Prominent Restart OptionĪs we’re on the topic of “things Ubuntu should’ve had sooner” here’s another one: there’s FINALLY a visible restart option in the session options in the Status Menu.
Does what it says on the tin: shows battery percentage in the top bar, where it should. It’s taken Ubuntu a ridiculously long time to make this very basic option available to users, out of the box, no tweaks tools or customisation scripts required. There’s no direct GUI way to choose how low the battery needs to be before it kicks in but a gsettings level can be set via the command line.
#Tumbleweed gif skype portable
On portable devices Power Saver mode is activated automatically when the battery level is low. Modes can be set/accessed via the Power panel in System Settings, or selected from the new power section in the main Status Menu. Ubuntu 22.04 ships with a slew of new power management features including three power modes: ‘power saver’, ‘balanced’, and (hardware dependant) ‘performance’. This is a hard ‘change’ to convey via a written post, so look out for a hands-on demo in the Ubuntu 22.04 release video on the omg! ubuntu! YouTube channel. It might not sound it, but this is real “cherry on top” enhancement that makes Ubuntu feel more like a polished and cohesive whole. What I really like about these new gestures is that the gesture animations are 1:1 - they happen as fast (or as slow) as your hand movements. You can use a two-finger swipe to page left/right. New touchpad gestures are available in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS’s default Wayland session for opening and closing the workspace switcher and application launcher, and paging through them.Ī three-finger swipe on a compatible multi-touch touchpad engages the workspace switcher, while a further three-finger push reveals the application launcher.
These affect the GKT theme, GNOME Shell theme, and even some icons. But if you don’t like orange you’re in luck Ubuntu 22.04 lets you choose from 10 different accent colours. Ubuntu has replaced most of the aubergine/purple accents in the Yaru theme with orange ones. Panel applets, pop-overs, and menus use tighter margins, bringing items closer to their origin point padding within menus is reduced and OSDs (e.g., volume, brightness, etc) have been overhauled to be less conspicuous. Ubuntu 22.04 looks more ‘compact’ than before thanks to upstream design changes within GNOME Shell. More Compact Desktop UI Focal Vs Jammy (round 2) These help give the distro a softer vibe compared to the sharp jagged window corners found in the Focal Fossa. You probably wouldn’t notice this unless I pointed it out: many of Ubuntu’s default apps have rounded bottom corners. Instead, echoing the look of libadwaita in vanilla GNOME 42, Yaru puts subtle grey “backdots” behind all three window controls. The window ‘close’ button is no longer denoted by a bright red dot. The Yaru GTK theme has dropped the “mixed” theme (dark header bars and light controls) in favour of a fully light theme. A Light Default Look Focal vs Jammy (round 1)įocal fans will certainly notice that Ubuntu’s appearance has evolved in the intervening years. The only thing you’ll miss out on are the new touchpad gestures (see #9 on this list).
#Tumbleweed gif skype update
Heck, Wayland is now so robust Ubuntu will ship it as default on computers with select NVIDIA graphics cards - though (belatedly) this enablement will roll out in a future update and not be part of the initial release/upgrade on April 21.īut if you find your hardware, an app, or your overall experience doesn’t play nice in Wayland just log out and select the ‘Xorg’ session from the login screen instead - it’s still there, and still fully functional. Plus, thanks to technologies like Pipewire, even previously tricky areas like screen sharing work out of the box, and without fuss under Wayland. Wayland is the default display server in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - but don’t panic: it’s 2022 and Wayland is pretty solid these days.
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