By releasing version 0.96, the feature-rich screenshot application is finally ported to GTK3, making first step to get back to Ubuntu universe repository.
Shutter 0.96 does no longer depends on goocanvas, Gnome wnck, GTK2 version of image viewer widget, unique and appindicator module. Instead, it now requires GTK3 version of image viewer widget, GooCanvas2, and libwnck-3.
The release also remove the option “Captures only a section of the window”. because it didn’t work with the way how modern Qt and Gtk were drawing their windows anyway.
There are also possible issues including:
Multiple screens might or might not be broken
HiDPI screens might do screenshot of a nested menu in a wrong place
Get Shutter 0.96:
At the moment of writing no binary package is available to install, but only source tarball which is available in the link below:
For Ubuntu and Linux Mint users who like this screenshot tool, keep an eye on linuxupring PPA and xtradeb PPA, both maintains most recent Shutter packages.
Kodi 19.1, the first update for the “Matrix” series, was released with various bug-fixes.
The new release of the media player and entertainment hub contains mainly bug-fixes. It fixed HDR metadata detection issue, playback of optical DVDs in Linux, and BD-J Blu-ray chapter skipping via remotes/keyboard.
System fonts and use fonts detection for ASS subtitles, as well as rendering of semi-transparent ASS subtitles on Wayland are now fixed in the release.
Kodi 19.1 also enabled filecaching by default for network filesystems, improved reliability for HTTP and NFS network filesystems, and added support for WS-Discovery protocol to locate SMB servers and browse shared folders via SMBv3.
Other changes in the release include:
Fixed media flagging for DVD/BluRay
Fixed incorrect HDR metadata
Fixed green screen when playing the menu of some DVDs
The official Kodi PPA has made the packages for all current Ubuntu releases including Ubuntu 21.04.
Open terminal either from system app launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, do following steps one by one.
1. Add Kodi PPA.
To add the official Kodi PPA, run command in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
Type user password when it asks, with no asterisk feedback, and hit Enter to continue.
2. Install / Update Kodi.
If you’re now running the stock version of Kodi package in Ubuntu, the Software Updater will refused to update it. So it’s recommended to use the command below to install or update the media player.
Firstly refresh system package cache, if you’re on Ubuntu 18.04, via command:
sudo apt update
Then install Kodi via command:
sudo apt install kodi
Once installed Kodi, either launch it from system app launcher or log out and select “Kodi” session to login.
How to Downgrade:
You can purge the Ubuntu PPA as well as downgrade Kodi to the stock version available in Ubuntu main repositories. To do so, run command:
HP printer drivers for Linux, HPLIP, released version 3.21.4 today with new devices and Linux distros support.
HPLIP 3.21.4 is a small release adds HP Envy 6400 series printers support, and adds new systems LinuxMint 20.1, Debian 10.8 support. Ubuntu 21.04 is not yet supported though it has been released for a few weeks.
And it does not install in Ubuntu 20.04 in my case, though it works in Ubuntu 20.10 and Ubuntu 18.04.
Download & Install HPLIP 3.21.4:
HPLIP packages are hosted on sourceforge.net, go to link below and download the “hplip-3.21.4.run” package:
KeePass password manager released version 2.48 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA.
KeePass 2.48 introduces version 4.1 of the KDBX file format, which supports various new features, including:
group tags support,
ability to disable password quality estimation
remember the previous parent group when moving an entry/group into a different group
custom icons now have names and last modification or deletion times
save last modification time for custom date items.
Other changes include:
Add command ‘Move to Previous Parent Group’
Add support for loading images with Exif orientation tags.
Enhanced the LastPass import module to support CSV files created by the latest versions.
Enhanced the nPassword import module to import group tags.
Various user interface improvements.
How to Install KeePass 2.48 in Ubuntu via PPA:
KeePass2 is still available to install via an Ubuntu PPA. So far, the PPA supports for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04.
qBittorrent, free and open-source Qt5 based Bittorrent client, released version 4.3.5 a few days ago.
qBittorrent 4.3.5 is the last release in the 4.3.x series. And it’s going to drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 in the next release since it has an outdated Qt5 libraries.
Users who prefer qBittorrent can still get updates for Ubuntu 20.04 through the Flatpak package, since it’s a containerised package format bundle with most run-time libraries.
MACOS: Don’t use executable name as CFBundleName value
Lower Qt requirement to 5.11
Clarify that the license is GPLv2+
How to Install qBittorrent 4.3.5 via PPA:
The official qBittorrent PPA has built the new release packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04.
1. To add the PPA, open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or searching for “Terminal” from application menu. When it opens, run command:
NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux released version 465.27 a day ago with new Laptop GPUs support and a few bug-fixes.
In NVIDIA 465.27, following new GPUs are supported:
T600 Laptop GPU
T1200 Laptop GPU
RTX A5000 Laptop GPU
RTX A4000 Laptop GPU
RTX A3000 Laptop GPU
RTX A2000 Laptop GPU
There are also some fixes in the release including:
Fixed a bug that could prevent a system from resuming from suspend when DisplayPort activity occurred while the system was suspended.
Fixed a regression that prevented eglQueryDevicesEXT from correctly enumerating GPUs on systems with multiple GPUs where access to the GPU device files was restricted for some GPUs.
Fixed a regression that could cause system hangs when changing display resolution on SLI Mosaic configurations.
Fixed a bug that could result in blank displays when driving multiple displays at the same resolution using active DisplayPort dongles.
How to Install NVIDIA 465.27 in Ubuntu:
Ubuntu now builds the latest NVIDIA drivers and pushes them via its own security & updates repositories.
Just wait! It’ll be available in next few days. At that time, launch Additional Drivers utility and you’ll see the driver available to install.
If you can’t wait, go to NVIDIA website and download the .run installer package (not recommended for beginners):
KDE’s Kdenlive video editor 21.04 was released today with lots of usability improvements and some great new features.
Kdenlive 21.04 introduced new Speech-to-Text feature which automatically transcode audio to text, and it supports for 17 languages and dialects using the official models.
The release also features new Media Browser, which can be enabled from View menu. With it, you can easily browse through file system and drag’n’drop add clips to the Bin or Timeline.
And there are new effects typewriter effect with 3 animation modes, Alpha Strobe effect to text, images, or videos, Effect Zones to apply effects to specific regions of tracks or the timeline.
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 5.12: