Saidul Hassan

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 […]

How to add read & write permissions for the owner and group on folder & file name recursively?

29 Nov, 2015 By Saidul Hassan · Filed Under: Linux Mint

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 […]