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The latest KDE Plasma Desktop 5.17.5 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in KUbuntu 19.10. Plasma 5.17.5 a bug-fix update to KDE Plasma 5.17, which was released in October 2019. The bug-fixes are typically small but important and include: Fix for KDecoration crash in systemsettings Fix regression in “Port the pager applet away from QtWidgets”. ...

My Ubuntu laptop was running into a weird issue recently. Everything works fine when I’m at login screen. However, after login into Gnome Shell mouse click, touchpad tap clicking, and most keyboard keys are not working! I can only move the mouse cursor and press Ctrl+Alt+F3 to switch to black and white text console. And there’s no problem when login ...

The KDE Plasma desktop 5.17.4 was released a few days ago. It’s easy to install it in (K)Ubuntu 19.10 via the backports PPA. Plasma 5.17.4 contains mainly bug-fixes, including: Discover: Fwupd, don’t whine when we have unsupported hardware. Unbreak build with Qt 5.14. Fix Cuttlefish mouse click selection in icon grid. See HERE for more details. How to Install Plasma ...

This quick tutorial shows how to easily turn your Ubuntu 19.10 Desktop into a DLNA media sever without installing anything. DLNA, Digital Living Network Alliance, allows to stream video, music, and photo images to smart TV, game consoles, or other machines over a home network. Ubuntu 19.10 has built-in DLNA/UPnP AV services offered by rygel package. And it can be ...

This quick tip shows how to add ‘New Document‘ menu option in the default Nautilus file browser context menu in Ubuntu 19.10. Open Files from the left dock panel, and you’ll find there’s a file folder called Templates. Go to that folder, and you’ll see a prompt says ‘Put files in this folder to use them as templates for new ...

This tutorial is going to show you how to remove the user list from the default GDM login screen in Ubuntu 19.10. When user list is disabled, you need to type a user name and password to log in. There is a gsettings key ‘org.gnome.login-screen.disable-user-list‘ to handle this functionality. It is however not working in my case even setting with ...

This quick tutorial show Ubuntu beginners how to display the battery percentage in the top panel system tray area of Ubuntu 19.10 laptop. When your laptop is on battery, you may care more about the battery power and want to take a glance at the battery percentage at any time. The default Power Settings does not offer the option to ...

This quick tutorial shows how to customize the left panel in Ubuntu 19.10 Gnome desktop to make it look like Mac OS Dock launcher. The left panel in Ubuntu 19.10 is handled by Gnome Shell extension called ‘Ubuntu Dock‘, a fork of Dash to Dock extension. The ‘Ubuntu Dock’ is highly customizable though the default Settings utility offers only a ...

This quick tip shows Ubuntu beginners how to enable the secure shell (SSH) service in Ubuntu 19.10. SSH, also known as Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell, is a network protocol or operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Ubuntu ships with OpenSSH in its universe repository. OpenSSH consists of ssh server, sftp server, and ssh-agent, and it allows ...

After installed Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine, one of the top things to do is enable the ‘minimize on click‘ (or you may call ‘click to minimize‘) feature. With the feature enabled, you can simply click the application icon on the left dock launcher (left panel) to minimize the opened app window. To enable ‘Click to Minimize’ via single command: For ...