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Coming about seven weeks after GNOME 47.2, the GNOME 47.3 release is here to improve input → output latency of cursor movements, implement wp_viewport support for cursor surfaces, enhance Xwayland support, and improve frame rate for monitors attached to secondary GPUs in copy mode.

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Understanding the User Interface of Gummi LaTeX Editor

After we finished installing it, now this tutorial will explain the user interface of Gummi LaTeX editor. We will explain the six parts of its window including the purposes of their contents in simple yet easy to understand way. This knowledge will be useful when you start writing LaTeX documents later. Now feel free to start reading!

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Connection for a Cause: One Woman’s Journey of Digital Empowerment

Growing up in a small village in Murang’a County, Kenya, Ruth Njeri had nearly no access to the digital world. Today, she is the lead engineer of the Tanda Community Network in Kibera—the largest slum in Africa—and is working to empower local women with technical knowledge, new skills, and increased opportunities.

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Sipeed has recently launched the Tang Console, described as a compact FPGA platform designed for developers and hardware enthusiasts. It offers a flexible and portable solution for applications such as hardware prototyping and retro gaming system emulation.

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Thunderbird 130 Beta Includes a Tray Icon for Linux

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 11, 2024

Quoting: Thunderbird 130 Beta Includes a Tray Icon for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu —

In the Thunderbird 130 beta release notes the ‘what’s new’ section lists “added Linux system tray icon”, and what’s mind-blowing about the addition is that it developers a feature request first filed on the Mozilla bug tracker a staggering 25 years ago!

Tray icons are a bit old hat, but they remain useful on systems that don’t handle background apps in an intuitive or familiar manner.

Thunderbird for Windows has a system tray icon/applet, but the e-mail client has not (to my knowledge) ever had one on Linux or macOS systems.

Over the years Linux users have relied on a multitude of workarounds, Thunderbird add-ons, and API-leveraging third-party apps, scripts, or extensions to get a functional Thunderbird tray menu (Birdtray being one I used in the past).

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