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How to Dim Multiple or Individual Monitor in Ubuntu 22.04

Have multiple monitors connected to your Ubuntu 22.04 machine? There’s now an indicator to dim all or individual monitor screen brightness with sliders. You can dim external monitor brightness with either physical buttons or ddcutil utility. However, an indicator applet in system tray can be more effective, and here’s one for Ubuntu 22.04 with default… Continue reading How to Dim Multiple or Individual Monitor in Ubuntu 22.04

Fix window border & shadow issue for Qt Apps in Ubuntu 23.10

Your apps do NOT have window border and shadow in Ubuntu 23.10? Here are the quick workarounds for the applications based on Qt UI toolkit. In Linux Desktop, applications are built with different UI toolkit. While, GNOME, Cinnamon, and XFCE use GTK3/4, KDE and LxQt use Qt for their applications. Ubuntu by default uses GNOME… Continue reading Fix window border & shadow issue for Qt Apps in Ubuntu 23.10

How to Set Custom Shortcut to Tile Windows in Ubuntu 23.10

This is a beginner’s guide shows how to set custom keyboard shortcut to tile windows in Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. Ubuntu 23.10 introduced enhanced tiling window support with a new system extension. With it, user can easily arrange all opened windows side by side by either mouse dragging or keyboard shortcuts. The extension supports both… Continue reading How to Set Custom Shortcut to Tile Windows in Ubuntu 23.10

This Extension Always Hide GNOME Top Bar (Except in Overview) in Ubuntu

For PC / notebook has a small display, it’s possible to hide the top panel in GNOME desktop to get more spaces and/or focus on your work. There’s a ‘Hide Top Bar‘ extension that enables ability to auto-hide the top bar, just like the left dock does. However, in this tutorial I’m going to introduce… Continue reading This Extension Always Hide GNOME Top Bar (Except in Overview) in Ubuntu

Top 6 Weather Apps You Can Try for Ubuntu Linux in 2021

Halfway through the year, many new apps released and many abandoned. Here are 6 weather apps that are still useful in 2021. Without searching in web browser or watching an app on mobile, there are quite a few weather apps for Linux that display weather conditions and forecast either on desktop or via system tray… Continue reading Top 6 Weather Apps You Can Try for Ubuntu Linux in 2021