Posts Tagged Ubuntu
Automatic Command Archive
Posted by Srijith R in linux, shell scripting on August 17, 2010
The default command storing size of ubuntu is 500 commands. It stores the commands in home folder in the file “.bash_history” .
The problem is 500 commands is too short of a size.
One method is to increase the command size to a large value by changing the $HISTFILESIZE variable using the following command
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Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux
Posted by Srijith R in gnome, linux, shell scripting on August 13, 2010
I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is “gconftool-2“.
So code is like:
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“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus
Posted by Srijith R in linux, shell scripting on August 10, 2010
It’s been a common practice among the windows users to right click and search for “Send To” option when a file needs to copied to the USB or any other Drive.
Why spare me, even i used to do this while using windows, when to my astonishment i found that there exists no such option in the default window (“Nautilus”) in Ubuntu. So i thought of making one for my convenience.
Nautilus supports user scripts inside it. This can be easily embedded into the manager by inserting it into the folder ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ folder where ~ stands for the shortcut for home folder.
I used zenity ( a in build gnome dialog box) to get the radio box for selecting the drive to copy to.
The Send to function looks like this
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