After a clean Ubuntu installation, you have to tweak the desktop appearance more or less to meet your needs. Besides struggling with different system configuration tools, e.g., System Settings, Gnome Tweaks and Dconf Editor, ‘Ubuntu First Steps‘ is a handy ...
For KDE users want to install the latest Plasma 5.21.5 desktop, it’s now available in the backports PPA for (K)Ubuntu 21.04. Plasma 5.21.5 was released more than a week ago with stability improvements and bug-fixes. As well as the KDE ...
Looking a graphical tool to manage users and groups in Ubuntu Desktop? Try the classic Gnome user settings tool. A user is anyone who uses a computer, and users may be grouped together into a “group”. Users and groups are ...
Running Ubuntu as virtual machine via VirtualBox? You may encounter permission issue to access the shared folder between host and guest. Shared Folders is an useful feature for file sync between Virtualbox host and guest OSes. However, after you created ...
Szyszka is a new batch file renaming tool written in Rust programming language with GTK+ 3 toolkit. And it works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. The name, Szyszka, is Polish word which means Pinecone. The tool has a very ...
Kodi 19.1, the first update for the “Matrix” series, was released with various bug-fixes. The new release of the media player and entertainment hub contains mainly bug-fixes. It fixed HDR metadata detection issue, playback of optical DVDs in Linux, and ...
HP printer drivers for Linux, HPLIP, released version 3.21.4 today with new devices and Linux distros support. HPLIP 3.21.4 is a small release adds HP Envy 6400 series printers support, and adds new systems LinuxMint 20.1, Debian 10.8 support. Ubuntu ...
FFmpeg 4.4 “Rao” now can be installed in all current Ubuntu releases easily via an Ubuntu PPA. FFmpeg is a free and open-source solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. The major 4.4 version was released almost a ...
Want to try out the Pipewire sound server? It’s easy to do this in Ubuntu 21.04, and here’s how! PipeWire is a server for handling multimedia on Linux. Its most common use is for Wayland and Flatpak apps to implement ...
KeePass password manager released version 2.48 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA. KeePass 2.48 introduces version 4.1 of the KDBX file format, which supports various new features, including: ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest PipeWire server via an Ubuntu PPA in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, and Ubuntu 20.10. PipeWire is a new low-level multimedia framework, aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Eclipse IDE in Ubuntu while the one in Ubuntu Software is always old. Eclipse in Ubuntu Software is the containerized snap package and it’s old. Fortunately, an official installer is available ...
Want to make a certain folder different to others in Ubuntu? You can change the icon color and add emblem via Nautilus extension. Nautilus, the default file manager in Ubuntu, has an extension called Folder Color. It allows to change ...
qBittorrent, free and open-source Qt5 based Bittorrent client, released version 4.3.5 a few days ago. qBittorrent 4.3.5 is the last release in the 4.3.x series. And it’s going to drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 in the next release since it ...
Since Ubuntu 21.04 uses Wayland as default display server, the previous method using xrandr does not longer work for adding custom screen resolution. So this tutorial is going to show you another way to add your favorite screen resolution if ...