This simple tutorial shows how to switch CPU power mode between ‘Performance’, ‘Balanced’, and ‘Power Saver’ using Linux command in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. GNOME has options in both ‘Settings’ and top-right system status menu to change ...
Auto-cpufreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer, now is at version 2.0.0 release! This is a popular free open-source tool that monitors Linux laptop’s battery state, CPU usage, temperature and system load. And, automatically switches CPU profile between “power saving” ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Whisker Menu, the main menu for launching apps, in XUbuntu 22.04, Linux Lite 6.6, and Linux Mint 21 XFCE Edition. The default main menu (aka applications menu, or start menu) in ...
This is a beginner’s guide shows how to set custom keyboard shortcut to tile windows in Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. Ubuntu 23.10 introduced enhanced tiling window support with a new system extension. With it, user can easily arrange all opened ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Clang compiler 17 and/or 16 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu includes several versions of Clang in its system repositories. But, it rarely builds newer releases into Ubuntu ...
This simple tutorial shows how to add a “Show Desktop” icon to the top panel in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.10 with default Wayland session. I’ve written about how to add ‘Show Desktop’ to the left dock panel, however, it ...
For those who prefer the new ‘App Center’ in Ubuntu 23.10, it’s easy to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 and here’s how! The new App Center is also the snap-store but re-built with Google’s Flutter UI toolkit. It’s fast and ...
Ubuntu 23.10, code name “Mantic Minotaur”, is in Beta stage now! The Ubuntu team announced the release today on Sep 22: “This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, ...
For those who prefer the old system font, now it’s easy to get it in Ubuntu 23.10 via a new package! Since Ubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu takes use a new slim font for the text in system menus, documents, and app ...
This simple tutorial shows how to reset Ubuntu Dock, the left panel, to its original status in Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 23.10. As you may know, Ubuntu Dock (aka Dash-to-Dock) is an extension to the GNOME Desktop. It has many ...