News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
This tutorial shows how to enable/disable Keyboard, Mouse, Lid Open, and/or other devices events from waking up your Ubuntu PC or laptop from sleep.
By default, open laptop lid, press any key on keyboard, or press sleep button can wake up your computer from suspend or hibernation state. If you want, you can configure Ubuntu to ignore certain wakeup triggers that you don’t want.
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This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to control the fan speed in Lenovo ThinkPad laptop running Ubuntu 24.04.
The fan speed control solution differs depends on computer manufacturers. For my ThinkPad T480s, fan is usually not spinning when doing the basic web browsing and other light works.
But if you want, it’s easy to set a fixed fan speed, or adjust the speed automatically according to the core temperature.
This is a step by step guide shows how to enable Wake-on-LAN feature in Ubuntu, so you can wake it up from suspend, hibernation, or shutdown state remotely using another computer or mobile phone.
Wake on LAN, WoL in short, is a protocol allows computer to be turned on or waked up from sleep using network message. It’s based on AMD’s Magic Packet Technology, and also known as wake on WAN, remote wake-up, power on by LAN, and resume by LAN.
WoL uses wired network on target computer for the communication. Though, there’s also Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN) allowing to wake up wirelessly.
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to disable IPv6 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with or without system restart.
IPv6 is the future of internet protocols. But for some reasons, such as compatibility with certain networks, testing purpose, or security concerns, or just because don’t use that thing, users may want to disable IPv6 in their machines.
Disabling IPv6 is generally safe. There may be small performance loss on some websites and services that are optimized for IPv6, though you can re-enable it at any time as you want.
JetBrains announced the new 2024.2 release of its PyCharm IDE just a few days after the release of IntelliJ IDEA.
The new release introduces significant improvements to the AI Assistant. It enhances cloud-based code completion with faster and more accurate suggestions, and features better UX including syntax highlighting for suggested code, and option to accept suggestions incrementally.
The AI now uses the latest GTP-4o model, supports chat references and semantic search. It features AI integration in the Terminal tool window, and AI-assisted VCS conflict resolution.
This tutorial shows how to separate /home from an existing Ubuntu file-system, to individual disk partition or even USB stick, while preserving all personal data.
Linux can have separate /home partition, which is useful for re-installing system, or even trying different Linux distributions without losing most of custom settings, configurations, downloads, etc.
While installing Linux, there’s usually an option to create separate /home. If you didn’t do that, then here’s step by step guide shows you how to do the trick afterward.
JetBrains announced the new 2024.2 release of its IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment (IDE).
The release uses new clean and modern UI as default, while classic one is available as plugin. For Linux, it auto-places window controls to left or right depends on your desktop settings. And, it switched to JetBrains Runtime 21 with enhanced security, performance, as well as Wayland rendering support.
For Ubuntu 24.04 and its based systems, the Mainline Kernel PPA finally fixed building recent Kernel packages since v6.10.3.
The Mainline Kernel PPA is Ubuntu maintained package archive that keeps building the upstream Linux Kernel releases for testing purpose.
The recent builds since v6.10-rc3 were broken due to unknown reason. If you’re waiting for the fix for it, the latest build for Kernel 6.10.3 is backing for working again.
This tutorial shows how to install the guest additions for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint based systems that are running as Virtualbox virtual machine.
Guest Additions is an external package designed to be installed inside a VirtualBox guest OS. It enables closer integration between the host and guest OSes, including features such as shared folder, custom video drivers, seamless window mode, and more.
Guest Additions is not installed by default after installed your system as virtual machine. It’s however easy to install through the official CD image.
Ubuntu 24.04 Guest OS in VirtualBox
Scrcpy, the free open-source Android screen mirroring app, released version 2.6 (then 2.6.1 with quick fix) a few days ago.
Scrcpy is an app works on Linux, Windows, and macOS, allowing users to remote access and control their Android screen from PC/laptop, either wirelessly through TCP/IP in same network or wired with USB cable.
It uses Android Debug Bridge (adb) to communicate with Android device. Nothing needs to be installed on Android side, but it needs to enable developer mode for USB debugging option which is required by adb.
