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GIMP has become our image manipulation companion. If you've ever used it, you know you can count ...

Sometimes many GNOME users find ourselves in the terrible situation of not being able to configure the touchpad from the ...

Hello guys, I want to present this simple guide especially for newbies guiding you in the conditioning of your Fedora 22 system. Enter ...

After a long time of winter lethargy, and publications ... today I return with a very interesting post. Today as…

In this post we will quickly see how to install KDE 5 on ArchLinux. Basic installation The first thing will be ...

Hello GNU / Linux users, let me tell you that I recently bought an Alcatel One Touch Fire for work, a phone ...

Let's suppose that your computer is connected to two monitors, in mirror mode. Suppose one of those monitors is the ...

Although I have been living in Archlinux for many years, the transition from KDE4 to Plasma 5 temporarily catapulted me towards GTK3 environments, ...

I don't have a printer but some colleagues and friends share theirs from Google Cloud Print. The added benefit of ...

Steps to easily save the Windows license when buying your new laptop:

The use of the rm command carries certain dangers, since, if we make a mistake there is no way to recover it ...

First of all, greetings to all after so much absence at the time of writing in this blog. As you know, there are ...

Debian 8 (codename "Jessie") is ready. I had no idea of ​​the news, and after informing me ...

Noot Noot! In this post we will talk about how to run, or rather decapitate (RAE joke) an application (or apk) of ...

I have tried many distros since I entered the world of GNU / Linux, and I have always wondered if there is one ...

Not finding anything in Spanish on the subject, I share how I solved an apparently simple problem but with an elusive answer….

Hello! I've been following this blog for years, and more than once I have considered joining the community and contributing ……

Introduction Adobe Shockwave (or simply Shockwave) is a plug-in for web browsers that allows the reproduction of interactive content such as ...

Hello people, this time I am going to talk a little about the ABS (Arch Build System), in short, it is the ...

Hi friends of DesdeLinux, what was promised is a debt and here is a post on how to maximize system protection…

Either you want to learn how to create a blog, or you would like to write something in particular, it is true ...

We all know that GIMP is a very good image editor, but it has some shortcomings in the absence of some ...

Hello dear readers. Today I am here to teach you how to install the proprietary Nvidia video drivers in Fedora 21. After ...

Today's post I do it because I spent the whole afternoon looking for how to add the ...

On this occasion, we are going to see how to connect our ArchlinuxARM installed on a Raspberry pi to a Wifi network and ...

What to do after installing CentOS 7? Fast guide.

In this little guide I am going to explain (and teach you) why it is better that you compile a program (say Firefox, Vlc, etc) ...

Regards. I hope this 2015 will be full of tutorials, tips and Geek's help for all the users we post and ...

Multiple ways to download files from the internet and automatically place them in the desired folder. Well using Dolphin, Wget, the terminal, etc.

We show you how to easily use multiple profiles in Firefox and derivatives, to open several sessions simultaneously or separate the contents.

Sometimes it can be useful to link a program or process to one or more specific kernels. Let's see how to get it using taskset ...

FreeBSD is an advanced multi-architecture operating system featuring the most popular desktop environments and their window managers.

Sometimes we need to convert a column of text into a row, that is, to unite all the words in the column in a single sentence, here we show how to do it

Third part of the tutorial on Scribus, where once we have the cover design, we will see what master pages are and what they are for.

How to convert GIF images to MP4 or WebM with imgur and wget to share on Facebook

We show you with some practical examples, how to create your own more robust bash scripts using Traps. Easy and simple

Netflix recently gave official support for its online streaming content platform to GNU / Linux users, using Chrome.

We show you very quickly and simply how to add MTP support for Android devices in our GNU / Linux distributions.

In this tutorial we explain how to use virtual loop files in GNU / Linux and show some examples of it.

Refind is a Boot Manager just like GRUB, with the advantage that it automatically detects "bootable" devices or partitions on your PC at each boot.

A list of the best third-party plugins available for Rhythmbox, Ubuntu's default audio player, and other Linux distributions.

Hosty is a script that prevents us from having advertising in our browser and the system in general by modifying the / etc / host file.

We show a method (through a script) to deactivate the Touchpad of a Laptop when connecting a USB Mouse in Chakra GNU / Linux.

