Changing desktop wallpapers might be as simple as just downloading a High Resolution image off various websites and then Right click → Set As Wallpaper. However, there is also an application which you might not know you needed, but you will definitely enjoy it upon discovery. ColorWall is an open source Wallpaper store, manager, and …
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Drawing is an open-source and simple image editing application which is part of the GNOME circle ecosystem. While it may not be as comprehensive as GIMP, it’s perfect for cropping images, applying basic filters, and adding text. It attempts to be an alternative to the Microsoft paint application in the Windows, but mostly for the …
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Flatpak applications are sandboxed by default, and they do not have access to any other resources which it does not need to use. By default, even all the Flatpak applications do not have the permission to access your system theme if you have customized them (because themes are stored in ~/.themes directory), so they often …
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Wikipedia is a vast source of information for everyone. And it is mostly used directly from the web browser, on both desktops and Mobile devices. However, you can also browse and search from the Wikipedia Terminal application, which we had covered a while ago. But, as we all know that beginners, and a large amount …
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YouTube Music is used by a large number of people for ad-free Music playback. On Linux based distributions, you will have to use your Web browser in order to listen to Music from YouTube, and even then, YouTube Music will play the video of the current playing song unnecessarily. On Linux, there are multiple methods …
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G4Music is a beautiful, fast, fluent and lightweight music player written in the GTK4 framework. It has a lot of features despite being extremely lightweight, and looks absolutely stunning with the blurred background on your desktop and if you use the GNOME desktop environment, then it integrates smoothly with your desktop theming. G4Music is not …
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GNOME desktop environment is becoming less customizable with each update. Even after the release of GTK-4, this move has been controversial among many users, as it is quite restrictive when you want to apply a custom theming to your desktop. One such move was that if you pin an app to the dock at the …
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Rare is an open source lightweight frontend for the ‘Legendary’ command line launcher for the Epic Games Store. It can be seen as an alternative for Heroic Games launcher and/or Lutris, which are widely used to install and run games from EGS. Rare is cross-platform, and is available to install on Windows, macOS and Linux …
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Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source tool designed to optimize your gaming experience by allowing you to install and play games from your GOG and Epic Games Store Library. It is cross-platform and is available on Windows as well as macOS along with Linux. It uses the command line based Legendary launcher in the background …
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There are many game launchers available for the Linux Desktop right now, including Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles etc. all with a different set of features. Lutris attempts to unify the GOG, Itch, Steam and Epic games and on the other hand Heroic unifies GOG and Epic Games at one place. Bottles is mostly used to …