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Any app on Ubuntu to open and/or convert HEIF pictures (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format)?

In recent Ubuntu versions (>= 18.04): sudo apt-get install libheif-examples And then for file in *.heic; do heif-convert $file ${file/%.heic/.jpg}; done In older Ubuntu or Mint versions, first add ...
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Any app on Ubuntu to open and/or convert HEIF pictures (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format)?

Ubuntu 22.04 quick start install heif-gdk-pixbuf for support in at least eog (Eye of GNOME, GNOME Image Viewer). install heif-thumbnailer for file manager (nautilus, nemo) thumbnails. The available ...
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Is there a tool like wifi analyzer for ubuntu?

Network manager command line interface nmcli nmcli d wifi This is an output of command: * SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY 151022 Infra 4 54 Mbit/s ...
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How can I add the current CPU usage to my menu bar as a percentage?

There is no need to add any extra repository, just install indicator-multiload from the default repos: sudo apt install indicator-multiload Then start it manually the first time by searching for "...
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Is there a way to open DICOM files?

All available from Ubuntu software center: dicomscope. manual page. sudo apt install dicomscope DICOMscope is a free DICOM viewer which can display uncompressed, monochrome DICOM images from all ...
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Tool to add shapes, annotations and text using templates to images

Flameshot It comes with some cool annotation features like Freehand drawing, Lines, Arrows, Boxes, Circles, Highlighting, Blur, etc. It also comes with many on-screen buttons as well lots of ...
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How do I stress test CPU and RAM (at the same time)?

You can install stress with: sudo apt install stress Then call it with: stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 4 --vm-bytes 1024M --timeout 10s On my conky display notice how: In the top section CPU ...
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GUI tool for formating to exFAT

First of all you need to install exfat support packages. You can do it by running in terminal sudo apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse Then you will be able to use gnome-disks to format exfat. ...
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Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04

[Update on May 2020] Clipit is now deprecated. The official replacement is Diodon. To download Diodon, you can use the instructions here. ---------------------------------------------------------------...
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How to measure GPU usage?

You can use gpustat, which is a simple command-line script (wrapper for nvidia-smi) for querying and monitoring GPU status:
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How do I convert a PNG to SVG?

Inkscape has got an awesome auto-tracing tool. Install Inkscape using sudo apt-get install inkscape Import your image Select your image From the menu bar, select Path > Trace Bitmap Item Adjust ...
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How to measure GPU usage?

For Intel: Install intel-gpu-tools (its likely that they are installed already) sudo apt-get install intel-gpu-tools Start the top like utility with sudo intel_gpu_top Check your stats and then ...
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Powerful GUI Calculator for Linux?

Most famous ones are: Gnome Calculator galculator xcalc kcalc They all have basic and scientific modes. By default Ubuntu comes with "Gnome calculator" unless you are using a specific flavor of ...
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Break Reminder for Ubuntu?

Safe Eyes Here is another tool for the same purpose: sudo apt install safeeyes Alternatively, you can install it from the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:slgobinath/safeeyes sudo apt-get update sudo ...
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What editor can I use as a simple vi/vim alternative?

If you are looking for an alternative editor, you are not alone. Basically life is too short to learn vi and I say this being a software developer for a living. However you should learn how to exit it ...
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GUI tool for managing Docker like Kitematic

Kitematic is available for Ubuntu (although the website itself doesn't advertise it), you can get it from the Github repository. Simply extract the downloaded file and install it with your favorite ...
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Is there any pdf viewer with dark mode?

This method is only for text only documents. Otherwise the image colors will be inverted. You can install Evince document viewer from this link and open it.Then goto the options on the top right ...
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Music notation software for Ubuntu

The top music notation software are: MidiEditor Graphical interface to edit, play, and record Midi data. Last Update: 2018-06-05 MuseScore is a Graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. It has ...
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Any app on Ubuntu to open and/or convert HEIF pictures (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format)?

On Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa: $ sudo apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf heif-thumbnailer gimagereader gpicview then find an HEIC file in the file manager, right click, select Properties then Open With and ...
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How can I extract text from images?

tesseract-ocr would be the great one compared to all others. For Installation, run the below command sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr Usage is tesseract filename.jpg output.txt, then it will ...
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Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04

CopyQ is a cross-platform, well-designed and fully-featured clipboard manager (my favorite). It features among others a (very handy) command line interface. To install it on Ubuntu 18.04+: sudo apt ...
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'xclip' vs. 'xsel'

In addition to @Serg answer, there is a piece of information from the Tmux page in the Arch Wiki that can be useful in some specific cases: Unlike xsel [xclip] works better when printing a raw ...
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Is there any Ubuntu software to draw math?

Xournalpp I found an excellent project called Xournal++ to fulfil my needs. Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g....
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Simple image editor?

GThumb GThumb is a really nice image viewer with basic editing tools such as: Crop Rotate Equalize Change Contrast Change Focus Change Colors Apply basic effects (Grayscale, Negative, etc.) ...
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Is there a tool like wifi analyzer for ubuntu?

You could use linssid which offers a nice easy to use GUI for both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels. http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/08/linssid-wifi-scanner-for-ubuntu-linux-mint/ To install ...
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Is there a way to open DICOM files?

Weasis (on Flathub) From all viewers I tested, I liked Weasis the most. It is cross-platform, has lots of features (measurement, 2D/3D view, etc.) and works just fine. Here are the main features: ...
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Natural Sounding Text to Speech?

Pico and espeak are fun and easy to get to work, but they're not all that good. The default Festival voices are also not that good. However, Festival is a scheme-based speech framework, where a number ...
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How to burn an Ubuntu ISO image on a DVD on Ubuntu?

Insert a blank DVD into your burner. A CD/DVD Creator, Choose Disc Type or Blank Disc window might pop up. Close this, because you will not be using it. (Click image to enlarge) 16.04 and later no ...
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