Linux Desktop

Graphical desktop users have no reason to scoff at this approach. Plenty of text-mode versions of productivity applications are equivalent to the applications most people use on a graphical desktop. For example, the text-mode email client called ...

If you just want to make your special function keys on your fancy Internet and multimedia keyboard work, take a look at [Hack #28] and [Hack #29] . But if you want to fine-tune how keystrokes affect virtual text consoles, this is the place for y...

You can exploit the power of the preceding keyboard customization technique to a much greater degree than just redefining the action of a key. You can actually define keys to send strings of characters, which, at the console, means issuing comman...

For many writers and programmers, screenshots are useful for showcasing how an interface or program looks. Although grabbing a screenshot is often as simple as running a small utility or clicking an option, some grabbers are not as flexible as yo...

This hack saves command-line prompt space without sacrificing the informational value that prompt hacks often add to command-line prompts. Sure, it's great to see the date, time, uptime, and phase of the moon in your bash prompt, but most scheme...

Every Linux user probably knows there's an environment variable called PATH. When you type a command, your system looks through all the directories defined in the PATH environment variable until it finds the command. If it doesn't find the comm...

Yet when you pipe the colored file listing through a pager such as less, the pager ignores the colors and turns the output into black and white. You might notice this when you execute a commonly used command, such as ls -al | less. Most Linux ...