This quick tutorial shows how to install Shutter, one of the most popular screenshot applications for Linux desktop, in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Shutter is removed from the main Ubuntu repositories since Ubuntu 18.10, along with some old Gnome libraries required by the screenshot tool. It is however can be easily installed via the community maintained PPA repository in Ubuntu 19.10, ...

Want to remove the trash icon from your Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome desktop, and put it onto the left dock launcher? This quick tutorial is going to show you how to do the job by either running 2 commands or using a graphical configuration tool. In Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Shell 3.36, both desktop icons and left dock launcher handled by extensions. ...

Since Ubuntu 19.10, the default Gnome desktop shows mounted device icons on the left dock panel. When you plug in an USB flash drive, or browse over another disk partition, you’ll see matched device icons showing on the dock panel. For those don’t like the feature, here’s how to remove (hide) these icons. Single command to remove mounted device icons ...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Beta has been released. Though touchpad tap clicking does not work in the Gnome login screen as usual in my laptop. If you have the same problem, try following steps to enable the tap to click feature. Works only for the default Ubuntu Gnome desktop. 1. Open terminal either from application menu, or by simply pressing Ctrl+Alt+T ...

This simply tutorial shows how to install the latest version of Battle for Wesnoth in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. While the stock version of Wesnoth in Ubuntu main repositories is always old, you can install the latest release via the Flatpak ...

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”. ...

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 ...