Kdenlive video editor 20.12 was finally announced. Here’s what’s new and how to install it in Ubuntu.
The new release features the long requested same track transition function. It can be activated by selecting a clip and pressing “u” on keyboard or via the icon in the timeline toolbar.
Kdenlive 20.12 also features new subtitling tool allows to add and edit subtitles directly in the timeline or by using the new subtitle widget.
Other changes include:
Import (SRT/ASS) and export (SRT) subtitles.
An overhauled effects layout
Ability to rename and add/edit the description of custom effects
New Pillar Echo effect for vertical videos.
Crop by padding effect can now be keyframed.
New VR 360 and 3D effects
New Video Equalizer for adjusting image brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma.
Ability to enable/disable normalization of audio thumbnails from track header
Ability to delete multiple tracks at once
Online Resources tool was ported to qtwebengine
How to Install Kdenlive 20.12 in Ubuntu:
As KDE announced Kdenlive 20.12 as one of the December 2020 apps update more than a week ago, the Kdenlive stable PPA has made the packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20. And I’ve written the how to install guide in this page.
The beta of Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE editions were released for testing and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
Linux Mint 20.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025. It features Linux Kernel 5.4, Ubuntu 20.04 package base, and Xfce 4.14 / Cinnamon 4.8 / MATE 1.24 desktop environment.
In the new release, it also features a new Web App manager to turn any web page into desktop application. Like normal desktop applications, each web app has its own window, icon, and available in application menu.
The new IPTV Player, Hypnotix, is shipped with Linux Mint 20.1. It supports live TV, movies or even TV series if your playlist or IPTV provider also has a VOD section. The player comes with Free-IPTV as default IPTV provider.
Other changes include:
ippusbxd was removed so printing and scanning work the same way as in Linux Mint 19.x and prior releases.
Updated to HPLIP 3.20.11.
Hardware video acceleration enabled by default in Celluloid.
The driver manager was migrated to PackageKit.
Added Chromium to the repository.
Clock format in the login screen is configurable.
Aunified filesystem layout, superb collection of backgrounds, and more.
Linux Mint 20.1 system requirements:
1GB RAM (2GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
15GB of disk space (20GB recommended).
1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).
The iso image is available to download at the link below:
Ksnip screenshot tool released version 1.8.0 a few days ago with many great new features and improvements, making it more powerful.
Ksnip is a free open-source Qt based screenshot tool with editing features. It runs in Window, Mac OS, and Linux (both X and Wayland). As Shutter is not in active development, it’s getting more and more issues due to old Gnome dependency libraries. And Ksnip is a great alternative.
Ksnip 1.8.0 added ability to pin screenshots in frameless windows that stay in foreground. The feature was ported from Flameshot. Without saving a screenshot, the app “Options” menu offers “Pin” option to set it in foreground, and it will disappear with a double click on it.
The new release also added new and improved editing tools, including:
Add pixelate image area tool
Zoom in and out
Add window effects: Drop shawdow, Grayscale, Border
Add numeric pointer with arrow annotation item.
Add interface for adding custom tab context menu actions.
Add text pointer annotation item.
Add text pointer with arrow annotation item.
Add option to automatically switching to select tool after drawing item.
Edit Text box with double click.
Resize elements while keeping aspect ratio.
There are also improved screenshot tabs including:
Add save and save as options to context menu of a screenshot tab.
Add open directory, copy path to clipboard in saved tabs’ context menu.
Add option to delete saved images both from Edit menu or tab context menu.
Allow rename saved screenshot images both from Edit menu or tab context menu.
Other features include:
Add unity / integration tests.
Add brew cask package for Mac uses love homebrew.
Add image quality option in settings page.
Add support for cross-platform wayland screenshots using xdg-desktop-portal.
Add support for loading image from stdin.
Add screenshot options as application actions to desktop file. So that you can add Ksnip to desktop keyboard shortcuts to launch a screen, window, or area shot.
Make hiding main window during screenshot optional.
Open several files at once in tabs.
Allow modifying selected rectangle before making screenshot.
Option to keep main window hidden after a taking screenshot.
Add new options in system tray indicator menu.
Upload multiple stickers at once.
Allow removing imgur account.
Bug-fixes and other improvements.
Download / Install Ksnip:
The software offers official binary packages in the github releases page:
For Ubuntu Linux, you can grab the .appimage package, make it executable in file “Properties” window, and finally right-click and select run it to launch the tool.
You can also download the .deb package. And install it either via Gdebi package installer, or by running command in terminal:
Mozilla Firefox web browser 84.0 now is available to download.
Firefox 84 is a big release. It comes with WebRender enabled by default in Linux Gnome on X for faster page rendering. For Wayland session, you can manually enable the feature in about:config page, search and enable gfx.webrender.all.
The new browser release also includes native support for Apple Silicon hardware, the M1 processor in new versions of the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.
Ubuntu keeps publishing the latest Firefox packages through the main Ubuntu security & updates repositories. Just wait and Firefox 84.0 will be available to update for all current Ubuntu releases in next a few days.
If you can’t wait, Mozilla offers official Linux portable packages, in which you can run the executable file to launch Firefox. And you can download it from the link below:
KDE announced its December 2020 apps update including Kdenlive 20.12 two days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA.
Kdenlive 20.12 is a big release with many new features, stability improvements, various mix and transition fixes. While it’s not officially announced at the moment in the Kdenlive.org, here are some changes according to KDE’s announcement:
Allow moving subtitle through subtitle widget.
