Clarifying doubts: LMDE repositories
As we published on October 21, 2011, we have decided to create a section called: Your opinion counts <° Linux, where ...
Tutorials / Manuals / Tips
Change icons of our folders in Gnome
Yesterday I visited a neighbor who uses Windows XP on her computer to help her with a problem she had and ...
Run an application (including graphical) on another PC as another user
Hello, This is really useful, since through this tip we can manage another PC, or it will make our lives ...
How to convert .MDF to .ISO
Hello, There are different formats of virtual images, .ISO is simply the most popular, almost a standard. The other day I ...
Learn to do without the graphical environment
Hi, the first thing is to say that I am a fan of the terminal (console, shell, bash) and that is why ...
Work with runlevels semi-graphically
Some time ago I had to make some changes in the runlevel of a PC, as I had never done this first ...
With terminal: Change monitor resolution
Changing the resolution of the monitor using a terminal is quite simple, and faster than using any graphic tool. We open ...
With the terminal: Compress and decompress files
When working with servers, many times you need to compress or decompress files remotely through the terminal, and in ...
Tips: After formatting, everything in its place
This article is dedicated to new users of GNU / Linux, which was published by me some time ago ...
Find out if you can use Unity 3D with Compiz
Excellent trick that Andrew shows us in Webupd8 to find out if we can run Unity 3D using Compiz on our computer….
With the terminal: Hide a file inside another
We have already seen how to hide a file inside another using SilentEye and now we will see how to do the same using the ...
SilentEye: Hide one file inside another
SilentEye is an application written in Qt that will help us to make use of Steganography and hide images and ...
Always start with Gnome-Shell on Ubuntu 11.10
If you are an Ubuntu 11.10 user and you install Gnome-Shell, you may want to always start your session using this ...
5 really interesting tips or tricks for working with videos
For working with videos, it is advisable to use Mencoder or Ffmeg, but… what are these? Mencoder is an encoder of ...
Installation guide for NVidia cards in LMDE
Interesting is this post published in the LinuxMint forum (in English) which I bring here humbly translated for the ...
Learn Python by programming
These days I have been between my eyebrows and learning to program in Python, even if it's just basic things….
With the terminal: Listening to music with VLC
We have already seen how to play our music with MPlayer and to tell the truth, the process is cumbersome since we would have to ...
Restart PC safely if your distro crashes
It's weird, but in GNU / Linux we also have our impending PC crashes and there is a very simple method to ...
Reduce icons in Application View in Gnome-Shell
The trick that I show you in this post may be of interest to many Gnome-Shell users who worry ...
Command cubes for some GNU / Linux distros
Here we leave you some tricks in the form of cubes to have on hand when we use our GNU / Linux distributions. No…
Reuse eth0 in LMDE
LMDE users may encounter a very curious situation in the configuration of the network card….
With the terminal: Basic commands in GNU / Linux
There are certain commands that GNU / Linux users should know because they are very basic. In this post we will talk ...
How to create desdelinux shadow effects with Gimp
Many readers will appreciate that in most of the articles where I put an image, I add a kind of ...
Customizing LightDM a bit in Debian
After installing LightDM, I got a little ticklish to customize it manually, so I started to investigate how ...
With the terminal: Listening to music with mplayer
There are many ways to play music through the console, both to save resources, and out of sheer freakiness "I just ...
Increasing user capacity in Zentyal (old Ebox)
Zentyal is an excellent option to implement a server easily and quickly in SMEs. With every release ...
With Terminal: Improving the appearance of the console
I am one of those who loves to use the terminal. I think that all GNU / Linux users at one point do not ...
With the terminal: Calendar and Cal.
We are going to start what we could call a new section in Fromlinux, where we will show you things related to the terminal: ...
How to fix dpkg error: warning: `ldconfig 'in Debian Testing
Today I have decided to go back to Debian Testing. As the problem was with the Kernel apparently, because I have left the ...
Debian Squeeze Step-by-Step Installation Guide
I bring you here, a guide I made at the beginning of the year on how to Install Debian Squeeze step by step….
Using Apt-Pinning on Debian
I have returned to Debian Squeeze. The reason that prompted me to return to the stable branch of Debian, (since ...
Things I do after installing LMDE Xfce
A couple of days ago I installed LMDE Xfce to test it and here are some things that I do later ...
How to fully configure and customize your wallpaper in KDE
In case the doubts still exist, with this tutorial I hope to dispel them a little ... KDE is an environment that without doubts, ...
How to use proxy in Turpial with LMDE Xfce
Xfce is an excellent Desktop Environment, but it lacks some options that make it not completely complete ...
Put Global Proxy in LMDE Xfce
Those of us who are Xfce users know that this excellent and minimalist Desktop Environment does not have the same option ...
How to password Grub2
There are several methods to protect Grub on our favorite distro. I particularly tried with this variant and with this other, ...
Change root password on Debian / LMDE
It is known that GNU / Linux is famous for the level of security it can have, but I always say that ...
LMDE Guide: First Review
For all LMDE users and blog followers, I just finished a guide on LMDE that I have made ...
How to get the Microprocessor type from the Terminal
We can see what type of Microprocessor we are using in GNU / Linux without having to open the Chassis for it. Just…
Creating Aliases in GNU / Linux
There is a very simple way to customize and make easier some commands that we normally use in «the console», by means of ...
How to display the http prefix in Firefox 7
Reading in Genbeta I discovered an article where they teach us how to put two of the new options back as before ...
Tips to optimize Firefox
Although many times the browser brings with it the necessary settings to have a good operation by default, it is true that ...
Guide to customizing Linux Mint LXDE
I just made a small guide that will help us to customize our Linux Mint LXDE a bit. This guide can ...
Modify Turpial to connect to StatusNet
As I mentioned, I am using Hotot to connect to a StatusNet server that we implement in the network of ...
How to configure SOCKS proxy in KDE
In versions lower than 4.7 of kdelibs putting a global SOCKS proxy in KDE was apparently impossible (I mean ...
How to update gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad in LMDE RC 201108
After the installation of LMDE RC 201108 there was a single package that gave me an error when ...
Review and installation of LMDE 201108 RC
A few days ago the release of LMDE 201108 RC was announced on the Linux Mint blog both of ...
How to prevent our computer from restarting with [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del]
GNU / Linux in general is great, it offers multiple options and we can modify it as much as our knowledge / ability reaches us. Everybody knows,…
How to mount USB devices and CDROM in PCMan with our user
I just installed a PC with very few resources here at my work and to save the most ...
How to install our LMDE packages in 3 seconds
Taking advantage of the recent article I published about MintBackup, I want to show you three easy ways to reinstall packages ...
How to install Ambiance / Radiance in LMDE
In the Debian / LMDE repositories there are some very interesting and nice Gtk themes and icon sets, but not ...
Modify the appearance of Gnome with Gnome-Color-Chooser
Many times we install a Gtk theme that we like but over time we discover that there is some detail that ...
[Fourth part] LMDE in depth: Gaining in performance
After installing, updating and customizing some components in LMDE, let's see how to earn a little more in ...
How to fix Touchpad problems in LMDE
Recently a friend brought me an Acer Aspire Laptop to install LMDE. Just started by the LiveCD I ...
[Part three] LMDE in depth: Optimizing even more.
In previous installments we already saw how to install and update LMDE. Now I will show you some tips to make some small adjustments ...
[Part Two] LMDE in depth: System update.
We continue with the second installment of LMDE thoroughly. We already saw how to install it step by step, and now it's time to update it ...
[Part One] LMDE in depth: Installation
First part of a guide on how to install, configure and customize LMDE. In this case we will see the installation process ...