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  • How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10

    3:21pm By Joey Sneddon
    When you log in to Ubuntu 24.10 an audio clip plays to greet you — a lengthy audio clip that slowly builds to a plinky-plonky crescendo that you—or those around you—may tire of having to sit through! But you can turn Ubuntu’s startup sound off, or swap…
  • Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Expands Window Suggestions

    Sat 10:46am By Joey Sneddon
    A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available. Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfaces nifty ‘Window Suggestions’, a feature introduced in last month’s v16.0 release, when using edge tiling. Edge Tiling (as…
  • Ubuntu to Fix a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon Theme

    Thu 6:51pm By Joey Sneddon
    Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of the icons are indeed oversized. The Yaru icon theme in Ubuntu uses 4 different…
  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week

    Wed 5:48pm By Joey Sneddon
    If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week. Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate incident’ resulting in some of the newly spun Ubuntu 24.04.2 images…
  • GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign

    Wed 10:39am By Joey Sneddon
    GNOME rolled out a huge revamp to its official website today, and I have to say: it’s a solid improvement over the old one. The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both showcase and springboard for those looking to learn more about the…
  • Clapper Media Player Adds New Features, Official Windows Build

    Tue 9:14pm By Joey Sneddon
    A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements Not newly new, I should say. I hadn’t run a flatpak update in Ubuntu I an age so I only jus noticed an update pending for this nifty little media player. But I figured…
  • KDE Plasma 6.3 Released, This is What’s New

    Tue 9:00am By Joey Sneddon
    A new version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is out and, as you’d expect, the update is packed with new features, UI tweaks, and performance boosts. KDE Plasma 6.3 is the fourth major update in the KDE Plasma 6.x series and it also marks the one-year…
  • ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released, Now Supports Apple iWork Files

    Feb 9, 2025, 11:57 am By Joey Sneddon
    A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout the full suite, which is composed…
  • How to Disable ‘App is Ready’ Notifications in Ubuntu

    Feb 8, 2025, 7:43 am By Joey Sneddon
    Finding yourself annoyed at those ‘window is ready’ notifications which pop-up when you open some apps in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu? If so, you can disable them by installing a GNOME Shell extension. Now, notifications are helpful—heck, vital when they…
  • Ghostty Terminal Now Supports Server-Side Decorations on Linux

    Feb 6, 2025, 11:05 pm By Joey Sneddon
    A new version of Ghostty emerged this week and in this post I run-through the key changes. For those unfamiliar with it, Ghostty is an open-source terminal emulator written in Zig. It offers a “fast, feature-rich, and native” experience — doesn’t…
  • LibreOffice 25.2 Released, This is What’s New

    Feb 6, 2025, 7:30 am By Joey Sneddon
    LibreOffice 25.2 has been released, this year’s first major update to the leading open-source office software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As you’d expect, the update delivers a sizeable set of changes spread throughout the productivity suite, including…
  • Installing Ubuntu on WSL in Windows 11 is Now Easier

    Feb 5, 2025, 3:54 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store. Canonical announced the news today, noting that “the new…
  • Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, AI Chatbot Access + More

    Feb 4, 2025, 5:10 am By Joey Sneddon
    Right on schedule, a new update to the Mozilla Firefox web browser is available for download. Last month’s Firefox 134 release saw the New Tab page layout refreshed for users in the United States, let Linux go hands-on with touch-hold gestures, seeded Ecosia…
  • How to Fix Spotify ‘No PubKey’ Error on Ubuntu

    Feb 2, 2025, 9:48 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify APT repo, right alongside all your other DEB-based…
  • Linux Icon Pack Papirus Gets First Update in 8 Months

    Feb 2, 2025, 2:54 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download. Paprius‘s first update in 2025 improves support for KDE Plasma 6 by adding Konversation, KTorrent and RedShift tray icons, KDE and Plasma logo…
  • GNOME Introduces New UI & Monospace Adwaita Fonts

    Feb 2, 2025, 11:42 am By Joey Sneddon
    GNOME has announced a change to its default UI and monospace fonts ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release — a typographic turnabout that won’t impact Ubuntu users directly, though. Should you feel a sense of deja vu here it’s because GNOME trialled a…
  • Try Mozilla’s New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox

    Feb 1, 2025, 2:52 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Want to find out if the text you’re reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) trying to sound like one? Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may can help give you an indication. Similar to online…
  • High Tide is a Promising New Linux TIDAL Client

    Jan 30, 2025, 1:54 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Linux users hunting for a native client to stream music from TIDAL will want to keep an eye on a promising new open-source app called High Tide. High Tide is an unofficial but native Linux client for the TIDAL music streaming service. It’s written in Python,…