Getting information about your desktop resolution with the Linux command line is very easy to do. This one-liner will print the current desktop resolution. This could be used in a script that will then do something with the output. jason@jason-desktop:~/Videos$ xrandr | awk ‘{if(NR==5) print $0}’ | awk ‘{print $1}’…
Read MoreTo install the MATE desktop environment on Ubuntu 20.04, run this simple command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment-extras mate-common mate-desktop-environmentjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment-extras mate-common mate-desktop-environment Then you need to logout of the desktop session and restart the desktop login manager to allow it to detect MATE. Press Control-Alt-F2 and…
Read MoreI have installed SUN Solaris 10 in a Virtual Machine. This is fun to experiment with. SUN Solaris Java Desktop System. This uses a very nice desktop theme. Once installed it only has the root account. But you can su to root and then run the smc command at the…
Read MoreThere are a few very useful Linux packages for Ubuntu 20.04. They can make your desktop look incredible. Install these packages like this. jason@jason-virtual-machine:~$ sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu gnome-shell-extension-weatherjason@jason-virtual-machine:~$ sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu gnome-shell-extension-weather Then enable the extensions with gnome-tweak. This is what my Gnome 3 desktop looks…
Read MoreThe Social Network movie featured a KDE 2.2 desktop and a nice Linux Konsole command line terminal. He is listing connections by viewing a log file with the watch utility. This also shows the Emacs text editor to edit the PHP code for his little project. This is a very…
Read MoreThe Ubuntu 5.04 distribution was a very comfortable desktop environment. Using Gnome 2, it was very fast and reliable. Now we have MATE, but I miss the simplicity of the older Ubuntu releases, Ubuntu 13.04 was very bad, but now it is picking up again, even though the Systemd init…
Read MoreThe KDE Linux desktop has gone back to retro greatness with the Trinity KDE desktop, this is a version of KDE 3 that is available for modern Linux distributions. This allows the use of classic themes. The KDE 2 and Keramik themes are available for the desktop to emulate a…
Read MoreThe best thing about the Linux desktop is the customization. You can tweak all sorts of things: icons, color schemes, fonts, everything. You can customize the system settings. You can even do color selection with your display device. Here’s an example: You can easily set a background for Windows. You…
Read MoreThe Ubuntu 19.094 release is out, but does not work in older versions of VMWare. But I am installing it in qemu, following this guide. Follow this guide and load the ISO, and the installation will work. Apparently, workstation pro 15.1 supports an Ubuntu 19.04 Guest. But I chose to…
Read MoreI am using OpenBSD, and I do not like the default Window Manager used by the operating system. I installed the Fluxbox Window Manager and I had to tell X11 to load it instead of the default. I did it like this. Install the Xorg packages during installation, then you…
Read MoreA handy Linux admin tip is how to use RDP to Remote Desktop into a Linux machine from a Macintosh computer. This would be very useful indeed.
Read MoreThis is the Ubuntu distribution running the Trinity desktop for Linux. This is a reworking of KDE 3 to operate on a modern Linux distribution. I added this to my /etc/apt/sources.lst for Ubuntu 18.04. deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic main deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic main deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic main deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubuntu bionic maindeb…
Read MoreThe Linux desktop has changed quite a lot in all of the time I have been using it. Since I first tried out Red Hat Linux 6.2 with Gnome 1.0, I was amazed that a free operating system came with so much software.I have installed it in a Virtual Machine…
Read MoreThe E17 desktop is the best alternative to the bloated MATE and Gnome desktop environments. These are good, but use a lot of resources. A good alternative is to use E17. This is light and has a lot of very good effects. Install it on Ubuntu 17 easily. sudo apt…
Read MoreNice Linux themes and wallpapers Some more lovely GTK themes and wallpapers for your new Linux desktop in 2018. Gnome Shell themes Human Next: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1188270/. Maxim: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1182550/. Copernico: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013056/. Wallpapers for Gnome and MATE Railway line through the mountains: https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/wallpaper/22805. Looking down on a swimming pool beside the ocean: https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/wallpaper/575741….
Read MoreGet 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}*"…
Read MoreRecord your Linux desktop to a video file and showcase it on Youtube To get a simple desktop recording of your Linux desktop for teaching purposes or any other use, just follow this guide. This command below. will record a high-quality video file of your Linux desktop to an MKV…
Read MoreThe new Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) distribution has been released. This comes with a Gnome desktop instead of the Unity environment. The desktop environment in this looks just like Unity though. Where is the benefit of using a Gnome desktop if it looks exactly like Unity anyway? This is how…
Read MoreHow the curl command works on Linux. A good alternative to wget. This shows how to use the curl command to download a file from the Internet. I am retrieving a file from a website which I may then view with my local machine. ubuntu ~ $ curl http://s2.enemy.org/globe.gif >…
Read MoreThere is a good version of Ubuntu for Chinese customers. Ubuntu Kylin is customized especially for China with custom applications installed that are specifically designed for use in China. Give this a try if you wish to have an alternative to Windows on your desktop or laptop machine. Download Ubuntu…
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