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Application-Level Linux Firewall OpenSnitch 1.3.0 Adds A Process Details Dialog, GUI RPM Packages

Logix December 18, 2020

OpenSnitch , an application-level firewall for Linux, has been updated to version 1.3.0 which adds a process details dialog, RPM GUI package...

How To Install Deepin Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 20.10 Or 20.04 / Linux Mint 20.x

Logix December 18, 2020

This article explains how to install the Deepin Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 20.04 or 20.10, and Linux distributions based on these Ubuntu...

Remap Keyboard And Mouse Buttons On Linux With The New Input Remapper GUI (Supports X11 And Wayland)

Logix December 15, 2020

Input Remapper (previously Key Mapper) is a new GUI tool to remap your keyboard and mouse buttons on Linux desktops (it supports both X11 ...

Cross-Platform Screenshot Tool Ksnip Sees New Major Release

Logix December 15, 2020

Ksnip , a feature-packed cross-platform screenshot tool, has been updated to version 1.8.0, receiving new image annotation / manipulation to...

Subtitld Is A Powerful New Subtitle Editor

Logix December 10, 2020

Subtitld is a new* PyQt5 subtitle editor for Linux and Microsoft Windows (macOS support might come in the future). The software can be used...

How To Repeat A Command Every X Seconds On Linux

Logix December 10, 2020

This article explains how to repeat a command every X seconds on Linux, in 2 ways: using watch , and using sleep in a while loop (with a w...

Chromium And Ungoogled Chromium Web Browsers Are Now Available On Flathub

Logix December 09, 2020

Chromium web browser is now available on Flathub , making it easy to install and update across many Linux distributions. Following the stan...

Linux CPU Speed And Power Optimizer auto-cpufreq Can Now Enable Turbo Boost Based On The CPU Temperature

Logix December 07, 2020

auto-cpufreq , an automatic CPU speed and power optimization tool for Linux has been updated to version 1.5.0 (and then to 1.5.1 to fix some...

Docklike Plugin: Xfce Panel Icon-Only Taskbar With Support For Pinning And Window Grouping

Logix December 07, 2020

Docklike Plugin is a dock-like taskbar for the Xfce panel. Using it on your Xfce desktop, you'll get an icon-only taskbar with support ...

How To Use A Keyboard Shortcut To Toggle Always On Top On GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce and Cinnamon Desktops

Logix December 02, 2020

This article shows how to use a keyboard shortcut to set a window to be always on top, on GNOME, MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon and KDE Plasma desktop...

Assign Actions To Touchpad Gestures On Linux With Touchegg

Logix November 25, 2020

Touchegg , a multi-touch gesture recognizer for Linux that was first released back in 2011, and which haven't been updated in years, was...

gmusicbrowser Music Player Sees First Release In More Than 5 Years

Logix November 20, 2020

After almost 5 and a half years of no new releases, gmusicbrowser was finally updated. The latest gmusicbrowser 1.1.16 brings support for O...

Cloud Data Encryptor Cryptomator Adds Experimental FUSE Support On Windows, KWallet Integration

Logix November 20, 2020

Cryptomator , a client-side encryption tool for cloud files (and more), has been updated recently with experimental FUSE support on Windows ...

Chat On Telegram From libpurple-Based IM Programs (Pidgin, Etc.) Using The New tdlib-purple

Logix November 19, 2020

tdlib-purple is a new libpurple plugin for Telegram, considered the successor of telegram-purple . With this you can chat on Telegram from...

How To Launch Startup Applications With A Delay On Linux

Logix November 18, 2020

This article explains how to delay startup applications, with 2 ways of achieving this. 1. Add a startup delay to applications using X-GNOME...

Bootable Live USB Creator UNetbootin 700 Released With Qt5 Support

Logix November 16, 2020

UNetbootin , a tool to create bootable live Linux USB drives, has been updated to version 700. With this release, the application finally us...

Embedded Nautilus Terminal Plugin 3.4.0 Adds Configurable Toggle Shortcut And Colors

Logix November 16, 2020

Nautilus Terminal 3 is a tool to embed a terminal into Nautilus (Files, the default Gnome file browser). The terminal follows the file mana...

22120: Your Browsing History As A Self-Hosted Offline Internet

Logix November 12, 2020

22120 is a tool to save your browser history as an offline archive, available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS. Currently, it only su...

SysTray-X Is A Thunderbird 68+ Tray Icon With Unread Email Counter And Close / Minimize To Tray

Logix November 11, 2020

SysTray-X is a Qt5 system tray icon for Thunderbird email client version 68 and newer, which shows the number of unread emails, and can min...

Configure Logitech, Steelseries And Other Gaming Mice On Linux Using Piper

Logix November 06, 2020

I recently got a new mouse, and I searched for a way to configure it under Linux. The mouse is a Logitech G102. In most places, Solaar is t...

Bit Is A Modern Git CLI With An Interactive Prompt

Logix November 05, 2020

Bit is a new Git CLI written in Go that features autocompletion / suggestions for commands, flags, files and branch names, and even some n...

Display The Clock, RAM And CPU Usage As Circle Widgets On Your GNOME Shell Desktop

Logix November 04, 2020

The Circle Widgets is a new GNOME Shell extension to show widgets on your desktop that display information like the CPU load, current RAM u...

How To Use pulseaudio-dlna To Stream Audio To Chromecast Devices On Ubuntu 20.10 / Ubuntu 20.04 / Linux Mint 20.x

Logix October 29, 2020

pulseaudio-dlna is a streaming server which allows streaming audio from your Linux computer to a Chromecast or DLNA / UPNP device in the sa...

Identify Songs On Your Linux Desktop Using SongRec, A Shazam Client For Linux

Logix October 22, 2020

SongRec is an open source Shazam client for Linux. It's written in Rust, with the GUI using Gtk3. Using the Shazam audio fingerprinting...

