Archive for the ‘Best of ILUG-C’ Category
Xournal
Posted by: manoj1987 on: November 13, 2009
Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is free software (GNU GPL) and runs on Linux (recent distributions) and other GTK+/Gnome platforms. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal or to other alternatives such as Jarnal, Gournal, and NoteLab.
Download Xournal
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Linux for the aged
Posted by: manoj1987 on: November 13, 2009
A new computer aimed at people aged over 60 who are unfamiliar with PCs and the internet has been unveiled.
An interesting news by BBC on the new Linux fork designed specially for old aged people and aptly named SimplicITy .
Read on and watch the video here.
Additional info:
Microsoft patents sudo !!!
Create a logo from command line
Posted by: manoj1987 on: November 12, 2009
Here is a simple tip to create a logo from Linux terminal.
This tip has been contibuted by Mr.Girish to iLugc mailing list.
Here we go now!
$ convert -size 800×120 xc:white -font Times-Roman -pointsize 100 -fill gray -annotate +20+80 ‘Linux is cool’ -fill black -annotate +23+83 ‘Linux is cool’ -trim +repage logo.png
figlet
Posted by: manoj1987 on: September 24, 2009
How do you draw a cat?
Take a pencil and draw on a paper.
How do you draw a chair?
You pull it and sit down.
Similarly you draw ASCII art with figlet. But only
ASCII characters, not arbitrary lines and drawings.
$ figlet hello
My gmail interface has goofed it up. But it comes beautifully in a terminal.
Usually there will be [...]
xrandr
Posted by: manoj1987 on: September 24, 2009
We are going too look at a pretty useful command in Linux/Unix: xrandr
The xrandr command, which is expanded as Xrandr – X Resize, Rotate and Reflection , is useful in the following ways :
Specifies the connection to the X server.
Specifies which screen.
Specifies the screen.
Specifies the rotations or reflections possible of the screen.
Specifies the current rotations [...]
