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Deluge BitTorrent Client 2.1.0 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu

Last updated: June 30, 2022 — Leave a comment

The free cross-platform Deluge BitTorrent client released version 2.1.0 one day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04.

Deluge is a fully-featured torrent downloading app with GTK, web UI, and command line interfaces. The app features protocol encryption, DHT, Local Peer Discovery (LSD), Peer Exchange (PEX), UPnP/NAT-PMP, web seeds, stream torrent and more.

The new 2.1.0 was released with minimum libtorrent requirement increased to v1.2. Python 2 is no longer supported! And, Python 3.6 is the minimum requirement of the programming language.

New features in Deluge 2.1.0 include:

  • Add context menu option to copy magnet URI.
  • Add support for IPv6 in host lists.
  • Add systemd user services, though I didn’t see them in PPA packages.
  • Add is_interface and is_interface_name to validate network interfaces.
  • Add support for pygeoip dependency for location lookup.
  • Add plugin keys to get_torrents_status
  • Add support for SVG tracker icons.
  • Hide passwords in config logs.

There are as well various bug-fixes, see the release note for details.

How to Install Deluge 2.1.0 in Ubuntu:

The software offers official binary packages for downloading at its website.

For Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop! OS, etc, there’s an official Ubuntu PPA contains the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10, Ubuntu 22.04, and other Linux based on them.

1.) Add the PPA.

Firstly, search for and open terminal from system start menu (“Activities” overview). Or, just press Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys on keyboard.

When terminal opens, paste the command below into it and hit Enter to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/stable

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.

2.) Install / Update Deluge

If you have an old version of the software package installed on your system, simply open “Software Updater” should prompt you the updates of the BitTorrent Client:

If not, run commands below one by one to refresh package cache and install the software packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install deluge

For choice, you may replace deluge with deluged for server, deluge-console for command line interface, or deluge-web for web UI.

After installation, open the app from system start menu (or search in “Activities” overview) and enjoy!

How to Remove Deluge:

To remove the Ubuntu PPA, either run the command below in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:deluge-team/stable

Or, remove the source line by opening “Software & Updates” utility and navigate to “Other Software” settings tab:

And, remove the torrent client package easily by running command in terminal:

sudo apt remove --autoremove deluge deluge-common

That’s all. Enjoy!

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HP Printer Driver HPLIP 3.22.6 Adds Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36 & New Devices Support

Last updated: June 29, 2022 — 5 Comments

HPLIP, HP developed open-source Linux driver, released v3.22.6 a day ago with many new printers/scanners support.

See the new devices supported in HPLIP 3.22.6:

  • HP Color LaserJet Managed MFP E785dn, E786dn, E78523dn, E78528dn, E786 Core Printer, E78625dn, E78630dn, E78635dn
  • HP Color LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E786z, E78625z, E78630z, E78635z
  • HP LaserJet Managed MFP E731dn, E731 Core Printer, E73130dn, E73135dn, E73140dn
  • HP LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E731z, E73130z, E73135z, E73140z
  • HP Color LaserJet Managed MFP E877dn, E877 Core Printer, E87740dn, E87750dn, E87760dn, E87770dn
  • HP Color LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E877z, E87740z, E87750z, E87760z, E87770z
  • HP LaserJet Managed MFP E826dn, E826 Core Printer, E82650dn, E82660dn, E82670dn, E730dn, E73025dn, E73030dn
  • HP LaserJet Managed Flow MFP E826z, E82650z, E82660z, E82670z
  • HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3101fdwe, 3101fdw, 3102fdwe, 3102fdw, 3103fdw, 3104fdw, 3101fdne, 3101fdn, 3102fdne, 3102fdn, 3103fdn, 3104fdn
  • HP LaserJet Pro 3001dwe, 3001dw, 3002dwe, 3002dw, 3003dw, 3004dw, 3001dne, 3001dn, 3002dne, 3002dn, 3003dn, 3004dn.

Also, the official installer script finally adds Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, and MX Linux 21.1 Support.

How to Install HPLIP 3.22.6:

Firstly, download the “hplip-3.22.6.run” installer from the link page below:

Download HPLIP

Then, open your Downloads folder, right-click on blank area and select “Open in Terminal“. It will open terminal and automatically navigate to the folder as working directory.

