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pushd and popd are the commands to push and pop directories from the directory stack. Using pushd , you can quickly cd into the new directories while using Ubuntu terminal saving the current directory in the memory to return at any time in future. Using popd, you can quickly return into the previously visited directories. To quickly [...]
This tutorial shows you how to test applications in Ubuntu Software Center before installing them in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin as well as earlier versions. To get started , you must install QTNX. QTNX is a remote client for NX remote desktop. You can install QTNX in Ubuntu from Ubuntu Software Center or by running [...]
This tutorial will show you how to make your user account login automatically in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. At first, you need to open lightdm.conf file by running the following commands in the terminal. sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Once the file gets opened, type in the following at the end of the file and save the [...]
This tutorial shows you how to display all startup applications in Startup Applications Preferences dialog in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. By default, the Startup Applications Preferences dailog does not show any startup programs in Ubuntu 12.04 as shown below. In order to show all startup programs in the Startup Applications Preferences dialog, all you need [...]
This tutorial shows you how to enable the missing Hibernate option on the session menu of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. At first,open a terminal window and run the following commands in the terminal. sudo gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/hibernate.pkla A hibernate.pkla file opens up in your Gedit text editor. Then, copy the following lines and paste it in that [...]
This tutorial will show you how to disable the global menu in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. To disable the global menu in Ubuntu 12.04, run a terminal session and then run the following commands in the terminal. sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt After you successfully run the command, log out and log back in [...]
Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper is a simple lightweight application which displays computer generated illustration of the earth’s patterns of sunlight , darkness in real time and even all moon phases during full 24 hours of a day. The image displayed by Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper is retrieved from internet in real time and set as wallpaper within [...]
This tutorial will show you how to install the new stable version of Firefox 10 in Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04,10.10 and 10.04. Firefox 10 comes with following new feautes. Implementation of Anit-Aliasing for WebGL Implementation of full screen APIs to easily build full screen web apps Forward button will be hidden by default ,which will get [...]
This tutorial will show you how to install latest Google Earth stable version 6.2 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and 12.04 Precise Pangolin with fix for broken fonts included. Google Earth is a cross platform application that allows you to travel the world virtually , see satellite imagery of countries, cities, 3D buildings, maps and [...]
HUD (Head-Up Display) is the upcoming menu system for Ubuntu Unity interface which will eventually replace the current menus in Unity applications. It uses an intelligent search based approach to find and access menu items you need. HUD is very smart as it can remember the mostly used menu items and display them with top [...]
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