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
[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)
~ $ 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 […]
How to add read & write permissions for the owner and group on folder & file name recursively?
To add read and write permissions for the owner and group on folder, open terminal and type: Add the -R option to recursively change the permissions of the folder and all files and sub-folders: Example: When you’re inside the folder, remove “folder name” and replace it with . If you want to have all of […]
Validate TV episode/ Movie Names with colon (:) in the Title – FileBot naming scheme
TV episode downloaded as blindspot.110.hdtv-lol[ettv].mp4 and renamed using FileBot as Blindspot – S01E10 – Evil Handmade Instrument.mp4 The naming scheme I’m using is one of the default for the TV Show naming: {n} – {s00e00} – {t} with slightly modifying as {n} – {s00e00} – {t.replaceAll(/:/, ‘ – ‘)}. Perks? When a title has colon […]
Themes, Desktop background & Icons Not Working in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon
Problem: Desktop theme and icons turned to 98ish look? Desktop background isn’t working and turned to black? Switching themes, icons, colors, cursors from Menu>Preference>System Settings isn’t reflecting the changes? Possible Sources of the problem: Using Dual Monitor? Recently updated graphics driver? Hybrid graphics, likely Intel with Nvidia? Recently set Nvidia as default graphics driver using […]