How to manage Linux console screen by commands? When the screen will be blanked? Put the screen into powerdown mode or power off the screen? 2 tools are useful for managing the console screen on Linux: setterm – set terminal attributes.vbetool – run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state. When the screen will…
I find git diff output is not easy to read when the text file contains long lines that is long enough to exceeds the screen size. We may not forbid the using the long lines for all files. How to handle lone lines in git diff better? Two possible methods to make git diff with…
How to exclude users from appearing in the GDM login screen of Gnome 3? There is a long-time bug related to this ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723708 ) which causes that the /etc/gdm/custom.conf has no effect. The closes workaround I find working on Fedora 20 is to totally disable listing of users (run as root): cat > /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-mysettings…
How to force MPlayer to start a video at the center of the screen? I assume you are using Linux. Put this line into your ~/.mplayer/config: geometry=50%:50% Check more options in MPlayer manual.
I am tired of the non-efficient “Print Screen” -> Paste in Paint -> Save way. How to efficiently take screenshot on Windows 7? On Windows 7 and later ones, the “Snipping Tool” is handy. Press the “Win” key and input “snipping tool”. The tool will appear in the menu. You can select the whole window,…
How to make gnuplot generate eps files instead of plot the figures on screen? First, save a Gnuplot plot as a PostScript file by this commands: # gnuplot> load ‘saveplot’ # gnuplot> !mv my-plot.ps another-file.ps The saveplot file’s content: set size 1.0, 0.6 set terminal postscript portrait enhanced mono dashed lw 1 “Helvetica” 14 set…
utop is an improved toplevel for OCaml supporting line edition, history, real-time and context sensitive completion, colors and etc. utop is convenient to use. However, the key bindings are a little bit different from the ones with GNU readline. What are all the key bindings? The #utop_bindings command will print all the key bindings. Here…
How to tell whether the shell is run in screen? For example, I run screen and it starts a bash environment. How to tell in the bash, whether it is run by screen or it is a normal bash environment? It can be identified by checking the TERM environment variable: In a bash in screen:…
How to install the Cinnamon desktop environment on Fedora 19? On Fedora 19: # yum groupinstall ‘Cinnamon Desktop’ to install the packages needed for the Cinnamon desktop environment. Then, in the login screen, select ‘Cinnamon’ in the “Session” menu and you will start the Cinnamon desktop environment.
I have a “t_form” table and a “t_attribute” table. It looks a little bit like below. Form table form_id | form_name | description ———————————– 1 | Laptop | Possible attributes are Model, Screen Size, OS, Cd Player 2 | Mobile | Possible attributes are Model, OS 3 | Tablet | Possible attributes are Model, Screen…
How to Sync the Contacts in My iPhone with Google Gmail Account? To sync your Google contacts, one good method is using CardDAV. You’ll be able to edit, add, and remove contacts from your device and keep them in sync with your Google Gmail account. It is straightforward: Open the Settings application on your device….
iPhone has the touch screen. Is is possible to turn my iPhone to a wireless mouse on Linux? Use the WiFi Mouse app/server: http://wifimouse.necta.us/ First, install the WiFi Mouse app on you iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id591076411?mt=8 Second, install the WiFi Mouse server downloaded from http://wifimouse.necta.us/ If you are using Fedora Linux, you need to convert the .deb…
I have a Fedora Linux server with Gnome 3. I want to lock / unlock the remote Gnome desktop remotely. How to activate or deactivate it remotely through SSH? Use gnome-screensaver-command. It is not specific to Gnome 3. Turn the screensaver on (blank the screen): $ gnome-screensaver-command -a If the screensaver is active then deactivate…
What are the Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows? Keyboard shortcuts of Chrome can make it easier to control the browser and save our time. Here are a list of commonly used shortcuts: Ctrl+T Opens a new tab. Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle…
Introduction In this tutorial, we will be learning as how to deploy .NET Core 2.0 MVC web application on Microsoft Public Cloud i.e. Microsoft Azure, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 v15.3 For novice Cloud developers, aspiring .NET / Cloud architects, and all other IT professionals associated with the .NET Core framework & Cloud computing, especially…
Call forwarding is useful if you are expected to be unavailable for receiving calls or lose cell phone coverage for some time. Call forwarding is not something that is “new” to modern phones. It is a feature which is invented in 1960s (the patent expired in 1980) of some telephone switching systems. But with iPhone/iOS,…
There are many Vim tutorials and Vim tips on the Web. However, I find the vimtutor provides the best tutorial among those so far as I found on the Web while the vimtutor seems usually reachable from a terminal which is not obviously known to Vim beginners who are usually Linux beginners too. This page…
In this tutorial, Microsoft Dynamics CRM India experts will teach you how to filter salutation based on Gender field in MS CRM. You can follow the step-by-step guide shared in this post to avail the results. Description- According to the requirement we need to filter salutation based on gender in contact entity. For this we…
Gnome Shell has a clean design. But many users want to get more from the desktop environment. Gnome 3’s extension system can help users customize the Gnome Shell’s look greatly. In this post, we summarize 6 extensions we considered essential to make Gnome Shell great. AlternateTab Make Alt-Tab “classic” instead of grouping windows by application….
In this post, asp.net development India based professionals will brief you about the interesting feature of AngularJS, that I Routing. You will learn the method to split the single page into multiple views. For more info, read the article. In this article we are going to see one of the most useful feature of AngularJS…