Belajar Agar Berkembang: November 2023

Rabu, 29 November 2023

FOSS Weekly #23.48: New rlxOS Distro, Wave Terminal, Paru 2.0, Data Recovery in Linux and More

A modern Linux terminal I discovered this week took me by surprise. I was not expecting it to be this different!

It's like VS Code or a modern code editor. It is aimed primarily at developers but people who are not comfortable with traditional terminals would also be happy with it.

💬 Let's see what you get in this edition of FOSS Weekly:

AUR helper Paru sees a major release after years
A popular CMS has gone open-source.
Data recovery tutorial
And other Linux news, videos, Puzzles and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux news

TinaCMS has joined the open-source CMS club.
Fractal 5 was released with a GTK 4/Adwaita remake.
Paru 2.0 is here with support for non-AUR PKGBUILD repos.
Red Hat has revealed their plans for RHEL 10 and Wayland.

The latest version of P2P YouTube alternative adds several new features.

🌐 Follow us on Google News

By the way, if you use Google, follow It's FOSS on Google News to get trusted It's FOSS content before other websites in Google search.

🧠 What we’re thinking about

Clearly, not everyone is happy about it.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

LibreOffice is awesome and yet a few people look for alternatives. This article is for them.

Revamped tutorial. Just so that you know, these tools work with data on external disk only.

A simple tutorial on having multiple keyboard layouts and changing between them.

📹 What we are watching

✨ Project highlights

rlxOS is a independent immutable Linux distro offering with an Xfce touch to it.

🧩 New quizzes

KDE fan? How about a quick trivia quiz?

It's FOSS Plus users can play this crossword focusing on terminal emulators.

💡 Quick handy tip

Subscribe and Listen to Podcasts using Rhythmbox. Use the RSS Feed URL of any podcast for subscribing.

🤣 Meme of the week

Just Ubuntu Things 😁

🗓️ Tech Trivia

November 30th is the National Computer Security Day. It was proposed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) under Carnegie Mellon University created the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) so that more people could talk about computer security.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 FOSSverse corner

A FOSSers shares their experience of setting up secure boot in an Arch-based distro.

❤️ Loving FOSS Weekly?

Share it with your Linux-using friends and encourage them to subscribe (hint: it's here).

Share the articles in Linux Subreddits and community forums.

Become a Pro member and support our work 🙏

Anything else? Please reply to this email :)

from It's FOSS https://ift.tt/JM0hGPZ
via IFTTT

Change Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu

When you install Ubuntu, you get to choose the keyboard. You may have gone with the default choice of English US and now you want to change it to English UK or India or any other keyboard of your choice.

The good thing is that you can have multiple keyboard layouts in the same Ubuntu system. This is quite convenient.

In this tutorial, you'll learn to:

Add new keyboard layouts in Ubuntu desktop
Switch between the available keyboards
Remove Additional keyboards
Command line method of changing keyboard layout

Step 1: Add new keyboard layout

To change the keyboard layout, you need to have another keyboard layout enabled on your system first.

Go to system settings. Press the Super key in Ubuntu (Windows symboled key) and search settings.

In the system settings, look for Keyboard in the left sidebar. Once you select that, you should see the option of adding a new keyboard under the Input Sources section. Click the + sign.

You'll be presented with a few keyboard options but you can get a lot more if you click on the three dots. You can scroll through or search by typing the in here.

Click on your desired keyboard. Keep in mind that the selected keyboard layout may have sub-layouts.

For example, when I click on English (India) it shows me a number of English keys from Denmark to Ghana or what not. In here, I chose the English (India, with rupee) keyboard. This is the keyboard layout that will be added.

You'll see the newly added keyboard layout under the Input Sources section.

This is the same method I used for adding a Hindi keyboard in Ubuntu earlier.

Step 2: Switching keyboards

So, you have successfully added another keyboard. But it is not in use. You have to switch between the available input sources.

There are two ways of doing it.

Method 1: Use Super+Space keys together

The quicker method for switching the keyboards to use keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu. Press the Super key (Windows key) and Space together. It will momentarily show all the enabled keyboard layouts.

You can press Space key multiple times while holding the Super key to move between the available options.

Method 2: Use mouse to switch keyboards

It's not easy to remember all these keyboard shortcuts and that's understandable.

When you have more than one keyboards enabled on the system, you'll notice that the keyboard name is being displayed in the top right corner of the panel. Click on it and you'll see the option to switch between the layouts or see the selected keyboard layouts.

Bonus Tip: Remove additional keyboard

Not liking multiple keyboards in your system? No worries. You can easily remove them.

Go to the keyboard settings once again as you saw previously. Click on the three vertical dots symbol next to the keyboard of your choice. You should see the remove option here.

Using command line for changing keyboard layout (not recommended)

If you are a desktop user, I strongly recommend the graphical method discussed above.

If you are on a server and you must use some other keyboard layout, you could opt for the command line.

Now, there are multiple ways to change the keyboard layout in Linux. But for Ubuntu, I prefer the dpkg way.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Enter your password and you shall see this in your terminal:

To navigate in this TUI (terminal user interface), use the arrow keys to move between the available options. Use the tab key to go to the <OK> or <Cancel> options. When you are at one of them, press enter to confirm your choice.

Go with the country of your choice and then you'll have the option to choose the keyboard layout.

When you have added the additional keyboard, you'll be asked to assign a keyboard shortcut to switch between them.

You may also go and make the new keyboard the default and the only layout in the system. Though this could be risky if you do it between languages that are not similar. I mean if you use English US keyboard (physical) and you switch the layout to Hungarian, you won't have all the keys available.

You'll be seeing several screens afterward.

If you are not happy with the new keyboard layout, you can type the same command again and then reconfigure the layout.

from It's FOSS https://ift.tt/FUxMth2
via IFTTT

Rabu, 22 November 2023

FOSS Weekly #23.47: Password Managers, Joplin and Flatpak Tips, Black Friday and More

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family (if you celebrate it) 🦃

While Thanksgiving is primarily a US tradition, Black Friday has become a global event with various deals and discounts being offered.

Each year, I look on the internet for Black Friday offers that should interest Linux users and collect them on a single page.

If interested, go through it and see if you find something worth spending (and saving) some money on.

💬 Let's see what you get in this edition of FOSS Weekly:

Xiaomi embraces open-source
Flatpak tips
Tips and tweaks for Joplin notes
Open source password managers
Two interesting projects
And other Linux news, videos, Puzzles and, of course, memes!

📰 Linux news

Xiaomi is open-sourcing their Vela IoT platform.
HandBrake 1.7 has been released with AV1 enhancements.
EndeavourOS 'Galileo' is here, drops Xfce in favor of KDE Plasma.

🌐 Follow us on Google News

By the way, if you use Google, follow It's FOSS on Google News to get trusted It's FOSS content before other websites in Google search.

🧠 What we’re thinking about

This seems like a motivating news until the VCs start cutting down on the openness.

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More

Master Joplin with our handy list of tips and tweaks

And some tools and tips on better managing Flatpak applications

I am still using Arch Linux and discovering new problems and writing about them

For your privacy needs

📹 What we are watching

A self-snoozing clock made with Raspberry Pi? Well, not the only useless thing I watched this week 🤷

✨ Application highlights

Here's a personal finance app that can be self-hosted!

Can I interest you in an open-source remake of the 2009 era RuneScape?

🧩 New quizzes

Fedora fan? How about a quick trivia quiz?

It's FOSS Plus users can play this crossword-like puzzle focused on Arch-based distros.

💡 Quick handy tip

A handy KDE Plasma Tip!

If you have a mouse with additional buttons, you can assign buttons for desktop tasks like Application Launcher, Switch Desktop etc.

For this, right-click on the desktop and select “Configure Desktop and Wallpaper”. Now, go to Mouse Actions.

Here, click on the “Add Action” button and inside the “Input Here” button, click the key on your mouse that you want to use.

Now, select the desired action from the dropdown menu and click “Apply”.

🤣 Meme of the week

What is Windows? The ones attached to the walls of my home?