Install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal 64bit
Acrobat Reader used to be available from Ubuntu Partner repository, but it is not available anymore in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal! So you have to download the .deb package from adobe.com and install...
View ArticleHow to add Eclipse launcher in Gnome dock
In this post I’ll show how to add an Eclipse launcher as a favorite (pinned) application in the Gnome dock (I’m using Ubuntu Artful). This post is inspired by...
View ArticleEclipse tested with a few Gnome themes
In this small blog post I’ll show how Eclipse looks like in Linux Gnome (Ubuntu 17.10) with a few Gnome themes. First of all, the default Ubuntu theme, Ambiance, makes Eclipse look not very nice… see...
View ArticleInstalling KDE on top of Ubuntu
If you like to use KDE you probably install Kubuntu directly, instead of Ubuntu, which has been based on Gnome for a long time now. However, I like to have several Desktop Environments, and, now and...
View ArticleEnabling Hibernation on Ubuntu 20.04
I have never been able to make hibernation (suspend to disk) work on my laptops (Dell M3800 and Dell XPS 13 9370) on Ubuntu with systemd. The symptom was that runningsudo systemctl hibernatewas making...
View ArticleGrub remembers the last choice
In all my computers I have dual boot, Ubuntu and Windows, though I’m using the former 99% of the time On one of my laptop I started to evaluate also Manjaro (probably a blog post will come in the near...
View ArticleProblems with Linux 5.13 in LG GRAM 16
I recently bought an LG GRAM 16 and I really enjoy that (I’ll blog about that in the near future, hopefully). I had no problems installing Linux, nor with Manjaro Gnome (Phavo) neither with Kubuntu....
View ArticleHow to install Linux on a USB drive with UEFI support using VirtualBox
That’s the third post on installing Linux on a USB drive! Remember that the idea is to have a USB drive that will work as a portable Linux operating system on any computer. In the first post, How to...
View ArticleDropbox and Gnome 42
Now that Gnome 42 has been released and available in most Linux distributions, I started experiencing problems with the Dropbox icon in the system tray. First of all, I have no problem with Ubuntu...
View ArticleUbuntu Jammy and Nvidia
I installed Ubuntu Jammy a few months ago, when it was released, on a desktop computer. It was a terrible experience: crashes now and then, and the Wayland session was not working well on some...
View ArticleAccessing your remote Ubuntu machine with VNC and ssh
If you want to access your remote Ubuntu machine with VNC, in particular by tunnelling through ssh, there is already some documentation which can be found here. However, at least for me, the procedure...
View ArticleTimeshift and grub-btrfs in Ubuntu
In this post, I’ll describe the same procedure I described in one of my previous posts but applied to Ubuntu (in particular, Ubuntu Jammy 22.04). I’m not describing an autosnap mechanism when...
View ArticleInstalling Ubuntu Linux on an Acer Aspire Vero
As I wrote in this other article, I recently bought an Acer Aspire Vero, which I greatly enjoy. Of course, I immediately installed Linux on this machine. In this article, I’ll report my experience...
View ArticleMy Ansible Role for “Oh My Zsh” and other CLI programs
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role...
View ArticleUbuntu, Oh My Zsh, Powerlevel10k and Meslo fonts
I haven’t been using Ubuntu for a while, but I wanted to give it another try. I’m using my Ansible playbook for installing ZSH, Oh My Zsh, and p10k (Powerlevel10k), so I thought everything would work...
View ArticleMy Ansible Role for GNOME
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role...
View ArticleA look at Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur
Nowadays, I mostly use Arch-based distributions (especially with EndeavourOS). So I haven’t been using Ubuntu for a while and decided to try it again now that the brand new release, 23.10 “Mantic...
View ArticleMy Ansible Role for KDE
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. I have also shown my Ansible role for GNOME....
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