How To Add and Update Fonts in Ubuntu

Navigate to your home directory and create a directory entitled “.fonts”. Copy all of your fonts to this directory. Then open the terminal and type: fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts وجه الطرفية لدليل المستخدم الخاص بك (home directory) ثم إنشاء دليل جديد يحمل الاسم “fonts.”. بعد ذلك، قم بتقل ملفات الخطوط إلى الدليل الجديد. بعدما تنتهي من [...]

Pre-installed Command Line Calculator

Open the terminal and type: bc for more info read man bc إفتح الطرفية (الترمينال) ثم اكتب: bc لمزيد من المعلومات قم بقراءة man bc

Copy and Paste keyboard shortcuts for Gnome-Terminal

Copy and Paste keyboard shortcuts for Gnome-Terminal: • Copy: <Ctrl>+<Shift>+C • Paste: <Ctrl>+<Shift>+P إختصارات لوحة المفاليح لنسخ و لسق النص في الطرفية (جنوم تيرمينال): • نسخ: Ctrl>+<Shift>+C> • لسق: Ctrl>+<Shift>+P>

Run `Gnome run’ dialog from the command line

Open the terminal and type: gnome-panel-control –run-dialog Note: The provided command is a part of the openboxWM package, so you must have it installed! To install it enter: sudo apt-get install openbox قم بتشغيل الطرفية و كتابة: gnome-panel-control –run-dialog ملاحظة: الأمر المذكور في الأعلي مرتبط مع حزمة openbox، فيجب توافرها لديك! للحصول عليها، قم بإدخال: [...]

How to view cpu details using the terminal

Open the terminal and type: lscpu or cat /proc/cpuinfo For more info read man lscpu and man proc إفتح الطرفية (الترمينال) ثم اكتب: lscpu أو cat /proc/cpuinfo لمزيد من المعلومات قم بقراءة man lscpu و man proc

Remove all gnome panels from Gnome in Ubuntu

Open the terminal and type: gconftool –set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel –type string ” Notes: – This will make the gnome session not load the gnome panel. This does not delete the configuraton files. – To make your session load the panel again, run the following command: gconftool –set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/panel –type string ‘gnome-panel’ إفتح الطرفية واكتب: gconftool –set [...]

How to rename file extensions from the command line in Ubuntu

Open a Terminal and type: rename.ul .old .new *.old where: – .old is the existing extension to be replaced – .new is the extension with which the extensions will be replaced Example: from .aac to .m4a rename.ul .acc .m4a *.acc see manpage: rename.ul(1) for more details. إفتح الطرفية(الترمينال) واكتب: rename.ul .old .new *.old حيث: – [...]

How to create bootable USB flash drives from .img files in linux

Through the command line Simply open a terminal and type (in one line): sudo dd if=/location/of/the/img/file.img of=/dev/sdx Note: Make sure have unmounted the device first. The ‘x’ in “sdx” is different for each plugged device. You might overwrite your hard disk if you mix its device file with that of the flash drive! Make sure [...]

How to enable 3D chess view in Gnome’s glChess (Ubuntu)

Open a Terminal and type: sudo apt-get install python-opengl python-gtkglext1 Then open/restart glChess.

How to update grub menu in linux

Open a Terminal and type: sudo grub-mkconfig Notes: update-grub and update-grub2 should do the same job; both of these commands are based on the command grub-mkconfig.