This simple tutorial shows how to add a system tray menu option to switch between Dark and Light system mode in Ubuntu. By default, the System Settings -> Appearance page offers options to choose Standard, Light, and Dark window colors. ...
This is an easy to follow beginner’s guide shows how to encrypt the full file system while installing Ubuntu. As you may know, it’s easy to hack against Ubuntu Linux physically. Though users can add password protect to the Grub ...
Unlike laptop lid close action, it’s easy to tell Ubuntu to shutdown or hibernate automatically when reached idle timeout. In all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 21.04 running with the default GNOME desktop, you can ...
Wine 6.0.1, the open-source compatibility layer to run Windows apps on Linux, was released as the first point release in the 6.0 stable series. The release contains mainly bug-fixes, translation updates, and Documentation updates. It also adds a new feature: ...
The free and open-source 3D modeling software Blender 2.93 was announced as LTS (Long Term Support) release. Blender 2.93 is the last major milestone of the 2.x series. And the next Blender 3.0 is under development now. “Blender 2.93 brings ...
Since version 89, the free and open-source Firefox web browser makes use of the new ‘Proton’ UI design. For those who do not like the new Firefox appearance, the configuration options to re-enable the old style interface is still available ...
Working with PDF files regularly in Ubuntu Linux? QPDF Tools is a nifty tool to manage your PDF documents. It’s a free and open-source software, easy to use Qt based user interface for Ghostscript and Stapler, with ability to compress, ...
Has an Intel powered laptop or desktop PC with dedicated NVIDIA GPU? Installing the proprietary NVIDIA driver and switch between the GPUs is easy in Ubuntu. Since Ubuntu now maintains the latest NVIDIA drivers via the restricted repositories, users can ...
OBS Studio, the free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming, released version 27.0.0 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04 via PPA. OBS Studio 27.0.0 features native Wayland ...
I used to create bootable Ubuntu USB installer with UNetbootin, then with Ubuntu’ built-in USB creator. Now Ventoy is a good choice you should try! Why Ventoy: Different to other USB creators, you don’t need to format your USB stick ...
Mozilla Firefox 89.0 was officially released today with the focus on redesigned and modernized user interface. Firefox 89 has a simplified browser chrome and toolbar. It uses floating tab design with rounded corners for active tab. Less toolbar buttons present, ...
Want to play a video as animated background wallpaper? There’s now a new tool to do the job via GPU rendering. Gpu Video Wallpaper is the project. As the name indicates, it uses GPU for rendering video with low CPU ...
The font size of startup boot menu is too small or too large? It’s easy to fix by setting an appropriate screen resolution for the Grub boot-menu in Ubuntu. 1.) Tell which video modes your graphics card support. Before starting ...
This tutorial shows how to mount the VirtualBox virtual disk image in Ubuntu, so you can access the Guest OS file system with read and write permission, if it does not boot. After misconfigured my VirtualBox Guest OS, it does ...
Totally new to Linux, and want to give a try? Here are some of the Linux Distributions friendly to beginners. Linux is a family of open-source operating systems based on Linux Kernel. As there are so many distributions available, I’ll ...