and ...

For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the top 8 photo images that won the wallpaper competition are out! They will be shipped by default in the .iso image as optional wallpapers for Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop. Ubuntu Desktop team started the wallpaper competition ...