January 2023 - Linux Uprising Blog
Your Linux and open source toolbox. Blog for Linux / Ubuntu / Open Source news, application reviews, tips and tricks.| Linux Uprising Blog
Your Linux and open source toolbox. Blog for Linux / Ubuntu / Open Source news, application reviews, tips and tricks.| Linux Uprising Blog
Guake 3.10 has been released with the ability to choose which search engine to use with its “Search on Web” feature, a new pin button to temporarily prevent hiding, and more.| Linux Uprising Blog
NormCap is a free and open source screen capture tool for text. Instead of capturing an image of the screen, this application captures the text displayed on the screen using OCR, and copies it to the clipboard. It's available for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.| Linux Uprising Blog
After upgrading from Ubuntu 22.10 to 23.04, pipx broke on my laptop and fixing it was not exactly straight-forward, so I thought I'd write here about this, in case there are others running into this issue. While I ran into this issue on Ubuntu, this isn't Ubuntu-specific, and it can happen on other Linux distributions as well.| Linux Uprising Blog
Upscayl AI image upscaler has a new release, currently just for Linux, which adds some important new features and changes, like the ability to import your own models, a new settings tab, experimental scale option, and more.| Linux Uprising Blog
GPU Screen Recorder has been updated recently with AMD/Intel GPU support; previously it only worked on systems using an Nvidia graphics card.| Linux Uprising Blog
Hanabi is a GNOME Shell extension that allows using a live wallpaper (video) on the GNOME desktop, with support for both X11 and Wayland.| Linux Uprising Blog
Reminders is a simple, GTK to-do list application for Linux. The application was recently updated with support for syncing with Microsoft To Do (beta), the ability to create and edit task lists, and more.| Linux Uprising Blog
Birdtray is a system tray icon for Thunderbird, which shows the unread email count, with some extra features. | Linux Uprising Blog
After its usual 6-month release cycle, GNOME 44 will be released today. Read on to find out the new features and improvements in this release.| Linux Uprising Blog
vtm is a text-based desktop environment that runs inside a terminal, available for Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and *BSD.| Linux Uprising Blog
The next Debian/Ubuntu releases will likely no longer allow pip install outside a virtual environment or separate Pythoninstallsbecause of conflicts between pip and the OS package manager. It can still be forced, but that's strongly not recommended.| Linux Uprising Blog
penguins-eggs is a command line tool to turn your current Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux or Manjaro system to a redistributable live ISO image. Debian / Ubuntu flavors are also supported (so you can also use this for Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.), as well as Linux distributions based on these, like Devuan, Linux Mint and elementary OS.| Linux Uprising Blog
scrcpy, a tool to display control Android devices from the desktop, has been updated to version 2.0, receiving a major new feature: audio forwarding. But that's not all – this release also adds H265 and AV1 video codec support, along with other changes.| Linux Uprising Blog
Steamback is a Steam Deck plugin and desktop application which adds versioned save-game snapshots to Steam Cloud-enabled games.| Linux Uprising Blog
LocalSend is a free and open source, cross-platform alternative to AirDrop for sending files securely over the local network. The Flutter app runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android / Android TV, iOS, and Fire TV / OS.| Linux Uprising Blog
Pano, a next-gen clipboard manager for GNOME Shell, has been updated with some major improvements such as user interface customization options, the ability to favorite items, content-aware notifications, as well as support for GNOME Shell 44.| Linux Uprising Blog
Peek, or pypeek, is a tool to record your screen / a part of the screen as an animated GIF or MP4, take screenshots, and annotate the GIF / MP4 / screenshot by drawing and adding arrows, shapes, lines, or text. It's available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.| Linux Uprising Blog
yewtube is a command-line tool to search, browse, and play YouTube videos directly from your terminal, for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. It uses no API keys, and it can play audio only or audio/video using a third-party media player like VLC, mpv or mplayer, with lots of features on top.| Linux Uprising Blog
Valent is a new KDE Connect protocol implementation built on GNOME platform libraries. Compared to GSConnect, which is implemented as a GNOME Shell extension, Valent doesn't need GNOME Shell to run (it's a standalone app), so it can be used on any GTK-based desktop environment like Xfce, Budgie, Cinnamon, Pantheon, MATE, etc. Both GSConnect and Valent are developed by Andy Holmes.| Linux Uprising Blog
gnome-extensions-cli is an unofficial GNOME Shell extension manager for the command line. It can install, update, enable / disable, remove and search GNOME Shell extensions.| Linux Uprising Blog
I was looking for a way to easily translate selected text that works under GNOME with Wayland, and find out that Crow Translate provides just this, but with some tweaking.| Linux Uprising Blog
After almost 3 years since the previous release, Transmission BitTorrent client 4.0 has been released today. This major new release includes changes like code migration from C90 to C++, GTK 4 support, rewritten web client, support for BitTorrent v2 and hybrid torrents, performance improvements, and more.| Linux Uprising Blog
Users wanting to add desktop icons on their elementary OS 7 Horus desktop can do it using the Desktop Folder tool. This should also work with other X11 desktop environments, but it's especially designed for elementary OS.| Linux Uprising Blog
Shell Genie is a new command line tool that can be used to ask in plain English how to perform various tasks, and it gives you the shell command you need. To generate the commands, it uses OpenAI's GPT-3 or Free Genie, a free to use backend provided by the Shell Genie developer.| Linux Uprising Blog
PyRadio, a command line radio player for Linux, Windows and macOS, has been updated to version 0.9.0 (stable) a couple of days ago, receiving new feat| Linux Uprising Blog
Your Linux and open source toolbox. Blog for Linux / Ubuntu / Open Source news, application reviews, tips and tricks.| Linux Uprising Blog
If you want to automatically mount USB drives on a server running Debian or Ubuntu (including Raspbian or Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi) you can use a simple, but very effective tool called USBmount.| Linux Uprising Blog
