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Musique Music Player Successfully Ported to Qt 6: A Refreshing UI Overhaul
Musique 1.12 running in Ubuntu 23.10 It’s been a while since I last wrote about Musique, an open-source desktop music player for Windows, macOS, and Linux (I first featured it in 2010, back when it was called MiniTunes). Amazingly, the app is still going, and it just received its first major update in almost 3…
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Introducing Qt Creator 12: New Release Includes Screen Recording and Compiler Explorer Plugins
The Qt Project announced today the release and general availability of Qt Creator 12 as the latest stable update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) application. Qt Creator 12 is here four months after Qt Creator 11 and introduces several new features, starting with the integration of the Compiler Explorer created…
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Ubuntu 23.10 Receives Newly Updated GNOME Shell 45.1
The recent GNOME Shell 45.1 update has begun rolling out to users of Ubuntu 23.10. As the first point release issued to GNOME Shell since the GNOME 45 release in September, the update ships with an miscellaneous assortment of bug fixes, code cleanups, and crash remedies. Specific fixes mentioned in the official upstream changelog include:…
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Pano Clipboard Manager Extends Support to GNOME 45
Pano in Ubuntu 23.10 – working well In the world of Linux clipboard managers few can match the panache of Pano, a GNOME Shell extension I first wrote about last year. Pano offers an interactive, visually-rich dashboard from which to store, search, and organise your clipboard history. It’s similar to the popular macOS app Paste…
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Mozilla Firefox 121: Default Enablement of Wayland Support on Linux Announced
With the release of Firefox 120 hitting the stable software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions, Mozilla has now promoted the Firefox 121 release to the beta change for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements. Since we’re gearing up for the year of the Wayland desktop,…
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EndeavourOS Galileo Release: Switching from Xfce to KDE Plasma
EndeavourOS has a new major release today dubbed Galileo, which comes with some significant and exciting changes for fans of this Arch Linux-based rolling release distribution. Apart from being powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.6 LTS kernel series, the biggest change in EndeavourOS Galileo is the adoption of KDE Plasma as the default…
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Unpacking Inkscape 1.3.1: Exploring 70+ Bug Fixes and Two Exciting New Features
Inkscape 1.3.1 has been released today as the first major update to the Inkscape 1.3 series of this open-source vector graphics editor that happens to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Inkscape 1.3.1 is here almost four months after Inkscape 1.3 and adds two new features, namely an option to disable snapping to grid lines and the…
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How to Use GDM Settings for Customizing Your Ubuntu Login Screen
Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions, utilizes the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) as its default display manager, commonly referred to as the login screen. To customize the Ubuntu login screen, including setting a different theme, changing the login screen background image or color, or enabling night light for the login screen, the third-party tool, GDM Settings…
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Exploring Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager: A Look at the New Notes Feature and Audio EPUBs Support
Calibre’s developer Kovid Goyal publicized the release of Calibre 7.0, the most recent stable version and a significant update to this potent, open-source, and cross-platform e-book management software. More than a year after Calibre 6.0, Calibre 7.0 comes with the functionality to save notes, which include links, images and rich text formating for authors, series,…
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Unveiling LXQt 1.4 Desktop for Lubuntu 23.10 Users: A Comprehensive Installation Guide
In a surprising development, following numerous requests from Lubuntu users, Lubuntu developers have chosen to make the LXQt 1.4 desktop environment available for the recent Lubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) release. You read right, you can now set up the most recent LXQt 1.4 desktop environment on your Lubuntu 23.10 machine with just a few simple…
