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  • How To Quickly Grab Screenshot Of Desktop From Terminal In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    How To Quickly Grab Screenshot Of Desktop From Terminal In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Feb 21, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to quickly grab screenshot of desktop from terminal in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – import -frame <filename.png> for example the command – import -frame screenshot.png will allow us to capture a screenshot of a portion of the desktop and save it as ‘screenshot.png’ in the [...]

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    How To Install Chromium Web Browser In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Feb 20, 2012 | No Comments

    Chromium web browser is an open source project on which Google Chrome is based. To install Chromium in Linux Mint / Ubuntu : 1. Open Terminal and type : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable 2. Then update the repository : sudo apt-get update 3. Finally, install the browser : sudo apt-get install chromium-browser After installation, Chromium will [...]

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  • How To Browse Images In A Folder Using Terminal In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    How To Browse Images In A Folder Using Terminal In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to browse images in a folder using terminal in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get install zgv 2. After the installation is complete, use the cd command go to directory in which images are present. 3. Once in the directory with images, issue the [...]

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  • How To Install And Use Razor-Qt Desktop In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    How To Install And Use Razor-Qt Desktop In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Feb 14, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to install and use razor-qt desktop in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo add-apt-repository ppa:razor-qt 2. Now issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get update 3. Issue the following command to install razor-qt desktop – sudo apt-get install razorqt 4. After the [...]

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  • How To Quickly Check And Update Your Firefox Plugins Selectively

    How To Quickly Check And Update Your Firefox Plugins Selectively

    by admin on Feb 11, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to quickly check and update your Firefox plugins selectively: 1. Go to www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ using your Firefox browser. Firefox will automatically be scanned for installed plugins and you will see which plugins are not updated. Now you can selectively click ‘Update’ to update only the plugins that you wish to update. The above method [...]

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  • How To Know How A Command Is Executed In Linux

    How To Know How A Command Is Executed In Linux

    by admin on Feb 10, 2012 | No Comments

    Here’s how to know how a command is executed in Linux: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – strace -c <absolute path to the command> for example, to know how ‘man’ command is executed, issue the following command at the terminal – strace -c /usr/bin/man The output will show you the system calls [...]

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