Open Surge, a fun 2D retro platformer inspired by Sonic games, available to install in Ubuntu Software easily via Snap package.
Open Surge is also a game creation system that lets you unleash your creativity! It’s free, open-source, and written from the ground up in C language, using the Allegro game programming library.
You can play the using a keyboard or a joystick.
Arrows: Move
Space: Jump
Enter: Pause
Esc: Quit
Left Ctrl: Switch character
Equals: Take snapshot
F12: Open the editor
And the game features:
A base game called Surge the Rabbit
A built-in level editor
Ready to use items, scripts, and more
Free to use game assets under Creative Commons licenses
Open Surge has been made available as Snap package (runs in sandbox), Ubuntu 18.04 and higher users can easily install it from Ubuntu Software or App Center:
For choice, you may press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, run the command below instead to install the game package:
After installation, either search for and launch it from overview screen (or start menu depends on your desktop environment):
Or run snap run opensurge command to start game from terminal.
Uninstall Open Surge:
To uninstall the game, either use Ubuntu Software (App Center) or run command below in terminal:
Nutty is a free open-source network utility made for Linux. It monitors the devices on your network and check bandwidth and speed details.
Nutty is made for elementary OS and it works on Ubuntu. The software features:
Display basic and detailed information for the device network card
Provides network data usage in two views: historical usage and current usage
Check Upload and Download speeds and get route times to a host
Provides information on active ports and application using them on the local device
Monitors, alerts and provides information on the other devices connected on the network
To install Nutty in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04, open terminal from application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run following commands one by one.
Cozy is an open-source audio book player with a modern user interface. It’s written in Python programming language. Since version 1.3.0, the app is ported to GTK+ 4 and LibAdwaita for its user interface, and works in Linux and Mac OS.
Cozy automatically scans media library and imports your audiobooks in one directory. You can also drag and drop and audiobook into the app window to import it.
As a GTK app, it’s well integrated in Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux with Gnome Desktop. And dark mode is available to work at night. With libhandy library, it has an adaptive user interface that works well in different screen sizes, e.g., on PC, laptop, and mobile.
audio-book player features:
Sort audio books by author, reader & name
Remembers playback position
Sleep timer
Playback speed control
Offline Mode
Support for DRM free mp3, m4a (aac, ALAC, …), flac, ogg, wav files
Mpris integration (Media keys & playback info for desktop environment)
Option 1: How to Install Cozy in Ubuntu via Official PPA:
Cozy has an official Ubuntu PPA that so far contains packages for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04.
NOTE: Due to this bug, copy has package conflict to Gnome Extension Manger app. If you want to install both apps in your system, use the Flatpak package (See Option 2) instead!
Though Ubuntu 20.04 is not supported due to outdated libraries, it still can be installed via little modification.
1. Add Cozy PPA
Firstly press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or search for and open ‘terminal’ from start menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cozy-team/cozy
Type user password, no asterisk feedback, when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. Install dependencies and modify PPA for Ubuntu 20.04 ONLY!
For Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20, you can either tweak PPA and install mismatched dependency libraries manually, or install Flatpak package (see next step) instead.
a.) Open “Software & Updates” utility, and navigate to “Other Software” tab. There choose and edit the Cozy PPA repository, and change value focal to hirsute for Distribution so it will install the package for Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute instead.
b.) Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands to download & install updated python3-peewee and python3-mutagen libraries.
Navigate to the Downloads folder via cd command:
cd ~/Downloads
Download python3-peewee via wget network downloader:
NOTE: since the command download & install 64-bit packages for Desktop PC/Laptop. For mobile or other devices, you can grab them by searching the package name in packages.ubuntu.com.
c.) Add PPA for Libhandy-1 library.
Ubuntu 20.04 also lacks libhandy-1 library, which can be installed from another PPA via the maintainer. Open terminal and run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/libhandy-1
You don’t have to run a individual command to install the library, because the next apt command will automatically install it as a dependency package.
3. Install Cozy via apt command.
Finally, run command in terminal to install Cozy audiobook player:
sudo apt install cozy
Option 2: How to Install Cozy in Ubuntu 18.04 & Higher via Flatpak:
Cozy audio book player is available as Flatpak package which runs in sandbox. It’s an universal package format that installs on most Linux distributions.
Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from application menu. When it opens, run following commands one by one.
1. Copy and paste the command and run to install flatpak framework:
sudo apt-get install flatpak
2. Add flathub, the official repository hosts most Flatpak packages:
For Cozy installed via Ubuntu PPA, remove it via command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove cozy
NOTE: the command may also remove libhandy-1 as well as Gnome Tweaks. Don’t worry, just install Gnome Tweaks back and it will re-depends on libhandy 0.x in Ubuntu 20.04.
