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 »

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=$’\E[01;31m’export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$’\E[01;37m’export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$’\E[0m’export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$’\E[0m’export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$’\E[01;44;33m’export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$’\E[0m’export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$’\E[01;32m’

Quickly create a video presentation of your Linux desktop

Linux users enjoy various sets of tools that allow one to record the active desktop. From GUI applications to command line scripts. A simple way is to use just vncserver: vncserver -geometry 800×600 Open another Terminal window an type vncrec -record desktop.vncrec to start recording. Connect to localhost:1 when asked. Hit the F8 key when… Read More »