Battery Monitor app for Ubuntu now lets you create custom alerts 

The tool is designed for those who want to see notification alerts about battery status besides “battery low” and “battery critically low”. When running, Battery Monitor is able to show desktop alerts for different battery status events, including ‘now charging’ and ‘battery not charing’ (like macOS does). In v0.5 the app also introduces a new settings window to let you create and tailor custom battery notifications at your […]

Transparent system panel in Linux Mint 18.x Cinnamon

By default in Linux Mint 18.x Cinnamon theme in the desktop system panel is black and opaque. In the settings panel there is no option or setting the transparency panel. Edit the file default theme’s cinnamon.css with administrator’s rights: Terminal Shekin@mylinuxmintpc~$ sudo xed /usr/share/themes/Linux Mint/cinnamon/cinnamon.css When you open the text editor with the file cinnamon.css, […]

VidCutter 3.0 Released with New Features, MPV Backend

VidCutter, the open-source video trimmer app we mentioned back in January, is back with a new release — and it’s a big one. The cross-platform Qt5 app lets you quickly and easily trim, split and join video clips without needing to re-encode. VidCutter 3.0 sees a complete rewrite of the multimedia backend, which now uses libmpv for viewing […]