

You can start Albert, and from the Settings screen configure your desired hotkey to open it and the Theme (I choose Spotlight Dark).

UBUNTU 20.04 INSTALL MELD HOW TO
You can read more about it and how to install it from here.Īpp and configure it to run on startup. Even though Ubuntu already comes with a pretty nice search functionality out of the box - pressing the Super/Windows key, I still like using Albert more. Install AlbertĪlbert is a spotlight-like search tool (launcher) for Linux.

The steps above are courtesy of this video, but using the WhiteSur theme, and with simplified steps. You should probably log out & log in again to make sure the settings are applied. From here you can configure the position on screen - Bottom, the sizes of the icons (for me it's 32px), and in the Appearance tab - the Opacity and other small things.
UBUNTU 20.04 INSTALL MELD MAC
Since I've used an M1 Mac with BigSur for a while I got very used to the "BigSur theme" and the good thing is you can replicate this on Ubuntu.ĭownload the WhiteSur Gtk Theme from here.
UBUNTU 20.04 INSTALL MELD WINDOWS
If you haven't installed Ubuntu 20.04 yet, a simple google search will get you all info needed on how to create a bootable USB with Ubuntu, how to shrink your current Windows partition & finally configure BIOS to boot & install Linux.Īlso, please note that this article is just scratching the surface of the configuration options of Ubuntu. This article assumes that you already configured your system to run Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) - and describes what customizations I did that I think are cool. I'm very impressed by how stable this system is and how customizable it is & quite frankly I think it makes an awesome dev environment. Since I recently configured my laptop to dual boot into Ubuntu 20.04, I wanted to share my experience and what I think you can do to make your use of this system as pleasant as possible.
