Linux has quite a few image annotation tools. “Annotator” is the one designed for Elementary OS with specific features. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10, Ubuntu 22.04 via PPA. Without using GIMP image editor, I sometimes ...
For spaceflight enthusiasts, there’s now a GTK4 app for Linux Desktop and Phone (e.g., PinePhone, Librem 5) to keep track of upcoming rocket launches. It’s “Space Launch”, an open-source app gets data of the launches from spacelaunchnow.me. The app displays ...
How to hide top-bar, remove left dock and ‘Activities’, as well as toggle visibility of a few other Gnome Panel items are often asked questions. I used to use a few extensions to do the jobs until met ‘Just Perfection’. ...
For Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux with GNOME desktop, here’s how to type unusual characters (e.g., Ẽ, ©, , ¼, €, etc) using the standard QWERTY computer keyboard. Without using a virtual keyboard, the standard physical keyboard supports for ...
Ubuntu by default displays only date and time in the center of top-bar. Users have to click on it to see which day is today in drop-down calendar. To make life easier, you may configure the GNOME desktop to show ...
For Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux with GNOME desktop, a modern GTK4 Telegram app “Telegrand” is under development. Telegrand is the free open-source client written in Rust programming language. By using libadwaita library, it has an adaptive user interface to ...
Want to display some text on your desktop as watermark? This extension makes it possible in Ubuntu 21.10, or Fedora 34/35 with GNOME 40+. As I know, only Fedora so far display system logo as watermark in the bottom right ...
For those looking for Google Keep or Windows Sticky Notes style desktop noting app, Linux Mint’s “sticky” is a good choice for Ubuntu Linux. Linux Mint maintains some great apps. Sticky is one of them that sticks an electronic version ...
The Ubuntu Software app in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish has an ugly font rendering on default Wayland. The text in the app looks a bit pixelated. I found the issue firstly when Impish was in beta stage. The issue was reported ...
This simple tutorial shows how to limit the time that your kids spend on PC running with Ubuntu or Debian. GNOME, Ubuntu’s default desktop environment, is working on parental control app (Malcontent) though it so far lacks the time limitation ...
HPLIP, HP’s inkjet and laser printers Linux driver, released version 3.21.10 with new devices and Linux distributions support. Zorin OS, the modern Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, is finally supported by HPLIP’s official .run installer. And, it also adds Debian 11 and ...
Mozilla Firefox web browser released version 94.0. Here’s what’s new. On the first launch of Firefox 94, a dialog will pop-up allows you to choose between color schemes. By clicking on “Explore colorways“, it allows to choose between 6 color ...
For designers want to check color contrast, there are a few handy little tools in Linux Desktop to do the job. Kontrast is the one designed for KDE though works on all Linux desktops. GNOME has a stylish color contrast ...
Linux 5.15 was released yesterday as the new Long Term Support (LTS) kernel release. Here’s what’s new and how to install in Ubuntu. Linus Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 5.15 on Sunday: It’s been calm, and I have no ...
For adding subtitles to your video, the Gnome Subtitles editor released v1.7.1. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 21.10 via PPA. Gnome Subtitles is a free and open-source subtitle editor for Linux. Without using a heavy ...