Flowblade, a multi-track non-linear video editor Linux, released new major 2.8 version today with focused on making the app more configurable.
For 1680 x 1050 and higher screen resolution, now you can change the panels layout by moving panels to different positions using View->Panel Placement submenu.
The Middlebar now is more customizable by selecting View->Middlebar layout->Free Bar and then selecting which items in Middlebar are displayed and in which order via View -> Middlebar layout – > Configure Free Bar….
The keyboard shortcut is also customizable. First create a custom shortcut group via top-left menu button in “Keyboard Shortcuts” dialog, you can then select this group and change the shortcuts as you want.
Other changes in Flowblade 2.8 include:
New Flowblade Neutral and Flowblade Gray themes.
Use Tool Dock widget to select Timeline Edit Tools
Move Filter Selection panel to right side of the Timeline
A set colored of icons to be optionally used in the Middlebar
Relink a directory feature for Media Relinker
New new French language user manual and more.
How to install Flowblade in Ubuntu:
The software offers official DEB binary package available to download at:
Just grab the DEB package, then install it either via Gdebi, Software Install, or by running command in terminal:
This simple tutorial shows how to install WeChat, QQ instant messenger and QQ Music in all current Ubuntu releases.
For those doing business or having friends / family members in China, it’s hard to avoid using these top apps. Thanks to wine and Deepin Linux, they are now easy to install in Linux without native support.
The Shutter screenshot tool released version 0.95 a few days ago as the first update after moving to Github, and the first step getting back into Ubuntu universe repositories.
Shutter is one of the most popular Linux screenshot applications with editing features. Since Ubuntu dropped old Gnome 2 libraries from the main repositories, Shutter is removed too from Ubuntu repository.
The project now is working on removing old dependency libraries and getting back into Linux Distros’ (Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu) repositories. And the release of version 0.95 is the first step in the process.
The Audacious audio player 4.2 was released a few days ago. Here’s PPA with the deb binary packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 20, and derivatives.
Following the lead of Debian and Fedora, the new release now features dual Qt5 + GTK2 build by default. And it offers an option in the Settings to make it easy to switch between Qt and classic GTK interfaces.
Audacious has been updated to version 4.2, feature new dark mode support and Flat icon set in both light and dark mode.
Other changes include:
Add partial support for Ogg FLAC streams
Automatically set the title of an imported playlist based on the filename
Preselect the filename of an imported playlist when exporting it again
Add a Jump to Song dialog to the Winamp interface in Qt mode
Add formatter syntax to allow truncating title strings
Install Audacious 4.2 via PPA in Ubuntu:
The new release package has been made into the Ubuntu PPA. Due to a compile issue and lack of time for debugging, Ubuntu 16.04 build is excluded.
1. Open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or searching for ‘terminal’ from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Type your password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade the audio player:
The fourth maintenance update for KeePassXC 2.6 was released with various minor bug-fixes, and some new features.
KeePassXC 2.6.4 now provides native ARM64 builds for the new Apple Silicon M1 Macs. For the time being, it comes without support for signed KeeShare containers due to dependency incompatibilities.
In the new release, you can now switch between light and dark mode without restart the application. For Windows and Mac OS, it also responds automatically to light/dark theme changes in the system.
With an updated libgcrypt library, a buffer overflow vulnerability now is fixed in Windows and Mac OS. Users are urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
Compress Snap release as LZO for faster initial startup
Set maximum selectable password length to 999 for password generator.
Fix crash on app close when using SSH agent
Fix KDF selection showing wrong item when using Argon2id
Automatically close About dialog on database lock if it is still open
Fix click-to-move on empty area activating when using menus in Linux.
How to Install KeePassXC 2.6.4 in Ubuntu:
The Latest KeePassXC is available in Ubuntu Software via Snap package. The official download page also offers the non-install single executable Appimage package.
For those prefer the classic apt method, the official upstream PPA has made the new release packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10.
1.) Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or by searching for ‘terminal’ from system application launcher.
When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious/keepassxc
Type your password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Then either update the software package using Software Updater
or run command to install the software:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install keepassxc
Uninstall:
You can run the PPA repository simply by running command in terminal:
Kaidan, free and open-source Jabber / XMPP client, released version 0.7.0 with enhancements and bug-fixes.
Kaidan is a user-friendly and modern chat app uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber). Unlike other chat apps, you are not dependent on one specific service provider.
The new version 0.7.0 was released today adds more information in contact profile including nickname, software version, and operation system.
The favorite emojis now is showing by default, and you can search emoji by typeing :<name>.
Other changes in Kaidan 0.7.0 include:
drag’n’drop support for sending files
Paste images from clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+V) into the chat
It also available as Flatpak package, which runs in sandbox. Open terminal from system app launcher and run following commands one by one to install it:
1. Run command to install flatpak daemon if you don’t have it:
sudo apt install flatpak
2. Add the flathub repository which hosts the software package:
This tutorial is going to show you how to install and setup Universal Media Server in Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop and Server.
