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How to change the Swappiness of your Linux system

How to change the Swappiness of your Linux system

What is Swappiness?Most of Linux users that have installed a distribution before, must have noticed the existence of the “swap space” during the partitioning phase (it is usually found as /sda5). This is a dedicated space in your hard drive that is usually set to at least twice the capacity of your RAM, and along with it constitutes the total virtual memory of your system. From time to time, the Linux kernel utilizes this swap space by copying chunks from your RAM to the swap, allowing active processes that require more memory than it is physically available to run.Swappiness is the kernel par

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How to install Arch Linux with XFCE Desktop

How to install Arch Linux with XFCE Desktop

How to install Arch Linux with XFCE DesktopThis tutorial will give you the detailed step by step instructions to install the leightweight OS Arch Linux with XFCE Desktop on your computer. I have skipped all the optional content making it as short and simple as possible. I didn’t use “cdisk” beacuse it has its own complications so i preferred using “fdisk” instead. Any queries feel free to commment I’ll sort it out. Download Arch LinuxYou can download the Arch Linux installation iso from here. After the download mount the .iso file within your machine or burn it to media as you wish. Start your

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How to install LXDE desktop on Arch Linux

How to install LXDE desktop on Arch Linux

How to install LXDE desktop on Arch LinuxThe “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment” is quite fast and energy saving desktop manager. It has a of of features beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE consumes the least resources when compared to other desktop managers. In this tutorial I will show you how to install LXDE on arch Linux and get started using it.Installation.Most of the latest LXDE packages are already in extra repo of Arch Linux. So, let’s just start with it:pacman -S gamin LXDEOver here gamin

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How to install and configure KDE Desktop on Arch Linux

How to install and configure KDE Desktop on Arch Linux

How to install and configure KDE Desktop on Arch LinuxThis article is the last part of my Arch Linux Destop tutorial series were I explain the installation and configuration of various desktop enviroments. KDE is another desktop manager of Linux which is used widely. In this tutorial we are going to check the installation and some other work around applications used by KDE. The tutorial will consist of Installation, Configuration, Startup and then some other applications.InstallationKDE has two options for the installation:1) Full install.
2) Minimal Install.sudo pacman -S kde/kde-meta (either

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How to install Arch Linux with Full Disk Encryption

How to install Arch Linux with Full Disk Encryption

How to install Arch Linux with Full Disk EncryptionIn today’s tutorial we are going to install Arch Linux with full disk encryption.Before we proceed, I want you to backup your existing data.In the previous tutorial we learnt what dm-crypt and LUKS are and how to encrypt single disk partition. While in the post today we will take a slightly different approach to encrypt the whole disk with dm-crypt LUKS and install Archlinux on it.Let’s start with disk erasing. Run lsblk to find your primary disk and replace /dev/sda where needed:shred –verbose –random-source=/dev/urandom –iterations=3 /dev

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How to kill processes on the Linux Desktop with xkill

How to kill processes on the Linux Desktop with xkill

How to kill processes on the Linux Desktop with xkillLinux is renown for its stability, rigidness and superior error-free functionality, but no matter how advanced and bug-free a system may be, it is inevitable that things will brake and windows will freeze/hang at some point. This is thankfully not disastrous at all, as Linux users can utilize smart tools and commands that will allow them to get rid of those nasty “not responding” applications instantly!Today’s distributions usually detect any problematic windows and offer the users the choice of forcing quit of waiting for the application to

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How to easily convert your videos on Linux

How to easily convert your videos on Linux

How to easily convert your videos on LinuxThere are many ways to convert a video file on a Linux system, but using a tool with a graphical user interface is imperative for those who want to do it easily and in a more user friendly way. Thankfully, there are many open source GUI tools that could do the job just fine and you can find some specialization here and there if you look closely.My choices for this post are Curlew and Handbrake, two easy to use video converters that can do a lot more than just that, and in the same time two different approaches aimed for different tastes and needs.Curle

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How to add extra airplanes on FlightGear Flight Simulator

How to add extra airplanes on FlightGear Flight Simulator

How to add extra airplanes on FlightGear Flight SimulatorFlightGear is this world’s most advanced open source flight simulation project with a thriving community of users and contributors around it. These contributors are passionate people that love aviation (some are former pilots), or airspace engineering, or just like having fun with 3D modelling. This has the gorgeous result of having over 450 aircrafts in the official online FlightGear hangar!As these aircraft models can’t be all a part of the default version of the popular simulator (or you would have to download many gigabytes of data),

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How to install Wine applications easily with Winetricks

How to install Wine applications easily with Winetricks

How to install Wine applications easily with WinetricksWorking with Linux may bring various incompatibility issues sooner or later, no matter the case of use. You’ll either need to run commercial software that offers no Linux version, or just keep using games and applications that you preferred to use when you were back at Windows. Whatever the need, wine is your only chance. (winehq.org)Wine is basically a free and open source compatibility layer that allows Linux users to run applications that were originally designed to run on Windows. Although Wine can’t run everything succesfully, it offe

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How to Manage the Main Menu Icons on Gnome

How to Manage the Main Menu Icons on Gnome

How to Manage the Main Menu Icons on GnomeNo matter what desktop environment you choose to work with, or if you prefer playful docks to classic menus, your system’s main repository of applications will always lie on your main menu, found on a corner of your screen or on the center of it in the case that you are using GNOME Shell. Installing software from here and there may quickly lead to an over-bloated main menu where users cannot easily find what they are looking for, while new users are confused as to how they can add a compiled binary file on their menu. It is imperative that the Main Men

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