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The "cat" command is mostly used for viewing files but not many people know that the original purpose of this command is for merging files together ("cat" is the abbreviation of "catenate", which means " to connect things together").

How to enable or disable autologin in Linux Mint 13

How to add watermark to documents using GIMP and LibreOffice Writer

In Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any other Linux distro that uses Gnome, if you close the terminal while some script or command is running within it, a window will appear to ask you to confirm the action. This article shows how to disable this feature.

How to change the default system text editor in Linux Mint / Ubuntu

The "cat" command is one of the most popular linux commands. It is used to display a file in the terminal. However, one problem is that when using "cat" to read a big file, it will display the whole file in the terminal so you will have to scroll up a huge wall of text to read the file. The "less" command is somewhat similar to "cat", it is also used to read a file but "less" displays only a part of the file instead of the whole file. To read files with "less", you just need to scroll up and down. The real advantage of "less" is that because it doesnt read the entire file so with very huge files, "less" will start faster than "cat" or any text editor like vi.

How to change login screen theme in Linux Mint 13

FFMPEG is a tool for handling and editing multimedia stuffs. It supports all the popular media formats and has a lot of cool options and features. You probably have ffmpeg installed already in your machine if you are using some video or audio editing tool. But if you dont, you can install ffmpeg easily by installing libav-tools

A simple command to convert a video to slow motion

In Linux Mint Cinnamon, if you are idle for a while, you computer screen will blank out and the lock screen feature will be activated and you will have to enter your password to re-access your computer. If you dont want to enter the password all the time, you can disable the lock screen feature easily.

In Linux Mint 13, when you click on the shutdown button in the menu ( in both MATE and Cinnamon), you will see options for suspend, restart and shutdown respectively on the log out window but there is none for hibernation. This tip shows how to enable this feature.

Linux kernels have their codenames and these codenames are weird and funny as hell.

In MATE, the screen lock feature is disabled by default. After being idle for a while, the screen will be dimmed and you can re-activate it by moving the mouse or hit a key. For security reasons, you may want to enable the screen lock feature.

Session saving is disabled in Linux Mint 13 by default. This tip shows how to enable it in both editions, MATE and Cinnamon, of Linux Mint 13

Tip about how to record to a log file everything that is run in the terminal and its outputs. This can very helpful for troubleshooting or seeking help on forums or IRC channels.

How to add website shortcuts to the Favorites list of Mint Menu in Linux Mint 13 - MATE

Screenshots of SolusOS 2, Alpha 5 version

How to preview plymouth splash screen without rebooting.

In my opinion, the login sound of Linux Mint is quite annoying so I believe many people would want to disable or change it. Although the method to disable login sound in Ubuntu 12.04 does not work in Linux Mint 13, there is another very easy way to do the task.

SolusOS is currently the fastest-growing Linux distro. Just right after the release of its first version, Eveline, SolusOS has jumped from nowhere into the middle of the distro ranking chart on Distrowatch . And the SolusOS team didnt stop there, they have already worked on the next release of SolusOS. Last week, the team has released the Alpha 3 version of SolusOS 2 with many new things.