To remove the Ubuntu PPAs, either open “Software & Updates” and go to “Other Software” tab, or run command:
Easywifi is a new command line tool make it easy to scan, connect, and manager WIFI networks in Ubuntu.
Easywifi is simply a script written with Python and based on nmcli tool. It offers an menu in the terminal output. All you need to do is type number or name to do what you want to do.
The tool so far supports:
Scan for wifi networks
List network devices
List saved network profiles
Connect to saved networks
Setup new networks
Creation of hotspots
Download Easywifi:
You can download the script by going to the previous link and clicking on the ‘Clone or download’ button.
Or in command line console, grab the source via command:
Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool with many annotation features. It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
Ksnip works on X11 and Gnome on Wayland. Like other screenshot tools, it can take screenshot of selected rectangular area, full screen, active window with time delay support. It also features:
Upload screenshots directly to imgur.com in anonymous or user mode.
Command line support.
Print screenshot or save is to pdf/ps.
Annotate screenshots with pen, marker, rectangles, ellipses, texts and other tools.
Add watermarks to captured images.
Global HotKeys for taking Screenshots.
Many configuration options.
Install Ksnip in Ubuntu:
Ubuntu binary package can be downloaded from the release page in the link below:
Grab the latest .deb package and install it by either Gdebi package installer or running command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/ksnip-*.deb
Once installed, launch it from application menu and enjoy!
(Optional) If you want to remove the screenshot tool, either use your system package manager or run command in terminal:
Googler, power tool to Google (Web & News) and Google Site Search from the command-line, released version 4.0 a few days ago.
It shows the title, URL and abstract for each result, which can be opened in a browser from the terminal. You can also integrate it with a text-based browser.
With Googler, you can also print content of results to terminal or listen to new directly, search error on StackOverflow in terminal, stream YouTube videos on desktop.
Cawbird is a modern lightweight Twitter client for GNOME 3. It features inline image and video preview, creation of lists and favorites, filtering of tweets and full text search.
“Cawbird is a fork of Corebird, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API. Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard’s custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.”
Cawbird has the following limitations due to changes in the Twitter API (imposed by Twitter, not the fault of the client):
Cawbird will update every two minutes
Cawbird does not get notified of the following, which will be refreshed on restart:
Unfavourite
Follow/Unfollow
Block/Unblock
Mute/Unmute
DM deletion
Some list changes
How to Install Cawbird in Ubuntu:
The easiest way is simply search for and install cawbird from Ubuntu Software.
This is a Snap package runs in sandbox. And it’s maintained by the community.
For those prefer native .deb package, go to the developer maintained repository at the link below:
Select Ubuntu, then click ‘Grab binary packages directly‘ and download the .deb package for your system.
Finally install the .deb via Gdebi package installer (available in Ubuntu Software) and enjoy!
Glimpse, a downstream fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP in short), released version 0.1 a few days ago. It can be installed in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher via either Snap or Flatpak.
Due to the problematic word “gimp”, Glimpse forked the well known image editor so there are no potential barriers to using the software in businesses and educational institutions.
“If English is not your first language, then you may not have realised that the word “gimp” is problematic. In some countries it is considered a slur against disabled people and a playground insult directed at unpopular children. It can also be linked to certain “after dark” activities performed by consenting adults.
…”
Glimpse 0.1 is based on GIMP 2.10. So far they just look like same application with different names (in my own opinion).
How to Install Glimpse in Ubuntu:
For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, you can easily install the community build Snap package of Glimpse image editor from Ubuntu Software.
If you’re familiar with command line, run command in terminal to install the Snap package:
sudo snap install glimpse-editor
The software also offers official Flatpak package available in Flathub repository:
Ulauncher is a super fast Linux application launcher written in Python with GTK+. By pressing a keyboard shortcut and then typing a name in search box, you can quickly launch an application or access a file / file directory.
Fuzzy search, type in app name without worrying about spelling.
4 built-in themes, and custom color themes support.
customizable shortcuts, and wide range of plugins.
Fast directory browser, type ~ or / to start
Search Google, Wikiepdia, and Stack Overflow.
How to Install Ulauncher in Ubuntu:
The official PPA contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04 so far.
1.) Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:agornostal/ulauncher
Type user password for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Then check updates and install the app launcher via 2 commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ulauncher
Once installed, open Ulauncher from application menu. You’ll see the app applet in system tray area. Click and open its Preferences dialog and set up theme, shortcut, auto-run, etc.
Uninstall Ulauncher:
To remove the PPA repository, either open ‘Software & Updates -> Other Software’ tab, or run command in terminal:
