Printing documents is a primary need to many of LibreOffice users. This article discusses how to do printings from LibreOffice Writer by an example of an A5 page document. We use a Canon MP160--our old but recommended multifunction printer--, on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" to practice this. We hope this helps everyone who uses Ubuntu for all of their computing life especially printings. Now let's start reading and go printing!
Mozilla Thunderbird is the default email client application on Ubuntu. This powerful application has many features other than email management, and among them is, an RSS feed reader. That means an Ubuntu user can subscribe to any website and blog on the internet and the news will be ready to read every time he or she goes online. Isn't that amazing? Now we will explain it in a step-by-step manner as usual below based on our OS version 24.04 "Noble Numbat." Happy reading!
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Mozilla Thunderbird is the preinstalled email client application on Ubuntu. Using this application, an Ubuntu user can read emails coming into his or her mail inbox. We will explain it in a step-by-step manner as usual based on our OS version 24.04 "Noble Numbat". Now let's learn and start the exercise!
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Document Viewer or Evince is the default PDF reader application on Ubuntu. It originates from GNOME and its real name is evince. As its name suggests, Document Viewer's purpose is to display various digital documents and electronic books, like PDF and other formats. It has many features: simple, easy to use, presentation mode, and a lot more. We will explain in detail what is and how to use it on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" in the rest of this article. Now, let's start reading!
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Disks, or GNOME Disk Utility, is the Ubuntu default disk storage management application. Its purpose is to manage everything about hard disk drives and other storage on your Ubuntu computer -- including optical discs (CDs, DVDs) and USB flash drives. That means you can alter the filesystem inside that disk (create, remove, resize, and rename it), format the disk (to MBR or GPT), make a backup, as well as write an ISO image to that disk, and do other useful things such as benchmarks and more configurations.
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This is the third compilation of our Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat tutorials, which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024. In the last compilation, we talked about useful things like Telegram and Synaptic, among others. In this episode, we will remind you The List of Ubuntu Default Apps, Adjusting Cursor Size, as well as Thunderbird Setup, each with a brief description. We hope this compilation series will be useful to you and everyone. This marks our last article of that year in June. Please enjoy!
(Ubuntu showing the content of an email)
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Do you want to contribute to the community as an Ubuntu user? One of the simplest methods is by reporting a bug that occurs on your Ubuntu system if any. That way, the developers along with community can address and fix the issue to later they publish the fix as updates to the users. That's the origin of our daily software updates! We will explain it by examples and screenshots we hope you and everyone can follow easily. Now, let's read and try it!
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Transmission is a download and upload manager application or technically called a BitTorrent client preinstalled on Ubuntu. It is one among a few Ubuntu default applications with a longest history and never had been replaced with any other along with Firefox and LibreOffice. In this tutorial, we will learn about using Transmission to download a torrent file from the internet by practices and examples. Now let's get going!
(Transmission running and showing a progress of downloading a torrent, other finished downloads and its program identity on the second window)
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This is the second compilation of our Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat tutorials which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024. In last compilation, we talked about downloading Ubuntu up to selecting our repository server among others. In this episode, we will remind you about CHM ebooks, AppImages, Telegram Desktop as well as the classic but powerful Synaptic Package Manager with a short review for each. We hope this compilation series will be useful to you and everyone. This marks our last article of that year in the month May. Please enjoy!
(Telegram Desktop running peacefully showing KDE Channel on Ubuntu Noble)
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Characters or GNOME Characters (not to be confused with Gucharmap) is Ubuntu default special character picker application. Speaking about its daily uses, you can use it to insert an emoji to your group chat text, or your national flag to your document just to note a few examples. Speaking about its technical aspects, it is written in C and GTK, developed in public by the GNOME community. And now we will learn more about it and a little bit about how to use it in real life. Let's start reading and enjoy!
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Do you want to upgrade Ubuntu Noble Numbat from 24.04 to 24.04.1 or later? If so, then that means you are looking for how to upgrade Ubuntu system to a point release. The term "Point Release" to Ubuntu users is more or less similar to "Service Pack" known to Microsoft Windows users which is a whole system upgrade (bug fixes and improvements) within current release major version. That means, in this concept, to us Ubuntu 24.04.3 (Point Three) is more or less similar to Windows XP SP3. This tutorial will explain the procedures with an example of upgrading Ubuntu Noble from fresh install to Point Three.
Find and Replace for Text Editing (or simply Find and Replace) is a Firefox addon to do what its name says by Blake Altice (originally written by Dalimil Hajek). It has capabilities to find text based on regular expression (regex) as well as simple plain text. It also has other features such as Favorites, History, Templates and Help coming as a full package. Now we want to explore it with examples we found to do simple text replacements. Enjoy!
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Tux Typing (or tuxtype) is free software education game designed for kids to learn keyboard typing and English vocabularies by playing. As part of The Tux4Kids Project, Tux Typing is a sibling to Tux Math, a similar education game but for studying mathematics. All in all, let's start enjoying it!
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Since last year, we have written many articles about Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" (click to view them all). Now, we planned to make a compilation of those in a periodical way i.e. tri-monthly like this. We hope this helps you to learn using Ubuntu for your daily computing better. We will start from downloads, install guide and a few important basics as you may see below. Now, here we go.
(A screenshot from the Apps Installation Guide tutorial in this series)
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Camera (GNOME Camera) is the default Ubuntu application for taking photos as well as recording videos. In other words, it is the application used to access webcam device in laptop or PC. It is useful i.e. in live streaming and video conferencing (for school teachers, office workers, your family) beside taking simple pictures. We will learn more about it here with a little bit howtos and beneficial references. We remind you that this episode is the continuation in this series after Calendar and before the next one Characters. Now, please enjoy reading!
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After successfully creating a sample LaTeX document in the previous tutorial, now we will try to understand the document structure in LaTeX with our Gummi Editor. We will learn, with pictures and examples, about sections (or similar to "headings" according to LibreOffice Writer) and basically how a document is organized. Now let's start our exercise!
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Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let's start reading about Calendar below.
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This tutorial will help you install Canon MP160 printer + scanner on Ubuntu LTS "Noble Numbat" 24.04. We will use the free software driver called printer-driver-gutenprint to do so. We will be able to print, scan as well as photocopy on Ubuntu by using this all-in-one Free Software-friendly machine. Now let's start the stuff and quickly use the printer!
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This tutorial will help you install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04. VLC (Video LAN Client) is the most famous audio and movie player everybody who uses computer and phone knows and it is a free software licensed under GNU GPL. Its logo is the orange cone you often find at road constructions. And we will begin to use it on Ubuntu like the following. Now happy reading!
This tutorial will help you creating desktop shortcuts with icons on GNOME desktop environment in general and Ubuntu 24.04 computer system in particular. We divide this tutorial into three sections, first is to create basic shortcut on desktop, second is to create a custom shortcut for a custom program or command line or shell script and third is to edit existing applications menu to suit your needs. This works for other systems as well for example Debian, Fedora and Guix. Now, let us start practicing!
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