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Written by Rob   
Saturday, 31 March 2007

Just a list of handy commands for those who know what they are for but don't remember them (like me).

If you boot up and you have no Graphical interface:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Show partition table:

sudo fdisk -l

Modify fstab:

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Modify xorg:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them:

lspci

Reconfigure display manager (e.g to get shutdown button in KDE after installing KDE on top of Gnome)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

Set default browser (i.e if you want firefox to be default in Kubuntu or Swiftfox in Ubuntu etc.)

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser


To get your theme working for root applications

sudo ln -s ~/.themes/* /usr/share/themes


To remove a program including dependencies and config files

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove packagename


Thanks to Dread Knight from Ubuntu forums I got a hand on a really cool sheet with Linux console commands. Its a very handy sheet to have around when you need to climb into the terminal. Download it here: icon Linux Commands ( 2007-08-23 03:34:24)

 





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