Gnome image viewer and organizer gThumb 3.8.2 was released a few days ago with app menu improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. gThumb 3.8.2 uses menu instead of popovers for menu buttons on the header ...

CopyQ, an open-source clipboard manager with editing and scripting features, released version 3.9.3 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. CopyQ 3.9.3 features new loadTheme() script function loads ...

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to display a banner message text, such as who to contact for support, in the login screen of Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10. You’ll see the text message in the top center ...

Though it’s not officially announced at the moment, Kodi (formerly XBMC) 18.5 was released earlier today, available to install via PPA in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. Kodi 18.5 is a bug-fix release contains following changes: ...

The fifth bug-fix release for the lightweight Parole media play 1.0 series was released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. Parole is a simple media player for Xfce desktop that ...

Brave web browser 1.0 stable was finally released. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. Brave is an open-source Chromium based web browser features faster page loading speed, and blocks ads and ...

Opera web browser 65 was released a day ago with redesigned address bar, improved tracker blocker, and new bookmarks panel. Opera Browser 65 release highlights: Display the trackers Opera is blocking. Redesigned address bar: current webpage is dimmed while typing ...

This tutorial shows how to hide the icons of mounted drives / partitions from the left (or bottom) dock launcher in Ubuntu 19.10. When you plug in a USB drive or browse through an external file partition in Nautilus file ...

The free and open-source digiKam image organizer and tag editor released version 6.4.0 a few days ago with extended DPlugins interface. digiKam 6.4.0 release highlights: 14 new plugins. support native image loader as plugins instead to use hard-coded loader. support ...

Gscan2pdf, a graphical tool to produce PDF / DjVu from scanned document, released version 2.6.0 a day ago. Here’s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases. Gscan2pdf 2.6.0 is a small release. It brings --import-all command line option ...

The open-source HandBrake video transcoder 1.3.0 was released with many great new features. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. HandBrake 1.3.0 was released with updated third-party libraries, new and updated translations, build system ...

GIMP image editor 2.10.14 now is made into Ubuntu PPA, available for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Linux Mint 19.x. GIMP image editor 2.10.14 was released more than a week ago with following changes according to the release note: ...

This is a step by step guide for Ubuntu beginners how to share a folder over local network in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome desktop. Also works in Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 19.10 though. It’s easy to share a folder in Ubuntu as ...

Celluloid 0.18, formerly known as Gnome MPV, was released today. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. Celluloid is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv media player. It was called Gnome MPV until version ...

Free collaborative drawing program Drawpile 2.1.13 was released a day ago with High-DPI icons and scaling enabled, and other improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Drawpile 2.1.13 release highlights: Enabled High-DPI icons and scaling (crisp ...