Saidul Hassan

XPlayer downloaded subtitle location on Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.2 Sonya

27 Jul, 2017 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: Linux Mint

Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Cinnamon 3.0 Edition introduces A new project called “X-Apps” Xed is based on Pluma and acts as the default text editor. Xviewer is based on Eye of GNOME and acts as the default image viewer. Xreader is based on Atril and acts as the default document and PDF reader. Xplayer is […]

Stop all tabs loading on startup? (Only load when clicked?) or vice versa? in Firefox

27 Jul, 2017 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: How to

Enabled ‘Show your windows and tabs from last time’ but don’t want to load all tabs on startup, rather Only load when clicked? .. simple hack: about:config > and set the value to ‘True’ for browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand

Desktop Icon Missing after Upgrading to Mint 18.2 ‘Sonya’ from 18.1 ‘Serena’

27 Jul, 2017 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: Linux Mint

How to fix Missing Desktop Icons and Desktop context menu after Upgrading to Linux Mint 18.2 ‘Sonya’ from 18.1 ‘Serena’..Simply add /usr/bin/nemo-desktop to startup applications to fix the missing desktop icons

Video Thumbnail Generator using Command line

30 Mar, 2017 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: How to

Media Player Classic has a cool feature called “Save Thumbnails” and Multi-platform media player SMPlayer, using MPlayer as playback engine (supports mpv as well), has the same feature called “Thumbnail Generator“. So if you want a GUI tool to generate video thumbnail, you probably already have one of the two players installed. But if you […]

How to find list of available shells using terminal command in Linux Mint 17.x/18.x

27 Feb, 2017 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: Linux Mint

[toc] How to find list of available shells by command-line? Example: How to check which shell you are using? How to check which is the default shell for you? $SHELL gives you the default shell. $0 gives you the current shell. Terminal command for listing available shells. Example: Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/590899/how-to-check-which-shell-am-i-using http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/140286/how-to-find-list-of-available-shells-by-command-line http://askubuntu.com/questions/625601/terminal-command-for-listing-available-shells Disclaimer: As with […]

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)

14 Jun, 2016 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: Linux Mint

~ $ sudo apt-get update E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ Absolute Solution: This should be used as last resort. If you use this carelessly you can end up with a broken system. Please try the other solutions before doing this. You can […]