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Tag: GNOME
GNOME Bluetooth – GNOME’s Bluetooth tool
GNOME Bluetooth is a fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment.
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GNOME Calendar – simple and attractive calendar
GNOME Calendar is a simple and beautiful calendar application designed to perfectly fit the GNOME desktop.
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Excellent Utilities: Extension Manager – Browse, Install and Manage GNOME Shell Extensions
Extensions Manager is a small utility that lets browse and install GNOME extensions without using a web browser.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Extend your Desktop – Part 22
We look at a couple of ways you can extend your GNOME desktop. We first cover extensions before moving on to exploring themes.
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36 Excellent GNOME Desktop Extensions (Updated 2022)
Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 36 excellent GNOME extensions.
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Clapper – GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit
Clapper is a GNOME media player. It’s built using GJS with the GTK4 toolkit so you’ll see some of the new GTK4 features in action.
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Komikku – manga reader for GNOME
Komikku is a GTK-based manga reader for GNOME. The application is is written in Python. Komikku is free and open source software.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Navigating the Desktop – Part 6
This article guides you around the desktop in Ubuntu. It’s part of our Linux for Starters series teaching you all the basics.
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GabTag – audio tagging tool
GabTag is an audio tagging tool written in GTK 3, which makes it friendly for GTK based desktop users. GabTag is free and open source.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Vala
Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn Vala.
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3 Free Books to Learn Vala
Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Here’s our recommended books to learn Vala.
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Regolith – modern desktop environment built on Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3
Looking for a new desktop environment that places emphasis on the keyboard input device over the mouse? Check out Regolith in this review.
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24 Excellent GNOME Extensions (Updated)
Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there’s only open source goodness on offer.
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peek – animated GIF screen recorder
Peek is designed to make short screencasts. It’s not a general purpose screencast application like OBS Studio.
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GNOME Podcasts – podcast client for the GNOME desktop
Podcasts are shows, similar to radio or TV shows, that are produced by professionals or amateurs and made available on the internet to stream and/or download. They are a popular source of entertainment. There’s lots of great podcasts that are Linux-centric, which I surveyed in this review.
Read moreMenuLibre 2.1.5 Released
A FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor for desktop environments implementing the Desktop Entry Specification. Some desktops are improperly configured and do not export the expected variables, and patches are included to infer the running environment in other ways. Some older desktops, such as IceWM, do not implement this specification and handle their menus in other ways.
Read moreEpiphany Technology Preview
The Epiphany Technology Preview is a nightly build of Epiphany, on top of the latest development release of WebKitGTK+, running on the GNOME master Flatpak runtime. The target audience is anyone who wants to assist with Epiphany development by testing the latest code and reporting bugs.
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Pioneers – game based on “The Settlers of Catan”
Pioneers is a GNOME computer implementation of the Settlers of Catan board game. It can be played over the internet.
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Figaro’s Password Manager – securely store your passwords.
Figaro’s Password Manager (FPM) is a GNOME application that allows you to securely store your passwords
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