Want to get more information in the clock menu underneath the calendar? You can get the current weather condition via an extension.
Weather in the clock is a simple extension based on Gnome Weather that adds an icon representing the current weather condition and the current actual temperature to the clock in the panel.
If you like it, do following steps one by one to install it on Ubuntu 20.04.
1.) First open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to install Gnome Weather:
sudo apt install gnome-weather
2.) Then search for and launch weather from ‘Show Applications’ menu and setup your location:
3.) Finally install the gnome shell extension.
Run command to install chrome-gnome-shell if it’s not installed:
Mainline is a graphical tool to install the latest mainline Kernel in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and derivatives.
Mainline (Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer) is an open-source fork of ukuu, which now is pay for use. It offers a simple interface with updated list of the “mainline” Kernels, allows to one-click install, remove, or purge Kernels in Ubuntu-based distributions.
Optionally watches and displays notifications when a new kernel update is available
Downloads and installs packages automatically
Display available and installed kernels conveniently
Install/remove kernels from gui
For each kernel, the related packages (headers & modules) are installed or removed at the same time
How to install Mainline in Ubuntu:
NOTE: The mainline kernels are provided by Ubuntu Kernel Team for testing and debugging purposes. They are not supported and are not appropriate for production use. You should only install these if they may fix a critical problem you’re having with the current kernel.
The software has an official PPA so far contains packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and derivatives.
1.) To add the PPA, open terminal from system application launcher and run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan/ppa
2.) Then check updates and install the tool via commands:
LibreOffice office suite 7.0 was released a few days ago. For those sticking to the PPA .deb packages, you can now install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 19.x, and 20.
LibreOffice 7.0 release highlights:
ODF 1.3 document support
Skia graphics engine + Vulkan support.
Better Microsoft Office DOCX / XLSX / PPTX support.
remove Adobe Flash export support
HiDPI, import/export, and other improvements.
How to Install LibreOffice 7.0 via PPA:
1. Add the PPA.
LibreOffice 7.0.x specific PPA has been created hours ago contains the latest deb packages. You can add it to your system by launching terminal and run command:
For any reason you want to revert back to the Ubuntu stock LibreOffice version, instead of removing the PPA, run command to purge it which also downgrade all installed packages:
Restart your machine and select boot with the previous kernel in boot menu ‘Grub2 -> Advanced Option for Ubuntu’. Then run command to remove Linux Kernel 5.8:
This simple tutorial shows how to install and apply Faenza Icons in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Faenza is a set of icons for Gnome provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colorful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items. Four themes are included to fit with light or dark themes/panels.
1.) Install Faenza icons
To install the icon theme, simply open terminal from your system application launcher. When it opens, run command:
sudo apt install faenza-icon-theme
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompt and hit Enter.
2.) Apply the icon theme in Ubuntu 20.04:
The icon theme offers Faenza, Faenza-Ambiance, Faenza-Radiance, Faenza-dark, darker, darkest. You can choose one of them in Gnome shell via Gnome Tweaks.
Install Gnome Tweaks either via sudo apt install gnome-tweaks command or from Software utility (if you don’t have it).
This simple tutorial shows how to install Mac OS Catalina style Gnome Shell theme and icons in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Following steps include how to install the GTK theme, icon theme, tweak panel appearance, and install useful extensions. When everything’s done, your Gnome desktop will look like:
1. First install Gnome Tweaks and required theme engines.
Open terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard), paste following command (Ctrl+Shift+V) and run to install some required libraries:
This simple tutorial shows how to install Conky Manager 2, the graphical front-end for Conky system monitor, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 25.04
Conky is a light-weight system monitor for Linux Xorg, that displays CPU, GPU, and disk usage, network speed, weather, date and time and other information on desktop as widget.
And Conky Manager is a graphical tool that manages Conky config files. It provides options to start/stop, browse and edit Conky themes installed on the system.
The software was originally developed by by teejee2008 (Tony George), but not been updated for quite a few years. And Conky Manager 2 takes the job to make it work on recent Linux systems with updated Conky versions support.
Install Conky Manager 2 Ubuntu via PPA:
For those still using conky widget to monitor CPU/RAM, network usage, and weather information, I’ve create an unofficial PPA contains the most recent packages for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04, with both 64-bit and arm64/armhf OS types support.
1.) First, open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or searching from ‘Activities’ overview screen. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Then install Conky Manager2 and conky as dependency library via command:
sudo apt install conky-manager2
NOTE: Linux Mint needs to manually update cache via sudo apt update command first.
Start and use Conky Manager 2:
Once installed, search for and launch Conky Manager app from the activities overview screen (or from start menu depends on your DE).
The app comes with some default themes, though may not well configured for your desktop. Tick or un-tick any item in the list will start or stop conky with that theme, though you may also use the tool bar buttons.
And, you can use the “spanner” icon to config theme options, including screen location, size, background transparency. Advanced users may also click on the ‘pencil‘ icon to edit it via configuration file.
There are also tons of Conky themes on the web. You can download one, and install it easily by clicking the second folder icon (with a little emblem).
Uninstall Conky, Conky Manager:
For any reason, you can easily remove the Ubuntu PPA by running the command below in terminal:
Magnus is a very simple desktop magnifier written in Python 3. It shows the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times. Useful for users who need magnification, whether to help with eyesight or for accurate graphical design or detail work.
How to Install Magnus in Ubuntu:
Magnus is available as Snap package, it can be directly installed from Ubuntu Software.
For Ubuntu 20.04 and higher, the software is also available in the main apt repository. Simple open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install it:
sudo apt install magnus
For Ubuntu 18.04, you need to add the PPA repository by running command: