The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
users-admin – Users Administration Tool Synopsisusers-admin [OPTION…] Descriptionusers-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration. users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system. Optionsusers-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options. Authorsusers-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho…
userpasswd – A graphical tool to allow users to change their passwords. Synopsisuserpasswd [ options ] Descriptionuserpasswd is a graphical tool to allow users to easily change their passwords. Aside from being a nice GUI frontend, this program does the right thing when the pam configuration has changed. OptionsThis program has no command line options…
usermount – A graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems. Synopsisusermount [ options ] userformat [ options ] device Descriptionusermount is a graphical tool to allow users to easily manage removable media, such as floppy disks or zip disks. When the tool starts up, it scans /etc/fstab for all filesystems that have been configured…
userinfo – A graphical equivilient to chfn. Synopsisuserinfo [ options ] Descriptionuserinfo is a graphical tool to allow users to conveniently change their finger information. OptionsThis program has no command line options of its own, but it does take the standard X program options like -display and such. See the X(1) man page for some…
use-devel-checklib – a script to package Devel::CheckLib with your code. DescriptionThis script, when run in the directory in which your shiny new module lives, will bundle Devel::CheckLib in the "inc" directory, and update your Makefile.PL (or Build.PL) appropriately. If neither exists, it will create a Makefile.PL. Synopsis use-devel-checklib list of librariesWARNINGS, BUGS and FEEDBACKThis script…
usbredirserver – exporting an USB device for use from another (virtual) machine Synopsisusbredirserver [-p|–port <port>] [-v|–verbose <0-5>] <usbbus-usbaddr|vendorid:prodid> Descriptionusbredirserver is a small standalone server for exporting an USB device for use from another (virtual) machine through the usbredir protocol. You can specify the USB device to export either by USB id in the form of…
usbmuxd – Expose a socket to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices. Synopsisusbmuxd [OPTIONS] Descriptionusbmuxd stands for "USB multiplexing daemon". This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iOS device. To users, it means you can sync your music, contacts, photos, etc. over USB. To developers, it means you can…
usbguard — USBGuard command-line interface Synopsisusbguard [OPTIONS] command [COMMAND-OPTIONS] … usbguard list-devices usbguard allow-device <id> usbguard block-device <id> usbguard reject-device <id> usbguard list-rules usbguard append-rule <rule> usbguard remove-rule <id> usbguard generate-policy usbguard watch usbguard read-descriptor <file> DescriptionThe usbguard command provides a command-line interface (CLI) to the usbguard-daemon(8) instance and provides a tool for generating initial USBGuard policies. Subcommandslist-devices List all USB devices recognized by…
usbguard-applet-qt — USBGuard Qt applet Synopsisusbguard-applet-qt DescriptionUSBGuard Qt applet for interaction with the USBGuard daemon. OptionsThere are currently no options available. Security ConsiderationsThe applet uses the USBGuard public IPC interface to talk to the daemon component. Depending on your distribution defaults, the access to this interface is limited to a certain group or a specific…
usb_modeswitch_dispatcher – Linux wrapper for usb_modeswitch (not intended for direct invocation) Synopsisusb_modeswitch_dispatcher Descriptionusb_modeswitch_dispatcher will do detailed device checking and will subsequently use the Linux-independent usb_modeswitch binary together with the selected device config file to switch the mode of certain USB devices. If no drivers are taking care of the device after the mode switch, the…
usb_modeswitch – control the mode of ‘multi-state’ USB devices Synopsisusb_modeswitch [-heWQDIvpVPmM23rwKdHSOBGTNALnsRiuagft] [-c filename] DescriptionSeveral new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, most of them WWAN and WLAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act like a flash storage and start installing the Windows driver from there. If the driver is…
usb-devices – print USB device details Synopsisusb-devices Descriptionusb-devices is a shell script that can be used to display details of USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them. The output of the script is similar to the usb/devices file available either under /proc/bus (if usbfs is mounted), or under /sys/kernel/debug (if debugfs…
urxvtd – urxvt terminal daemon Synopsisurxvtd [-q|–quiet] [-o|–opendisplay] [-f|–fork] [-m|–mlock] [-e|–eval perlstring] urxvtd -q -o -f # for .xsession use DescriptionThis manpage describes the urxvtd daemon, which is the same vt102 terminal emulator as urxvt, but runs as a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process. You can run it from…
urxvtc – control the urxvtd daemon Synopsisurxvtc [same options as for urxvt] DescriptionThis manpage describes the urxvtc client program. It connects to the urxvtd daemon and requests a new terminal window. It takes the same arguments as the urxvt program. The environment will also be respected. Currently, it always returns immediately after contacting the daemon….
urxvt256cd – urxvt256c terminal daemon Synopsisurxvt256cd [-q|–quiet] [-o|–opendisplay] [-f|–fork] [-m|–mlock] [-e|–eval perlstring] urxvt256cd -q -o -f # for .xsession use DescriptionThis manpage describes the urxvt256cd daemon, which is the same vt102 terminal emulator as urxvt256c, but runs as a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process. You can run it from…
urxvt256cc – control the urxvt256cd daemon Synopsisurxvt256cc [same options as for urxvt256c] DescriptionThis manpage describes the urxvt256cc client program. It connects to the urxvt256cd daemon and requests a new terminal window. It takes the same arguments as the urxvt256c program. The environment will also be respected. Currently, it always returns immediately after contacting the daemon….
rxvt-unicode (ouR XVT, unicode) – (a VT102 emulator for the X window system) Synopsisurxvt256c [options] [-e command [ args ]] Descriptionrxvt-unicode, version 9.21, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt-unicode uses much…
xim-onthespot – implement XIM "on-the-spot" behaviour DescriptionThis perl extension implements OnTheSpot editing. It does not work perfectly, and some input methods don’t seem to work well with OnTheSpot editing in general, but it seems to work at least for SCIM and kinput2. You enable it by specifying this extension and a preedit style of "OnTheSpot",…
tabbed – tabbed interface to urxvt DescriptionThis transforms the terminal into a tabbar with additional terminals, that is, it implements what is commonly referred to as “tabbed terminal”. The topmost line displays a “[NEW]” button, which, when clicked, will add a new tab, followed by one button per tab. Clicking a button will activate that…
selection – more intelligent selection (enabled by default) DescriptionThis extension tries to be more intelligent when the user extends selections (double-click and further clicks). Right now, it tries to select words, urls and complete shell-quoted arguments, which is very convenient, too, if your ls supports "–quoting-style=shell". A double-click usually selects the word under the cursor,…