While I'm a KDE user, I still use some Gnome appliciations or other applications with a GTK interface (the gimp, synaptic, firefox and thunderbird for example). Their default skin when running under KDE (on my Kubuntu Linux system) was a bit ugly in my humble opinion, not to say it …
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Get the last argument of the previous command in the bash shell
Working on the command line shell typically involves using the same argument of the previous command. In bash there is a trick to save you those boring keystrokes. When you use "
!$
" (called bang dollar-sign ) in a command, bash will expand it to the last argument of the previous command. A … -
Enable tab completion in interactive python mode with startup script
Before my switch from Mandrake Linux to Ubuntu Linux I used the tab completion feature in interactive python without noticing it. But after the switch I noticed it wasn't there any more. On my search to find a way to reactivate it I found this page about the standard python …
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Load url from clipboard on middle mouse click in Firefox on Linux
A nice feature of working in X on Linux is copy/paste by selecting (copy) and pressing the middle mouse button (paste). When I'm sometimes forced to work in Windows I realise how much it replaced my old ctrl-c/ctrl-v habit. I also use the trick with Mozilla Firefox to …
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wello horld
Wello horld This is the first page I submitted to my brand new drupal site. The title is a bit foo-barisch, but I couldn't come up with a better one.