Linux Mint 21.2 Reveals Codename, Teases Planned Features
Wondering what to expect in Linux Mint 21.2 when it’s released this June? Well, wonder no more. Linux Mint lead Clem Lefebvre has shared a few early details on what we can expect from Linux Mint 21.1 (codename “Victoria” — if you haven’t cottoned on to it yet, each version of Linux Mint gets given a “human” codename because …Well, I’m not really sure why). First up, confirmation of an expected release date: late June. This date is not a surprise and is absolutely in-line with when previous Linux Mint releases emerged. Also, again per tradition, Linux Mint 21.1 will be 
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/linux-mint-21-2-named-victoria
elementary OS 7.0 Released, This is What’s New
This is not a drill, folks: elementary OS 7 ‘Horus’ is now available to download. It may only been a year since elementary OS 6.1, but it feels like we’ve been waiting for ever — and thankfully it’s been worth the wait! elementary OS 7 release rides atop a refreshed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS software stack, and utilises a new(er) Linux kernel (v5.15) to ensure distro works as best it can, everywhere it can. In this post I whizz you through through elementary OS 7’s key changes, offer a few thoughts based on first-hand experience (I got to try the release
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/elementary-os-7-0-released
ONLYOFFICE 7.3 Released with SmartArt, Password Protection
A new version of ONLYOFFICE, an open source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is available. In this post we look at the latest features.
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Skype’s Linux App Gains Colour Accents, Realtime AI Voice Translation
Anyone out there still using Skype? Thought not 😉, but Microsoft just dropped a big feature update across Skype’s desktop and web apps that will be of interest to those who have stuck with this icon of voice and video chat scene (we called it VoIP back in my day, get off my lawn, grumble grumble, etc). First up: you can now customise Skype by picking from a small set of pastel hues. Similar accents got added to the Skype mobile apps recently. But because the Skype app doesn’t look native on Linux I find these colour choices, while pleasant,
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/skype-linux-app-ai-voice-translation
An Extension to Change Battery Indicator Icon in GNOME Shell
Want to change the battery indicator icon in Ubuntu 22.10? Using this GNOME extension you can pick from 3 alternative battery icons, including a circle.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/change-gnome-shell-battery-icon
Ubuntu Pro is Now Available to Anyone Who Wants It
Canonical has made Ubuntu Pro generally available. Ubuntu Pro allows you to run an Ubuntu LTS release for 10 years with more critical security updates.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-pro-general-availability
How to Install the Latest Version of Wine on Ubuntu
The new Wine 8.0 release boasts better-than-ever support for running Windows apps on Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. You can install Wine on Ubuntu from the Ubuntu Software app (or using apt at the command line), but the version of Wine available in Ubuntu is (almost always) an older version than that currently available. If you want to install the latest stable version of Wine on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 22.10 follow the steps below, which I’ve adapted from the instructions available on the WineHQ wiki. Note, to simplify this process I recommend using the command line. It is technically
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Ubuntu 23.04 Makes ‘Telegram Desktop’ a Snap, May Backport Change to LTS
If you run sudo apt instal telegram-desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 it now installs a Telegram Snap instead of the Debian package you may be expecting. Ubuntu developers are currently debating whether to back-port the transitional package to earlier, stable versions of Ubuntu, such as the latest long-term support release. But why are they doing this? Well, the existing telegram-desktop package in the Ubuntu repo is inherited from Debian. That build, while functional, is charitably described as being “outdated and buggy” by one developer. It’s also not maintained by Telegram themselves. So, being frustrated with bug reports and support requests for
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-telegram-desktop-now-a-snap
Wine 8.0 Released, This is What’s New (Spoiler: A Lot)
Developers uncorked a brand new release of Wine, the open source compatibility layer that enables Windows apps to run on Linux. A substantial update, Wine 8.0 is distilled from a year’s worth of active development. A wealth of improvements are provided across nearly every part, from the performance to UI. If you sample the fortnightly dev releases of Wine you will be familiar with, and already benefitting from the bulk of “what’s new”. Notable highlights in Wine 8.0 include the completion of PE conversion, meaning all modules can be built in PE format. Wine devs say this work is an
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/wine-8-0-released-whats-new
‘Damask’ is a New Wallpaper App for Linux Desktops
Scores of wallpaper downloader apps exist for Linux, with most able to fetch high-quality backgrounds from a myriad of online sources and set them as your desktop wallpaper. Damask is another such app making its debut on Flathub this weekend. Built using GTK4 and following the GNOME HIG, Damask fits in perfectly on the modern Ubuntu desktop. It is able to source backgrounds from a range of popular sites, including: The rub is that can only have one of these sources enabled at any one time (i.e. so you can’t have Bing and NASA enabled, and refresh images between them).
