Linux Mint’s Cinnamon desktop has tagged its 4.0 release for more than a weeks. For those who want to try out new desktop release, here’s how to install Cinnamon 4.0 in Ubuntu 18.04.
Cinnamon 4.0 is not officially announced at the moment. It’s mentioned in the last Linux Mint blog post:
New panel layout, you’ll have the option to embrace the change or to click a button to make Cinnamon look just like it did before.
Ability to define a different icon size for each of the three panel zones
Mint-Y-Dark now is the default Cinnamon theme.
Support for mainline kernels was added to the Update Manager.
reduced system memory consumption, and various other changes.
Install Cinnamon 4.0 via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04:
1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut, or from application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
Type your password (no asterisks feedback) for sudo prompt and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then install Cinnamon desktop via command:
sudo apt install cinnamon
Once installed, log out and login with Cinnamon session.
GIMP image editor 2.10.8 was released yesterday with rendering improvements, various bug-fixes and plugins ported to new iterator API in GEGL.
GIMP 2.10.8 announcement is not ready at the moment. Here’s the changes according to the NEWS file:
Use adaptive chunk size instead in GimpProjection when rendering the projection asynchronously, to provide a better trade-off between throughput and responsiveness dynamically, based on how fast the processing is.
In all selection tools, show error on attempt to subtract-from/intersect-with empty selection.
Fix text along path not working with vertical text.
Fix Text tool’s frame position when undoing a move operation.
Streamline Text tool’s drawing blocking/unblocking logic.
When moving a text layer using the text tool (through alt+drag), don’t change the layer’s box mode to “fixed”, which is unnecessary, since the layer’s size isn’t affected.
Transform and deformation operations now maintain color for fully transparent pixels, making unerase and curves manipulation of alpha channel more reliable.
All transform tools now apply changes when you save or export/overwrite an image without pressing Enter first to confirm changes.
Fix wrong application position when painting on a drawable whose origin is above/to the left of the image’s origin, and there’s a selection active.
Port all plug-ins to the new iterator API in GEGL.
Improve automatic detection of HEIC/HEIF files.
Improve RawTherapee discovery by looking up registry key
How to Install GIMP 2.10.8 in Ubuntu:
The latest GIMP Ubuntu packages will be available via following 3 ways: (Be patient, the packages will be available in a few days):
Method 1. Otto Meier’s PPA maintains most recent GIMP packages for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10.
Adding the PPA (open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T and run command) allows to upgrade the stock GIMP version to the latest.
Ruby, interpreted object-oriented scripting language, now can be installed easily in Ubuntu 16.04 and higher via Snap package.
The official Ruby snap, containerised software package, was finally released for Linux Desktop. While Ruby is always old in Ubuntu universe repositories, Ruby snap is always updated!
How to Install Ruby Snap in Ubuntu:
1. (Only required for Ubuntu 16.04) Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to make sure snapd daemon is installed:
sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
Type user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, directly install the Ruby snap from Ubuntu Software:
or install it via command (also works in Ubuntu 16.04):
snap install ruby --classic
3. Once installed successfully, check via command /snap/bin/ruby --version:
CopyQ clipboard manager 3.7.0 was released a few hours ago with enhancements and many bug-fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.10.
PPSSPP Sony PSP emulator 1.7 was released a few days ago with a large number of compatibility and bugfixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 14.04.
Fix for insta-crash on Galaxy Note 9, some Xiaomi devices, and the new nVidia Shield
Vertex range culling on most platforms, fixes DTM: Race Driver and similar
Major speed boost in some Gundam and Earth Defense Force games
Fix for issues with post processing shaders in GL 3+
Fixes to sound output switching on Windows (WASAPI)
Detects DirectInput devices when running
Simple Discord integration
New debugging APIs
Task switching made a lot more robust (fixes GPD XD problems)
Texture decoding optimizations
Tons and tons of miscellaneous bugfixes and compatibility fixes
How to Install PPSSPP 1.7 in Ubuntu:
Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from software launcher. When it opens, do following steps one by one to install PPSSPP in all current Ubuntu releases.
1. Copy and paste the command and hit run to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppsspp/stable
Type your user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then refresh system package cache and install the latest PPSSPP via commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ppsspp
Replace ppsspp with ppsspp-sdl in the code for the SDL version.
Uninstall:
To remove the PPA, either go to Software & Updates -> Other Software or run command:
In addition, after installed the .deb package, you can enable Vivaldi apt repository (Softare & Updates -> Other Software) to receive future updates through Software Updater:
Linux Kernel 4.19 LTS (Long Term Support) was released yesterday. Instead of Linus, Greg KH announced the new 4.19 release and wrote lots of words:
While it was not the largest kernel release every by number of commits, it was larger than the last 3 releases, which is a non-trivial thing to do. After the original -rc1 bumps, things settled down on the code side and it looks like stuff came nicely together to make a solid kernel for everyone to use for a while. And given that this is going to be one of the “Long Term” kernels I end up maintaining for a few years, that’s good news for everyone.
A small trickle of good bugfixes came in this week, showing that waiting an extra week was a wise choice. However odds are that linux-next is just bursting so the next -rc1 merge window is going to be bigger than “normal”, if there is such a thing as “normal” for our rate of development.
And speaking of development, there’s that other thing that happened this release cycle, that ended up making it such that I’m the one writing this instead of Linus. Allow me the guilty pleasure of taking a few minutes to talk about that….
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What’s New in Kernel 4.19 (via omgubuntu.co.uk):
An alternate mode driver for USB Type-C/DisplayPort Type-C support
Better support for Intel’s Low Power Subsystem (LPSS)
Support for Qualcomm Adreno 600 series hardware
Initial support for Intel Icelake graphics
Armada atomic mode-setting
Ongoing DRM improvements
x86 KVM improvements
In-kernel GPS subsystem
General touchscreen improvements
Initial support for the 802.11ax WLAN
Various Filesystem improvements
Obligatory Linux power management tweaks
Continued Y2038 prep
How to Install Linux Kernel 4.19 in Ubuntu:
There are a few third-party tools, e.g., UKTools and Ukuu, make it easy to install the latest Kernel in Ubuntu.
You can also manually download the Kernel 4.19 Ubuntu binary packages at:
Depends on your OS type, download and install the packages in turns:
Select generic for common system, and lowlatency for a low latency system (e.g. for recording audio), amd64 for 64bit system, i386 for 32bit system, or armhf, arm64, etc for other OS types.
Also you can download and install the kernel binaries via terminal commands:
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 4.19.0:
