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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 ...

Strawberry is a free and open source audio player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. Strawberry is written in C++ with Qt 5 framework. It’s based on a heavily modified version of Clementine created in 2012-2013. And ...

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 default background wallpaper of Ubuntu 19.04 is revealed. One in colour, one in black and white. Ubuntu 19.04, codename ‘Disco Dingo’, will be released on April 18, 2019. It will ship with Linux Kernel 5.0 and Gnome 3.32 (due in spring). Now the default background wallpaper for Gnome desktop is available. They are both 4096 x 2304. Both jpg ...

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 ...

SuperTux, classic 2D jump’n run sidescroller game similar to the original Super Mario, released version 0.6.0 a few days ago. SuperTux 0.6.0 features: Redesign of the icy world and forest world Revamp of the rendering engine, the game will be much faster than before. Support OpenGL 3.3 Core and OpenGL ES 2.0 Support for right-to-left languages through vector fonts. A ...