Based on this stack-overflow response: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16956810/finding-all-files-containing-a-text-string-in-linux one way of searching for files containing a certain text patterns is: grep -rnw ‘directory’ -e “pattern” if you want to search relative to your current position replace “directory” with a . so: grep -rnw . -e “pattern”
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Changing the dim timeout and other power options can be done through gsettings to change dim timeout do: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 600 see also this link
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wanting to copy something from command line or maybe a file you can use xclip eg. copy your public ssh key from id_rsa.pub to clipboard directly from command line: cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -selection clipboard or cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -selection c source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/110347/command-line-clipboard-access
the program xev seems to enable one to monitor if key presses are captured and how they are translated
To get pgfplots you can use the ppa by johannes Reinhardt ppa:johannes-reinhardt/ppa but the newers build of pgfplots is for lucid so if you are on a newer ubuntu you need to change the release name from e.g. precise to lucid in the software manager. Another way is to manually add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/johannes-reinhardt/ppa/ubuntu lucid main […]
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To install java requires 5 steps Download java http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp choose the linux x64 unpack tar -xvf <downloaded file> move to desired directory(assume /usr/local/java) maybe chown -R root:root /usr/local/java add /usr/local/java/bin to path and set environment variable CLASSPATH to /usr/local/java/lib by adding to .profile: # add java bin to path PATH=”/usr/local/java/bin:$PATH” # set java classpath CLASSPATH=”/usr/local/java/lib” […]
Following this worked: http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-enable-hibernation-in-12-04 create/edit /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla with: sudo gedit /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla and insert [Re-enable hibernate by default] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate ResultActive=yes
After messing with Xorg.conf I could no longer login on my usual account. The guest account however still was able to login and I could login through terminals (Alt – Ctrl – F1). The problem got fixed when I deleted: ~/.Xauthority and rebooted
to monitor system events such as connecting/disconnecting usb devices do tail -f /var/log/syslog