Linux based Operating Systems
1. SystemRescueCd is based on Xfce (cholesterol free Linux) OS provided as a bootable CD or USB for administrating or repairing desktop systems after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions,
To display the version from the terminal:
BASH (Bourne Again SHell) is the default command line shell used in Ubuntu and Kubuntu and many other Linux distributions. BASH allows you view and manipulate the command line history.
The following examples are from Kubuntu Konsole
List History
user@hostname:~$ history 1 sudo restart 2 sudo restart --help 3 reboot 4 sudo reboot . .. ... 709 history user@hostname:~$
List last 10 lines of history
user@hostname:~$ history 10 700 dmesg | less | grep error 701 sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf 702 history 703 ls 704 cd Annex 705 cd Annex 1 706 cd Music 707 cd ..
This problem exhibits itself when viewing css files with @media {…} queries with Kate text editor versions < v3.14. Kate highlights these sections incorrectly with red underline or similar.
The fix for this bug is to add <DetectSpaces/> to the MQEV context of Kate’s css.xml highlighting file so that it parses spaces after @media attribute and before the curly brace correctly.
In Kubuntu 14.04 css.xml is located in /usr/share/kde4/apps/katepart/syntax/css.xml
Edit this file with Kate as follows
kdesudo kate /usr/share/kde4/apps/katepart/syntax/css.xmlFind the second occurrence of “MQEV”
Follow the steps below to disable mouse middle or wheel click button:
From Terminal run xinput to discover the mouse device name
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Classic IntelliMouse® id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Belkin Corporation Flip CC id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ LITE-ON Technology USB NetVista Full Width Keyboard.
This cure is applicable to Linux based systems such as Kubuntu and Ubuntu.
Stop those annoying pop-ups intruding into your workspace by simply running Spotify Music player in a second desktop window and leave it maximised as follows: