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Archive for December, 2008

Easily read man pages in Firefox

Want your man pages read with proper formatting? Install man2html then open Firefox and do the following: Go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks;Open a bookmark folder then right-click and chose New Bookmark;Name the ne[...]


Terminal with no title bar, menu bar or scroll bar

It might just be that comes a time when you’ll need a terminal window that has no menu bar, no title bar or scroll bar. Just a plain and simple terminal window. Install Eterm and start it with Eterm -O --buttonBar [...]


Apt links in webpages

You can insert apt links in HTML by simply making a link to apt:package_name. For example: apt:yeahconsoleInstall YeahConsole. [...]


Color man pages in Linux

If you had enough of the default look of your man pages, set less as your default man page reader and insert these lines in your ~/.bashrc file: export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$’\E[01;31m’export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$R[...]