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I'm loving debian wheezy so far, but the font rendering was making my eyes bleed :). I set out to find out how I could install the wonderful infinality packages in debian (http://www.infinality.net/blog/) so I could get awesome font rendering. Unfortunately I did not find any repository for these packages for debian, but I did find a quick way to build some .deb packages for debian wheezy, and it worked great for me (source: http://forums.debian...hp?f=16&t=88545) 1. Clone the git repo and cd to the directory: git clone https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Debian-Packages.git [/CODE] [CODE] cd Debian-Packages/ [/CODE] 2. Install the build dependencies and tools …
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Using gala compositing in xubuntu 12.10
by ViperAFK- 21 replies
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I recently installed xubuntu and wanted some good compositing. I tried compiz but it seems a bit buggy with xfce, and too heavy for my needs anyway. I recently found a great solution. Using elementary os's gala window manager. it works excellently with xfce! incredibly smooth, stable, and fast. You get very smooth effects, features like "aero snap", and light resource usage. I'm also using plank as the dock and it all integrates very well, feels like I'm using eOS luna, but with the very stable, mature xfce base and apps. To install it on xubuntu just do the following: Add the elementary daily ppa and install gala sudo apt-add-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily sudo …
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1 Step to hugely increase unity performance
by ViperAFK- 6 replies
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My older laptop has never been able to run unity worth a damn ever since they introduced the active dash blur in 11.10. Searching the dash and dragging things in the dash is painfully slow, and the problem is twofold if the dash is open over a playing video or something. Disabling dash blur wasn't an option because it made the dash an unreadable transparent mess, and static blur is just way too buggy. However, You can force unity into "Low Graphics Mode" with the following command: echo "export UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE=1" | sudo tee /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99force-llvm This disables the dash transparency and blur completely. The only problems I saw with this mode was that th…
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Despite the shortcomings of the new Anaconda, the Fedora systems installer, it is still kinda easy to set up a dual-boot system between Fedora 18 and any other operating system. Note that ?kinda easy? does not necessarily means that it is straight-forward, because it is not. You just have to know how to go about it, that is, workaround the drawbacks of the new Anaconda. In this article, a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Windows 8 and Fedora 18 on a single hard disk drive (HDD) is presented. A drawbacks of the new Anaconda is this: It gives you no choice on where GRUB 2, Fedora?s boot loader, is installed, and will install GRUB 2 in the Master Boot Record (MBR), o…
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Translate - Google Translate CLI - Linux CLI
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This is a tutorial I wrote up and posted up on my blog. I recently got Windows 7 and Ubuntu running in a dualboot. However, since I’m using more of Windows now I figured I should probably find a way to run Ubuntu inside my Windows. VM’s are great, but it’d be better if I can actually boot into my existing Ubuntu partition. So I searched the web and kept on finding tutorials on how to boot existing XP partitions inside Windows. So I decided to extrapolate from those tutorials and work my way through it. I’ll be writing how I did it here. Before we begin, you should have a dual boot setup. I will NOT be showing you how to setup a dual boot, if you need help plenty of othe…
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[How To] 4 Tricks to Speed Up Ubuntu
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Howto: Powersaving tweaks with a udev rule
by ViperAFK- 2 replies
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I previously made a guide showing how you can utilize pm-utils scripts to enable extra powersaving settings in linux: http://www.neowin.ne...-with-pm-utils/. I've since found a solution I like better, because its much simpler and I am also trying to lessen my dependence on pm-utils (it seems there's been no active development for the past few years). I'm hoping I'll be able to uninstall it eventually since the latest upower can now use systemd instead of pm-utils for suspend/hibernate, but it still seems to require pm-utils for some things. Anyway, on to the guide. I found this solution over on the arch forums: https://bbs.archlinu...163335#p1163335. Basically all this…
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How To: Power saving with pm-utils
by ViperAFK- 0 replies
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I've noticed a lot of distros really don't include many (or any) laptop power management tweaks by default. The only distro that seems to try to do this is ubuntu 12.04, which already does some of the stuff in this how to. When I recently ran powertop on my fedora 17 install and it reported relatively high battery discharge, and all the tunables were shown as "bad" I decided to use the same tweaks I had on my arch linux install, using pm-utils scripts. There are other ways to do this, such as laptop-mode-tools and jupiter, but I've had the best success with the following: Note, that some of these scripts have varying levels of success on different hardware, you may want …
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We can already use two step authentication in GMail with the Google Authenticator Android app. The idea is creating a secret key shared between the service and the Android app, so every 30 seconds we get a randomly generated token on Android that must be provided to login in addition to the password. That token is only valid in that 30s time frame. Since this provides a nice second security layer to our logins, why don't take advantage of it also in our Linux box? We'll need two things to get started: Install Google Authenticator on our Android, iOS or Blackberry phone (AFAIK it's not availabe for WP7, at least not yet). Install the PAM on our Linux box The f…
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Quick and Dirty SSH Tunneling
by Nothing Here- 0 replies
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Shawn shows us how to set up a quick SSH tunnel for accessing a computer behind a remote firewall. He demonstrates this from his hotel room 400 miles away from his home network! :)
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[How To] Cinnamon Desktop Dconf Settings - Linux GNOME
by Nothing Here- 0 replies
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Package: dconf-tools Description: simple configuration storage system - utilities DConf is a low-level key/value database designed for storing desktop environment settings. This package contains the command line tools. Note that DConf is not connected with the older Debian package named dconf. Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/dconf[/CODE] ****** Description: Cinnamon desktop Cinnamon redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME. Later, it will introduce a new applets eco-system and offer new solutions for other desktop features, su…
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Connecting to file servers is something most people do on a daily basis even without thinking about it. In Linux, it may not be intuitive how to quickly connect to a samba or ftp server without a separate program. Here are a few different ways to connect to a remote file server without needing to touch a terminal. Using Keyboard Shortcut You can connect to a server by opening the run application window with the Alt+F2 keyboard shortcut. You will just need to specify the server type by adding the protocol at the beginning of the command. For example smb:// will connect to a samba share; other supported protocols are ssh, ftp, sftp, http, and https. Note: In the example …
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One of the great things about Linux is that you can do the same thing hundreds of different ways?even something as simple as generating a random password can be accomplished with dozens of different commands. Here?s 10 ways you can do it. We gathered all of these commands from Command-Line Fu and tested them out on our own Linux PC to make sure they work. You should be able to use at least some of these on Windows with Cygwin installed, though we didn?t test all of them?the last one definitely works though. Generate a Random Password For any of these random password commands, you can either modify them to output a different password length, or you can just use the firs…
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Free Online Linux Books
by Behemoth- 9 replies
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[How To][Ubuntu]Manage Ubuntu Services With Boot Up Manager
by Nothing Here- 0 replies
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Boot Up Manager, is a Perl-Gtk2 app which can be used to easily start, stop or deactivate Ubuntu services without the need to configure complex backend options. You can install Boot Up Manager using the command line given below: apt-get install bum Boot Up Manager starts with the basic mode by default, check the Advanced checkbox to display additional options, such as startup and shutdown scripts Startup and Shutdown Scripts tab. Clicking on a script displays additional information about it in the text box at the bottom. Enjoy!
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Some music players are unable to read CUE files. A solution to this can be to split single lossless audio files into multiple FLAC or MP3 files. Split Lossless is an open source Nautilus script to split lossless audio files (APE, FLAC, WAVPACK) by CUE to FLAC and MP3 (320kbps or 192kbps) formats. It automatically adds tags to the split files, however, you can also manually edit tags for artist, album, date and genre. Using Split Lossless, you can also trash input files after conversion, and receive bubble message notifications after the process is complete. You can install Split Lossless Nautilus script using the following commands, which includes the developer?s (CokiDV…
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DoD Root Certificate Installation in Linux
by Gerowen- 0 replies
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Not sure how many of you this will apply to. Many of you may notice that, if you run Linux and use Google Chrome, you get prompted to "Proceed Anyway" any time you try to go to a DoD site, and some of them won't open at all. I've tried various methods of importing the certificates using Google Chrome and it never worked. The way I managed to get it to work was to use certutil to import the certificates into your personal PKI store so that not only Google Chrome, but other applications have trusted access to the root certificates. I read about it on this web-page. I wrote a short bash script to automate the process for you, and thought I would share with you guys. Do…
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Found this on OMG! UBUNTU, tested it myself on Ubuntu. You don't need any special applications, browser add-ons or terminal commands to save YouTube videos in Ubuntu: 1. Open the YouTube video you want in your browser. Let it load completely, with the quality setting you prefer (SD, HQ, HD). Do not close the browser at this point. 2. Open Nautilus and go to /tmp (File System -> tmp). You will find a file named Flash-something. If you have thumbnail previews enabled for video files, it will show up immediately. 3. Copy that file to another folder. Rename it as you please, with the extension .flv (not necessary, it'll just ease up organization and recognition of …
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[ubuntu]Application shortcut
by eliokh- 3 replies
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Hello... Im new to Linux.. i just downloaded and installed firefox 4.01 and i need to create a desktop shortcut to it so i dont use the terminal every time i need to run it an ubuntu forum suggested this: ln -sf /home/...../appname $HOME/Desktop but i am not being able to do so.. any help? Thank you in advance
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[Ubuntu] Font Remova
by Arkaic- 0 replies
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Trying to learn linux. google helps unfortunately I am having a problem here: attached. what can I do?
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Linux / Unix Cheat Sheets
by Barney T.- 19 replies
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I found this today......... :) http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/115/linux-...ate-collection/
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Extracting RAR Archives under Linux
by jbrooksuk- 10 replies
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Hey, I posted this on my blog a few months back, but I am re-posting it here as well. This will only work on Debian based systems. Firstly you need the good old terminal window open. Once that has opened type: sudo apt-get install rar You should now be asked for your admin password. If you are not the admin then you will need to ask them to install it. And that's it, RAR archiving will now work seamlessly with Archive Manager! Hope this helps, James
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Building a Linux Gaming Rig
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This dude will show you how! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Ob83mrTK0
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