Universal Media Server, UMS in short, is a DLNA-compliant UPnP media server allows streaming media files to a wide range of devices including video game consoles, smart TVs, smartphones, and Blu-ray players.
1. Install required libraries:
Media transcoding is accomplished through packages from AviSynth, FFMpeg, MEncoder, and VLC, you have to first open terminal and run command to make sure these packages installed:
The latest tarballs are available to download at github project page. Select download (run uname -m to tell system type):
x86 package for old 32-bit machines.
x86_64 package for 64-bit machines.
arm64 / armhf for Rasperry Pi devices.
At the moment, the latest release is version 10.0.1. If you’re running Ubuntu Server, use this command to download it (replace URL in the command if a newer version is available):
Run following 2 commands will navigate to user’s Downloads folder, then extract the UMS package /opt, and finally rename result folder from ‘ums-10.0.1‘ to ‘ums‘.
cd Downloads
sudo tar -zxvf UMS-10.0.1-x86_64.tgz -C /opt/ --transform s/ums-10.0.1/ums/
Skip cd Downloads if it was downloaded via wget command.
And replace “UMS-10.0.1-x86_64.tgz” if a newer version was downloaded, also do change version number in “ums-10.0.1“.
4. Run UMS as system service
If everything goes well, you should be able to run the Universal Media Server via command:
/opt/ums/UMS.sh
For Ubuntu Desktop, it brings up a setup dialog to choose language, start minimized or not, choose network, and media folder etc.
Then it offers an user interface with more configurations, log view, and more.
For Ubuntu Server without UI, edit the .config/UMS/UMS.conf file for configurations. By default, it steams all files under user home. You can add “folder = /PATH/TO/MEDIA1,/PATH/TO/MEDIA2” to set media folder. For more, read the UMS.conf file under source tarball.
After starting the server go to http://server_ip:9001 in your web browser to check out if the server is working.
To make it run as systemd service, open terminal and run command:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/ums.service
It will create an empty file and open with nano command line text editor. Paste (Ctrl+Shift+V) following lines and change ji to your user name. Also change memory limit from 500M to another value if you want.
[Unit]
Description=Run UMS as Ji
DefaultDependencies=no
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=ji
Group=ji
ExecStart=/opt/ums/UMS.sh
TimeoutStartSec=0
RemainAfterExit=yes
Environment="UMS_MAX_MEMORY=500M"
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Save changes by pressing Ctrl+X, follow with Y, and hit Enter.
Finally run commands to reload systemd daemon, enable and start UMS service.
The Kid3 audio tagger 3.8.5 was released today as a new bug-fix release which however includes also some minor new features.
Kid3 3.8.5 adds ability to change the language via Settings -> Appearance, though app needs a restart to apply change.
It also brings “Invert Selection” option under Edit menu, command option “config” to query and set configuration options, and script to rewrite all tags of the selected files.
Other changes include:
Import multiple genres from Discogs and MusicBrainz.
Support import from Discogs JSON API when token is provided.
Allow code signing for Mac OS
Fix crash issue when adding Chapter frame.
Fix support for ID3v2 Podcast Category (TCAT) and Podcast Keywords (TKWD).
Fix support for multiple genres with ID3v2.3.0.
Fix support for MP4 values with multiple strings with TagLib.
How to Install Kid3 3.8.5 in Ubuntu via PPA:
The official Kid3 PPA has made the new packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20, and derivatives.
1. Open terminal either from application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch/kid3
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. If an old version was installed, upgrade Kid3 using Software Updater:
or run commands one by one in terminal to install or upgrade to the latest tag editor:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kid3-qt
You may replace kid3-qt with kid3 in the code for KDE integration, and/or with kid3-cli for the command-line interface.
Uninstall
To remove the PPA repository, either open Software & Updates -> Other Software tab and remove the relevant line, or run command:
As usual, there are many bug-fixes to applications including Dark Sector, LabVIEW 2014, Skyrim SE, The Witcher 3, Still Life 2, The Sims 3, and more.
How to Install Wine 6.1 in Ubuntu:
Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, or by searching for ‘terminal’ from system application menu. When it opens, run following steps one by one.
1.) Run command to enable 32 bit architecture (if you don’t have it):
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2.) Install the repository key by running command:
This simple tutorial shows how to install the free audio workstation Ardour 6.5 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and / or Linux Mint 20.x via PPA.
Ardour 6.5 was released with support for plugins in Steinberg’s VST3 format, on Linux, Windows and macOS. As usual, there’s various bug fixes and improvements ranging from the minor to the extremely useful.
The new release has been made into the main repositories for next Ubuntu 21.04. For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, a backport PPA by Ubuntu Studio packaging team now maintains the package.
1.) Open terminal either from system application launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2.) After adding the PPA and refreshing package cache (should be done automatically), run command to install the multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation:
sudo apt install ardour
If everything’s done successfully, launch the software from system app menu and enjoy!
Uninstall Ardour 6:
To remove the software package, simply run command in terminal:
sudo apt remove --auto-remove ardour
To remove the Ubuntu PPA, open Software & Updates and go to Other Software tab. Then remove the relevant repository line.
