MATE is Gnome fork. It gives you same experience of gnome2. Many gnome2 users have shifted to Xfce to avoid gnome3. MATE can give you same old experience. Installation of MATE is simple as packages are available for many distros. Installation instructions are available on site. Fedora Ubuntu Debian Linux Mint Salix OS/Slackware Archlinux Installation [...]
Full Story »Ubuntu 12.04 enable other user login – root
With latest 12.04 release there is no option to login as other user on login screen. Normally this is not required as login for all users appears on login screen. This is required only when you try to login as root user. To enable other user login, run following command. sudo echo “greeter-show-manual-login=true” >> /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf [...]
Full Story »Install Xfce using Source – Fedora / Ubuntu
Latest version of Xfce is released. If you wish to try this on your favorite distro, you’ll need to install from source. Here we are using xfce 4.10. Its been tested on Fedora 16 & Ubuntu 12.04. Pl try this on test machine before trying on production machine. Once you install using source, you’ll not [...]
Full Story »Android – Install Indian Fonts
Download DroidIndia.ttf If you are comfortable with ADB, copy & paste following commands on shell / cmd adb shell "mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system" adb shell "cp /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf /sdcard/" adb push DroidIndia.ttf /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf adb shell "chmod 777 /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf" Otherwise, you can use file explorer to copy DroidIndia.ttf to /system/fonts 1) copy /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf to /sdcard/ #backup [...]
Full Story »Ubuntu 12.04- Howto Switch to Xfce
Like many others if you dislike gnome Or unity & prefer to use old simple desktop look, run following command to install xfce on your newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 sudo apt-get install xfce4 Now you have both unity & xfce, you can switch desktop at login screen. If there are icons missing in file manager [...]
Full Story »Transmission Daemon -CentOS / Fedora / Ubuntu
Transmission is Torrent / Magnet link client vastly used on Linux, its available for almost all distros. If you are willing to use it as headless / VM to download torrents with minimal installation on your CentOS / Fedora / RHEL distro following is the packages needs to be installed & configuration required to access [...]
Full Story »XenServer- Take VM Backup using Bash
Following is the basic bash script to take vm backup using bash & send confirmation mail. This script assumes you already have your backup storage mounted as /mnt/back/ #!/bin/bash #dpthakar@gmail.com #http://www.linuxreaders.com # #this basic script is created to take xenserver guest backup using snapshots #it will first of all create a snapshot for a specific [...]
Full Story »XenServer- Take VM Snapshots using Bash
Following is the script that can be used to take snapshots of running vm, once run it will send mail to ADMIN for the list of the VM snapshots #!/bin/bash #dpthakar@gmail.com #http://www.linuxreaders.com # #this basic script is created to take xenserver guest snapshots #ths script is tested only on standalone server NOT ON SERVER POOL [...]
Full Story »CentOS / Fedora does not shut / reboot using virsh -KVM
Once you are done installing centos / fedora os on kvm as a guest / vm, you may face trouble shutting / reboot using virt-manager or virsh. This can happen only if acpid is not installed or running. Run following commands on centos / fedora guest to enable support for shut / reboot. yum install [...]
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