Get Jaw-dropping Window Effects on Linux with this Extension “Burn My Windows” is a GNOME and KDE extension that allows you to play many different window effects when you close or open any window on your system. It’s quite fantastic, and brings back the memories of the good old Compiz and gnome 2.X, allowing you once again to play window effects on Linux. Here […] December 24, 2022December 24, 2022
How to Split PDF Files on Linux The Linux command line is quite magical in that it can do wonders in a few lines of writing. Work which used to take hundreds of hours can be done easily using a one-line command or a Bash shell script. We would like to deal with PDFs today; As they are the default format for […] October 5, 2020February 10, 2024
Mirror Your Android Device Inside your PC with Scrcpy Scrcpy is an open source program that allows you to mirror your android device as a standalone window inside your desktop operating system such as Windows, macOS and Linux. You’ll be able to view your android device interface from that window, and control all activities and run any type of applications/tasks you want from there, […] August 8, 2020August 12, 2020
Hide Files And Directories on Linux Without Renaming Them Sometimes you may need to hide a file or folder from your home directory, but without modifying its name (E.g renaming example to .example) and also without removing it or moving it somewhere else. You just want to leave it in the same location, but without seeing it in your file manager view again. This […] July 28, 2020December 30, 2023
Uncover Hidden Settings for your GNOME Desktop with Dconf GNOME desktop lacks a serious set of UX improvements when it comes to displaying possible functionalities for each application and their settings. Sometimes users end up not even knowing about the existence of these settings and what they could do for them. What is Dconf, D-Bus and GSettings? As a background story, you should know […] April 27, 2020April 27, 2020
How to Easily Clip or Split Videos With Python Sometimes you have may have a large video file, and you want to split that video into many smaller videos with start and end times that you specify yourself. And of course, you don’t want to do it manually with a video converter because it’s gonna take forever. What we are talking about for example, […] February 25, 2020February 10, 2024
Enable Gedit Plugins To Turn It Into a Powerful Editor Gedit is the default text editor in the GNOME desktop environment. It has been the default text editor on major Linux distributions for more than a decade now. The editor is indeed very simple and beautiful: Gedit is great because: It supports code highlighting out-of-the-box for many programming languages. You can customize the color palettes […] June 16, 2019May 11, 2021
7 Tips to Reduce Battery Usage on Linux Battery usage on Linux may be a big problem for many users, depending on the distribution you use and the hardware you have, you may face this problem from time to time, and we have some solutions to help you through this. But First, Why Battery Usage On Linux is So High? You have to […] August 4, 2016June 8, 2021