When terminal opens, run following commands one by one to add executable permission, and run installer script:

chmod u+x hplip-3.22.6.run
./hplip-3.22.6.run

In the terminal screen, it will ask you a few questions during the installation process. Except for password authentication, it’s OK to hit Enter to answer default for all questions!

After installation, plug or re-plug your printer/scanner and open the HP device manager application to get start:

Uninstall HPLIP 3.22.6

While running the installer script in terminal, it automatically creates “hplip-3.22.6” folder in your user Downloads directory!

Right-click on that folder in your file manager and select “Open in Terminal”, finally run the uninstall script via command:

sudo ./uninstall.py

If you’ve already removed that folder, re-run the .run installer will generate the folder again.

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Firefox 102 Available to Download! New ESR, Geoclue Support

Last updated: June 27, 2022 — 2 Comments

Mozilla Firefox 102 is available to download now. See what’s new and how to install the browser package.

For Linux users, Firefox 102 now support Geoclue if available for geolocation. The release also added subtitles and captions display in Picture-in-Picture (pop-out video) for more websites, including HBO Max, Funimation, Dailymotion, Tubi, Disney+ Hotstar, and SonyLIV.

For those boring with the drop-down download panel, that automatically opens every time you start a download. User may now right-click on the download icon (before Hamburger menu button), and un-check “Show Panel When Download Begins” to disable it.

Firefox 102 is the new Extended Support Release (ESR) for enterprise and/or school use. The previous Firefox 91 ESR will end support on September 20, 2022.

Other changes in Firefox 102 include:

  • Improve PDF reading in high contrast mode
  • Filter style sheets in the Style Editor tab of our developer tools
  • Support Content-Security-Policy (CSP) integration with WebAssembly.
  • Mitigate query parameter tracking when navigating sites in ETP strict mode.
  • Improved security by moving audio decoding into a separate process with stricter sandboxing.
  • Various bug fixes and new policies

Download / Install Firefox 102:

Ubuntu will publish the new browser packages in its universe repositories. So, just keep your system up-to-date by installing updates (via Software Updater) regularly, you’ll get Firefox 102 automatically in next few days ago.

For Ubuntu 22.04 user prefer native .deb over the pre-installed Snap package, the Mozilla Team PPA has already build the package. So this how to tutorial to switch from Firefox Snap to Deb.

For the release note (not ready yet) as well as official Linux tarball, go to the link below:

Firefox Release Note & Downloads
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How to Install Rhythmbox 3.4.6 via PPA in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04

Last updated: June 26, 2022 — 3 Comments

Ubuntu’s default Rhythmbox music player got new release updates a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA.

Rhythmbox released version v3.4.5 last month and v3.4.6 days ago after more than 2 years of development. Compare to previous Rhythmbox 34.4, Soundcloud plugin and mmkeys plugin have been removed since they are no longer work / useful. DAAP plugin now supports libdmapsharing 4 API, but no longer enabled by default.

The new release has rewritten podcast downloader with better resume and retry, uses podcast episode GUIDs to handle episode URL changes, preserves original order of episodes in podcasts even if episodes have the same publication date. And, crossfading player backend now works much better with network streams. There are as well many bug-fixes and translation updates.

Install / Update Rhythmbox in Ubuntu

The latest Rhythmbox package is available to install as Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox.

For those prefer the pre-installed .deb package, here’s how to update it via the unofficial PPA.

1. Add PPA

First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA. So far, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 are supported.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/rhythmbox

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks for sudo authentication and hit Enter to continue.

2. Install / Update Rhythmbox

After adding the PPA repository, search for and launch “Software Updater” from Activities overview. It should show you the updates for the music player. Simply click on “Install” to get them and enjoy!

Or, you may run the single command in terminal to install/update the music player package:

sudo apt install rhythmbox

How to Restore:

If you found any issue for the package installed from PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/rhythmbox

The command will install the ppa-purge tool and purge the Ubuntu PPA you just added, which also downgrade all installed packages from that PPA to the stock versions in your Ubuntu system repository.

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This Tool Allows to Customize Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME Desktop with Advanced Settings

Last updated: June 25, 2022 — Leave a comment

Want to configure the top-bar, dock, overview and other Gnome shell components with more settings? Shell Configurator is now updated with GNOME 41 & 42 support.

