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How to create a shortcut in your desktop?

Posted in Linux on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I used to keep my desktop empty and store all my necessary folders in  /home/verman, which has about 50 to 60 folders  and while working in GUI mode, i faced a problem in accessing my personal folder which was located in /home/verman .
So i tried to create shortcut in my desktop by just a [...]

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Convert AVI to 3gp using ffmpeg

Posted in Linux on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

ffmpeg is an excellent application on video conversion.
It supports most of the file formats
My Friend T.Shrinivasan helped me in converting AVI to 3gp
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How to Enable and Disable Ubuntu Root Password

Posted in Linux on March 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

In few Linux distributions , root account will not enabled.
ubuntu is one of the Linux distributions, In which root account is not enabled.
instead of root they use “sudo”
“sudo” means superuser do.
When type sudo in the terminal it will prompt for “Password:”, where we will type specific user password to work as root.

Suppose If you [...]

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How to quickly restart X Windows on Ubuntu

Posted in Linux on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

By Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination the X windows will quickly restart the current session.
This can be done in all ubuntu version of linux.
(or)
type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
from your terminal to quickly restart the current session.
Note: Make sure that you save your work before you do.

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