If you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel.
][1]You will need to setup the rpm-shere repo for this.
Continue readingIf you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, where there are more chances that it will come up.
Alas, but you don’t have a shell or desktop session to do that. Simple, start the gnome-shell and before it is killed, do this:
Continue readingIf you work regularly on a Solaris or systems which do not have the “-r” (recursive grep) for grep, then you know what a lifesaver this command can be.
Here is one from command line fu:
find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n", FILENAME, NR, $0; }' {} \;
The benefit of using awk here is that you can print the line number also 🙂
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][1]Fedora now supports consistent device names across the network with bios device names for the ethernet devices. If you upgraded your earlier version of Fedora then you may need to go to root access to get this working.
Here is what you need to do:
Continue readingHere is one of the scripts that I found on the net while searching for something … Note the URL for the script in the Description.
#!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: linux_hw.sh # # USAGE: ./linux_hw.sh # # DESCRIPTION: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/solaris/get-the-processor-type-on-solaris/ # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com # COMPANY: Roamware India Pvt Ltd # CREATED: 09/13/2011 03:57:34 PM IST # Last modified: Sun Oct 30, 2011 04:59PM # REVISION: --- #=============================================================================== function linux_hw_CPU { typeset num=0 typeset name="" typeset cores="" name="$( cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: ' /vendor_id/ { vendor=$2 } /model name/ { model=$2 } /cpu MHz/ { if( model ~ "Hz" ) {speed=""} else { speed=$2? MHz" }; print vendor, model, speed; } ' | tail -1 )" num=$(if [ -r /proc/vmware/cpuinfo ]; then awk '/pcpu/ { print NF-1 }' /proc/vmware/cpuinfo; else cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor| wc -l; fi) # ESX: mas info sobre logical/cores/packages if [ -r /proc/vmware/sched/ncpus ] then cores=$( echo $( cat /proc/vmware/sched/ncpus ) ) fi echo $num $( echo "$name ($cores)" | enclose ) } function enclose { tr -s " " | sed -e "s/^/\"/; s/$/\"/; s/\"\ /\"/; s/\ \"/\"/" } function linux_hw_CPU { typeset num=0 typeset name="" typeset cores="" name="$( cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: ' /vendor_id/ { vendor=$2 } /model name/ { model=$2 } /cpu MHz/ { if( model ~ "Hz" ) {speed=""} else { speed=$2" MHz" }; print vendor, model, speed; } ' | tail -1 )" num=$( if [ -r /proc/vmware/cpuinfo ] then awk '/pcpu/ { print NF-1 }' /proc/vmware/cpuinfo else cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor| wc -l fi ) if grep -q "physical id" /proc/cpuinfo || grep "siblings" /proc/cpuinfo then chip_count=$( grep "physical id" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l ) chip_core=$( grep "siblings" /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1 | cut -d: -f2 ) cores="($chip_count chips x $chip_core cores)" fi # Blades HP con if [ -x /sbin/hpasmcli ] then chip_name=$( /sbin/hpasmcli -s "SHOW SERVER" | grep "Name" | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 ) chip_speed=$( /sbin/hpasmcli -s "SHOW SERVER" | grep "Speed" | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 ) chip_core=$( /sbin/hpasmcli -s "SHOW SERVER" | grep "Core" | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 ) fi # ESX: mas info sobre logical/cores/packages if [ -r /proc/vmware/sched/ncpus ] then cores="($( echo $( cat /proc/vmware/sched/ncpus ) ))" fi # Linux Itanium IA64 if grep -q -i itanium /proc/cpuinfo then name="$( grep "vendor" /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2- | tail -1 ) $( grep "arch " /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2- | tail -1 ) $( grep "family" /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2- | tail -1 ) $( grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2- | cut -d. -f1 | tail -1 ) Mhz" chip_count=$( grep "physical id" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l ) chip_core=$( grep "siblings" /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1 | cut -d: -f2 ) cores="($chip_count chips x $chip_core cores)" fi echo $num $( echo "$name $cores" | enclose ) } linux_hw_CPU
Here is something that I found on the commandlinefu
cp /work/host/phone/ui/main.cpp !#$:s/host/target
Ah well…its very interesting and very useful.
Some explanation:
!# – means the current command (similar to !! being the last command)
$ – represents the last parameter
:s – is used for substitution.
Here is the quick look at how the Font Selector looks like now. And its not just for the gnome-tweak-tool, its for all the places for font selection. I really loved it. So intuitive to use and amazingly good to look. This is what a good design and thinking can do. Kudos to Gnome team for coming up with this.
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