Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) uses the latest version of the Nautilus file manager (version 2.30.0). If you’ve been using Ubuntu for a while then you might be accustomed to using location entry in Nautilus. By default, Nautilus came up with the Button Bar to represent the current location in the file system.
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I’ve shown previously how to use the more command to view text output. Today I’ll show how to do the same thing with the less command. You can run the command simply by opening a terminal window and entering less followed by the file name. For example:
Continue reading Command Line Basics: View Text With lessIf you’ve added the Kubuntu packages to Ubuntu, or vice versa, then you can choose whether you want to use KDM or GDM to act as your log-in manager. To choose your log-in manager, open a terminal and enter
Continue reading How To Select Your Log-in Manager in UbuntuI’ve recently been doing a lot of testing on the next version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. After installing Ubuntu I also decided to add the Kubuntu packages to my system. This is easy to do with a simple One of the annoyances I have with this is that adding the Kubuntu packages through …
Continue reading How To Select The Splash Screen in Ubuntu LucidI’ve shown previously how to customize the Nautilus File Manager in GNOME/Ubuntu with Nautilus Actions. Today I’ll show how to add custom items to the file manager context menu in KDE4/Kubuntu. The KDE customizations work through desktop configuration files. These are the same type of files used to configure shortcuts on your desktop. When these …
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