Category: How To
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Disabling or Changing the Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10: A Step-by-Step Guide
When you log in to Ubuntu 24.10, a new startup sound greets you. This prolonged audio clip builds into a melody that may wear thin over time. Fortunately, users can disable this sound or replace it with something more enjoyable. Log-in sounds were once a common feature in Ubuntu but were disabled starting from version…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Disable ‘App is Ready’ Notifications in Ubuntu
If you find yourself irritated by the "window is ready" notifications that appear when opening some applications in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu, there’s a solution. This notification type can be particularly bothersome as it varies from app to app and doesn’t seem to hold much value—after all, if you just opened an app, you know…
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Resolving the Spotify ‘No PubKey’ Error on Ubuntu: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you’re using the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu or a similar distribution like Linux Mint, you might have noticed an error warning regarding the PGP key that verifies package signatures. The security key for the Spotify APT repository became nonfunctional at the end of last year, which can cause terminal output warnings when checking…
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Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Snap Apps in Linux Mint
Want to Install Snap Apps in Linux Mint? Here’s How Snap is Canonical’s universal package format for Linux, designed to allow developers to build software for multiple Linux distributions. However, outside of the Ubuntu ecosystem, many distributions do not support Snap by default. This includes Linux Mint, which has incorporated measures to prevent Snap packages…
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Step-by-Step Guide to Disabling the ‘Recent’ Files Section in Nautilus
One of my most frequently used functions in the Nautilus file manager is the Recent files feature. It allows me to quickly access the files I’ve recently downloaded, modified, or created, all from one place, without worrying about their original directories. This feature is incredibly useful to me although I recognize that it can also…
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Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Thunderbird DEB on Ubuntu 24.04 (Avoiding Snap Packages)
Interested in experimenting with the new Thunderbird 128 release without using the standard snap package offered in Ubuntu? You might initially consider using sudo apt install thunderbird to install the DEB version of Thunderbird from the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS repositories. However, much like with Firefox and Chromium, the DEB package of Thunderbird in Ubuntu 24.04…
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Quick Tip: Displaying eBook Thumbnails in Nautilus File Manager
I recently rediscovered my Amazon Kindle (a geriatric model from 2012, nothing fancy) and figured, as it still works, I’ll use it, and set about downloading freely available EPUBs of classic (and not-so-classic – I’m a pulpy-kinda guy) literature. They say never judge a book by its cover – but it is useful to be…
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Solving OneDrive File Access Issues in Ubuntu 24.04: A Practical Guide
Of the many new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it’s the ability to access OneDrive files through the Nautilus file manager as a remote mount that stands out. This becomes a reality thanks to the msgraph package. This is a new gvfs backend that Nautilus can work with. Also in the mix are account integration…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Enabling OneDrive File Access in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Among the many new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is the ability to access your Microsoft OneDrive files through the Nautilus file manager. No 3rd-party app downloads, no dodgy scripts to run, and no paid plans to cough up for because this nifty feature is part of GNOME 46 (and available in any Linux distribution…
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Guide to Restoring Ubuntu’s Iconic Login Sound
If you only started using Ubuntu sometime after 2012 then you have my apologies: this article won’t make a whole lot of sense. But if your roots with the distro reach back farther then the following curio might appeal (though that ‘might’ is, I accept, doing a lot of lifting). When I reported on the…