Plasma 5 is the new proposal the guys at KDE are working on. We show you how to install the development version on Ubuntu 14.04

Jigdo, a tool for the distribution and obtaining of Debian ISOs in an easy, fast and very efficient way. We show you how to use this tool.

We show how to install fonts in any GNU / Linux distribution in simple steps.

If the NetworkManager applet doesn't work as it should on Debian, we bring you the solution to your problem. See how to make NetworkManager manage the network.

We show you how, after Android_X86 is installed, we can configure everything so that all the systems installed on the computer appear in GRUB.

If you want to access your Android device through ADB and you don't have the data cable at hand, you can do it through the network, here we show you.

How to install Android Studio or ADT in KDE (to develop applications for Android) without dying in the attempt and without unexpected closures

We show you how to install the Elementary OS Freya beta on a PC with UEFI along with Microsoft Windows without dying in the attempt.

Every self-respecting Linux user should know about Standard Stream: stdin, stdout, and stderr.

We show how to quickly and easily connect a USB device to a physical PC and display it on a client (virtual machine) using KVM.

We show you a simple way to synchronize your iPod Nano 6G (sixth generation) with your favorite music on Banshee or any other player.

LINE is an instant messaging application for cell phones (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Firefox OS, among others) that can also be used in Linux.

In Ubuntu the Clementine icon appears and disappears, the appearance of the application is simply ugly, here we tell you how to fix it.

Book layout with Scribus, an application that is used for editing and layout of pages that is used to make magazines, books ... etc.

Tutorial: How to optimize your system with Prelink. Prelink allows programs to load faster by reducing library loading times.

Do you want to recover that hard drive that you have half forgotten at home because it gave you problems? Here we show you how to repair it so you can use it.

Ghost is a blogging platform and a very good alternative to Wordpress. Post writing is beautiful, simple and attractive, it will not cost you work to use it

Yet another article from a section that is becoming popular: Terminal Friday. This time we explain what is the expansion of keys in Bash

Learn how to install and configure Ghost on a VPS with Ngix

Tutorial to be able to have a directory shared between several users on Linux locally

How to use LTO in Gentoo Linux, tutorial that allows you to increase the performance of your operating system

Learn how to speed up the compilation of packages in Pacman using several cores of your processor

Different ways to get the geographic location of an IP address using commands in the Linux terminal

Possible solution to "Kernel Panics" on Arch Linux boot.

This is the second part about the SUSE Studio tool, to read the first part click here. In the…

Basic tutorial on using Patch and Diff to create software patches, with examples

SUSE Studio Tutorial: How to Create Your Own OpenSUSE Based Distribution Easily

We show you 3 methods on how to change the MAC Address of our network card to adapt it to our needs.

In Cuba it is very common to have a complete Ubuntu repository on an HDD, since there is no internet in homes. Here we explain how to configure it.

We show you how to create a photo slideshow using OpenShot, a very powerful and multiplatform video editor. The process is easy, simple and fast.

VIM is a very powerful text editor that we can use through the terminal. We show you on this terminal Friday, some tips.

Let's see some interesting tips for Slackware 14.1, such as activating the WiFi network if it is disabled. All this in a simple way.

Using SquidGuard we can block adult sites that are within the reach of our children. Let's see how to do it the easy way.

Reset to Root password from GRUB (Debian). The process is relatively simple, and all we need is to have GRUB installed.

KDE SC has one of the best advanced GNU / Linux text editors. Let's see how to change its appearance when editing documents with Kate Schemes.

This script allows you to convert text to speech - regardless of its extension - using the Google engine. Furthermore, it allows you to specify the language of the text.

Create_AP is a script that allows us to share our Internet connection through the WiFi network. Let's see how to use and install it in ArchLinux.

Has it happened to you that Gimp closes when you try to use the text tool? If so, here's how to fix this forever.

We show you how to enable hibernation in Ubuntu 14.04 (also other versions) and derived from the terminal and in the Unity menu.

We show two methods to use proxy with authentication in Firefox using CNTLM, under the NTLM protocol, or when we want to share on the network.

Among the methods to protect our computer, we can use my usb as a key to block access to our operating system.