Auto-Suspend Inactive X11 Applications To Reduce CPU And Battery Usage With XSuspender

Logix October 21, 2020

XSuspender is a tool to suspend X11 applications when they are inactive. Its purpose is to reduce CPU usage, which in turn reduces the batt...

Note-Taking App Simplenote 2.0 Released With Support For Internal Links, More

Logix October 21, 2020

The Simplenote Electron desktop application has received a major update yesterday. The new 2.0.0 version includes a rewrite "of some k...

Change CPU Governor And Frequencies On Linux With cpupower-gui (New Release)

Logix October 19, 2020

cpupower-gui is a tool that makes it easy to change the CPU governor as well as the CPU frequency limits on Linux. Besides changing the CPU...

How To Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB On Linux Using The New WoeUSB

Logix October 14, 2020

WoeUSB is no more. At least in its original form. The tool that's used to create bootable Windows USB drives from Linux has been split ...

Schedule Commands And Scripts In Linux With Zeit (GUI For Cron And At)

Logix October 13, 2020

Zeit is a Qt GUI for cron and at , allowing you to schedule recurring or one time tasks. The application also allows setting an alarm and ...

WhiteSur: macOS Big Sur Like Gtk, Gnome Shell And Icon Themes For Your Linux Desktop

Logix October 08, 2020

WhiteSur Gtk Theme is a macOS Big Sur like theme for Gnome-based desktops, supporting Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, Xfce, Pantheon, Budgie and Mat...

Terminator Terminal Emulator 2.0 Released, Completes Migration To Gtk3 And Python3

Logix October 07, 2020

Terminator , a feature-packed terminal emulator for Linux, has reached version 2.0 stable. The application includes features such as split t...

Shutter Screenshot Tool PPA Updated For Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla

Logix October 07, 2020

I have updated the Shutter (screenshot tool) Ubuntu PPA I maintain to support the latest Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, which will be release...

How To Enable Predictive Typing On Your Linux Desktop With ibus-typing-booster

Logix October 05, 2020

ibus-typing-booster is an IBus plugin that adds offline predictive typing to the Linux desktop, to speed up typing. It's useful when t...

Pop Shell Gets New Window Stacking Feature

Logix October 02, 2020

Pop Shell , the window tiling GNOME Shell extension used by default with Pop!_OS 20.04, has recently received support for window stacking. ...

KDiskMark Is A GUI HDD / SSD Benchmark Tool For Linux (Similar To CrystalDiskMark)

Logix October 01, 2020

KDiskMark is a free and open source alternative to CrystalDiskMark (which is Windows only) for Linux, a GUI HDD / SSD benchmarking software...

How To Enable Echo / Noise Cancellation Of Microphone Input On Your Linux Desktop (PulseAudio)

Logix September 25, 2020

PulseAudio comes with a module that can be used to perform acoustic echo cancellation of the microphone input, and some background noise re...

How To Find Files Modified In The Last N Days Or Minutes Using find

Logix September 23, 2020

This article explains how to find all files in a directory that have been changed in the last N minutes or days, or those with a modificatio...

Qt5 Screenshot Tool Flameshot Sees New Release

Logix September 22, 2020

Flameshot Qt5 screenshot tool has been updated to version 0.8.0, receiving new features like a basic launcher panel, a circle counter tool,...

How To Install Oracle Java 15 On Ubuntu, Debian Or Linux Mint Using APT PPA Repository

Logix September 17, 2020

Oracle has released Java 15 a couple of days ago. Those wanting to install this in Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux distributions based on these, l...

New Features And Improvements In GNOME 3.38

Logix September 16, 2020

After its regular 6-month development cycle, GNOME 3.38 has been released on September 16. If you want to find out what new features and i...

Create A Temporary Email From The Command Line With tmpmail

Logix September 14, 2020

tmpmail is a new command line utility for creating a temporary email address that you can use to avoid spam and protect your online privac...

How To Install / Switch Between Multiple Java Versions Using SDKMAN

Logix July 22, 2020

SDKMAN! is a tool to manage multiple versions of software development kits on macOS, Linux, WLS, Cygwin, Solaris and FreeBSD. It can insta...

Cover Thumbnailer Shows Folder Thumbnails For Image And Music Directories (Nautilus, Nemo, Caja, Thunar)

Logix July 13, 2020

Cover Thumbnailer is a tool to get Nautilus, Nemo, Caja and Thunar file managers to show folder thumbnails for music and image folders. ...

How To Restart GNOME Shell From Command Line Without Closing Any Applications (X11 Only)

Logix July 08, 2020

This article explains how to restart GNOME Shell from the command line, without closing any applications (X11 only). GNOME Shell can be r...

KeePassXC 2.6.0 Free Password Manager Released With New Light And Dark Themes, Password Checks

Logix July 08, 2020

KeePassXC 2.6.0 was released recently with improvements like an overhauled user interface with new light and dark themes, new offline pass...

Ubuntu: How To Free Up Port 53, Used By systemd-resolved

Logix July 06, 2020

Ubuntu has systemd-resolved listening on port 53 by default. In case you want to run your own DNS server, you can't because port 53 is ...

Zettlr Markdown Editor 1.7 Adds Vim And Emacs Input Modes, Tabs Support, Faster Startup Time

Logix July 06, 2020

Zettlr , a free and open source Markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing, had a new release recently (1.7.0, follow...

qrcp: Transfer Files Between Desktop And Mobile Devices Over Wi-Fi By Scanning A QR Code

Logix July 02, 2020

qrcp is a command line tool to transfer files from a desktop to a mobile device (and the other way around) over Wi-Fi, by scanning a QR co...

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