Install and use Midnight Commander on Linux easily on Ubuntu. This is a most important utility The Midnight Commander is a very useful file manager application for Linux that has a text editor as well as many other useful features for managing your files. To install this on Ubuntu; type this command. homer@lollinux-machina:~$ sudo apt-get … Read more
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
Working with files: Deleting a file in Ubuntu. Deleting a file in Ubuntu is very easy. Just select the file in the file manager and hold SHIFT and press Delete. Uzipping a zip file. Type unzip and then the filename to unzip the file. This will be unpacked into the current directory. E.g unzip my.zip. … Read more
The FVWM window manager is a light alternative to the bloated default Ubuntu desktop. This is a window manager like TWM, but with more features. Download a copy and get more information here: http://fvwm.org/. TWM is the default window manager that ships with the Xorg distribution. This is a very simplistic window manager that has … Read more
The full release of Ubuntu 21.10 is now out, but the developers of GTK have still not fixed the file-picker not having icons in it. This patch fixes this issue but needs more work. https://gist.github.com/wfr/c8e431a61d300b4f3d15. And it would not take too long to add the option to have either a list view or icons in … Read more
Getting information about the boot process of your PC when running Linux is very easy. The Systemd framework can easily help with this. The systemd-analyze command prints the time that is taken by the operating system to reach a usable state. This would be better on a faster SSD. But I am still using an … Read more
Installation of Anti Virus software for Linux. This is to protect Windows users who are connecting to the Linux server. Also a very useful backup script for our Linux machineLinux backup scriptUsing the script Installation of Anti Virus software for Linux. This is to protect Windows users who are connecting to the Linux server. Also … Read more
You can install the Microsoft Edge DEV version on Ubuntu now. This is very easy. Download the package with this command. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents/Microsoft] └──╼ ╼ $ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-dev/microsoft-edge-dev_93.0.946.1-1_amd64.deb -o edge.deb┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents/Microsoft] └──╼ ╼ $ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-dev/microsoft-edge-dev_93.0.946.1-1_amd64.deb -o edge.deb Then install the package easily. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents/Microsoft] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo dpkg -i edge.deb [sudo] password for jason: Selecting previously … Read more
The Firefox UI on Ubuntu 20.04 was very slow for some reason. But this trick was a good way to help speed it back up. Go into about:config and then set the value below to true and then restart the browser. gfx.webrender.force-disabledgfx.webrender.force-disabled This seems to have sped it up greatly. I am not sure why … Read more
Mounting an HDD formatted with the Xbox filesystem can be a pain, but it can be done. Run this command in the terminal to get the filesystem offset of the current filesystem. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo head -c 4k /dev/sdg | grep -aobuP ‘\x00\x00\x00NTFS’ | sed ‘s/\:.*//’ 2048┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo head -c … Read more
I wanted to have a nice png file as a background for my GRUB boot menu, this will make it more attractive than the boring text screen. I decided to create a symlink to a suitable image as an example. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ ls -hulsa /boot/grub/ total 2.4M 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K … Read more
The Enlightenment E17 window manager is very, very good. This is a nice alternative to the bloated Gnome desktop interface. It has its own file manager and utilities such as a sound mixer. There are multiple desktops by default as well as desktop gadgets and looks very nice indeed. Below is a screenshot of the … Read more
I just installed a fingerprint reader in Ubuntu and after scanning my fingerprint into the system, I was able to login to Ubuntu using GMD3 and it works just fine. Access this by typing users in the Activities view to access the Users panel under Settings. Then enable the Fingerprint Login option to start the … Read more
Installing Gzdoom on Linux allows playing Hexen format maps and cool mods on Linux. Installing via Snap was not appealing to me so I downloaded the deb package from the website instead. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ wget https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/releases/download/g4.5.0/gzdoom_4.5.0_amd64.deb┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ wget https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/releases/download/g4.5.0/gzdoom_4.5.0_amd64.deb Then I could install the deb package and I was ready to … Read more
The pipe wire system is a new audio system that is taking over from Pulseaudio in Fedora 34. This is also in Ubuntu 21.04. This is a superior audio system and also replaces the Jack audio system. I hope this is a low latency system and gives better performance. Pulseaudio has its fair share of … Read more
I recently ran sudo apt upgrade to install a new kernel on Ubuntu and I had no sound hardware detected after the upgrade. But it turns out that the extra drivers package was not pulled in when I requested to install a new kernel. You need to ensure you pick the kernel headers and kernel-modules-extra … Read more
This is a very simple program that prints information about the kernel version and nodename. This is very useful when building a larger system information program. sysinfo.c1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 … Read more
Installing the wpscan utility on Ubuntu allows non-invasive scanning of a website running WordPress to find any vulnerabilities. This is very useful to run on your own website, then you may fix any problems presented after the scanning is complete. This helps ensure that your WordPress blog is as secure as you can make it. … Read more
Installing Teamspeak allows easy voice and text communication over a TCP/IP network. This is easy to install. Download Teamspeak 64-bit client from this page: https://teamspeak.com/en/downloads/#. Then run it like this to install. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Downloads] └──╼ ╼ $ bash ./TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64-3.5.6.run Welcome to the TeamSpeak 3 Client for Linux on amd64 installer In order to install this … Read more
I recently installed the 5.8.0-41-generic kernel and I had no detected sound hardware after booting into the new kernel, but it turns out that a package was missing from my machine. I installed this package and then replugged my sound hardware and it worked straight away. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)┌──[[email protected]]─[~] … Read more