While typing in my Ubuntu laptop, I was often making mistakes by tapping on touch-pad accidentally. The text cursor (aka caret) jumped to another place, and/or app window lost focus. It made me crazy since the built-in ‘disable touchpad while ...
After almost two years of development, the HexChat IRC client finally released new 2.6.0 version with a number of new IRCv3 features and strikethrough formatting support. HexChat is a free open source Internet Relay Chat client that forked from XChat. ...
For those doing copy & paste actions frequently in Ubuntu Linux, GPaste remembers the clipboard history and allows to find them easily via few click. The clipboard is the place to store the text, image, file path and all the ...
Free open-source live streaming app, OBS Studio 27.1.1, was released. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Linux Mint 20, and derivatives. OBS Studio 27.1.1 is a hot-fix release for version 27.1, which was released ...
The free open-source vector drawing app Inkscape 1.1 got its first maintenance update. Users are recommended to upgrade! Thanks to the upstream GTK+3 fix, pressure sensitivity works again on Windows ink devices in Inkscape 1.1.1. And, the release includes many ...
GPU-Viewer is graphical tool to show the detailed information about OpenGL, Vulkan, and/or OpenCL graphics libraries. Without struggling with glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo command line tools, the GTK+3 tool provides a graphical front-end that shows all the important details. There ...
By releasing version 0.1, the GTK+3 file search tool FSearch finally goes stable after 5 years of development. FSearch is a free and open-source file search utility, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It’s super fast that you get instant result ...
The open-source LaTeX editor TeXstudio 4.0.0 was released! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA repository. TeXstudio 4.0.0 offers Qt6 support which should improve HiDPI handling. And the official packages for Windows and macOS are now based on ...
For laptop and desktop PC with more than one audio input and output devices, it’s possible to switch between audio devices quickly with upper right corner system tray menu. It’s a common situation that users have more than one audio ...
The Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 21.10 Beta, code name ‘Impish Indri’. The release features Linux Kernel 5.13 and GNOME 40 desktop. Ubuntu 21.10, codenamed “Impish Indri”, continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open ...
After half a year of development, the GNOME project announced version 41 of its popular Linux desktop environment. GNOME 41 comes with some exciting new features. The upper right corner system tray menu now includes option to make it easy ...
For PC / notebook has a small display, it’s possible to hide the top panel in GNOME desktop to get more spaces and/or focus on your work. There’s a ‘Hide Top Bar‘ extension that enables ability to auto-hide the top ...
gThumb image viewer and organizer announced version 3.12.0 as the new stable release series! gThumb 3.12.0 is the new stable series since the last 3.10.x, while the 3.11.x is the development release. What’s New in gThumb 3.12.0: The new release ...
GIMP announced the 2.10.28 release of the popular image editor. The release includes mainly bug-fixes and stability improvements. The source tarball of version 2.10.26 is available to download 2 weeks ago. Due to a build bug, the project team skipped ...
The popular audio manipulation tool, PulseEffects, finally adds supports for PipeWire sound server by re-naming to EasyEffects. EasyEffects is a GTK4 app designed for only PipeWire sound server. For PulseAudio, default sound service in current Ubuntu releases, PulseEffects is still ...