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Swap Two- and Three-Finger Tap Actions in Ubuntu 24.04

Swap Two- and Three-Finger Tap Actions in Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial shows how to remap touchpad tapping, so you Ubuntu will use 2-finger tap on touchpad as middle click (or paste), and 3-finger tap as right-click action. GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu, has switched to Wayland and is going to drop classic Xorg session, the old method to remap touchpad tap buttons does not work anymore. Here’s the new method to do the job in recent Ubuntu releases e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04. Option 1: For def…Read Article

GIMP 3.1.2 Released As First Step Toward GIMP 3.2

GIMP 3.1.2 Released As First Step Toward GIMP 3.2

GIMP 3.1.2 was just released as the first development version on the road toward GIMP 3.2 stable...See the Story

GnuCash 5.12 Released with Many Fixes & Improvements [Ubuntu PPA]

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GnuCash 5.12 Released with Many Fixes & Improvements [Ubuntu PPA]

GnuCash, the popular free open-source accounting software, released new 5.12 version yesterday. This is the twelfth point release for 5.x release series that introduced various bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates. And, for Ubuntu users, the “Gnucash packaging team” PPA revived. First of all, GnuCash 5.12 added China Merchants Bank support in security editor. And, it removed no longer supported F::Q Modules Bloomberg.pm, DWSFunds, In…Read Article

App Center turns old Ubuntu Software in 24.04, How to Get it Back

App Center disappeared, instead it shows you the old Ubuntu Software in your Ubuntu 24.04? Here’s how to fix the issue. As you know, Ubuntu switched to App Center since 23.10. While, the old Ubuntu Software is still in use for Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04. And, both are Snap Store. While the old Ubuntu Software is built with GTK toolkit, App Center uses Google Flutter for its user interface that looks modern and runs faster. Ubuntu distributes the sna…United Kingdom · United Kingdom Read Article

VirtualBox 7.2.0 Beta 2 is out with Improved Windows Arm Guest Support

VirtualBox 7.2.0, the next major release of Oracle’s virtualization software, is now in second beta testing stage. VBox 7.2.0 Beta 1 redesigned its UI with vertical menu options in left, allowing to navigate between Machines, Extensions, Media, Network, Cloud, Resources, as well as Home to get started. It also added support running Windows 11 ARM as guest, and updated Windows installer with Arm virtualization support built-in. VirtualBox 7.2.0 B…London, England · London Read Article

Install & Setup aMule to Download ED2K in Ubuntu 24.04

Got ED2K download link, but don’t know how to open it? Try aMule, eMule based app that works in most Linux Distributions. ED2K (aka eDonkey2000) is a peer to peer file sharing network. The original project has discontinued, but the popular open-source fork eMule is still alive. As eMule is Windows only app, aMule forked it with multi-platform (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, MacOS X and X-Box) support. Option 1: Install aMule for general use I…Linux Read Article

KDE Plasma 6.4 Ships with Major Usability Improvements

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

: The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS UnixLinux See the Story

NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.14 Fixed 575 Driver Support (Ubuntu PPA)

For NVIDIA users who want to enable hardware acceleration for Firefox video playback, NVIDIA VA-API driver released v0.0.14 few days ago with improved compatibility and various fixes. As you may know, Firefox in Linux does NOT support NVDEC (NVIDIA Video Decoder) to accelerate video decoding. As a workaround, user may use the free open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver as VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend. The driver requires NVIDIA de…Nvidia · London Read Article

Warehouse 2.1.0 Added Context Menu Option to Open Local Flatpak Files

Warehouse, the popular Flatpak app management software, released new 2.1.0 version today! Warehouse is a free open-source application that provides a simple user interface to manage all installed Flatpak apps. With it, you may view app info, change app version (upgrade/downgrade), manage user data and left overs. The app also supports installing / uninstalling Flatpak apps and remote repositories. Previously, user needs to launch Warehouse, navi…Read Article

Ubuntu Linux 25.10 Quietly Kills Off GNOME On Xorg As Wayland Takes Over

BrianFagioli writes: Ubuntu 25.10, known as Questing Quokka, is taking a big turn under the hood. Canonical has dropped support for the GNOME desktop running on Xorg. Starting with this release, the default Ubuntu session now uses Wayland only. Yes, folks, there's no longer an option to log into GNO...Linux See the Story

Make GIMP 3.0.x Flatpak Follow System Color Scheme (Light or Dark)

As you may know, GIMP provides official Linux packages through Flatpak and AppImage. The Flatpak package however does NOT automatically switch app color to light or dark depends on system color scheme. That’s because Flatpak is running in sandbox environment. The sandbox isolation enhances security and makes easy to distribute newer software releases without worrying about dependency issue. However, it has limited access to host resources causin…Linux · London Read Article

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