9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 29th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 140 ESR, KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15, GIMP 3.2, PipeWire 1.4.6, GStreamer 1.26.3, qBittorrent 5.1.1, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195, and more. The post 9to5Linux ...
Rename Audio Devices on Ubuntu with this ‘Simple’ App
If you regularly switch between different sound sources on Ubuntu—which you can do from the Quick Settings menu—you’re probably used to seeing a list of audio devices with generic names that skew more technical than intelligible. E.g., Intel HDA ...
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Extension
GNOME Shell extensions make it easy to reshape the standard desktop layout in novel new ways, with add-ons like Dash to Panel, OpenBar, and Task Up provide options to combine, configure and customise the top panel. Now, another choice has drifted on to...
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell Extension
GNOME Shell extensions make it easy to reshape the standard desktop layout in novel new ways, with add-ons like Dash to Panel, OpenBar, and Task Up provide options to combine, configure and customise the top panel. Now, another choice has drifted on to...
A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Provides One
A new GNOME Shell extension that turns the top bar into a compact, movable widget, so you can customise your Ubuntu desktop minimalism in mind. You're reading A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Provides One, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Gives You One
A new GNOME Shell extension that turns the top bar into a compact, movable widget, so you can customise your Ubuntu desktop minimalism in mind. You're reading A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Gives You One, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not ...
RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer
The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 ...
"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver
An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver ...
