How to best view all available terminal colours This one-liner will print out all available terminal colours for your chosen Linux terminal application. This is very useful for creating a colourful bash prompt and the user wishes to know which colour codes will work and look good in the terminal….
Read MorePrinting information about the weather on the command line is quite easy on Linux. One way is using the finger(1) command to retrieve a forecast for a certain city. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ finger [email protected] -= Meteogram for Sydney, New South Wales, Australia =- ‘C Rain (mm) 25 24 23 ^^^ 22…
Read MoreVery useful MPV tips and hotkeys When playing a movie in MPV and you wish to inspect a certain scene, press the SPACE key to pause and then the < and > keys to move a frame at a time backwards or forwards to see a frame by frame analysis…
Read MoreWorking 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…
Read MoreIt is very easy to get hardware information on Ubuntu in a simple and easy to read format. The sudo lshw -class input command will print information about any input devices connected to your computer. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo lshw -class input *-usb:1 description: Keyboard product: OMEN Sequencer vendor:…
Read MoreSome interesting and useful Linux shell commands Linux has some very useful and interesting commands available to the Linux desktop user to find out information about your computer system. Some of these hearken back to the days of the old Linux terminals; when you accessed your computer from a dumb…
Read MoreSome very nice themes for your Linux desktop in 2021 Some very nice themes for your Linux desktop in 2021Gnome Shell themesWallpapersIcon themes Gnome Shell themes MetalX Gnome Shell theme for Linux. https://www.deviantart.com/art/Metal-X-theme-v-2-1-for-Gnome-3-16-577064989. Android Flat Gnome Shell theme. A nice flat grey theme for your Gnome desktop. https://www.deviantart.com/art/Android-Flat-3-18-565622252. Ambiance Gnome….
Read MoreAside from the different desktop environments, you’ll run into, the biggest difference is the package manager. Arch’s package manager will let you download whatever you want and push out the latest updates very quickly. Apt, on the other hand, is much more conservative and restrictive. If you want the latest…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreSimulating colour blindness is very useful for a graphics designer or web developer, this allows the designer to test if the graphics are visible properly when using various colours on buttons and hyperlinks. There is a very useful application that can help with this. This is called Color Oracle. This…
Read MoreNice themes for your Linux desktop Some very nice themes for your Linux desktop in 2021Gnome Shell themesWallpapersIcon themesNice themes for your Linux desktopWindow themesDesktop wallpapers Window themes Google Chrome Metacity theme for MATE and Gnome Shell. This is a nice Google Chrome inspired theme for MATE and Gnome Shell….
Read MoreThe toilet command prints out large text banners like the Figlet command. Here is an example. The banner is printed in colour. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ toilet –metal "Hello World." m m ""# ""# m m ""# # # # mmm # # mmm # # # mmm m…
Read MoreGetting 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…
Read MoreSome useful Linux tips and troubleshooting commands Some very nice themes for your Linux desktop in 2021Gnome Shell themesWallpapersIcon themesNice themes for your Linux desktopWindow themesDesktop wallpapersSome useful Linux tips and troubleshooting commandsHow to install the restricted codecs in UbuntuHow to boot an Ubuntu live ISO from the GRUB bootloaderHow…
Read MoreSome very nice themes for your Linux desktop in 2021Gnome Shell themesWallpapersIcon themesNice themes for your Linux desktopWindow themesDesktop wallpapersSome useful Linux tips and troubleshooting commandsHow to install the restricted codecs in UbuntuHow to boot an Ubuntu live ISO from the GRUB bootloaderHow to re-install the GRUB bootloader using a…
Read MoreThe Linux distributions that are in common use all over the world have many advantages over the closed source operating systems such as Windows and Macintosh operating systems, the freedom to customize the distribution and create your own version of the distribution is the key strength of Linux. The Ubuntu…
Read MoreUseful bash shell shortcut keys to navigate the command line ^a, ^e – Move the cursor. The ^-a shortcut will move the cursor to the beginning of the line. The ^-e shortcut will bring the cursor to the end of the line. ^d – End of file or EOF. This…
Read MoreThere are still some very useful tips for using Linux in 2021. Just like this. Getting the size on the disk of a folder. The du -ack -h | tail -n 1 command will do this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Music] └──╼ ╼ $ du -ack -h | tail -n 1 8.2G total┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Music] └──╼…
Read MoreYou 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]…
Read MoreThe 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….
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