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Birdtray Ubuntu PPA Updated With Unread Email Count And Xwayland Fixes (Thunderbird Tray Icon)

Logix March 24, 2023

Birdtray is a system tray icon for Thunderbird, which shows the unread email count, with some extra features. The application has stopped ...

What's New In GNOME 44

Logix March 22, 2023

After its usual 6-month release cycle, GNOME 44 will be released today. Read on to find out the new features and improvements in this release.

vtm Is A Text-Based Desktop Environment That Runs Inside A Terminal

Logix March 16, 2023

vtm is a text-based desktop environment that runs inside a terminal, available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and *BSD. The tool can ...

Next Debian/Ubuntu Releases Will Likely No Longer Allow pip install Ouside A Virtual Environment

Logix March 14, 2023

The next Debian/Ubuntu releases will likely no longer allow pip install outside a virtual environment or separate Python installs becaus...

How To Turn Your Current System To An Installable ISO (For Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Manjaro)

Logix March 13, 2023

penguins-eggs is a command line tool to turn your current Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux or Manjaro system to a redistributable live ISO image....

scrcpy 2.0 Adds Audio Forwarding, H265 And AV1 Codec Support

Logix March 12, 2023

scrcpy , a tool to display control Android devices from the desktop, has been updated to version 2.0, receiving a major new feature: audio f...

Automatically Take Versioned Steam Save-Game Snapshots Using Steamback

Logix March 09, 2023

Steamback is a Steam Deck plugin and desktop application which adds versioned save-game snapshots to Steam Cloud-enabled games. Steamback ...

Send Files Securely Over The Local Network With Cross-Platform LocalSend App

Logix March 09, 2023

LocalSend is a free and open source, cross-platform alternative to AirDrop for sending files securely over the local network. The Flutter a...

Pano Visual Clipboard Manager For GNOME Shell Adds UI Customization Options, Favorites, More

Logix March 06, 2023

Pano , a next-gen clipboard manager for GNOME Shell, has been updated with some major improvements such as user interface customization opti...

Record Your Screen To GIF Or MP4, Take Screenshots And Insert Annotations With The New Peek

Logix March 03, 2023

Peek, or pypeek , is a tool to record your screen / a part of the screen as an animated GIF or MP4, take screenshots, and annotate the GIF /...

yewtube Is A Feature Packed Terminal Based YouTube Player

Logix March 01, 2023

yewtube is a command-line tool to search, browse, and play YouTube videos directly from your terminal, for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Wind...

Valent Is A KDE Connect Client For GTK-Based Desktops (Cinnamon, Xfce, MATE, Pantheon)

Logix February 24, 2023

Valent is a new KDE Connect protocol implementation built on GNOME platform libraries. Compared to GSConnect , which is implemented as a GN...

Search, Install And Update GNOME Shell Extensions From The Command Line Using gnome-extensions-cli

Logix February 16, 2023

gnome-extensions-cli is an unofficial GNOME Shell extension manager for the command line. It can install, update, enable / disable, remove ...

Translate Selected Text With A Keyboard Shortcut Using Crow Translate (X11 + GNOME Wayland)

Logix February 13, 2023

I was looking for a way to easily translate selected text that works under GNOME with Wayland, and find out that Crow Translate provides ju...