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How to Reduce default stop timeout to speed up Ubuntu shutdown

Post last modified:October 8, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

By default in your Ubuntu system the stop timeout that is the wait period for the system shut down is 90 seconds. But you can change this time by editing the /etc/systemd/system.conf file. This will speed up your Ubuntu system shutdown time. In this article we will see how to reduce the default stop timeout in Ubuntu.

First open your terminal application. You can open it by pressing ctrl+alt+t keys together. In terminal run this command.

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Hyper Beautiful and Extensible Terminal – Install Hyper on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 7, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Hyper is a free and open source simple but beautiful terminal application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is based on Html, Css, TypeScript (Electron) and released under MIT license. It comes with plugin support to extend its features. Some other features are Emoji support and themes support. It also comes with and uses WebGL Renderer to speedup the rendering process. In this article we will see how to install hyper terminal app on Ubuntu linux.

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How to install Pall Color Picker on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 6, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pall Color Picker is a free and open source desktop Color Picker application for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using this you can pick the color from anywhere from your desktop. It is released under MIT License. It is a simple and easy to use color picker software. In this article we will see how to install and use Pall Color Picker on your Linux system.

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Interactively Kill Processes with fkill – Install fkill on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 3, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Fkill (Fabulous Kill) is a free and open source command-line processes killer application for linux, macOS and Windows. Using this tool you can kill the running system process interactively and easily. You can input one or more process IDs, names, ports to kill. You can also search the running process. It is released under MIT License and based on Nodejs.

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Newsboat RSS Atom feed Reader – Install Newsboat on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 2, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Newsboat is a free and open source RSS and Atom terminal based feed reader for Linux, BSD or Mac OS. It is a fork of popular feed reader Newsbeuter. It is released under open source MIT License. It reads feed from text file and OPML file. In this article, i will show you how to install and use Newsboat on your Ubuntu system.

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kaidan XMPP Jabber chat app – How to install kaidan on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 1, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

kaidan is a free and open source XMPP (Jabber) based chat application for Linux and Android. Using kaidan you can send and receive audio messages and short video messages. You can also use this app to share files with your chat contacts. It is a simple and easy to use XMPP client. It is released under open source GPL-3.0+ license. It is a kde project. It is written in C++ using qxmpp XMPP and Qt. In Kaidan you can use all other service provider and not dependent on one.

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How to check the Hard Disk partition on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 29, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

In Ubuntu you can check and view hard disk or hard drive partition via your terminal application without any third party GUI tool.This will help you to view how many partitions were already created on the disk and also verify the available free space on your disk. In this article i will show your how to view all Hard Disk partition on Ubuntu via terminal.

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Change Ubuntu Background to Solid Colour – Set Wallpaper to Solid Color in Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 4, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Older versions of Ubuntu comes with a feature to set your wallpaper to a solid color or primary and secondary color for gradient look via the Background settings menu. But Ubuntu removed this feature in the newer versions of Ubuntu. But you can set and change you background to the solid color via terminal. Follow below steps to set the solid colour in your background instead of wall image.

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B1 Free Archiver – Install B1 Free Archiver on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 25, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

B1 Archiver is a free archive manager for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. Using this you can compression, decompression and encrypt your files. It supports b1, zip, jar, xpi, rar, 7z, arj, bz2, cab, deb, gzip, tgz, iso, lzh, lha, lzma, rpm, tar, xar, z, dmg file formats. It supports split and password-protected archives. You can encrypt with 256 bit AES encryption with password.

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Subtitle Edit Free Open source Video Subtitles Editor – Install Subtitle Edit on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 24, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Subtitle Edit is a free and open source video subtitles editor for Windows and Linux. Using this you can edit, create, adjust, sync and translate subtitle lines for your video. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0. It comes with audio visualizer, build-in Video player, error fixing wizard, Spell checking, Typewriter and karaoke effects, and auto translation. You can export your subtitles to PNG, Adobe Encore FAB image script, VobSub, Blu-ray sup, EBU stl, PAC, and plain text. You can convert your subtitles between more that 280 file formats.

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