The default LibreOffice office suite reached the new major 6.1 released a few days ago. Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18/19, and derivatives. According to Libreoffice 6.1 release note, the new release brings new icon themes and app icons, better KDE integration, reworked image handling, improvements to Excel 2003 XML import, continued ...

MPV 0.29.0, a free and open-source media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2, was released a few days ago. And now you can easily install it in Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA. MPV 0.29.0 was released with following changes: ao/openal: Add better sample format and channel layout selection ao/openal: Add support for direct channels output cocoa-cb: initial implementation via opengl-cb API ...

This quick tutorial will show beginners how to install the latest GnuCash 3.2 in Ubuntu 18.04 Boinic Beaver. while the GnuCash snap package is still in 2.6 stable series, the easiest way to install the GnuCash 3.x so far is using a PPA repository. And here’s a third-party PPA contains GnuCash 3.2 for Ubuntu 18.04. 1. Add the unofficial GnuCash ...

Oracle Virtualbox got a new maintenance release for the 5.2 series today with various bug-fixes. According to the changelog, following items were added or fixed in VirtualBox 5.2.14: Fixed a segmentation fault when accessing the interface through VNC X11: handle repeating keys on the host system correctly VMM: Fixed emulation of the undocumented SALC instruction VMM: Fixed emulation of so-called ...

A new stable series of the digital painting software Krita 4.1 was released today with exciting new features. Krita 4.1 features: A new reference images tool that replaces the old reference images docker. You can now save and load sessions: the set of images and views on images you were working on You can create multi-monitor workspace layouts An improved ...

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to enable ‘numlock‘ and ‘tap to click‘ in the GDM login screen of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. GSettings configuration tool can do the jobs via 2 commands, though the gdm user privilege is required. 1. Get gdm user privilege in a terminal window. 1. Open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or searching ...

Without installing any screen recording software, you can capture your Gnome desktop instantly in Ubuntu 18.04 with a built-in tool. No app launcher, no command line option, and no quick option to start or stop it. Gnome’s built-in screen recorder only offers a keyboard shortcut to start and stop recording the full-screen of your Gnome desktop. The built-in screen recorder ...

For Ubuntu beginners, this quick tutorial will show you how to enable the secure shell (SSH) service in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Ubuntu ships with OpenSSH, OpenBSD Secure Shell, in its main archives for secure access from remote machines. It is a suite of security-related network-level utilities based on the SSH protocol. Install OpenSSH Server in Ubuntu 18.04: 1. Open terminal ...

Shutter, one of the most popular Linux screenshot tool, has two annoying issues in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome desktop. Shutter in Ubuntu 18.04 can not edit picture images. The edit option is grayed out due to lack of libgoo-canvas-perl library. And there’s already a step by step tutorial shows how to re-enable Edit option in Shutter. Another issue is that the ...

Sublime Text source code editor 3.1 was released a day ago lots of improvements for high DPI support. Sublime Text 3.1 release highlights: Windows 10/8.1 per-monitor DPI settings for handling mixed monitor configurations and on-the-fly DPI switching Lots of improvements for high DPI support on all platforms, including 8k monitor and @3x texture support Ligature support, with controls for customizing ...