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1. Use the Spacebar to Navigate Let’s start with a simple one! While holding down the Spacebar and clickingand dragging with the left mouse button, you can pan around the canvas. This way, you won’t have to use the red box in the Navigator panel, or the scrollbars around the canvas to move around. 2. Hide Selections and Guides You can toggle the visibility of all your guides and currently active selections by pressing Ctrl+H (that’s Cmd+H on the Mac). It’s a good way to check your artwork without all the disturbing lines here and there. Press Ctrl+H to toggle them back again. 3. Undo More, Redo More You must know that Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z) undoes the last step, but did you know that hitting Ctrl+Alt+Z will undo more steps? It can definitely...

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any_command --help |more Display a brief help on a command (works with most commands). "--help" works similar to DOS "/h" switch. The "more" pipe is needed if the output is longer than one screen. man topic Display the contents of the system manual pages (help) on the topic. Try man man first. Press "q" to quit the viewer. The command info topic works similar and may contain more up-to-date information. Manual pages can be hard to read. Try any_command --help for short, easy to digest help on a command. If more info needed, have a look to the directory /usr/doc. To display manual page from a specific section, I may use something like in this example: man...

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pwd Print working directory, i.e., display the name of my current directory on the screen. hostname Print the name of the local host (the machine on which you are working). Use netconf (as root) to change the name of the machine. whoami Print my login name. id username Print user id (uid) and his/her group id (gid), effective id (if different than the real id) and the supplementary groups. date Print or change the operating system date and time. E.g., I could change the date and time to 2000-12-31 23:57 using this command: date 123123572000 To set the hardware (BIOS) clock from the system (Linux) clock, use the command (as root) setclock time Determine...

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<Ctrl><Alt><F1> Switch to the first text terminal. Under Linux you can have several (6 in standard setup) terminals opened at the same time. <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=1..6) Switch to the nth text terminal. tty Print the name of the terminal in which you are typing this command. <Ctrl><Alt><F7> Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on this terminal). <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=7..12) Switch to the nth GUI terminal (if a GUI terminal is running on screen n-1). On default, nothing is running on terminals 8 to 12, but you can run another server ther...

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Transmission is a simple yet powerful torrent client. It’s available in some of the Linux distributions by default. However, one very important torrent client must have feature is missing in transmission. Now, we are going to add that feature by ourselves with our own shell script. We will make that shell script execute in Transmission after download completes. Let’s first get started by writing a single line shell script for shutdown. Most of you reading this may have used command to restart and shutdown your system. If you don’t know this, yes you can shutdown and restart Linux system from your terminal. Go to home directory, fire up your text editor, create a file and write a script. I will use vim. Name the file shutdown.sh...

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It’s very easy to format pendrive or any other external hard drives in Linux. The formatting of the drive will erase all the files and directories in your drive which cannot be recovered. So, be careful while formatting the drive. You can use either command line or the graphical way to format the drive. Once, you plug in external drives in the computer, that will map to /dev/sda or /dev/sdb1 etc. The names can vary. We will identify external drive with the name. Follow these simple steps to quickly format the USB drive or pendrive or external drive in Linux: Format using Terminal: 1. Identifying drive: Insert the external drive and type the following command in the terminal: dmesg | tail The word “sdb” between...

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You can actually create a HTML document using the shell script. If you are tired to see the output of your command in the terminal, you can redirect your output to the HTML document. This will allow you to see the output in the web browser like the website. I will assume, you know the basics of HTML. Even if you don’t, it’s very easy to learn. Find some good tutorials and get started.Now, let’s get started by writing a simple shell script with HTML tags in it. #!/bin/shecho "<htmL>"echo "<head>"echo "<title>"echo "Output in a HTML Document"echo "</title>"echo "</head>"echo "<body>"cat freshtutorialecho "</body>"echo "</html>" This simple shell script called “test”...

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Notepad++ v6.3.1 new features: Fix replacing ‘\n’ bug in both extended and regex mode. Remember folding states for each file in session. Fix a crash bug on uncommenting. Add “Set Updater proxy…” command for setting the proxy of updater. Fix the problem of Window position not saved/restored properly. Add new API NPPM_GETCURRENTVIEW. Download by your need from below : Notepad Plus Plus Notepad++ Installer : Take this one if you have no idea which one you should take. Notepad++ zip package : Don’t want to use installer? Check this one (zip format). Notepad++ 7z package : Don’t...

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Installing Adobe Photoshop on Ubuntu Linux is pretty easy. In this tutorial I will show you how to install Photoshop using Wine.Wine is a translation layer capable of running Windows applications on Linux operating system. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop. Steps To Install Photoshop in Linux 1. First install Wine in Linux. 2. Then right click on Adobe Photoshop Setup.exe and click Open with Wine Windows program loader. 3. The installation Process will start automatically. 4. That’s it you have successfully installed Adobe Photoshop in Linux. 5. Goto Applications...