nautilis fork ( File manager ) with tree view in sidebar.

2014-02-09 1 min read Fedora Gnome
Was searching for this for sometime now, finally found it. sudo yum install nemo sudo yum list nemo* First just install nemo. Configure nemo not to interfere with default desktop and also make it default handler. So, here are the settings that would do it. gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/applications/component_viewer/exec --type 'string' 'nemo "%s"' gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/trash/command --type 'string' 'nemo "%s"' gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false Now, if you need more functionality in file manager then check the list of nemo packages from the output of second command of yum. Continue reading

bash debug – log all executed commands

2014-02-03 1 min read bash
Screenshot of a Bash 3.1 session demonstrating its particularities. Shows exporting a variable, alias, type, Bash’s kill, environment variables PS1, BASH_VERSION and SHELLOPTS, redirecting standard output and standard error and history expansion. A POSIX session is launched from a normal session. Finally, the POSIX session kills itself (since just “exit” would be too boring). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Whenever I am writing a script in perl or bash, I always wish that there Continue reading

findmnt – find all the mounts and their source

2013-09-16 1 min read Linux
If you are looking for the source of a mount and the various options used in the mount, then the quickest way to get that is :: findmnt By default, with no parameters, it lists all the mounts in a tree like view and all the options used to mount the path. It also lists the source of the mount. By default again, it uses some capabilities of the terminal to show the tree which you can disable with the option “-a”. Continue reading

Find directory/file with inode number

2013-09-10 1 min read Fedora Linux
Couple of days back, I was getting the following error: Directory inode 2362521 has an unallocated block #245823. Allocate? And this continued for hours together and I was in a hurry. Did not really care about the error and all I wanted was to get rid of the error but for that I needed to get to the file/directory with inode number mentioned in the error and finally “find” command came to rescue: Continue reading

pkgwat -search packages for Fedora.

2013-08-23 1 min read Fedora
pkgwat is a nice utility to search the fedora packages websearch. Description : Pronounced "package WAT", pkgwat is a fast CLI tool for querying : the fedora packages webapp. : https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ : : You can make its search even better by helping us tag packages. : https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger And to search for a package, you can use :: pkgwat search pkgwat -h # get help on package. Related articles pkgwat.cli 0.8 Enabling Cisco WebEx in Fedora 19 Fedora Release Party F19, Venezuela

power save mode for battery in Fedora 19.

2013-08-20 1 min read Fedora
I was getting really bad battery life on my Fedora 19 system, and did not find much on how to tune it. Finally I found something that just does not need much configuration but works pretty well. So, here is what you need to do: sudo yum install tuned tuned-adm The second package, tuned-adm installs additional themes for power saving. It is optional and not mandatory. Once you have installed these, you can do the following: Continue reading

conky transparent window on Fedora with Gnome.

2013-07-22 1 min read Fedora Gnome
On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the configurations below in the conkyrc. Here the default color is set to LightSkyBlue but feel free to change that. I hope this helps fedora community who is struggling to get transparent window. And here is the code : Continue reading
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