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How to Install OnlyOffice Desktop Editors in Ubuntu 22.04 | 24.04

Last updated: May 5, 2024 — Leave a comment

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install OnlyOffice Desktop Editors office suite and keep it up-to-date in Ubuntu 22.04. Though the title said for Ubuntu 22.04, it also works in Linux Mint (exclude Snap) and Debian.

OnlyOffice, formerly TeamLab, is a free office suite. The Desktop Editors is offline version, that’s made up of Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, and PDF Form. Though, it supports collaborative editing by connecting to a cloud service.

The desktop editors is free and open-source (AGPL-3.0-only license) software works in Windows, Linux, and macOS. There’ also mobile version for iOS and Android, though called OnlyOffice Documents. It’s compatible with MS Office (OOXML) and OpenDocument (ODF) formats and supports DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, PDF, HTML, EPUB, XPS, DjVu, XLS, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPT, PPTX, ODP, DOTX, XLTX, POTX, OTT, OTS, OTP, and PDF-A.

The office suite is available to install in Ubuntu in 4 different ways. Choose any one that you prefer:

native .deb.
universal Flatpak
universal Snap
portable AppImage

In Howtos office, OnlyOffice

Install & Setup OneDrive Client in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04

Last updated: April 29, 2024 — 8 Comments

This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install and setup OneDrive client in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 to sync files between local machine and Microsoft cloud.

OneDrive is a file hosting service by Microsoft. It so far does not have an official app for Linux, but there’s a popular free open-source client works in most Linux. And, here’s the basic how to guide for installing and using it in Ubuntu Linux.

In Howtos cloud file sync, OneDrive

Tell How Much Free Space Left in Ubuntu 22.04

Last updated: February 24, 2024 — Leave a comment

When going to download or install something that takes much disk space, it’s better to first check if there’s enough free space left in your system.

This is super easy to do the job in Ubuntu & other Linux. And, I’m going to show you how in both graphical and command line ways.

Though the title said for Ubuntu, this tutorial works in most other Linux. The graphical way may vary depends on desktop environment, but the Linux command works in most, including Debian, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE.

In Howtos disk, free up disk

How to Install Kvantum to Theme Qt6/Qt5 Apps in Ubuntu

Last updated: February 23, 2024 — Leave a comment

This simple tutorial shows how to install and use Kvantum theme engine to change themes for your Qt5 and Qt6 applications in Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 23.10.

GNOME Desktop uses GTK toolkit for its applications and KDE/LxQt uses Qt toolkit instead. These apps work on each other desktop environment, but may NOT look native.

To unify the look and feel, Fedora Qt developer team has QGnomePlatform, adwaita-qt, and QAdwaitaDecorations projects to make Qt apps look better in GNOME. So far, only QAdwaitaDecorations is in active development for implementing Adwaita-like window header and border for Qt apps.

For Qt app window color, buttons, and other components, Kvantum is good choice to do the job.

qBittorrent (Qt6) with Kvantum theme in Ubuntu

In Howtos qt, qt6, theme

GIMP 2.99.18 Released as Last Dev for Next Major 3.0

Last updated: February 22, 2024 — Leave a comment

GIMP image editor announced the new 2.99.18 development release today. It’s marked as the last dev release for the next major 3.0 version.

The new release has a new welcome dialog, with Personalize tab to set your favorite theme, icon and font scaling, and select program language, Contribute tab with a few links for who want to contribute to GIMP, and Create tab with quick buttons to create, open, open recent images. It as well has an option to enable on every start.

In Howtos, News gimp, image editor

How to Install New Gambas 3.19.0 in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04

Last updated: February 19, 2024 — Leave a comment

Gambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users!

Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2/GTK3, Qt, Database, Web, SDL applications.

The latest version so far is Gambas 3.19.0 that includes many exciting new features. First, as you see above, it has a new app icon that’s called gambas-thin. Though, I personally prefer the old one a bit more.

old gambas3 icon

The new release brings huge improvements to interpreter, to make it faster than Python, Perl and Java interpreters in all benchmarks!
Continue Reading…

In Howtos, News Gambas, programming

How to Enable JPEG-XL (.jxl) Image Support in Ubuntu 22.04/20.04

Last updated: February 18, 2024 — Leave a comment

Want to open (or export to) .jxl files? Here’s how to enable the image format support in Ubuntu and Debian.

JPEG-XL (.jxl) is a royalty-free raster-graphics image format supports both lossy and lossless compression. It includes features such as animation, alpha channels, layers, thumbnails, and has better compression efficiency (60% improvement) comparing to JPEG.

GNOME favors JPEG-XL as background wallpaper in next version 46. But, Ubuntu now does not support the image format due to lack of a build dependency.

If you have some .jxl images stored in Ubuntu, then here’s how to make them work in image viewer, GIMP, and maybe other graphical apps.

In Howtos JPEG XL, photo

How to Disable Mobile Broadband Menu Option in Ubuntu 22.04

Last updated: May 5, 2024 — Leave a comment

This simple tutorial shows how to get rid of the “Mobile Broadband” menu option from the upper right system status menu in GNOME Desktop.

GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation, has built-in support for mobile broadband. If your computer (usually laptop) has a built-in SIM card slot, then it will show you the “Mobile Network” page in Settings and “Mobile Broadband” option in upper right menu.

For those who rarely use this feature, the option is useless but makes the menu longer. So, it’s a good choice to completely disable it!

In Howtos Gnome, network, systemd

How to Get Classic GNOME 2 Session in Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04

Last updated: February 13, 2024 — 1 Comment

This simple tutorial shows how to install and enable the Classic Gnome 2 style desktop session in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 24.04.

Though the title said for Ubuntu, this tutorial also works in Debian 12 & 11. Fedora, Arch, and their based systems also have corresponding packages for the similar job.

As far as I know, there are 3 ways to get back the classic Gnome 2 layout. They include:

Option 1: gnome-flashback -traditional desktop session based on GNOME technologies.
Option 2: gnome-shell-extensions – Classic Gnome 2 layout through some Gnome Shell extensions.
Option 3: MATE Desktop – a free open-source fork and continuation of Gnome 2 Desktop.

Option 1: Gnome Flashback

In Howtos Enable Gnome Classic in Debian, Gnome, Gnome Classic

How to Rotate Images in Ubuntu 22.04

Last updated: February 12, 2024 — Leave a comment

This is a beginner’s guide shows you how to rotate your images using either a Linux command or built-in apps such as file manager and image viewer.

Option 1: Rotate an image using built-in image viewer

If you want to change the orientation for only a few photo images, then the built-in image view is always the best choice.

Simply click open your image file through the image viewer. Move mouse cursor over the app window, then you’ll see the buttons to rotate to the left and rotate to the right in bottom.

The image viewer app varies depends on your desktop environment, the rotate options may be available other-where such as in app menu.

After rotated your image, either click Save (Ctrl+S) to override the original image file, or choose Save as (Ctrl+Shift+S) to save the rotated image as another file.