The top panel (commonly known as Taskbar) can be greatly customized to include some cool features such as adding a “show desktop” icon which minimizes all the open windows and shows the desktop, displaying icons of running applications, and more.
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In this tutorial, you will see how to easily tweak settings to add audio output devices on to the status panel. This will let you quickly change audio output to the external device.
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Shutdown Timer is a useful GNOME extension that lets you easily schedule automatic shutdown conveniently from the system tray menu.
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Editing Grub Bootloader is risky when done manually. Here is a safe and easier graphical method of cleaning up the unwanted Grub entries. We shall use a free app “Grub Customizer”.
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It would be helpful to display the weekday, date, and time as well which can come in handy while writing emails, preparing schedules, or making a presentation. Here is a guide showing how to do that.
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Internal and external hard disks connected to the Ubuntu system should get automounted, meaning the hard disks should be accessible after the system startup without having to go to the file manager and mount it manually.
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Ubuntu GNOME applications menu has the app icons appear with diverging animation from the bottom corner of the screen to the center of the screen. Though this looks cool, I feel that it kind of feels slow and gives an …
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Hot corners can be set to each of all four corners of the screen to perform productive actions such as minimize all windows to show desktop, show apps grid, launch an application, or simply run a command too.
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OpenVPN is one of the simplest ways to connect to a VPN service, especially when your VPN service provider didn’t provide a Linux desktop client. NordVPN is no exception – they don’t have Linux client. In this guide, we will …
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No matter which VPN service you are using, if you are using OpenVPN to connect to your VPN service, chances are that your PC is already revealing your actual IP address due to improper network configuration. It’s called the DNS …
