Ubuntu Buzz !: September 2017 : Unofficial Ubuntu Blog

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 21:28

Setup C++ Programming Tools on Ubuntu for Beginners

This tutorial guides you to setup a C++ compiler and a text editor to start C++ programming on Ubuntu. The compiler is GNU g++ and the editor is Geany. With this tutorial, you can easily type C++ source codes from your lecturers or books, then compile and run them by clicks. This tutorial is intended for you beginners in programming especially if you're new Ubuntu users. Happy programming!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, September 29, 2017 at 23:47

Get Plasma 5.11 Beta on Kubuntu from PPA

If you're a Kubuntu 17.10 user and want to test Plasma 5.11 beta including the new Plasma Vault, use Kubuntu Beta Backports PPA. This PPA is provided by Kubuntu Package Archives Team and the packages uploaded by Rik Mils. And yes, don't worry, the version number 5.10.95 is 5.11 beta. This information is first published by Kubuntu Team and is related to KDE Plasma 5.11 release at 14 September 2017 by KDE Team. Big thanks for them all especially Rik Mils! Happy testing!

Ade Malsasa Akbar at 15:06

Encrypt Folder on KDE Plasma 5.11

At KDE Plasma, you can easily lock folders and files with password. This is a newly introduced feature named Plasma Vault. It is available since Plasma 5.11 beta by Ivan Čukić. This means soon Kubuntu will have this feature as well. If want to know how to use it, here's the simple guide. My thanks for Ivan, this Plasma Vault is awesome and my long-awaited feature of all GNU/Linux desktop!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 23:37

Setup C Programming Tools on Ubuntu for Beginners

This short tutorial introduces you how to install a C compiler plus a text editor to do C programming on Ubuntu. The compiler is GNU gcc and the editor is Geany. Don't worry, this tutorial is intended for beginners and easy to follow. I will show you how to compile a .c source code file until executing it using Geany. Happy learning!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 22:11

The New HUD on Artful MATE Beta

The Heads-Up Display (or, HUD) is now a star feature on Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Beta. It got improved a lot on Beta and it's amusing! On Alpha version, the HUD appears after some taps on Super+Alt buttons, and this would be difficult for many Unity users. But now on Beta version, the HUD appears by single tap on Alt button, making it easier for us and closer to Unity's HUD. The big change is the HUD is now placed locally on every window! See the GIF animation and pictures below.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, September 25, 2017 at 23:03

Quick Look at KDE Plasma 5.11

KDE released Plasma 5.11 beta version at 14 September 2017. The new star feature here is Plasma Vault, an ability to protect your folder with password. You can try it on the latest KDE neon before the Plasma finally released next October. Here is a quick look to the new things on KDE Plasma on neon dev-unstable.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, September 22, 2017 at 22:42

Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Preview Part 6: The New Tweaks

Artful will have a new GNOME Tweak Tool, version 3.26, which is called Tweaks now. This tool provides you capability to alter your desktop, such as moving control buttons from left to right, adjusting options, or disabling/enabling Shell extensions. Take a look to its new stuffs below.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 21:23

Kubuntu: Writing Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana) Easily

On Kubuntu system, we can write Japanese easily using Fcitx-Mozc tool! This awesome tool eases you with word-suggestions popup on-the-fly, with ability to switch between Kanji-Hiragana-Katakana-ASCII as simple as one click. It's very well integrated to the whole screens inside KDE Plasma desktop, enables you to write Japanese in Firefox browser, LibreOffice, Kate text editor, and even Konsole terminal.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, September 18, 2017 at 08:06

GNOME 3.26 is Available on Ubuntu Artful!

The latest GNOME 3.26 just released at September 13th and at 16th it's available on Artful! Thanks for all Ubuntu Developers Team for providing this! If you're using Artful Pre-release now (planned to be Final release at October 2017), you can have it by doing apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade . Here's a simple summary.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 22:45

Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Preview Part 5: New System Settings!

Now, Ubuntu Artful gets a new System Settings with a fully-new interface from GNOME 3.25. It's officially renamed to Settings and it got big changes. It's very amusing to read Georges Staracas' article (the developer of Settings) especially the fact that more than 30.000 lines of code changed since v3.20 by 15 contributors! This means when finally released, Ubuntu 17.10 will include Settings by default. Now let us see the quick look at Artful here. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, September 11, 2017 at 23:10

Intro to Latte Dock, New Decoration for Kubuntu

Latte is a new MacOS-like dock desktop decoration for KDE Plasma. It's first released in 14 January 2017 as v0.5.90. It's now installable for Kubuntu from PPA (and other distros via specific channels). If you're a Kubuntu user and waiting for a decent dock, or if you missed the legendary AWN dock, then Latte is for you. This article will show you some pictures (and GIF) and features of Latte. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 17:17

Quick Look at Kubuntu Artful Pre-Release

This is Kubuntu 17.10 Beta 1 "Artful Aardvark", a pre-release version available for development/testing purpose. For you regular users, you are not supposed to install Beta 1 version, unless you want to simply try it and report bugs to Kubuntu Developers. For you not installing I made this short review to see how amazing Kubuntu Artful is already!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 22:55

Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Preview Part 4: New Theme!

The latest upgrade to Artful gives me GNOME Shell 3.25.19 with beautiful interface changes! It has new theme, new look, new login screen color, more orange color style everywhere. This new look is a new step towards GNOME 3.26 planned for Artful final version. Overall, as an Ubuntu user I like this interface. Thanks to all Ubuntu developers especially Didier Roche.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, September 4, 2017 at 22:20

Twitter to RSS Feed, Subscribe using Thunderbird

With TwitRSS, you can subscribe to any Twitter account as RSS Feeds so you can read them using any RSS reader. This article shows how to do it with Thunderbird RSS Reader. TwitRSS is a web-based free software licensed under GNU GPLv2 by Charlie Harvey. To begin with, we will subscribe to @libreoffice Twitter as example. You can find more Twitter accounts of free software community below. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 21:22

Ubuntu 17.10 Beta 1 All Flavors Released

At 31 August 2017 Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Beta 1 released. This means you can download the ISO images and help test them. You can find the official announcement by Martin Wimpress (on behalf Ubuntu Release Team) at ubuntu-release mailing list. Beware, normal users should not use these Beta version because they're meant for developers & testers, unless you install them on a dedicated machine (a PC or a virtual machine).