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Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun now can be easily installed in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher via the snap package. C&C Tiberian Sun video game is developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1999. The main storyline follows the second major war between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) of the United Nations, and the global terrorist organization known as ...

Boring with the default Alt-Tab window switcher? In Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, you can easily enable Windows style flip 3D effect via Coverflow Alt-Tab extension in the default Gnome desktop. Since Ubuntu 18.04 has merged Gnome Shell extensions into Ubuntu Software, simply search for and install coverflow alt tab in Ubuntu Software: Then you can get into the settings page ...

For laptop users who want to get better battery life, besides using a lightweight desktop environment, you can use power management tool called TLP. TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail. TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and ...

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to make any application window in Ubuntu Gnome transparent. Since Ubuntu 18.04 switched to Gnome 3 desktop, you can no longer set transparent application window with CCSM utility. As a workaround, you can run following steps to set any application window opacity in Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 18.10. 1. Open terminal ...

Since Ubuntu switched to Gnome 3 Desktop, the default Nautilus file browser does not support compressing files into rar archive even after installed rar and unrar packages. For those who want to create RAR archive and add password protect, this quick tutorial may help. Install rar and unrar packages to get RAR support First of all, you need to open ...

Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is scheduled to be released today. Ubuntu 18.10 ships with new default Desktop theme called ‘Yaru’. Yaru, formerly known as Communitheme, is the theme that is shaped by the community on the Ubuntu hub. It contains: a GNOME Shell theme a GTK2 and GTK3 theme an icon & cursor theme, derived from the Suru icon theme. ...

MPV 0.29.1, an open-source media player forked from MPlayer and mplayer2, was released a day ago with many bug-fixes and minor enhancements. MPV 0.29.1 adds a new command option –cocoa-cb-sw-renderer to control whether or not to fall back on software rendering on macOS. And the new release also includes following changes: Fix for A-V drift on seeking. Fixes to remove ...

Vivaldi web browser reached the new major 2.0 release today with sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and over 1,500 improvements since the first version of Vivaldi. New features in Vivaldi 2.0: Implement Syncing of Bookmarks, settings, etc. Add options to support for floating/overlay panels Make tiled tabs resizable List layout for Visual tab cycler Add predefined shortcuts for ...

SMPlayer media player 18.9.0 was released today with YouTube fix and a new option. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04. SMPlayer 18.9.0 adds “Cast to -> Smartphone/tablet” option in Play menu (Experimental). When you click the option, it pops up a dialog with a QR code that you can either scan to play the current video ...

Gnome MPV 0.15, a simple GTK+ frontend for MPV media player, was released a day ago with enhancement. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04. Gnome MPV 0.15 release highlights: Set default screenshot directory to XDG_PICTURES_DIR Improve handling of –window-scale, –autofit, –autofit-larger, and –autofit-smaller Add command line option for setting WM_ROLE Add context menu item for removing ...