Change default size of Gnome terminal

When you need to bulk rename files you can not call "mv *.foo *.bar" to change the extension of all .foo files to bar (because bash resolves wildcards and replaces them with the list of matched files).

This works on linuxes who use the ...

Sometimes you need to restart the Gnome panel, e.g. when you installed a new Gnome panel widget but the widget list was cached before.

You often don't want to do sign out and back in for this.
Instead, just run:

killall gnome-panel

This ...

In order to rename your Ubuntu box, replace all occurences of the the old name in the following two files:

• /etc/hostname
• /etc/hosts

After a reboot your hostname is changed. If you don't want to reboot your Ubuntu box you have to execute ...

To open a terminal quickly navigate to System → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts. There, click the "Run a terminal" row (It should be in the "Desktop" section) and press the keyboard shortcut you like.

If you cannot find such an entry you may nee...

Note that you should disable the Java plug-in in your browsers after installation.

Ubuntu >= 12.04

Java 11

sudo a...

Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create one.

Let's say you want a 23 MB file called test.file. You would then run this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=1048576 count=23

...

• Also works on Gnome 2
• Much prettier than Skype notifications
• Better visibility

Xfce gives you a million options to configure your panels. Together with Xfce's sometimes arcane configuration UI, this can be a huge time waster and super-annoying if you need to get work done the same day.

This card desc...

To list the name and version of your Linux distribution, type the following:

cat /etc/*-release

By default, your terminal emulator (Gnome Terminal, Terminator, etc.) sets some kind of window title to reflect the shell type you are running (e.g. /bin/bash).
This is most often not too helpful, but you can change that from your shell.

To set...