You would have used top at some point of time. Did you not wish that instead of just the processes it list all the vital statistics of the system as a whole. How good it would be to see the Memory, Net, Processes and Disk usage on the same screen. Well then you should take a look at glances. Here is how it looks:
][1]For using this tool, here is what you need to do :
Continue readingThere is a small nifty utility called xmlwf that can check your xml documents to see if they are well formed.
sudo yum install expat
Once installed, simply use :
xmlwf
Need more details, just check the man page 🙂
Well, you would already have some themes for your vim, by default. And if you did not like them then you would have added some of your own too (downloaded from vim.org). But, those are something, that you might not still like and want to make some changes.
Here’s, a new way to do it. Just go to the link mentioned below and click on Generate Dark or Generate Light. You can generate as many as you like and once you like the theme, simply click on vim in the bottom and download 🙂 BTW, you can generate textmate and Emacs theme as well.
Continue readingThere are some commands that take file name and there are some case where you need to give file name. But there are some cases where you want to modify the file before passing it to the command. What do you do in these case’s?
I had a file containing huge amount of data and for some testing I wanted to pass only the first few lines of the file and not the complete file. And since the file only accepted filename and would not take any input from the STDIN so only option was to create a file with the required data in a temporary file. So, I sat back to figure out some way to do it and finally found I can use this:
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][1]Last article I talked about tora installation from the sources, but if that is too much for you then you can use this one liner:
rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc16.i686.rpm"
But if you like the hard way out, then you can always try this.
Sometime back I had posted a article on Tora on Fedora. But that was a while back and things have progressed and we already have Fedora 16 (aka Verne).
So, awhile back I installed Tora on my Fedora 16 and here are the steps to do so:
First get the Tora sources from sourceforge.net . Download the source tar file and extract the same.
Continue readingIf you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, where there are more chances that it will come up.
Alas, but you don’t have a shell or desktop session to do that. Simple, start the gnome-shell and before it is killed, do this:
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