In Ubuntu you can restart the GNOME Shell or the GUI with using below methods. There are several different methods available in Ubuntu to restart the Gnome shell. You can do it with and without closing or shutting down all other application. It will help to recover Gnome Desktop freezes or apply the changes in system settings.
Swifty is a free and open source password manager for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Using Swifty you can store Login, password, Credit card Information, Secure sensitive notes to your local system. If you want to sync the locally stored data, then you can sync it with Google Drive. It also comes with password generation and time-based one time passwords support. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and build on web technologies.
Halo is a free and open source weather app for Linux, Windows and macOS. It is released under MIT License and written in python. It is a simple clean and beautiful weather app for your desktop. It shows forecast and historic temperature trends. You can change the temperature unit in metric, scientific and Fahrenheit and also change app background image. Initially it identify your location based on your IP but you can also change the location manually via the apps setting page.
Chafa is a free and open source command-line image to text converter software for Linux and MacOS. It is released under LGPL-3.0 License. Using chafa you can convert any images and including animated GIFs. It also support Unicode symbols for the better output. It also supports full width character like Japanese and Korean, color modes like Truecolor, 256-color, 16-color and simple FG/BG, RGB and DIN99d color spaces, alpha transparency support, SIMD optimized and multithreaded.
You can load Glyphs from any font file supported by Freetype like TTF, OTF, PCF, etc. It currently supports modern and classic terminals and terminal emulators. For the chafa installation please follow the below steps.
Apostrophe is a free and open source Markdown editor for Linux. It is a distraction free GTK+based with minimal and clean UI Markdown editor. It comes with the inline preview feature. This feature will format the markdown commands automatically and export to a good locking document. Some other important features are popover preview for images, links, footnotes and equations and export your markdown document to PDF, ODT, Word and HTML file format. It also comes in light and dark mode, focus mode, hemingway mode, spellchecking, document stats and more than 18 languages support.
Gaia Sky is a free and open source 3D astronomy visualization application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Using Gaia sky you can explore our Solar System and cosmos. It also comes with VR (Virtual Reality) and command-line support. Some other features are elevation maps support, 6 stereoscopic modes, 360 mode, real-time usage in multi-projector systems and you can Record and play your camera paths.
OpenBoard is a free and open source teaching software for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can use this as interactive whiteboards or in a dual-screen setup with a pen-tablet display and a beamer. It is based on Open-Sankoré and released under the GPLv3 License. You can also use mouse to write and annotate.
HydraPaper is a free and open source wallpaper manager for Linux. It officially supports GNOME 3, MATE, Cinnamon and Budgie desktop environments and experimental sway window manager and Wayland support. Using HydraPaper you can set different wallpaper for each monitor in a multi monitor setup. It is written in Python 3 and GTK and released under the GPL3 license.
Here you can set wallpaper as favorites, manage all wallpaper collection with folders and also set wallpapers as zoomed, centered, or fitted, with either a black background or a blurred version. Some other useful features are set random wallpapers and app launcher support to access HydraPaper.
Viper Browser is a free and open source lightweight privacy focused web browser for Linux. It is based on Qt framework and released under GPLv3 license. It is a new project and still in active development. It comes with buil-in ad blocking with easylist, easy privacy, uBlock filters and AdBlock Plus filters. And you can also add any custom filters. You can set startpage, searx, Google and duckduckgo search engines as default.
Some other features are auto fill manager, tab hibernation and wake up, embedded PDF.js support, UserScript support, custom user agent support, pepper plugin API support, bookmark management, cookie viewer and editor and cookie filters support.
Filmulator is a free and open source raw image and photo editor for Linux and Windows. It comes with library management for your camera images. It is a simple and easy to but powerful raw editor. It simulates the development of film as if exposed to the same light as the camera’s sensor. It is released under GNU General Public License. To know more about Filmulator just click here.
