Ever wanted to know what applications are actually installed on your system? Sure you can view the applications via the applications bar, but there are so many other applications not shown there.
Also, what if you have your system with all the applications you want and want to install them again on another pc (or after [...]
So, I was stuck with an OpenOffice text document (.odt) and the place were I was at didn’t have OpenOffice. They were using a Microsoft Office version (2000/XP I believe). What was I to do? A presentation due and I had no way of accessing my files.
Media Convert to the rescue. Yes, I know I [...]
Britt Selvitelle writes on how to combine Google Calendar and Ubuntu. His post is based on Bryan Clark’s post on Mashing Google Calendar and GNOME.
Let’s get down to business.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you [...]
There is a quick way to change your default editor, whichever you want.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + F2 and type in terminal. Now that you have a terminal open, let’s get down to viewing your history.
Open up .bashrc by typing:
gedit ~/.bashrc
Now [...]
Always wanted to know what you have been doing via bash? Did you know bash keeps a history of that? Here is a quick way to check it and an easy way to change the history limit.
First open up a terminal by going to Applications > Accessories > Terminal (in Ubuntu) or press Alt + [...]
A few days ago Codejacked wrote an article talking about Delete your TEMP files on shutdown for Windows. As much as I loved the article, I have recently switched over to Ubuntu. Like all Operating Systems, GNU Linux has temporary files also. Here’s how to delete them on shutdown.
Back up what you’re going to working [...]
Who doesn’t love games? There are many amazing games out there that you have to pay for, but why would you when you have FREE ones that are as amazing? I decided to keep an on-going list of free games (usually under Ubuntu GNU Linux).
Name: Neverball
How to install:
sudo aptitude install neverball
Name: Tremulous
How to install:
sudo aptitude [...]
If you are/were a Windows user, you are used to having “My Computer”, “My Documents” and/or “Recycle Bin” icons on your desktop. Well, Ubuntu can do this also. Here are 3 simple sets to do this.
Hit ALT-F2 and type: gconf-editor
Select Apps > Nautilus > Desktop
Check/uncheck the boxes for computer_icon_visible, documents_icon_visible, or trash_icon_visible.
Source: ubuntu-tutorials.com.
Alias is a command that enables a replacement of a word with another string. It’s mainly used for abbreviating a system command, or for adding default arguments to a command which one regularly uses.
Under Ubuntu your bash alias is under your directory. To view your current collection of aliases all you need to do is [...]