1st September 2009
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Applications, System
If you start a GTK GUI with root permissions and you notice that it uses the old GTK theme, you can make all applications started as root to use your current theme by doing this:
sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themessudo ln[...]
Tags: GTK, theme, Ubuntu
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30th August 2009
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System, cli
NTP sometimes greatly slows down your Ubuntu’s boot time. To disable it just do a simple
sudo apt-get remove ntpdate
[...]
Tags: ntp, Ubuntu
4 Comments
22nd August 2009
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System, cli
If you want to disable X screen blanking (aka. disable the X screensaver) that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer, all you have to do is
setterm -powersave off -blank 0
To make the chang[...]
Tags: blank, screen saver, X
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21st August 2009
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Applications, Multimedia
Most DivX/XviD movies you download from Torrent sites are packed in multiple RAR archives. It takes some time for each to extract. If you don;t want to wait, you can use VLC and unrar to play the file within instantly. Y[...]
Tags: files, movie, RAR, unrar, video, VLC
3 Comments