While shutting down, Ubuntu sometimes gets stuck at purple screen with Ubuntu logo and the scrolling 5 dots. And it says ‘Unattended-upgrade in progress during shutdown, please don’t turn off the computer‘. This happens not very often, and it’s OK ...
After installing recent updates in my Ubuntu 18.04 via Software Updater, Grub2 boot-loader menu is not showing on startup. The dual-boot (or triple-boot) operating system is no longer available when you press Shift (or Esc) to show the menu entry. ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install Atom text editor and receive future software updates via its official apt repository in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century. It is available in Ubuntu ...
The shutdown process in Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 19.10 machine sometimes is really slow. It gets stuck at purple screen with Ubuntu logo and the dots for quite a few seconds. Press F2 on keyboard when shutting down Ubuntu. It ...
qBittorrent bittorrent client released new stable version 4.2.0 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. qBittorrent 4.2.0 is a new stable series that contains following new features: Support for Libtorrent ...
Mozilla Firefox released the latest stable 71.0 a day ago. Here’s what’s new and how to install it in Ubuntu. Firefox 71.0 release highlights: Lockwise (integrated password manager) improvements. More information about blocked trackers Picture-in-Picture video support for Windows. Pop ...
Without installing Linux Mint 19.x, you can try out Cinnamon Desktop 4.2 in Ubuntu 19.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 via the PPA repository. Cinnamon 4.2 features less RAM usage, Muffin optimizations, switch VSYNC on or off without restart, faster application menu, ...
Wine 4.21 was released a few days ago as the latest development release of the compatibility layer allows to run Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS. Wine 4.21 release highlights: HTTP proxy configuration through DHCP. Parameter block support in ...
Googler, power tool to Google (Web & News) and Google Site Search from the command-line, released version 4.0 a few days ago. It shows the title, URL and abstract for each result, which can be opened in a browser from ...
Krita 4.2.8 was released a few days ago as a new bug-fix release with a lot of work done on vector shapes, the transform tool and, especially, saving on Windows. Krita 4.2.8 includes following bug-fixes and/or improvements: Save the preferences ...
Cawbird is a modern lightweight Twitter client for GNOME 3. It features inline image and video preview, creation of lists and favorites, filtering of tweets and full text search. “Cawbird is a fork of Corebird, which became unsupported after Twitter ...
This simple tutorial is going to show how to set two different screen brightness levels for AC adapter or on battery. So Ubuntu 18.04 (or Ubuntu 19.10) laptop with the default Gnome 3 desktop will automatically dim screen when the ...
This simple tutorial shows how to speed up the downloading process of snap application package by associating IP address with the snapcraft server in Ubuntu. Snap is a containerized package format, that makes many great applications (e.g., Spotify, Skype, the ...
Linux 5.4 Kernel was released today. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Linus Torvalds announced the 5.4 Kernel on lkml.org: “Not a lot happened this last week, which is just how I like it. And as ...
Glimpse, a downstream fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP in short), released version 0.1 a few days ago. It can be installed in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher via either Snap or Flatpak. Due to the problematic word “gimp”, ...