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install deb packages in terminal, Ubuntu

Open terminal & write the following :
sudo dpkg -i

Trash bin on Ubuntu Desktop

Run Terminal & write the following command to run the Configuration Editor :

• $ sudo gconf-editor

Then go to apps/nautilus/desktop and select 'trash_icon_visible'.

Take a snapshot of an area on your Desktop

This command ran in the terminal allows you to select an area on the desktop and have a snapshot of it ... very handy for making guides :-)

• user@computer:~$ import test.png

After this you will have a file called test.png created on your desktop which contains a snapshot of selected area.

Chrome 5.0 ready for Linux

My tips about browsers for Linux, is Google Chrome. I love Firefox myself, but Chrome for Linux is perfect. While Firefox is pretty slow under Linux, Chrome is a fast reliable tools for your everyday surfing. This doesn't mean that you should throw away Firefox though, because Chrome still has its downsides. When it comes to running certificated Java applications on Internet banks still Chrome is not working properly :-(, but in everyother place, it works just perfect ...


Latest News : Chrome 5.0 is ready for Linux :
Source : About.com

The web browser Chrome, developed by Google, has finally been released as an official stable release for Linux. Google Chrome 5.0 for Linux is described by the developers as solid, high performance, and fully-featured.
Highlights of the latest version include HTML 5 functionality, such as geolocation programming interfaces, application caching, and drag-and-drop capability. Using Google accounts, you can now copy browser preferences to other machines, so you don't have to manually customize your Chrome browser on every computer you are using.

How is Chrome different from other browsers? The first item would be speed. Like the Google search engine, Chrome has been designed for speed. This shows for example in the start-up time, which is several times shorter than that of Firefox.

Another interesting feature is the "incognito" mode, which allows you to surf the Internet without the browser tracking where you are going or what you are doing. That is, it won't save your browsing history.

Chrome tries to integrate the Internet with your PC by making it easy to add short-cuts to web sites to your desktop. Not surprisingly, web search is tightly integrated as well, so that you can alternatively enter a URL or a search phrase in the address field on the "Omnibar".

However you are not limited to using Google as search engine. By typing another common search tool, such as Yahoo or Live Search in front of your search phrase you are engaging that web service instead.

Another one of Chrome's novel features is "tab isolation". This means, if the web page in one particular tab causes trouble or crashes, it does not affect the other tabs. Furthermore, you can monitor CPU and memory usage of each tab and kill it if its requirements get out of hand. You can access the Chrome task manager through the "page" menu to the right of the search/address field. From there you would go to Developer and select Task manager.

Changing your Desktop on your local linux computer to another directory

The default location of your Desktop folder is ~/Desktop. You might want to have it pointing to another location(online home directory forexample). Run the terminal and run the follwoing command :

gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Find : XDG_DESKTOP_DIR. Change it to the right path that you like: 

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" 
change it to :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Test/NewDesktop"


After changing it to the right address, again run the follwoing command in the terminal :
killall nautilus 
OR simply log off and log in again.

Change your desktop to your home directory

to change your simple default desktop to your homedir :

1. open gconf-editor
2. browse to /apps/nautilus/preferences entry in it
3. set desktop_is_home_dir flag