We show you how to Convert ArchLinux into Antergos using only the latter's custom repositories. Everything easy, simple and straightforward.

We show you what you can do after installing ArchLinux, a simple and illustrated guide so you don't get lost in this distribution

Simple steps to install Redmine 2.4.0 on Debian 7

Here are some tips for how to modify the KDE systray icons. We use Inkscape + KDE for this.

We show you the simple and easy step-by-step installation (without dying in the attempt) of Steam on Debian GNU / Linux.

We show you how to create a pulse meter (or sonar) using GIMP and some very easy techniques that we can achieve with this tool.

We explain how to mimic the look and feel of OS X in Elementary OS Luna.

We show how to install a Madsonic server for music streaming, using a Raspberry Pi on ArchLinux. Simple and easy.

Among the commands that help us see how much space we have occupied on our hard drive, is du, a tool with a lot of options.

We show you how to Disable Baloo, the new KDE file indexer as of version 4.13. See how to disable Baloo graphically or manually.

I will explain how to install the Firmware that comes with the VIT A3301 driver CD. The drivers that this CD brings are only available for version 3 of Canaima

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr was released a couple of days ago. As we do with each release of this popular ...

Hi friends of DesdeLinuxAfter a long time without posting anything, here I am again. Today I'm going...

Hello everyone! The reason for this post is to present a little advice for those who are very ...

Hello friends! Today I share with you something that I learned this week playing with GIMP. The idea is simple: mix two images ...

Systemd is the new boot system daemon from many distributions that have replaced the old init….

If you are used to typical graphic environments, possibly Awesome is not for you, but if your intention is to get it out ...

Current Situation of Chakra Linux Well, since I'm not good at doing "news" post in short, I ...

As almost everything in Linux there are always divided opinions, the terminal text editors are no exception. There is…

I don't know about you, but at least I don't like that Mozilla Firefox loads PDFs in ...

Today I have won 1 euro. I challenged my friend to close the CD drive and he didn't even know ...

Stylus is a CSS code pre-processor, which allows us to work more simply in our ...

Today we will be looking at how to migrate all the data from one hard drive to another, work that could be useful if ...

As many of you know, Unity has incorporated its own application to lock the screen or the session as part of the ...

This is a relatively short entry but it seemed to me, it is worth sharing, because when I used Debian myself ...

Previously it had already been posted about the translation of Kingsoft Office into Spanish. Since then the process has advanced a lot; ...

Spell checker In case you have installed OpenOffice / Libreoffice and it doesn't come with the spell checker (dictionary + synonyms) ...

From what you have already read in the post title, I will explain how to start ArchLinux (no idea if it works ...

As the title of the post says, this way of downloading YouTube videos is not one of the best, but ...

I have been asked several questions about whether it is possible to run Gambas3 and the programs that are made with this language ...

On certain occasions we need to insert a text at the end of a file, for this we can use echo: echo «Text ...

It happens that today there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of advertising or marketing sites on the internet, we find ...

The slapd installation and configuration procedure, as well as the rest of what is indicated in the two previous articles, with ...

Let's continue, but not without first consulting: Directory Service with LDAP. Introduction. Directory Service with LDAP [2]: NTP and dnsmasq….

I have the idea of ​​making a post about Vim and its functions that I think many are unaware of and to do more ...

SSDs or solid disks as they are known, is not a completely new technology because for several years it has been ...

A few days ago a good friend was struggling with his new notebook (which as expected came with UEFI ...

Introduction Hi, here's another post, if you want "similar" to the one I did previously for Archlinux, this time we're going to ...

If you are a KDE user, this article will be perfect for you. In it we make a compilation of all the content ...

If you are an XFCE user, this article will be perfect for you. In it we make a compilation of all the content published in ...

Hello friends!. Here we are with the third installment of the series, and today it will be dedicated to those who prefer or ...

Virtual currencies have become a trend lately, the most popular are: Bitcoin Ripple Litecoin Peercoin Namecoin Dogecoin Primecoin ...

Hi again, everybody. Today we will continue with this series of articles on OpenVZ administration. In the previous post ...

Hello friends!. We started to implement and configure services. Of course it is necessary that our simple Directory Service based ...

