Ubuntu has a “Folder Color” package in system repository, allows to change the color and add emblem for individual folder. However, it’s only available for Ubuntu LTS, and uses the old default ‘Humanity’ icon theme, which looks very outdated. To ...
Hugin, the free open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging software, rolled out the Beta release of 2023 version few weeks ago. This Beta so far does not have any release note for changes. But only the changelog according to ...
This simple tutorial shows how to make Qt-based applications automatically change their theme to be light or dark, according to system color style in Ubuntu 22.04. Ubuntu has global option to change system color scheme to light or dark since ...
Your apps do NOT have window border and shadow in Ubuntu 23.10? Here are the quick workarounds for the applications based on Qt UI toolkit. In Linux Desktop, applications are built with different UI toolkit. While, GNOME, Cinnamon, and XFCE ...
This simple tutorial shows how to fix broken pip installer after installing Python 3.12 from Deadsnakes PPA in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04. Due to removal of long deprecated pkgutil.ImpImporter class, pip command may not work for Python 3.12 in ...
Python 3.12.0 final was officially announced this Monday! Ubuntu LTS can easily install it from PPA. New features in Python 3.12.0: More flexible f-string parsing, allowing many things previously disallowed. Python-level API for the buffer protocol New API for monitoring ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install GDM Settings 1.0, a properly working version, in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS via PPA. GDM Settings, aka Login Screen Manager, is a graphical configuration tool for GNOME Login Screen. With it, user can easily ...
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, ...