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Display Extensive Media Information In Nautilus, Nemo Or Caja Using MediaInfo Tab Extension

Logix August 30, 2018

If you want to see an in-depth media information directly from your file manager, be it Nautilus, Nemo, or Caja, there's an extension fo...

How To Use A Swap File Instead Of A Swap Partition On Linux

Logix August 29, 2018

This article explains how to transition from having a swap partition to a swap file. If you don't need to disable any existing swap part...

Fix Battle.net `Blizzard Agent Went To Sleep` And `Waiting On Another Installation Or Update` Issues

Logix August 29, 2018

I've been using Lutris to play some Blizzard games on my Ubuntu 18.04 desktop and I kept running into the same two issues over and over...

Orion Is A QML / C++ Twitch Desktop Client With VODs And Chat Support

Logix August 28, 2018

Orion is a free and open source QML / C++ client for Twitch.tv which can use multiple player backends (including mpv ). The application ru...

How To Re-Enable Ayatana AppIndicators In elementary OS 5.0 Juno

Logix August 27, 2018

The latest elementary OS 5.0 Juno, available as a beta 1 developer preview right now, does not support the old Ayatana AppIndicators by de...

Joplin: Encrypted Open Source Note Taking And To-Do Application

Logix August 24, 2018

Joplin is a free and open source note taking and to-do application available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. Its key features i...

How To Perform A Clean Ubuntu 20.04 Or 18.04 With Unity Installation Using The Mini ISO

Logix August 22, 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 is the first Ubuntu long-term release to use Gnome as the default desktop instead of Unity. While Unity can still be installed...

Valve's Steam Play Update Brings Support For Windows-Only Games To Linux With Proton (Wine-Based)

Logix August 22, 2018

Valve has released a new version of Steam Play beta that includes a compatibility layer, called Proton (based on Wine, with additional ...

Play Games From Your Nvidia GameStream-Enabled PC On Your Linux Desktop With Moonlight

Logix August 21, 2018

Moonlight (or Moonlight Game Streaming) is an open source client implementation of Nvidia's GameStream that allows you to stream your g...

Linux Application Sandboxing And Distribution Framework Flatpak Reaches Version 1.0 Stable

Logix August 20, 2018

Flatpak , the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, has reached version 1.0 stable. Compared to the previous stable ser...

Qt5 Screenshot Tool FlameShot 0.6.0 Adds Pin And Text Tools, More

Logix August 20, 2018

Flameshot , a Qt 5 screenshot tool, has been updated with new features, like new pin and text tools, a new side panel, and other importan...

GIMP 2.10.6 Released With Vertical Text Support, Other Improvements

Logix August 20, 2018

GIMP 2.10.6 was released yesterday, just one and a half months after the previous release. Even though this stable branch is mostly for ...

DXVK 0.70 Released With Direct3D 10 Support

Logix August 17, 2018

DXVK , the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 11, was updated to version 0.70 a few minutes ago, bringing Direct3D 10 support. DX...

Gnome Shell Android Integration Extension GSConnect V12 Released

Logix August 17, 2018

GSConnect v12 was released yesterday with changes like more resilient sshfs connections (which should make browsing your Android device fro...

Add YouTube Player Controls To Your Linux Desktop With browser-mpris2 (Chrome Extension)

Logix August 16, 2018

A Unity feature that I miss (it only actually worked for a short while though) is automatically getting player controls in the Ubuntu Sound ...

How To Enable Hardware Acceleration In Chromium On Ubuntu Or Linux Mint (VA-API Patched PPA Builds)

Logix August 14, 2018

You may have noticed that watching HD videos from Youtube and other similar websites in Google Chrome or Chromium browsers on Linux consider...

Professional Video Editor DaVinci Resolve 15 Stable Released

Logix August 14, 2018

DaVinci Resolve 15 stable has been released for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The new release brings native audio support on Linux and a l...

Dropbox Client Will Only Support Ext4 Filesystems On Linux Beginning November 7, 2018

Logix August 10, 2018

Beginning November 7, 2018, the Dropbox client will only support the Ext4 filesystem on Linux. The news, coming from the Dropbox forums , m...

Use Plank On Multiple Monitors Without Creating Multiple Docks With autoplank

Logix August 10, 2018

autoplank is a small tool written in Go which adds multi-monitor support to Plank dock without having to create multiple docks. When yo...

How To Remove Or Disable Ubuntu Dock

Logix August 10, 2018

If you want to replace the Ubuntu Dock in Ubuntu 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04, 19.10 or 18.04 with some other dock (like Plank dock for examp...

LibreOffice 6.1 Released With New Colibre Icon Theme, Native Gtk3 Dialogs, Improved EPUB Export

Logix August 08, 2018

The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice 6.1 today, a release which includes a new icon theme called Colibre, native Gtk3 dialogs (if...

Automatically Switch To Light / Dark Themes Based On Sunrise And Sunset Times With AutomaThemely

Logix August 08, 2018

If you're looking for an easy way of automatically changing your desktop theme based on sunrise and sunset times, give AutomaThemely a ...

Mozilla Thunderbird 60.0 Ships With New Photon Look, Important Changes

Logix August 07, 2018

After more than one year since the previous major stable release (52.0), Mozilla Thunderbird 60.0 was released with some important changes...

GPaste Is A Great Clipboard Manager For Gnome Shell

Logix August 06, 2018

GPaste is a clipboard management system that consists of a library, daemon, and interfaces for the command line and Gnome (using a native G...

s-tui: CPU Monitoring And Stress Testing Console UI Tool

Logix August 03, 2018

s-tui is a terminal user interface for monitoring the CPU frequency, utilization, temperature and power. Besides monitoring your CPU usi...

Cli Google Drive Client Grive2: How To Enable Automatic Synchronization

Logix August 01, 2018

Grive2 , a free and open source command line Google Drive client for Linux which supports partial sync, is quite popular among Linux users,...

New Humble Sports Bundle Includes DiRT Rally, F1 2017, 75% Off Football Manager 2018

Logix August 01, 2018

A new sports bundle was released by Humble Bundle, which includes some awesome games for Linux, like DiRT Rally, Motorsport Manager, Super...

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