Good colleagues this is my first post and I am going to show you what is the definitive solution to this problem. One of…

Although in ArchLinux we have Systemd, which with systemctl we can see the system logs, we still miss several of us ...

Today, we are all concerned about protecting our privacy. In this sense, Firefox is perhaps the best browser, particularly ...

Hello again everyone. First of all, I want to thank you all for the good reception I have had in DesdeLinux...

From the terminal you can do everything, in this case I will show how to know if your computer supports entering ...

We had already told you about youtube-dl before, a tool that allows us to download from YouTube using commands in the terminal ...

I am going to explain how to install the XBMC server on the Raspberry Pi with Arch Linux. To know how to install Arch ...

Like all things I've learned, it all started out of need. Using Pidgin I realized that I could ...

Yesterday my beloved and hated ArchLinux went to hell itself. It all happened when I updated the libcrypt package which ...

It seems that in Testing the repositories can give some problem for the installation of some packages, but with these I ...

Mate is a fork (derivation) that emerged from the source code of Gnome 2, in its current version they have ...

One of the main concerns when passing your USB memory through all the computers to which ...

Finally, the only thing left to see is how to register the successive changes in our development. 9….

And now, the juiciest part of this little tutorial. 4. We create our project We create a directory that contains all ...

Previously it had already been published how to obtain the exposé effect in other distros by Brizno. In this article we will see how ...

As promised is debt, here we are going to follow the necessary steps to create a project in Google Code. 1….

I've been following the blog for a while and I wanted to share something with you for a while. By…

Hello to all Linuxeros and Linuxeras. Today we will discuss this topic, Ubuntu repository systems. APT Ubuntu and its ...

OpenFrameworks is an open source structured set, written in C ++, which is focused on graphical development. It allows…

We show you how to install ArchLinux on a Raspberry Pi simply and quickly.

Ghost is a platform dedicated to only one thing: Publishing. It is very well designed, completely customizable and completely Open ...

For those of us who are far from our country of origin or simply for those who like to listen to the radio ...

Compose Key (Composition Key) is a key that, combined with others, allows us to make special characters (ñ, á, ü) and symbols ...

In the video that I share below, I explain various methods to protect documents in LibreOffice. In particular: 1) How to protect ...

Hello, welcome to my new post after the Kubuntu Distroview catastrophe. Today we will discuss what is the ...

A company asked me to explain how to customize GRUB in Archlinux so I'll leave it here: 1.- Find a ...

There are many ways to obtain Bash: Cygwin, AndLinux, Mingw, etc, but we will use one in particular: Yes, git, that tool that ...

Hello to all readers of DesdeLinux.. Well this is my first collaboration in this space and I want to do it through this entry….

The other day I came across @ elruiz1993's post about Manjaro, but something caught my attention from the post,…

Quick explanation of the fork bomb. What does the fork bomb do in GNU / Linux? : () {: |: &} ;: It is a type of ...

We can extract the audio from a YouTube video (I have even download the complete video) with a console application, ...

To record the music we listen to via streaming on our favorite Internet Radio stations, we install streamripper: $ sudo ...

Today I am quite bored so I have started to play with my favorite design tool: GIMP, and ...

If you use Kingsoft Office 2013 you can help with the translation as it is very easy. 1.- First we do not direct to ...

Well guys, today I bring you the solution to a problem that I had to solve on my Cinnamon with Arch Linux….

In this part we will see how to create another window and design it with GTK. We will also see some features such as adding questions and ...

This is my first article on Desdelinux and I will talk to you about Emacs, I am a developer and therefore I must…

The clipboard or clipboard is a tool that the X server of our operating system offers us in order ...

A few days ago trying to install Kingsoft Office using the makepkg command, I got a most curious error ...

This Post contains the instructions to correctly configure Hybrid Graphics, either Intel / ATI or INTEL / Nvidia as well as the reduction of ...

If you are a Debian 7 user and you have audio problems on Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 motherboard or similar this ...

As many of you already know, I have in my hands a ZTE Open phone with Firefox OS, and in what I prepare ...

Gmrun is a very light application launcher that comes by default in many distributions that use Openbox, Enlightenment and ...

Since I was using Debian, I had been dragging a little problem with starting KDE that, although it wasn't too problematic for me ...

ExplainShell is the type of site that you will want to bookmark if you really want to learn how to use ...

