Sometimes, it helps save precious time if you can quickly access recently-opened files. In Ubuntu, the file explorer that ships with the distribution does offer this functionality, but you may need to take some steps before the option shows up. For example, the following screenshot shows that the option isn't enabled in my case: In ... Read more
Archives come in really handy when you want to share large amount of data over the Internet or through removable media (like USB drives). In Linux, the .tar.gz is one of the most used archive format. While accessing the size of an archive is a cake walk, extracting it lets you know the original size ... Read more
Have you recently upgraded your Ubuntu machine from version 16.10 to 17.04? Are you missing the "Open New Terminal" option that used to be there in the right-click menu of the terminal icon in the launcher? If your answer to both these questions is yes, then you'll be glad to know that there exists a ... Read more
Launching a Web browser isn't a big deal - all you have to do is to click its icon. Alternatively, you can also easily launch a Web browser from the command line. But what about a new tab? While it's a cake walk to open a new tab from within the Web browser window, do ... Read more
When you clone a virtual machine from any existing snapshot in VMware and you get the following error in VMWare, the reason is VM was powered on or suspended when you took that snapshot. So you only have an option to clone the VM from its current state. You cannot make a clone of a virtual machine or snapshot ... Read more
If you are an Ubuntu user, you might have observed the dialog box that gets displayed when you quickly press and leave the power button. The dialog box contains icons to Lock, Suspend, Restart, and Shutdown the system. Have you ever found yourself wondering how this box can be launched from the command line? Well, ... Read more
If you are one of those who prefer using keyboard over mouse wherever and whenever possible, I am sure you must be aware of what Alt+Tab does. For starters, this key combination lets you switch between windows of the currently open/active applications. While Alt+Tab is good for making a switch across applications, it's not an ... Read more
I am a Linux researcher and technical writer. My job involves taking a lot of screenshots every day. I use Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.04), and for screenshots, I use the gnome-screenshot tool - the tool works both from the command line as well as through the PrintScrn key on the keyboard. The only thing about ... Read more
There are situations where-in you need your machine's IP address (whether public or internal) for some work, and such situations occur quite frequently when you are a network admin, or work in the computer networking domain. While knowing IP address in Ubuntu is just a matter of launching a terminal and firing a command, you ... Read more
Suppose you are exploring some directories through Ubuntu's default Nautilus file browser when suddenly there arises a requirement to work in a particular directory on the command line. What would you do in this case? Well, normally, you would open the terminal application, and then manually change the present working directory to the directory you ... Read more