sudo apt-add-repository ppa:audio-recorder/ppa

gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize-or-previews'

Where to put files from packages

If you have lots to do, use mogrify instead. So, say you want to convert all the WEBP images in the current directory to JPEG:

After having bought a new flatbed scanner, I re-investigated how to scan and OCR pdfs, how to produce DJVU files that are incredibly small and how to get metadata right. It turns out what I really ever wanted was to create PDF/A compliant documents (I just didn't know what PDF/A was before). But let me explain the details after presenting you the quick solution. At the end, I have a shell script that scans directly to PDF/A.

unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before performing optical character recognition (OCR).

I recently updated my desktop machine from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. (I tend to be skittish and stick to the LTS releases.) Everything went great, except that when I opened some of my go-to websites (such as GitHub), the fonts just looked… off.

Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure. It is part of every GNOME desktop.