Add shortcut in/out/delete buttons to subtitle widget.
Add option to export subtitle file.
Add menu for subtitle clips.
Add subtitle import function
Add function to delete all subtitles from subtitle model.
Add timeline ruler menu item to create subtitle clip.
Add button in timeline toolbar to enable subtitle editing.
Add timeline tractor to Subtitle Model to attach subtitle filter.
Port to QtWebEngineWidgets.
Added multiple track deletion feature.
Qtcrop effect: make radius animated.
Add method to easily reload a custom effect.
Add comments feature in custom effects.
Make start and end position of subtitle editable.
Add GPU profiles provided by Constantin Aanicai.
Add MLT’s Pillar Echo effect.
Add signals and slot to subtitle model.
Add class to handle subtitles definition and comparison.
Add SSA Parser.
Add srt parser to model.
Rewrite audio thumbnails to only use FFmpeg’s data and optimize memory usage on creation.
Add avfilter eq filter, allows to adjust image brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma all in one effect.
Update Audio, Editing and Color layouts.
Add Effects layout.
Improve audiomixer layout.
How to Install Kdenlive 20.12 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10:
The kdenlive team ppa has built the latest packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20.
1.) Open ‘terminal’ from your system application menu, and run command to add the PPA:
The Python programming language 3.9.1 was released a few days ago as the first maintenance release of Python 3.9.
Python 3.9.1 comes with 282 changes since 3.9.0. It is the first version to support macOS 11 Big Sur. With Xcode 11 and later it is now possible to build “Universal 2” binaries which work on Apple Silicon. See the changelog for more.
How to Install Python 3.9.1 in Ubuntu:
1.) Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or by searching for ‘terminal’ from system application launcher.
More tabs management, e.g., open a new tab in the background by default, clone tab in the background.
Add Widevine certificate keys to get better experience on Amazon Prime HD, Spotify, Disney+, Peacock TV, etc.
Share URL with QR code via a small button in the Address Field, when enabled.
Enable shortcuts in context menus
Single key shortcut improvements.
Make Google components optional: Hangouts, Cast, Cloud Print
Accept-language setting
Upgrade to Chromium 87.0.4280.88, and more.
How to Install Vivaldi 3.5 in Ubuntu:
The official Ubuntu .DEB package is available to download at the link below:
Grab the deb matches your OS, then install it via either Ubuntu Software install or Gdebi package installer. Or run command in terminal:
sudo apt install ./Downloads/vivaldi-stable*.deb
Vivaldi also has an official apt repository, with it you can install the browser and get future updates through Software Updater utility.
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:
HPLIP, HP developed printer and scanner drivers for Linux, released version 3.20.11 a few days ago.
Different to previous releases, HPLIP 3.20.11 does not include new HP printers support. It only adds support for Ubuntu 20.10 and Debian 10.6. And it fixed usb print issue for ipp supported printers for Ubutnu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10 and Linux Mint 20.
There are also known issues that ppd browsing is failing sometimes while doing hp-setup in Ubuntu 20.10. Basically few times it is failing to fetch ppd list from cups server. So you might face the same issue while testing. And hp-toolbox will not work for ippusbxd printers in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10 and LinuxMint 20.
And not sure if it’s only me or for everyone, while it works on Ubuntu 20.10, HPLIP 3.20.11 does not install on my Ubuntu 20.04 since it tries to install the old python-pyqt5 as dependency library.
How to Get HPLIP 3.20.1 in Ubuntu:
1. To install the software, download the package “hplip-3.20.11.run” from the link below:
2. Then open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to give executable permission:
chmod +x ~/Downloads/hplip-3.20.11.run
3. Finally run command to start installing the driver:
./Downloads/hplip-3.20.11.run
Follow the terminal output and answer some questions. If everything goes OK, plug or re-plug your HP devices and enjoy!
Want to install Google Fonts in Ubuntu? The GTK+ Font Manager now adds support for Google Fonts integration.
Font Manager is a simple font management tool for GTK+ desktop environment. By releasing version 0.8.0, it adds support for downloading and managing Google Web Fonts, so that you can use Google Fonts for off-line use on your desktop.
Font Manager 0.8 changelog:
Fix FTBFS with Vala 0.50+
Add Google Fonts integration via G button on header bar.
Require WebKitGtk and libsoup
Allow saving compare lists contents
Add GNOME Shell search provider
Update Unicode data to 13.0
Update vendor data
How to Install Font Manager 0.8.0 in Ubuntu 20.04:
The software has an official staging PPA contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 20.10.
1. Open terminal from your system application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:font-manager/staging
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then upgrade the font manager, if an old version was installed, via Software Updater. Or run command in terminal to install it:
sudo apt install font-manager
Uninstall Font Manager
To remove the PPA repository, either go to Software & Updates -> Other Software tab, or run command in terminal:
New sorting option "stable" for intersect, setdiff, setxor, union, and unique functions.
Support for cookies to enable RESTful communication with the web service.
System web browser can be opened by web function.
Numerical integration has been improved.
New format command options: uppercase and lowercase (default).
Deprecated Qt4 support.
Completely rewritten of the legend function.
Updated the axis function and many other graphics backend improvements.
matlab compatibility improvements.
Remove deprecated functions and properties.
Add a list of new functions.
How to Get Octave in Ubuntu:
There’s no PPA repository contains the new release package at the moment of writing.
Before the official Snap package and the community maintained Flatpak package publish the new package, you can download & build GNU Octave from the source tarball:
