How to uninstall software on Ubuntu and other useful tips.
How to uninstall software on an Ubuntu system and other very useful tips.
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A tip to fix the delayed audio playback when using Pulseaudio.
A nice fix for the delayed audio when using Pulseaudio.
Add a nice progress bar to the MPV movie player.
How to have a persistent progress bar in MPV.
Wayland on Linux is not the best solution for Linux at the moment.
Wayland is not the future of Linux. But what is?
How to fix the annoying please install updates error when using do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu.
How to fix an annoying packages error on Ubuntu.
A very interesting C program, this prints the offsets in a C struct.
How to get the offsets of all items in a C struct.
Download videos from websites easily using yt-dlp.
How you can download a variety of online videos using yt-dlp on Linux.
How to best extract sound from a video using FFmpeg.
How to use FFmpeg to rip the audio from a video file very easily.
How to list all web browsers with Wireshark.
Some useful tips and tricks for using Wireshark on your network.
The MATE desktop is still a better alternative to Gnome Shell.
How to install MATE on Manjaro Linux and enjoy a nice and fast Linux desktop environment.
How to disable the annoying F-keys function in Byobu.
How to fix the annoying keybinds in Byobu when using it over SSH. This interferes with the keys in Midnight Commander.
How to generate a very secure password very quickly.
How to use the Linux command line to generate a secure password. And how to create a password string for /etc/shadow with the command line.
How to install and use MySQL in 2022. This has changed a bit since the early days.
How to install and use MySQL in 2022 with the proper password set for the root user. How to fix the ‘SET PASSWORD has no significance for user ‘root’@’localhost” error and use this database properly.
How to add a new user on Ubuntu server and add a desktop environment if desired.
Adding a new user to the Ubuntu server is very simple. The useradd command may be used in a script to create multiple users very easily. This is a very good bash shell script to create a bunch of users in one go. All you need to do after this is assign new passwords to …
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Xterm tips to make this simple terminal emulator even better.
Some very useful tips for setting up the Xterm terminal emulator on Linux or UNIX.
Ubuntu Linux tips and various tricks to master the command-line interface.
Ubuntu Linux tips and tricks for using it on the desktop. The main thing about using Linux is getting it installed is one thing, but getting various hardware working and configured is another. Nvidia drivers are one major stumbling block for willing Ubuntu users. Here is a nice tutorial that explains how to install Nvidia …
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How to add subtitles to a movie with ffmpeg on Linux.
Merging a subtitle *.srt file to a move on Linux is very easy. Just download a suitable srt file from the Internet, then put it in the same directory as the TV show or movie you have. Then do this to merge the two. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 …
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Get information about running services with Systemd on Ubuntu.
The Systemd framework in Ubuntu may be used to get good information about running services on your machine. This is very easy. To list all active services on your Ubuntu machine, use this command. [email protected]:~/Videos$ systemctl list-units –type=service –[email protected]:~/Videos$ systemctl list-units –type=service –state=active Or this command which is a fast way to list all running …
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Very nice Windows 7 basic aero theme for Linux GTK apps.
This theme I found is a very nice GTK theme for your Linux machine. This themes your desktop computer to look like Windows 7 basic. With a non-transparent Windows 7 styled GTK look and Window borders. Download the theme here. https://codeload.github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-7/zip/2.1. This is what this theme looks like. It is very nice indeed. And the …
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How to play 3 videos at once with mpv on Linux.
There is a very nice trick you can do with MPV on Linux. This is playing 3 videos at once. In the above image, I am playing 3 videos at once with mpv on Linux. This is very easy to do and a lot of fun. This is how to do it. Have one initial …
