Since we can’t add annotations to YouTube videos anymore, I added a more resilient method of using overrides to theme Flatpak apps in a pinned comment under yesterday’s video (using the gtk3 and gtk4 config folders instead of the .themes and the GTK_THEME variable).

Since there are a bunch of misconceptions around Flatpak, I decided to make a guide to dispel these, and explain how to do a few things, like theming all applications, using the command line interface to manage them, installing them from your web browser, and more: #flatpak #linux #opensource

Holly crap, I don’t know who I have to thank for the very, very generous donation on Liberapay (they’re all anonymous), but that’s… amazing! If this person is on Mastodon and they’re reading this: you are amazing! Thank you so much!

Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video! In this one, we have #ChromeOS finally graduating to a "real" Linux distro status, we have #Mint giving details about the next release, and discussing their choice of #Ubuntu as a base, and we have #GNOME planning some changes to the Activities button (that I sort of like, but it's not perfect). Let's take a look!

Pretty cool updates to elementary OS this month!

New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements

Updates for July, 2023

One GNOME extension I forgot to add to the list of stuff I now use is “Rounded Window corners”. It rounds every bottom corner of every window, so even older GTK3 apps, and non GNOME apps look a bit more in line with libadwaita apps. Also, I added the GNOME thunderbird theme, and it makes a huge difference in how Thunderbird integrates visually with the rest of the desktop. Of course, it might break with every update, so we’ll see.

GitHub

GitHub - rafaelmardojai/thunderbird-gnome-theme: A GNOME👣 theme for Thunderbird📨

A GNOME👣 theme for Thunderbird📨. Contribute to rafaelmardojai/thunderbird-gnome-theme development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been playing around with Remote Desktop on various computers, and I thought a quick little how-to could be useful, so I made a video about it. I cover remoting into a Linux PC, and Windows & macOS as well, plus one way to remote into a VM, and an extra solution for #Linux users to get better results than basic VNC. Maybe it will be helpful:

If you’re using social networks to find news about the things you’re interested in (yes, that includes Mastodon), it’s time to stop and use something that was actually made for that: RSS! So I made a quick video about this old tech, and how it’s still the absolute best way of curating what you read, watch, receive, or listen to: