Get a classic Human theme for your Ubuntu 17.04 MATE desktop.

Human theme for a modern Ubuntu MATE desktop The Ubuntu MATE desktop is capable of using quite a few nice themes, but not everyone remembers the classic Human theme from old versions of Ubuntu. But it can be installed on a modern Linux desktop. This is how to get it installed. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt install … Read more

Useful Linux/UNIX commands.

Using wild-cards to display various files in a folder with ls. I recently needed to check whether certain files were in the /usr/lib folder and I used the ls command to do this. to find all files related to the Perl programming language in the /usr/lib directory. ubuntu ~ $ ls /usr/lib/*perl* /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18 /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.18.2   … Read more

Get real time hardware information on a Linux system with this utility.

This very useful Linux utility is a good way to get real-time Linux system information, and compare various activity on a system such as disk reads and writes, or network activity. ubuntu ~ $ dstat You did not select any stats, using -cdngy by default. —-total-cpu-usage—- -dsk/total- -net/total- —paging– —system– usr sys idl wai hiq … Read more

Very nice Linux commands. These are most useful for a desktop user.

Get a nice urxvt windows with a fixed font and lovely colors. urxvt -fn "fixed" +sr +st -fg "#FFFFFF" -bg "#000033" -bd "#302c64" \ -ip +sb -title "*-Home-${HOME}-Shell-${SHELL}-Display-${DISPLAY}*" \ -tint DarkSlateGrey -fade 50 -fadecolor redurxvt -fn "fixed" +sr +st -fg "#FFFFFF" -bg "#000033" -bd "#302c64" \ -ip +sb -title "*-Home-${HOME}-Shell-${SHELL}-Display-${DISPLAY}*" \ -tint DarkSlateGrey -fade 50 … Read more

Deleting files on your Linux machine that have strange names. And how to use wildcards on the shell.

I ran a Perl script on my system that created a bunch of files on my computer named as shown below. I could have typed rm -f A* but that could have deleted other files that have a capital “A” as the first letter of the filename. That is where wildcards come into play. I … Read more

How to create a temporary ram drive on a Linux box. This is very useful.

Creating a ram drive on a Linux box is very useful for storing files in a temporary fashion, and having some very fast scratch space for an application. The ramfs filesystem type may be used, but it will continue to grow until your RAM is used up. The tmpfs filesystem type, does not have this … Read more