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LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years

LightDM, Ubuntu's former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a 'catch up' release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works, don't worry) and clears a backlog of fixes that had built up since the previous release in 2022. There shouldn't be any breaking changes either, per the release notes. While it might sound like a sudden revival of a legacy effort, LightDM is still widely used by Linux distributions and desktops. LightDM: what is it? LightDM is a backend that handles logging [...]

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Categories: News, LightDM
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/lightdm-new-release-new-maintainers Aug 12, 2026, 07:16 PM

GNOME 51 brings a floating search overlay to the Shell

GNOME 51, due out in September, could include a redesigned search experience. Presently, when you trigger a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you were looking at, either the workspaces or app picker. But a change targeted for GNOME Shell in v51 plans to change that. Modern GNOME Shell is designed around a 'semantic' model, where elements visibly enter and exit from a specific place (with animations providing cues) so you know how one screen relates to the next. Under this model, search results would appear in an overlay that 'spawns out [...]

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Categories: News, design, GNOME 51, gnome shell, Ubuntu 26.10
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-51-search-redesign Aug 12, 2026, 02:33 AM

ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview)

OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into and control other apps via extensions, handle ChatGPT Work-related tasks and probe your local files without you having to upload things elsewhere. In an email, OpenAI said that 'Linux has been one of the most-requested platforms' for its desktop app, and with this launch it's finally available on all major operating systems. ChatGPT desktop app for Linux joins Anthropic's Claude desktop app for Linux, which entered [...]

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Categories: News, AI/ML, App Updates, ChatGPT, OpenAI
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/chatgpt-desktop-app-linux-preview Aug 11, 2026, 10:33 PM

Linux Mint will delete your old kernel versions automatically

Linux Mint has announced an overhaul in its kernel management features, and will automatically delete old kernels once a week to free up space. In current versions of the distro, kernel package tools are included in the Update Manager, but are being moved into the System Administration tool on both standard and LMDE versions. The distro will also now track kernels by series, rather than individual releases. You'll get to choose which kernel series are tracked and how many older kernels within each series the system should keep (in addition to the one you're booted on; it doesn't yank out [...]

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Categories: News, Linux Mint
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/linux-mint-deletes-old-kernels-automatically Aug 10, 2026, 06:50 PM

Linux Mint 22.3 HWE released with Linux kernel 7.0

A refreshed Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) OS installer is available for download, powered by Linux kernel 7.0. The distro made the first Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO available in March, with an installer that boots Linux 6.17 by default. That image remains available to download alongside the newest one, which boots Linux 7.0, and the original Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) ISO that boots Linux 6.14. The Linux Mint HWE images provide the same core Linux Mint 22.3 experience, still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, but it all sits on top of a refreshed hardware stack. Existing Mint users don't need [...]

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Categories: News, HWE, Linux Mint
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/linux-mint-linux-kernel-7-hwe Aug 10, 2026, 05:38 PM

Windows 11's Weather app uses ~1GB RAM, Linux apps a fraction

I was flummoxed to read a report on how much memory Microsoft's Weather app uses on Windows 11 – more than 1GB just to render what is, ostensibly, a fancy table of stats. Less surprising is that the GNOME Weather app does the same job for under a fifth of the reported Windows figure, while Mousam, my go-to weather app, uses around a third of Microsoft's effort (and with a nicer design, too). Not everyone on Windows 11 is seeing memory usage as high as the 1.1GB figure given in Windows Latest viral post. But when I check on my [...]

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Categories: News, weather, windows
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/linux-vs-windows-weather-app-ram Aug 09, 2026, 08:09 PM

Orion for Linux beta update adds private browsing and link previews

Kagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS. Orion for Linux v0.4.1 builds on the v0.3.0 public beta, released in May, adding more features found on its macOS and iOS versions and improving existing ones. The new beta adds working private windows, a functional (if bare-bones) download manager and a toolbar overflow menu. The overflow menu lets you hide buttons out of the way but without making them hard to reach. Orion's link preview feature also makes its way to Linux. This isn't the 'AI summary' sort [...]

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Categories: News, App Updates, Kagi, Orion
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/orion-for-linux-0-4-1-beta Aug 09, 2026, 05:49 AM

Dynamic Music Pill adds word-by-word lyrics highlighting

An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension to put now playing track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with animated flourishes, is out. If you're prone some desk-side crooning, Dynamic Music Pill v1.3.0 brings two new lyrics provider APIs, BetterLyrics and BiniLyrics, with TTML parsing to provide word-by-word karaoke-style highlighting. If there's word-level synced lyrics for the track being played, the extension shows them in the applet controller (click on the album art inside of to access the lyrics view) or the panel, depending on how you've configured it: Dynamic Music Pill can show [...]

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Categories: News, GNOME Extensions, Now Playing
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dynamic-music-pill-update-lyrics Aug 08, 2026, 05:44 AM

Calibre 9.13 fixes broken ebook search in the content server

A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions shipping an 'ancient' version of the libxml2 library, which is mainly older Debian installs. The cause was a clash between Qt's GPU detection and Calibre's PDF parser, which both need different versions of libxml2. Calibre now preloads the version it needs before Qt's check can interfere, per the commit message. A regression in the Calibre 9.x series was causing internal links in PDF documents to [...]

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Categories: News, App Updates, Calibre
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/calibre-9-13-bug-fix-update Aug 07, 2026, 06:07 PM

Resources (Linux system monitor) adds new PowerPC, NPU stats

Resources 51 beta, the system monitor Ubuntu now uses, adds AMD NPU stats, PowerPC CPU temps and alternative memory-usage metrics.

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Categories: News, App Updates, NPUs, powerpc, Resources
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/resources-51-beta-npu-powerpc-temps Aug 06, 2026, 02:43 AM