Dropbox confirmed recently that it will drop support for several Linux filesystems; its client will refuse to sync if an unsupported filesystem is encountered. dropbox-filesystem-fix fixes the filesystem detection in the Linux client to re…

This article explains how to embed Google Calendar on your Linux desktop background. It also includes some customization hints.Conky and gcalcli are used to display your Google Calendar events on top of your desktop wallpaper: Conky is a t…

Birdtray is a system tray new mail notification for Thunderbird 60+ which does not require extensions. Check out the article on Linux Uprising for how to install it on Ubuntu or Linux Mint. FeaturesShows the unread email counter in the Thu…

While mouse acceleration may be beneficial in some situations, it can hurt your aim in FPS games. That's because your mouse moves not only based on your hand movement, but on speed as well, making it impossible to achieve any consistent be…

EncryptPad is an application for viewing and editing symmetrically encrypted text. Using a simple and convenient graphical and command line interface, EncryptPad provides a tool for encrypting and decrypting binary files on disk while offe…

Resolve, when launched in 2004, was a next-generation color grading system and the first system to use multiple parallel processing engines within normal PC computer infrastructure for real time 2K resolution color grading. Powered at laun…

Some applications and games built with OpenGL support and packaged as Flatpak fail to start with proprietary Nvidia drivers. This article explains how to get such Flatpak applications or games them to start, without installing the open sou…

You may also read our other Ubuntu Linux blog on Wordpress. It includes short solutions to your Linux / Ubuntu issues, tips and tweaks to make your desktop perfect. The Ubuntu / Linux blog is mostly focused on Gnome, but you'll also find s…

www.linuxuprising.com Timekpr Revived is an easy to use parental control application for Linux. While the software uses Gtk, it supports KDE too, along with Gnome of course, as well as Xfce and MATE desktops. Using Timekpr Revived, you can…

Rufus is a live USB media creation tool. The application runs on Windows and it can be used to make a bootable installation USB drives from Windows or Linux ISO files as well as disk images. Rufus 3.0 was released recently and it includes …

Linux Uprising has a new Mastodon social profile. Mastodon is a social media platform for microblogging, similar to Twitter, but running on a free and open source platform. The aim is to bring the latest Linux (with a bit of focus on Ubunt…

While it uses a very basic interface and you won't find many advanced options, this Gnome (uses Gtk+ and Python) Chromecast player takes care of most things you'd need. Besides being able to play / pause, control the volume or seek, Gnomec…

As a continuation of our previous article about making Gnome Shell more like Unity by using the Unite extension, this article includes instructions for adding a global menu and a searchable menu HUD in Gnome Shell, by using the Gnome Globa…

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS does not include an option in the installer to encrypt the home directory. This option was removed from the Ubuntu installer because it uses eCryptfs, which is considered "buggy, under-maintained", and the recommended alte…

Oracle Java Development Kit 10 includes new features like: an experimental just-in-time compiler called Graal can be used on the Linux/x64 platform local-variable type inference. application class-data sharing, which allows app classes to …

Canonical has officially announced the release of Ubuntu 18.04, codenamed Bionic Beaver. This is a LTS (Long-Term Support) release that will be supported for 5 years, until April 2023. Ubuntu 18.04 is the first LTS release to use Gnome She…