Free open-source painting software Krita released its second monthly bug-fix release for the 4.2 series a day ago. The new Krita 4.2.2 release features: Text editor: make sure the background color is the one set in the settings Fix a crash when creating a text shape Fix a styling issue in the filter layers properties dialog Fix selecting colors from ...

For those who want to replace the default Gnome desktop application menu, with classic Windows style start menu, it can easily done with Gnome Shell extension in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Arc Menu is a Gnome shell extension designed to replace the standard menu found in Gnome 3. It offers application menu with search functionality as well as quick access ...

The latest Gnu Emacs text editor 26.2 now can be easily installed it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and even ubuntu 16.04 via Snap package. Snap is a containerised software package runs in most Linux desktop. It bundles most required runtime libraries and auto-updates itself. The community build of Gnu Emacs snap package is available a few days ago. And ...

This quick tutorial shows beginngers how to tell the default Gnome desktop version in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04. Ubuntu switched to Gnome 3 desktop since Ubuntu 18.04. You can easily check the desktop version via following steps: 1. Open Settings from left panel or application menu. When it opens, navigate to Details -> About. There you’ll see system ...

This quick tutorial shows how to enable dynamic panel transparency in Ubuntu 19.04 Gnome desktop, while it by default offers an opaque top panel in black. The top panel in Gnome desktop used to be transparent. It goes opaque whenever an app window touch the panel. The feature was removed since Gnome 3.32. Fortunately, an extension called Dynamic Panel Transparency ...

Opera web browser 60, codenamed Reborn 3, was released today with great new features and various other changes. Opera 60 release highlights: Web 3.0 support New borderless desigin. Light and dark theme New place for the snapshot tool Faster VPN and ad blocker Crypto Wallet which lets you store cryptocurrency Download / Install Opera in Ubuntu: The official Linux package ...

MATE desktop environment 1.22 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS via PPA. MATE desktop 1.22 release highlights: Crazy amount of rework to MATE panel to make it work with Wayland. Support for metacity-themes upgraded to version 3 in marco window manager Session manager now properly terminates all processes on systemd. Fully ...

The latest Mesa 3D graphics driver now is available to install via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 18.10. Mesa 18.3.3 was released a week ago with some bug-fixes that include: OpenGL CTS gl43 test cases were interrupted due to segment fault error: inlining failed in call to always_inline ‘__m512 _mm512_and_ps(__m512, __m512)’: target specific option mismatch format_types.h:1220: undefined reference to ...

Wine, a free compatibility layer to run Windows applications on Linux, released 4.0 stable recently. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 18.x and 19. Wine 4.0 is a big release that features: Vulkan support. Direct3D 12 support. Game controllers support. High-DPI support on Android. See announcement for more. The official wine repository ...

Android Studio 3.3 was released a few days ago with new enhancements & features. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 18, 19.x, and higher. Android Studio 3.3 release highlights according to its release note: Navigation Editor IntelliJ 2018.2.2 Platform Update Kotlin 1.3.11 Update Clang-Tidy Support for C++ New Project Wizard update Delete Unused IDE ...