23 Sep, 2008
If you wish to print (or see) a preview of your installed fonts under linux. I found this command myself:
Here is the All-in-One command, copy and paste all this in a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal):
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| (echo '<html><body>' && (fc-list | sed 's/\(.*\):.*/<font face="\1">\1<\/font><br>/') && echo '</body></html>') > fonts.html
firefox fonts.html |
Then Hit Enter.
This should open firefox and open fonts.html, by itself.
Otherwise, go to your user's directory and open fonts.html yourself.
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22 Sep, 2008
Tired of using the Find command? want something faster? Use locate!!! It's easy to use.
Would give you all the files found since last indexing.
Locate uses a database containing file indexes. That's why it is very fast to find files, that's the good point of this system. The bad point is that the database is not updated everytime you create/move/delete a file. But it's easy to force updating.
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12 Sep, 2008
If you have a Compaq Presario 2100 or Omnibook, or some laptops like this, you can use this program to help you fix the mute key or some other hotkeys. In fact, the program will activate them, then you can assign them to a special task.
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11 Sep, 2008
After removing linux or changing a few stuff about your disk partitions. Grub might become unhappy and give you an Error 22 when booting windows.
This is quite easy to fix if you have your windows XP CD.
- Put your cd in, and reboot.
- When asked, hit a key to boot from the cd-rom.
- When you see the screen where it asks if you want to install, recover, or whatever, push R to recover/repair,
- It should ask you what windows you want to recover/repair, usually hit 1 and Enter.
- For the administrator password, if you don't think you have one, just hit Enter
- Then type "fixboot" and hit ENTER
- Type "fixmbr" and hit ENTER
- Type exit
- Remove the CD
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11 Sep, 2008
In Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and also 8.04.1, when you set up your compose key and you activate the automatic login, the compose key is not set at all everytime you start you computer.
I found a quick and clean fix for this using ~/.gnomerc.
Here's how :
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7 Sep, 2008
Here's a quick and easy way to have Thunderbird in the tray, use FireTray!
FireTray is for Firefox but it works perfectly with Thunderbird 2.
When you are on the module page, just drag and drop the download button into Thunderbird's addon window. And restart it.
Enjoy.
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