Lately I noticed I couldn’t lock the screen on Ubuntu 20.04. Specifically: Two 1080p monitors connected through a Thunderbolt 3 dock Hit Super+L after booting up The lock fails, GNOME Shell crashes and restarts, and then nothing happens

Pop-Shell is a plugin made by the company behind Pop!_OS, meant to give GNOME Shell i3wm-style tiling window management. It actually looks pretty slick, so I figured I’d install it and see.

I got an HDR screen recently and kept feeling the colors were way too saturated. Then I noticed Chrome didn’t have that problem—turns out Chrome actually ships with color management built in. But I’m a Firefox guy. What do I do? Actually, Firefox supports color management too.

Starting with Firefox 52, Firefox dropped all NPAPI plugins except Flash. Which means you can’t use Alipay in Firefox anymore. Sure, you could open Chrome. But if you hate Chrome like I do, there’s a way to work around it for now.

Got some time to write dumb code again recently, so I opened Vim. First order of business was updating plugins, using Vim-plug. And right after the update, problems showed up… What the hell is this cursed color scheme?

As of right now, Ubuntu Linux still ships Empathy as its default IM client. I won’t go into how bad that thing is, but at the very least it doesn’t even support proxies, so Pidgin is the only way to get things working properly. Pidgin on Unity already supports integration with the indicator-message in the top-right corner, but there’s one important feature it hasn’t integrated: showing the unread message count on the dock icon, the way Empathy does. In fact, someone made support for this a long time ago, it’s just that it’s only recently gotten on track. If you’re on Ubuntu 14.10 or later, you’ll find this plugin in your Pidgin install.