GNOME 42 is out! The upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will take use it as the default desktop environment. If you’ve tried out the latest update of Ubuntu 22.04 development build, you should already see the brand new appearance of the ...
This tutorial shows how to install the latest version of KeePassXC password manager (v2.7 so far) and keep it up-to-date via the official PPA in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The popular KeePassXC password manager released version 2.7.0 few days ago with ...
Ubuntu 22.04 finally merged desktop icon settings into System Settings (Gnome Control Center). However, it only provides few options to toggle display ‘Home’ folder, change icon size and new icon position. By right-clicking on desktop and select ‘Desktop Icons Settings’ ...
This simple tutorial shows how to change the default terminal emulator from Gnome Terminal to the one that you prefer in Ubuntu. The default Gnome Terminal is great, but there are many good alternatives (e.g., tilix). If you prefer to ...
Linux Kernel 5.17 was finally released last night after 8 release candidates. Linus Torvalds announced that: So we had an extra week of at the end of this release cycle, and I’m happy to report that it was very calm ...
Cawbird, the free open-source native Linux Twitter app, released version 1.5 few days ago. There’s no big ones in the release. But if you have poor network connection like me, and any image failed to load in Cawbird, there’s now ...
The development build of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS finally shifts to GNOME 42 (in Beta now) in recent update with many visible changes! Firstly, the default wallpaper ‘warty-final-ubuntu.png‘ revealed. It’s no longer the old Ubuntu 21.10 wallpaper, but the brand new ...
Playing video games or doing other tasks that need repeated mouse clicks in Linux? XClicker may help. XClicker is a free open-source tool, allows to make ‘left.’, ‘right‘ or ‘middle‘ click (single or double) automatically in any area in your ...
There’s a good NetSpeed indicator that shows the current download & upload speed in Ubuntu panel. For those would like a floating desktop widget, a new extension is available for GNOME 40. The new ‘Screen Net Speed‘ extension adds an ...
Want to limit the cpu usage of an app or process? It’s easy to do the trick in Ubuntu Linux via the LimitCPU tool. LimitCPU is a simple command line tool that monitors a process and makes sure its CPU ...
A new point release for VLC media player 3.0 branch, VLC 3.0.17 is out. Without any tweak, VLC now support for playing .DAV video files, created via a DVR365 or Dahua Technology digital video recorder (DVR). The release also features ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) via PPA in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04. Firefox ESR: Mozilla Firefox has 2 release series: Rapid and ESR. The rapid release ...
Wine 7.4, the new development of the compatibility layer capable of running Windows apps on Linux, is out. The new release bundled Vkd3d, 3D graphics library built on top of Vulkan, for its implementation of Direct3D 12. Other changes include ...
The free open-source 3d modeling software, Blender released new major 3.1.0 version a day ago. Blender 3.1.0 introduced new Metal GPU backend for the Cycles renderer, contributed by Apple. It currently works on M1 computers running macOS 12.2+, and Apple ...
Cantata has discontinued. If you’re looking for another app for Music Player Daemon, then Ymuse is a good choice for GNOME, Xfce or other GTK based desktops. Ymuse is a free open-source GTK front-end for Music Player Daemon, written in ...