#Apps #News #GtkApps #Wallpapers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/damask-gtk-wallpaper-app-for-linux
How to Test Ubuntu Budgie’s Improved Window Snapping Feature
An improved window tiling experience is being primed for inclusion in the the next stable release of Ubuntu Budgie, which is due out in April. Developers of this Ubuntu flavour have shared word on work they’re doing to bring the edge tiling experience — or window snapping, if you prefer — up to par with that offered by the distro’s existing keyboard-driven Window Shuffler too. The proposed approach, which is being made available for testing on earlier versions of the distro, will be familiar to anyone who’s used a recent version of Windows. You drag a window to the upper
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/test-ubuntu-budgie-window-snapping
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Will Arrive 2 Weeks Later Than Planned
The next point release in the Ubuntu 22.04 series will be released later than initially intended. Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS had been due for release on Thursday, February 9. However, the release has had to be delayed by two weeks, and will now arrive on Thursday, February 23. Why the delay? Nothing major, as Canonical’s Lukasz Zemczak explains in an e-mail to the Ubuntu developer mailing list, writing: “As there were some unexpected complications during the preparation of our HWE 5.19 kernels for jammy, and with shim 15.7 making its way to the archive, we decided that more time is necessary
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-22-04-2-point-release-delay
Ubuntu 23.04’s New Installer is Shaping Up Nicely
Ubuntu’s been working on its new OS installer for a couple years, now it looks like the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ release will finally ship it by default. The latest pending Ubuntu 23.04 daily builds uses the new installer by default. Despite the fact the installer is built using an entirely different toolkit, namely Flutter, and now leverages the distro’s server-based Subiquity and Curtin efforts, it doesn’t look that different from existing (soon to be old) one. In fact, if no-one told you the installer had been rebuilt from the ground up, you probably wouldn’t notice. Now, the new
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-new-flutter-installer-first-look
Firefox 109 Downloads Go Live with Unified Extensions Button, Manifest V3 Support
A new stable release of Mozilla Firefox is available to download. Firefox 109 is the first release of the browser this year but, as we’ve come to expect, the changes offered up are relatively minor. The biggest new feature is the introduction of a new Unified Extensions button in the toolbar. This help streamline the toolbar area when multiple extensions are installed, plus surface extensions that “run in the background” (which you may forget you have installed) so you can manage them, pin them, report, or remove them. Additionally, Firefox 109 fully supports web extensions using Manifest Version 3 (though,
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‘Burn My Windows’ & ‘Desktop Clock’ GNOME Extensions Updated
A look at the latest updates to Burn My Windows and Desktop Clock GNOME extensions, with more personalisation options offers by these blingy bolt-ons.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/updated-burn-my-windows-desktop-clock-gnome-extension-updates
Black Box (the ‘Beautiful Terminal App’) Adds Transparency, Sixel Support
A new version of Black Box, a flashy-looking terminal emulator for Linux desktops, popped out this weekend. A few long-standing requests are fulfilled by the new release, including support for customisable keyboard shortcuts. Users can edit almost all of the built-in keyboard shortcuts within the app, including common actions like copy and paste, through to… Background transparency debuts in this release, with background opacity able to be reduced to 0%. A transparent terminal is something a lot of people like, and it is a feature common to most terminal apps available on Linux. Whether useful or not, it’s nice to
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A Recent Pop!_OS Update May Make Your System Faster
A small update rolling out to the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS distro could make a big impact on system performance. Pop!_OS now enables zram support by default — and to quote Sytem76 themselves the feature “actively compresses memory in the background, increasing the amount of free memory your system has available. This results in increased FPS in games, or faster simulations and compiler runs.” Pretty nice, eh? Instead of moving infrequently used data to a separate swap partition on disk (which is slow), zram compresses data, and keeps it in RAM (which is faster). On systems with lower amounts of RAM available
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Xubuntu 23.04 Will Come in a CD-ROM Size ‘Minimal’ Image
As the Ubuntu 23.04 development cycle gets underway we’re learning more about what’s in store for Ubuntu and its growing family of flavours. Xubuntu, one of the more minimally-minded spins, has revealed its planning to release a new ‘Xubuntu Minimal’ image starting with Ubuntu 23.04. It’s an expansion of the Xubuntu Core effort started back in 2015 but with a big ol’ rubber-stamp of officialdom on it. In a post to the Ubuntu developer mailing list, Steve Langasek says Xubuntu Minimal “…parallels existing minimal install targets from the Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server images to provide a smaller install footprint
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/xubuntu-23-04-will-come-in-a-cd-rom-size-minimal-image
How to Add Markdown Preview to Gedit Text Editor
Want to add Markdown preview to the Gedit text editor? With the Gedit Markdown Preview extension (catchy name, eh?) you can do so quickly. See how!
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Help Test GNOME’s New ‘Window Focus’ Behaviour
A new ‘window focus’ animation for GNOME Shell is available to test. GNOME designers are currently exploring a different way to indicate ‘focus’ in GNOME Shell. One idea is to remove the app icon, name, and menu that appears in the Top Bar (next to Activities button – this was retained to indicate the app in focus) and replace it with a window animation As is, user testing shows the (what’s left of the) app menu confuses users. “They think that it’s a task switcher, a shortcut to a specific app, or don’t understand what it is at all. It
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/try-gnome-44-focus-indicator-animation