If you want to try the spotify client for linux here are the instructions. Despite the ...

First of all I make it clear that I do not need Microsoft Office, I have installed it because some of the people at ...

Many of you must already know the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs, if so you have come across ...

One of the things that I loved about GNU / Linux, and that incredibly helped me to quickly get away from Windows, was ...

For KDE users I bring you a way to solve that annoying message when we try to trash a file ...

Testing ElementaryOS I took on the task of changing the position of the dock, and I realized that not yet ...

First of all this is my first post before this great Community. In this post you will find a small solution that ...

Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander was released a couple of hours ago. As we do with each release of this popular ...

Today I got the bug to see the source code of the command "ls" in GNU / Linux. This command belongs to ...

Nano is a fairly simple editor (not the other eNano) that we can use on the console to create or edit ...

Kingsoft Office is an office suite that is giving a lot to talk about. The cause? Simply its interface, similar (for ...

The most normal thing in the world is that we configure our repos in Debian, Ubuntu or derivatives pointing to the official repos ...

As indicated on their official website, the problem is due to the Microsoft license on the fonts, no ...

Maybe the problem (with its solution) that I bring you below for some users was obvious, or the ...

X11, as I suppose most of you know, is the graphical server used by almost all Linux distributions. East…

a few days ago because of a tutorial by @elav, I met the mari0 game to which I have corrupted a ...

Greetings, following the elav guide to install ArchLinux, I was finally able to install it. Well, I work supported ...

To install Skype in Lubuntu 13.04 you must activate the repository of the «Canonical's partner» in the following way: 1. Access ...

One of the most common problems when sharing rich text files (either Word or OpenOffice / LibreOffice) has to ...

Every Debian user knows that creating a virtual "interface" (to be able to access another IP range for example) ...

Elav published an article on touchpad problems in Debian. Well, it turns out that it works well for me as standard, ...

The problem (and the solution) that I bring you next comes from our forum, where the user moku, after…

In my previous post I explained how to install Skippy-XD and Brightside on Arch Linux with lightweight desktop environments (XFCE, LXDE, ...

When we work in light desktop environments (XFCE, LXDE, Openbox) sometimes we miss the ease that the ...

VLC, lord and master of the media player. As the title says, two little tips that I use and that can ...

Hello everyone, I will talk about how to install Antergos Linux to one hundred, well let's get started. 1.- Assuming you have already downloaded ...

This article can be useful to anyone who has a Broadcom BCM4313 card and it does not work with ...

Today I just installed a Laptop like the one I use to a co-worker, but he does not use as ...

A year ago I wrote an article where I showed how to search, select and delete multiple files using Midnight Commander, or ...

Greetings to all. This time I'll show you how to put the finishing touches on Slackware, as well as install additional tools ...

Many times we must know the exact make and model of our laptop, either to download "something" from the site of ...

Choqok version 1.4, the Twitter and Status.Net client that I use in…

The title says it all. Is there a way to create a PDF form with LibreOffice Writer? Yes. In this short video ...

The post that you will read next was sent to me by låzaro, a GUTL user via email. It has been a ...

Hello everyone, this time I want to share with you how to solve the boot problem called "initramfs", I imagine ...

In today's world in which we move, where technology and the Internet have become the bread ...

For a few days, I have been using an old netbook as a multimedia center. I connected it to my TV via HDMI and ...

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Hello to all the readers 😀 After a failed vacation, I deign to write these lines. Turns out I know ...

SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager) is as its name indicates a Session Manager to access our desktop ...

In my noble task as moderator of this blog (and even before, in Let's Use Linux) I have seen horrors of ...

Greetings, this is my first contribution to this blog, this time I want to share a program that I found very interesting ...

A few moments ago I noticed the update of KDE 4.10.5 in Debian Testing, leaving version 4.8 behind ...

Yesterday, I was making a video to share with you. As you know, I don't have a quality microphone like that ...

Well the posts about changing the User Agent in Chrome abound, but in my post in particular I want to share some ...

I've been using LibreOffice a lot lately, and I've noticed that a lot of my co-workers were "stuck" on ...

Greetings to all. Surely, many will already be enjoying Steam for the GNU / Linux platform. However, many of those who ...