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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the earlier posts described how to access a SSH server from Linux Mint/Ubuntu using a SSH client like Putty. Let’s see how to install and configure a SSH server as shown in given scenario which is very common : The basic idea here is that the SSH server needs to be able to [...]
Here’s how to quickly update Linux Mint / Ubuntu with a single command: Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y Enter your user password when prompted and then sit back and relax while your Linux Mint / Ubuntu distribution gets updated.