News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Blur my Shell, the popular extension that adds blur effect to GNOME shell, is finally adding blur support for pop-up menus.
Meaning that not only top panel, dash, and overview, but also calendar/notification popup, quick settings, OSD popups, right-click menus, switchers, and dialogs can be blurred now.
Rewaita, the free open-source tool to change the color scheme of GTK4/LibAwaita apps, released new 1.1.4 version today.
The new version of this theming application added GDM support, CLI interactions, more customization options, and some other improvements.
Want an email app between Evolution and Geary? Check out Gnome’s modern new “Stamp” app which is working in progress.
Stamp is an open-source mail, contact, and calendar suite application for Linux, which was unveiled at OpenSUSE conference 2026:
The project provides a complete mail client with integrated contact and calendar functionality. It features a modern UI built on GTK4, using WebKit for content rendering, and supports features like account management, email signatures, pgp/smime signed and encrypted mails, BIMI support and more….
GNOME 51, the Linux desktop expected as default in Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 45, is now available for Alpha testing!
The new version of this popular Linux desktop environment finally removed the code for legacy NVIDIA drivers support!
Meaning the old graphics cards, such as GeForce 700 series (except GTX 750 Ti, GTX 750, and GTX 745) and earlier, will only work in a basic and fallback mode using the open‑source Nouveau driver in GNOME 51.
Want to adjust the touchpad 2-finger scrolling speed in Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 with default GNOME Desktop on Wayland?
There’s now a free open-source application that provides a graphical user interface to do the things as easy as a few mouse clicks.
GDM Settings, the settings app for GNOME’s login screen (aka GDM Display Manager), is officially paused!
The main developer and maintainer of the project, Mazhar Hussain, announced the project is on old in last week via this issue:
Want to insert special characters (e.g., e.g., ©, ®, æ, ß, ¼, º) and/or diacritical characters (e.g., á, ä, é, ẽ) in your Ubuntu desktop?
Without coping from web or using an app (e.g., Gnome Characters), you can type them directly via your physical keyboard. And, below I’m going to show you how to do the job step by step.
GNOME 50, the default desktop for Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44, announced its second maintenance update one day ago.
The new small version of this popular Linux desktop environment introduced numerous bug-fixes, fixes and improvements for NVIDIA support, as well as its Nautilus file manager and built-in screenshot tool.
GNOME, the default desktop for Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation, will probably replace its default system monitor app in next release.
It’s Resources, a free open-source system monitoring application that uses GTK4 plus libadwaita for its modern UI that’s looking native in recent GNOME desktop releases.
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This tutorial shows how to enhance the default GNOME’s built-in screenshot tool with on-screen editing (annotation), OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and other basic features in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
GNOME, the default Ubuntu desktop, introduced built-in screenshot/screencast tool since version 42. It’s great but lacks features such as changing saving directory and image file format.
