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CoverGloobus 1.4 Brings New Themes, Desktop Sexiness

I’ve blogged about the pure freakin’ gorgeousness of CoverGloobus before, but the developer has really stepped it up a gear with the latest release. CoverGloobus 1.4 fixes some bugs, but – and more importantly for […]

26 May 2009

‘Sunamu’ is a Slick ‘Now Playing’ Widget for Your Desktop

I usually use Conky to show 'Now Playing' info from music players on my desktop. I recently switched to Sunamu and in this post I share it with you!

26 July 2022
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A Hybrid Clock/Now Playing Conky for Your Desktop

I’ve been looking for a decent “Now Playing” widget for my Ubuntu desktop for a while now, having been inspired by some Rainmeter setups I saw in a thread on Windows desktops. And I finally […]

29 July 2021

Exaile Music Player Got Its First Release in 4 Years, And I Didn’t Even Notice!

The Exaile music player has scored its first update in 4 years. Exaile 4.0.0 is now uses GTK3, has a faster playback engine, and supports MPRIS 2.2.

30 September 2019
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Get Lyrics for Any Song on Spotify with this Ubuntu App (Updated)

It’s been several months since Spotify removed the lyrics function from it’s apps, and it shows no signs of returning soon. If you liked being able to tap a button to instantly see lyrics for the currently playing song, we’ve […]

19 March 2017
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Babe Is a Promising New Qt Music Player

I use KDE Plasma a lot more these days (thanks to KDE Neon) and so far I am really enjoying it. Like many, I also prefer to run Qt apps on a Qt desktop, and GTK+ […]

13 February 2017
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SpotiWeb Integrates Spotify Web With the Ubuntu Desktop

Like the Spotify Web player but miss desktop integration? Spotiweb is an electron-app that integrates the Spotify web player with the Unity desktop.

28 August 2016
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‘Coverbox’ Puts Music Artwork, Controls On the Ubuntu Desktop

Want to display album cover-art and control options on your desktop in Ubuntu? Coverbox, a fork of the once-popular Covergloobus, lets you do just that.

31 August 2012
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This ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Ubuntu desktop is gorgeous and simple to achieve

Is your desktop in need of a makeover? The following desktop by DeviantArtist ~votritis, called 'Stairway to heaven', might be just what you're after...

7 June 2011
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OMG! 5! – Five Rhythmbox extensions

We list our five favourite extensible features for Rhythmbox in this weeks OMG! 5!

21 September 2010
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‘A new start’ GTK theme – looks everybit as cool as it sounds

‘A new start’ GTK theme looks, from the word go, pretty much unlike anything else you’ve tried before. An aptly titled theme that has that oh-so aloof quality of actually being able to totally transform […]

7 August 2010
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Display Song Lyrics on the Ubuntu Desktop

Want to sing-along with your favourite songs in Ubuntu? There are several desktop applications that can automatically display lyrics to the currently playing song.

4 June 2010