Free and open-source clone of Paint.Net 3.0, Pinta, released version 1.7.1 a few days ago with improvements and bug-fixes. The release is the final version based on GTK2, as the GTK3 / .NET 6 version is nearly ready! Pinta 1.7.1 ...
More and more apps today publish Linux packages as Flatpak. Though the run-time libraries take hundreds of megabytes disk space, some apps are really good and useful. If you have some apps installed as Flatpak in Ubuntu or other Linux ...
Ghostwriter, free and open-source markdown text editor, released version 2.1.0 with some new features. Here’s what’s new and how to install in Ubuntu. Ghostwriter is a cross-platform, aesthetic and distraction-free Markdown editor works on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It comes ...
KGX is a simple and user-friendly terminal emulator for GNOME. It aims to be a “Core” app for GNOME and Phosh, graphical shell for mobile devices like Purism’s Librem 5. Rather than replacing GNOME Terminal, it’s on target to serve ...
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 ...