When you are using a Ubuntu system that has multiple users and one of the other user’s requests you to use the system, you have two ways to hand over the system to them. One is to switch users and
4 Ways to Log Out of a Ubuntu Desktop Session
How to Configure Mouse Settings in Ubuntu
Ubuntu, being an open-source operating system, lets you make a lot of configurations to even the smallest of the system modules. Among these things, is the way you want to use your external USB mouse. In this article, we will
4 Ways to Install Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu
Mozilla Firefox is the official Internet browser for Ubuntu, therefore, most Ubuntu distros have it installed by default. If your system lacks this browser due to any reason or if you have accidentally deleted it, we will tell you how
How to Install and Setup Thunderbird Email Client in Ubuntu
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free Email client that allows users on Windows, macOS, Linux, and other supported systems to send, receive, and manage their Email. With ThunderBird, you can retrieve Emails from your Email provider using IMAP or POP3, and
How to Install CouchPotato on Ubuntu
CouchPotato helps you in downloading movies automatically, easily and in the best quality as soon as they are available, via Usenet and torrents. In this article, we will explain a step by step process on how to install CouchPotato on
How to Tweet Directly From your Ubuntu Desktop Using Tweet Tray
So how many times has it happened that you opened your Twitter application for the sole purpose of composing a new tweet but got distracted by other people’s tweets, notifications, and other features of this social network? If you, like
How to Create and Edit PDF files in Ubuntu
PDF or Portable Document Format is mostly our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing and emailing documents, especially the large ones. For Windows and MacOS, you might be very much familiar, and also dependent, on the widely used
How to block/allow ping using iptables in Ubuntu
What is iptables? Iptables a command line firewall utility that allows or blocks traffic based on the policy chain use. Iptables follows the packet based approach for traffic monitoring. When a program tries to establish a connection with your system,
How to Restart Services on Ubuntu Command Line
Restarting a service is one of the administrative tasks that you will have to perform one time or the other while configuring software on your Ubuntu. In this article, we will explain how to restart a running service on your
How to Automatically Empty the Trash in Ubuntu
If you want to set your Ubuntu system to automatically take care of your system Trash over a particular period of time, you can make use of the command line utility called autotrash. Autotrash is a utility that looks in