News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
qBittorrent, the popular free open-source Qt based BitTorrent client, released version 5.0.3 along with 5.1.0 Beta one day ago on Tuesday.
Changlog for the new 5.1.0 Beta so far is not available. But for version 5.0.3, it’s a maintenance release that includes primarily bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates.
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For those who want to try out the new XFCE Desktop 4.20, XUbuntu developer team has made it into the QA PPAs for (X)Ubuntu 24.04 and (X)Ubuntu 24.10.
XFCE 4.20 is the new major release of the popular lightweight Linux desktop. It features experimental Wayland support, client-side decoration and hamburger menu for Thunar, power profile daemon, hybrid sleep, and many other exciting new features. See HERE or the official release note for details.
XFCE 4.20 will be probably default in next XUbuntu 25.04, Fedora 42 (spin), Arch, etc Linux Distributions.
For (X)Ubuntu, Linux Mint (XFCE edition), Linux Lite users who can’t wait, XUbuntu developer team has made the new desktop release into QA experimental PPA for testing purpose!
NOTE: The PPA is for testing purpose!!! The packages will be either moved to the Staging PPA (if passed verification), or removed.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open up a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/experimental
Type user password when it asks, while there’s no visual feedback, and hit Enter to continue
UPDATE: For (X)Ubuntu 24.10, XFCE 4.20 has been made into QA Staging PPA. User may run the command below instead:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/staging
2. After adding PPA, just run command to install all available updates to upgrade to XFCE 4.20:
sudo apt full-upgrade
NOTE: Linux Mint user may need to run sudo apt update first to refresh package cache.
For non-XUbuntu or Ubuntu based systems without XFCE4, you need to run the command below instead to install the new desktop environment:
sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop
Tips: It’s recommended to copy what packages it’s going to install, in case you want to uninstall them later.
After installation, restart your computer. Then, launch “XFCE About” dialog to check the desktop version.
To restore the previous XFCE Desktop 4.18, simply install ppa-purge tool, then use it to purge that PPA which will downgrade all the install packages.
First, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install ppa-purge:
sudo apt install ppa-purge
Then, use the command below to purge the QA experimental PPA:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/experimental
To remove XFCE desktop (don’t do it in XUbuntu or other Linux xfce edition), then try running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove xfce4* libxfce4* xubuntu-* xfwm4
Linux world got some big updates, such as XFCE 4.20, RHEL 10.0 Beta, and Linux Mint 22.1 Beta, in last days. While, many free open-source apps also released updates recently you may care about.
And, here I’m going to introduce some of them for you. They include Audacity 3.7.1, GNU Octave 9.3.0, Scrcpy 3.1, VS Code 1.96, and TeXstudio 4.8.5.
XFCE, the popular GTK based Linux Desktop environment, announced new 4.20 release yesterday on Sunday!
It’s a new major release with the effort of almost 2 years of development, features include initial Wayland support, revamped Thunar file manager, power profiles daemon, and more!
Transmission, the popular free open-source BitTorrent client, announced the Beta release of next 4.1.0 version today!
The new release features optional sequential downloading support. Which, is useful when you want to watch large videos/movies while they are being downloaded.
However, I don’t find a graphical option to do the job, but only command line option -seq or --sequential-download for transmission-cli.
This is a step by step beginner’s tutorial shows how to set the default OS or kernel entry in Grub boot-menu in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian or other Linux.
Most Linux today uses Grub2 to provide a menu on start-up, allowing to choose which operating system, which kernel, or recovery mode to boot.
It by default boots the first entry, while user can configure to automatically another menu entries without user interaction. And, here’s how to do the trick in 2 ways: from command line or use a graphical tool.
Want to optimize your Linux desktop for responsiveness or gaming? Try the custom Libquorix or XanMod Kernels.
Besides the default and mainline Kernels, there are some other kernels available for Debian/Ubuntu users.
This tutorial shows you how to completely remove the old VMWare Workstation player in Ubuntu 24.04 and Linux Mint 22.
I was trying to install the new VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.1 today in my Ubuntu laptop. The official installer however told me to uninstall the old VMWare Player 17.5.0.0 first.
The problem was that wmware-installer somehow refused to uninstall the previous package, so I can’t get the new one installed! If you ran into similar issue, then this tutorial may help.
Scrcpy, the popular free open-source Android screen mirroring and controlling app, released version 3.0 then 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 with quick fixes few days ago.
Besides mirroring Android screen on your computer desktop, the new release can now start a virtual Android display on your desktop.
OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming and screen recording software, announced new major 31.0.0 release today!
The new release introduced native blur filter and background blur for NVIDIA GPUs, based on NVIDIA Video Effects (NVIDIA Broadcast). Meaning you need RTX 20, RTX 30, or RTX 40 series graphics card, and GPU drivers 551.76 (Windows) / 550.54.14 (Linux) or newer.