It’s an extension for add, remove, configure, and customize GNOME Shell with advanced settings. With it, you can:

  • Select login into blank desktop, overview or app grid.
  • Hide or auto-hide top bar.
  • Show/hide panel elements, e.g., Activities, clock, app menu, system menu (aggregate menu).
  • Change height size of top-bar.
  • Move top-bar to bottom.
  • Enable/disable Dash (the dock).
  • Remove the separator in dock between favorite and running apps.
  • Show or hide search in overview.
  • Set how many rows and columns in app grid.
  • Change looking glass size and postion.
  • Change notification bubble, OSD position and time out.
  • Show the new screenshot UI in top.

How to Install Shell Configurator:

For Ubuntu 22.04, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run the command below to install Extension Manager:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

Then, click “Activities” on top bar, search for and open the app:

Finally, navigate to ‘Browse’ tab, search and click install the “Shell Configurator” extension:

To open the settings dialog, switch back to “Installed” tab in Extension Manager and click on the gear button for the extension.

For other Ubuntu edition as well as Fedora, Debian with GNOME, use the on/off switch to install extension in the link page below, after installed the chrome-gnome-shell agent:

sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell
Shell Configurator
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How to Move Clock to the Left or Right Corner in Ubuntu 22.04

Last updated: June 23, 2022 — Leave a comment

For those don’t like to have the ‘date and time’ menu in the center of top panel, here’s how to move it to either left or right in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Ubuntu, definitely the GNOME desktop, does not have option to configure the clock menu position. But, there are a few extensions can do the job. And, here I’m going to show you how to install and use them.

Tip: Extensions introduced in this tutorial should work on all Linux uses GNOME 42, e.g, Fedora 36, Arch Linux, Manjaro.

Step 1: Enable ability to install Gnome Extensions

Usually, we install Gnome shell extensions by visiting extensions.gnome.org and use the ON/OFF switch to install or remove an extension. Since Ubuntu 22.04, there’s also an “Extension Manager” app is available in system repository to make life easy.

Option 1: Prepare for installing extension through web browser

NOTE: the pre-installed Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 is a snap package, which so far does not support this thing. You may either use another browser and go “Option 2”.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to install the agent to enable the ability to install Gnome Extension via browser, and the app for managing them.

sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell gnome-shell-extension-prefs

For the first time, you need to go to exensions.gnome.org and follow the “Click here to install browser extension” link to install the browser extension.

Option 2: Install Extension Manager

The Extension Manager app allows to search for, install, and manage extensions all in one. To install it in Ubuntu 22.04, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run command:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

After that, click on top left “Activities”, then search for and open the app to get start.

Step 2: Select install Extension to move Clock

There are a few extensions can do the trick in GNOME. Choose one from the options below that you prefer!

Option 1: Just Perfection

This is a tweak tool to customize GNOME Shell, change the behavior and disable UI elements. They provides many useful toggle options, including moving the clock menu position.

To install the extension, either search for and click install it via “Extension Manager”:

Or, use the ON/OFF switch by visiting the web page below in your browser:

Just Perfection Extension page

After installed it, open its ‘settings’ dialog either via “Extension Manager” under Installed tab or use “Gnome Extensions” app. Scroll down, and you’ll find the option to move clock position via “Customize” tab.

Option 2: Left Clock or Sur Clock

Just Perfection is a bit heavy if you don’t need the other options. There are a few other extensions that designed specially for moving clock position:

  • “Clock Left” or “Left Clock” – Move clock to left and replace “Activities”.
  • Sur Clock – Move clock to left or right via preference option.

To install one of the extension, simply search for and click install in “Extension Manager”:

Or, use the ON/OFF switch in the link page to install: sur clock, left clock, and clock left.

Option 3: Top Bar Organizer

NONE of the previous extensions will move clock to far right corner. If you insist, try “Top Bar Organizer”.

This extension is designed to organize all items on top-bar. It was created for GNOME 40, but no longer updated!! However, it works on current GNOME 42 desktop with few tweak.

