Most of us by now have heard of Google’s Chrome web browser. The Chrome browser is based on an open source project called Chromium. There’s not really much difference between the two. Chromium is basically just Chrome without the Google branding and without the extensive EULA. You can install the Chromium browser from the PPA …
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Sometimes when you install a new program from the Ubuntu repositories, it doesn’t show up on the menu until you log out and log back in. You can easily reload the Gnome panel though by killing the process and restarting it. Simply open a terminal window and enter the following:
Continue reading How To Reload The Gnome Panel MenuMany Linux media players do a great job of keeping your screen saver from activating when you’re watching a video. But what about when you’re watching videos online? Firefox and other major browsers have no such feature to keep your screen active while watching videos.
Continue reading Keep Your Screen Awake With CaffeineThe Linux tee command is a way to write the standard output to a file. Or, to quote from the man page documentation, tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files This is a little different from redirecting output to a file.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Create Text Files With teeI’ve shown previously how to fade a single edge of an image with GIMP. That’s a cool effect, but sometimes you want to fade all of the edges of an image. So today I’m going to show you how to fade all of the edges of an image.
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