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 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
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:
This simple tutorial shows how to enable and set up hot corners features in Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Gnome desktop.
With hot corners enabled, when you move the mouse cursor and hit one of the screen corners, it performs a predefined action (e.g., show desktop, open application launcher, launch a software, and run custom command).
The default Gnome desktop only supports top-left corner opening Activities overview, though it’s not enabled by default. You can however set up more actions for the 4 corners via a Gnome Shell extension.
NOTE: Skip the first 2 steps if you’re not first time installing a Gnome Shell extension.
1.) Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, then run command:
sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell
2.) Go to extensions.gnome.org, and click the link to install the browser integration.
Once installed, select hot corner actions via extension setting either by Extensions utility or Gnome Tweaks tool.
Tip: To enable ‘show desktop’ function, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run command to install the wmctrl package (Thanks to @Peter Huang):