1.) First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. And, run command to disable version validation, since it does not support Ubuntu 22.04:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

2.) Then, either search for and install it in “Extension Manager”:

Or, turn on the slider icon in the link page below to install it from web browser:

Install Top Bar Organizer

3.) The Extension preference does not work for GNOME 42. However, the dconf editor options do work.
First, run command to install dconf editor:

sudo apt install dconf-editor

Then, search for and launch “Dconf Editor” from the overview screen. And, navigate to org/gnome/shell/extensions/top-bar-organizer.

To make clock menu show in right corner, write ‘dateMenu‘ as value of right-box-order. And, put it to the end for far right.

NOTE: The change will persist even after removed the extension. To restore, erase the keys in Dconf Editor and restart GNOME Shell (log out and back in)

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This Tool Enables Live Clock on Wallpaper of Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME 42

Last updated: June 21, 2022 — 6 Comments

Would like to display digital clock and date in your desktop? Desktop Clock is a new extension to do the job in GNOME 42.

It’s an extension that so far works on Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, Arch and Manjaro Linux. With it, you have the date and time display on desktop with customisable appearance.

It supports border and background with user selected color, border width and corner radius. Allows to change time and data color and font size, as well as shadow color and offset. All colors can set to has an alpha channel (RGBA), which specifies the opacity.

And, the date is customisable with format codes, to display as whatever style as you want. See the all code here.

How to Install Desktop Clock in Ubuntu 22.04 / other Linux

Ubuntu 22.04 user may first press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When terminal opens, run command to install extension manager app:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

Then, click top-left ‘Activities’ and search for and open the tool from overview screen:

Finally, navigate to ‘Browse’ tab in extension manager, search for and install “Desktop Clock”:

NOTE: It support drag moving clock position, however you need to disable “Desktop Icons NG” extension temporarily for the action, then re-enable it. The developer is working to fix the conflict.

For Fedora and other Linux, the extension is available to install via the toggle icon in the web page below:

Desktop Clock Extension webpage
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Tagger – Modern New GTK4 Music Tag Editor for Linux

Last updated: June 19, 2022 — 2 Comments

There are quite a few audio tag editing applications for Linux. Tagger is a new one with modern GTK4 user interface.

Kid3, puddletag, and easytag editors are really good. But for GNOME (the default desktop environment for Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation), Tagger looks more native due to GTK4 and libadwaita.

Tagger light mode

The app provides a simple and easy to use interface that follow system light and dark color scheme. With it, you can:

  • Edit metadata and audio tag including Filename, Title, Artist, Album, Year, Track, Album Artist, Genre, and comment.
  • Insert album cover art from file.
  • Remove tag.
  • Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames with ease
  • And download tag data from internet via MusicBrainz.

filename to tag conversion

It support multiple music file types, such as mp3, ogg, flac, wma, and wav. And, it can edit tags and album art of multiple files, even across subfolders, all at once.

Tagger Dark Mode

How to Install this Tag Editor in Ubuntu & Other Linux:

The app provides official binary package through the universal Flatpak, which works on most Linux distributions.

1. For Ubuntu, firstly press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When terminal opens, run the command to install the Flatpak daemon:

sudo apt install flatpak

Type user password for sudo authentication, though there’s no asterisk feedback.

Fedora, Linux Mint, Pop! OS, etc have flatpak support out-of-the-box. Other Linux may follow this setup guide to get it.

2. After setup the daemon, run the single command below will install the app in your Linux:

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.nickvision.tagger.flatpakref

NOTE: First time installing flatpak app will also install the Gnome run-time libraries which take more MB disk space.

Once installed, press Super (‘Windows’) key on keyboard to get into overview screen. Then search for and open the audio tagger and enjoy!

How to Remove the Audio Tag Editor:

To remove the flatpak package, open a terminal window and run command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.nickvision.tagger

Also clear useless run-times if any by running flatpak uninstall --unused command.

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This App Let You Configure Camera Exposure, White Balance, HDR & More in Linux

Last updated: June 19, 2022 — 2 Comments

Has a webcam connected in your Linux PC or laptop? Here’s a graphical tool to configure the camera exposure, white balance, brightness, contrast, power line frequency, gamma, etc.

It’s cameractrls, a new open-source tool that provides Python CLI and GUI (GTK, TK) to set the Camera controls in Linux. It can set the V4L2 controls and it is extendable with the non standard controls.

Currently, it has a Logitech extension (Led mode, led frequency), Kiyo Pro extension (HDR, HDR mode, FoV, AF mode, Save), Systemd extension (Save and restore controls with Systemd path+service).

Cheese and Cameractrls

As the picture shows, it has the slider bars to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and hue, which also configurable via the default Cheese app.

Basic settings page

There are as well options to switch between Aperture Priority Mode and Manual Mode to adjust camera exposure, backlight compensation, toggle HDR. White Balance temperature is also configurable in both auto and manual mode.

Advanced settings page lets you select power line frequency, toggle focus, AF mode, and adjust Pan, Tilt, Zoom, FoV if your web camera support them.

Cameractrls Advanced

How to Install the Camera Control App in Ubuntu & Other Linux:

This is a Python app that should work on all recent Linux distributions. To install it, open terminal from start menu (Ubuntu user may just press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard) and run the command below one by one:

1. Firstly, run command to install git in case you don’t have it:

sudo apt install git

The command is only for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint based systems. Fedora user replace apt with dnf.

2. Grab the source by running command:

git clone https://github.com/soyersoyer/cameractrls.git

After downloaded the tool, run command to verify if it works for you!

./cameractrls/cameractrlsgtk.py

3. If the app launches and works, you may then run command in the same terminal window (close the app to continue) to install the app shortcut icon.

  • First, create local bin folder if not exist, and move the app folder into that directory: 
    mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/ && mv cameractrls/ ~/.local/bin/
  • Navigate to the local bin: 
    cd ~/.local/bin/
  • Finally, install the app shortcut (this is a single command, just copy & paste into terminal and hit run): 
    cd cameractrls
desktop-file-install --dir="$HOME/.local/share/applications" \
--set-icon="$PWD/images/icon_256.png" \
--set-key=Exec --set-value="$PWD/cameractrlsgtk.py" \
--set-key=Path --set-value="$PWD" \
cameractrls.desktop
Finally, you can search for and open the app from start menu ('Activities' overview):

How to Remove this Camera Control App:

To remove it, first open terminal and run command to remove the shortcut icon file: 
rm ~/.local/share/applications/cameractrls.desktop

And remove the source folder via command:

rm -rf ~/.local/bin/cameractrls
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How to Enable Top Panel on Multiple Monitors in Ubuntu 22.04

Last updated: June 16, 2022 — 2 Comments

Have your Ubuntu PC connected with multiple monitors? Here’s how to enable the top bar in all the displays.

In Ubuntu 22.04, you may easily enable the left Dock in all displays via System Settings ->Appearance -> Dock -> show on ‘All Displays’.

However, due to GNOME’s design issue, the top panel only appears in the primary display. So I’m writing this tutorial that could help.

Method 1: Multi Monitors Add-On

There was an extension called “Multi Monitors Add-On” to do the job, which however discontinued. Contributors keep forking the project with new Gnome versions support, and here’s the one for GNOME 42.

NOTE: The extension has an issue in my case that indicators and top-right system menu do not display in external display.

1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to grab the source tarball.

git clone https://github.com/realh/multi-monitors-add-on.git

Install git if you don’t have it via sudo apt install git command.

2. After cloned the source, navigate to the source folder, and install it by copy and pasting to local extension directory.

cd multi-monitors-add-on
cp -r multi-monitors-add-on@spin83 ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

3. To avoid error in extension manager, disable the version validation check by running command:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

4. Before being able to enable the extension, you have to restart GNOME Shell. For default session, you need to log out and back in. If you’re running the classic Xorg session, press Alt + F2, type r in pop-up ‘Run a command’ box and hit Enter.

5. Finally, use either Gnome Extensions app or Extension Manager (both available to install in Ubuntu Software) to enable and configure this extension to display top panel on multi-monitors.

Method 2: use dash to panel

If you’re OK to merge the left dock and top-bar into a single panel. The popular “Dash-to-panel” extension can do the job with a simple on/off switch.

Dash to Panel

To install the extension, first press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard and run command in pop-up terminal to install ‘Extension Manager’:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

Then search for and launch extension manager in ‘Activities’ overview screen:

Finally, search for and install ‘Dash to panel’ extension from the app window under ‘Browse’ tab.

Once successfully installed the extension, your panels change automatically. And, you can right-click on panel and select the last menu option to open the configuration dialog.

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