How to install the `xelatex` binary on Ubuntu 14.04

While the hardware mute button of my Lenovo x230 worked on Ubuntu 14.04 out of the box, it does not on Ubuntu 16.04. It is fairly simple to fix, though.

There is an extensive answer on Ask Ubuntu, but only part o...

I really love to use the shortcuts CTRL+Alt+ Arrow Left and CTRL+Alt+ Arrow Right to navigate through the code. It worked great on Ubuntu 18.04 and MATE but after migrating to my new notebook with GNOME and Ubuntu 20.04, I realized tha...

Rbenv won't compile REE 2011.03 properly on Ubuntu 12.04, failing with an error in tcmalloc.cc.

If you want to keep tcmalloc functionality, you can do it like this:

1. Open ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/share/ruby-build/ree-1.8.7-2011.03
2. Re...

We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come with 6 months of support. If there is really no other way, it's possible to install packages from later Ubuntu re...

Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I made one myself.
It's actually not bound to Xfce but should work on any window manager (haven't tried it, though).

Installation

1. If you don't yet ...

This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting domain independent code from the app/models folder to the lib/ folder. The approach is applicable to arbitrary scenarios...

Google Calendar integration into Thunderbird suddenly did not work any more for me. Thunderbird kept asking me for my password to access calendars, but did not show them when given the correct credentials. Instead, calendars in the list got the fa...

Luckily, this is simple. Just install three packages:

sudo apt install ipheth-utils libimobiledevice-dev libimobiledevice-utils

Then turn on the "Personal Hotspot" in iPhone settings, connect it to your Ubuntu machine via USB and you sho...

Run

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

or (alias)

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

from a terminal.
Then logout to reach the logon screen and click on the options button next to you name.
Select Gnome Classic, log in et ...

Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets.
There is also invoke to run a command directly from your terminal.

Both commands allow running Capistrano tasks or shell commands, and scope to...