Although LibreOffice opens most of the files created by Microsoft Office, you may find yourself in situation where you need to open a presentation created in Microsoft Office but LibreOffice is unable to open it. Here’s how you can install and use PowerPoint viewer in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ‘Precise Pangolin’ to get around this problem: [...]
When the system is inactive, the screen gets locked and gets turned off in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after 10 minutes by default. To change this : 1. Select the gear icon (System settings) from the sidebar. 2. Under “Personal” section, click on “Brightness and lock” icon. 3. Change the time period for “Turn screen off [...]
Here’s how to install restricted extras in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ‘Prescise Pangolin’: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get update 2. Now, issue the following command at the terminal – sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras 3. Enter ‘y’ when prompted – 4. Go through the EULA for ‘TrueType core fonts for Web’ [...]
Here’s how to mount remote ftp site as a local folder in Linux Mint / Ubuntu: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal to install curlftpfs – sudo apt-get install curlftpfs 2. After the installation is complete, issue the following command at the terminal to create a directory that will be used a local [...]
If you are working on terminal in Linux Mint / Ubuntu and need to configure your time zone without using the GUI, follow the following steps: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata 2. Now select your geographic area and then select ‘<Ok>’ to proceed. 3. Finally, select the city [...]
Here’s how to quickly generate a report of system’s network interfaces from Linux terminal: 1. Issue the following command at the terminal – sudo ip addr 2. The output of the above command will generate a report of all the network interfaces present in the system along with their properties. If looking for a Linux [...]