Use these commands to change the default gnome terminal size:
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gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_columns \ --type integer 160 gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_rows \ --type integer 50 |
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files […] Continue Reading…
This tip will hopefully speed up your Firefox 3 by optimizing it’s database.
Firefox stores your browsing data using SQLite – self contained, small footprint database.
Having database store your browsing data has one drawback, you have to optimize the database […] Continue Reading…
If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory.
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touch $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 |
Then add gtk-recent-files-max-age=0 to this file.
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echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' | tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 |
This is documented here.
This will also work in […] Continue Reading…
At PyCon 2010, Ubuntu One development team will focus on helping Ubuntu users who also use a Windows box. This is great news!
Source.
Skype just released Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2 aka “Talking Screens”.
Chats are faster, UI supports switching styles on the fly, and audio is a lot better than before. You can download it here.
What’s new in this version:
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You can disable the splash screen and instead view details about your boot process by following the next steps:
1. Edit grub
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sudo vi /etc/default/grub |
2. Locate the following line
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" |
and remove quiet and splash.
After that, the line should look like this:
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" |
3. Save and exit.
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:wq |
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After the latest updates, enabling touchpad on/off key (fn-f8) is now working. There are some annoying gdm random restarts without a trace in the logs. I suspect it’s the nvidia proprietary driver and I hope it will be fixed […] Continue Reading…
Here a small piece of code which will search for the duplicates in the path you supply. It will generate a new file which contains the commands for deleting those duplicates.
Make sure you double check the resulting file!
The script […] Continue Reading…
I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 Beta on my LENOVO ThinkPad T61 64608NG.
Here is what I found so far, in two days of intensive usage:
Quadro NVS 140M – 2D and 3D acceleration: tested and works.
Wireless switch: tested and works.
Sound: tested […] Continue Reading…