Using a combination of cut and uniq , it is possible to extract all distinct lines from a given file: cut -d\; -f1 file.txt | uniq It is op...

Using sed, it is possible to quickly extract all characters before a given marker from all lines in a file with: sed 's/MARKER.*//' ...

The default location of docker files (images, volumes, networks, etc) on most distributions is /var/lib/docker This can be easily changed ...

Some applications you install come as archives that you extract in a desired location. However, not all come with an installer that takes ca...

In order to group application windows together, the WMClass and WMInstance attributes have been specified in the Inter-Client Communicatio...

We already saw how to customize a keyboard layout on Windows , now it's the turn of Linux, using XKB for Xorg . Remapping keys is as s...

Most of the world uses Microsoft Windows and Office, therefore it might be sometimes necessary to generate documents using Microsoft fonts, ...

Intro story: So much luck in a single day. I always keep only 2 kernel versions after every update, so that I can boot back if something g...

We sometimes struggle to keep up with all the things that are constantly evolving, so I like how Ubuntu still gives us reassurances that som...

The openbox window manager bundled with LUbuntu is powerful enough to provide the same functionality as similar applications, but it's u...

Again, out of all the nice to have stuff people left out of LXDE, an easy way to edit the clock date and time format is missing. Luckily, ...

LXDE is extremely lightweight, maybe a bit too much, in the sense that they left out some user-friendly portions such as an easy graphical w...

If you experience issues with the keyboard num lock not being automatically activated at boot or after lock screen wakeup in LXDE, try this:...

LUbuntu users may encounter a bug that prevents them from locking the screen either from command line or keyboard shortcut. In my case, s...