Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will go back to using GNOME as the default desktop environment, instead of Unity. In what comes as a big surprise for many, Mark Shuttleworh, the founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, explains on the Ubuntu Insights website that Canonical is ending their “investment …
It looks like Dropbox isn’t the only AppIndicator that doesn’t work in Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus (under Unity) due to the change of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP from “Unity” to “Unity:Unity7”. Update (thanks Martin): the Dropbox AppIndicator no longer has this issue. Electron applications (such as the new Skype …
Update: this issue was fixed (thanks Martin), although you may still encounter it in other applications. The Dropbox indicator is broken in Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus (currently in beta): the menu doesn’t work and Dropbox uses a different icon, probably because it tries to use the …
Tesseract OCR: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 16.04 Tesseract is one of the most powerful open source OCR engine available today. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This is the process of extracting texts from images. For example, consider the following image which has some text …
How to Install Invoice Ninja on Ubuntu 16.04 Invoice Ninja is a web-based open source software for invoicing, payments, time tracking and much more. You can create Invoices online in seconds, interact with payments gateways like Stripe, PayPal, WePay, and others. Invoice Ninja can show you …
How to Install MySQL 5.7 on Linux CentOS and Ubuntu MySQL is an open source relational database management system developed by Oracle corporation. The source code is released under GNU General Public License, and for proprietary, there is a paid edition that offers additional functions. MySQL …
Cinnamon desktop environment has reached the new massive 3.4 release a few days ago. Though there’s no official announcement published on Linux Mint blog at the moment of writing, you can now install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA. Cinnamon 3.4.0 brings over 160 …
Want to change the boring default Ubuntu desktop themes? Well, there’s a script allows to easily install a list of the latest version of nice GTK themes. It supports GTK 3.18 to 3.24, and will install the correct version according to your system. So far, support …
Calibre 2.84 released. Here’s how to install Calibre on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Learn how to install or update Calibre, via Ubuntu PPA. Calibre 2.84 brings various new features. It can now use the same regular expression engine as is used by the Edit Book tool. The …
Looking for the best to-do list for Linux Ubuntu? Install go for it, a modern to-do list with a timer, for Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives. Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a …
