Category Archives: Applications

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 new bookmark Man;In the Location field paste this line: http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=%s In the Keyword field type man;Click Add. Now all you have to… Read More »

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 no –scrollBar no -x -f WHITE -g 100×15+30+900 This will set a white foreground… Read More »

Run VMWare client operating systems faster

If you find VMWare rather slow and would like to speed things a little bit, ad these lines to the .vmx file of your guest operating system: sched.mem.pshare.enable = “FALSE”prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = “TRUE”prefvmx.minVmMemPct = “100”mainMem.partialLazySave = “FALSE”mainMem.partialLazyRestore = “FALSE”mainMem.useNamedFile = “FALSE”