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Interesting and useful commands available using the BASH shell on Linux.

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This is an interesting command to view your command history when you are using Bash. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ hash hits command 1 /usr/bin/gethostip 1 /usr/bin/sudo This command is a Bash shell built-in command. If you are using the tcsh or zsh shells; this command … Read more

Check the status of your laptop battery with Powershell on Windows.

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This simple one liner will print the battery status of your laptop battery in percent. This shows that I have 48% battery charge remaining. PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery).estimatedchargeremaining 48PS C:\> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery).estimatedchargeremaining 48 Run it like this to get all of the information about your laptop battery. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Battery)   … Read more

How to check laptop battery status with the Linux command-line.

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To check the battery status of your Linux laptop; use the acpi command. This will display the status of your laptop battery. exempli gratia. [email protected] ~$ acpi Battery 0: Disharging, 40%, 00:48:32 [email protected] ~$ acpi Battery 0: Disharging, 40%, 00:48:32 remaining. This command also has many other options. This one shows the CPU temperature. [email protected] … Read more

Misc MATE tweaks. Switching on the battery icon and using Compiz for window management.

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Power management settings. How to enable the battery icon on the Linux Mint 13 MATE desktop. This is found under the Screensaver->Power management settings. I enabled the Compiz featureset by installing the compizconfig-settings-manager package and typing compiz –replace &exit in a terminal window to replace the existing window manager in MATE with the Compiz decorator. … Read more