Sleeptimer is a zenity bash script for automatic shutdown your system quite similar to Kshutdown and Gshutdown mentioned in this post, but with fewer features just for halting the system. The idea of this script inspired from automatic shutdown the system after watching movies without bothering yourself with closing currently active applications and windows, it will halt everything. Continue reading
pushd and popd commands become handy sometimes and make access to directories really quickly many times You can use pushd and popd commands in case you want to save a directory and want to get back to it later using popd. down there you will find a quick tutorial showing instructions for using pushd and popd commands, also i will type same instructions in this post. Continue reading
Linux Mint 10 distributions which comes with Mint-X-Metal theme has a scrollbar buttons at the end of the scrollbar for both vertical and horizontal scrollbars, so here a bash shell script will easily help you to easily move these buttons to both sides of the scrollbars. Continue reading
DesktopNova helps you to auto change backgrounds after an adjustable time from multiple files and folders you can add it to different profiles.
DesktopNova is quite similar to wally application we mentioned it before in this post Here also does same functions as DesktopNova but wally includes many features like searching for pictures on different search engines and artwork websites. Continue reading
It’s really important to know your machine hardware and software specifications to be able to install suitable packages for your machine, also if you had a problem that will help you to easily diagnose the problem. So here will show few command lines will help you to know your mahcine hardware specifications and software too. Continue reading
Remove obsolete packages, free up disk space this is a really important to run thees commands mentioned down here from time to time to keep your system performing really good and reduce lagging time for installing updates. In this quick [How To] will show you how to remove caches for Yum package manager. check Notes before going any further. Continue reading
Desktop gadget shows pictures in your desktop from many sources online image hosting or locally from directories located in your hard drive. Continue reading
GTK Window decorations is gone, Emerald window decorations is gone, compiz visual effects not working, Title bar is gone along with “close, minimize, maximize” buttons. Many of you guys maybe had to faced these problems before, usually happen when visual effect is active using compiz. so here i will show you how to easily fix these problems. Continue reading
Running multiple commands really helpful in many ways for installing packages, copying files, moving files, …. .Sometimes when you try to install a package output message show that you have install extra dependencies, this will be really annoying to install them one by one. with these commands will make it easily for you to write it once for all. Continue reading
File associations is a great feature on KDE desktop to easily associate a specific file type or extension to application with different priority for those installed applications. Continue reading
If you are a StatusNet user or Identi.ca user you will like to try StatusNet Desktop application, with StatusNet Desktop you can easily check your friends notices, replays, your inbox, personal time line, search on public time line, and connecting multiple accounts for Status.net or Identi.ca. Continue reading