The Linux Compendium
This small tutorial is going to teach you how to check which groups user account belongs to in Debian 10 and how to add or remove users from groups. However, the steps in this tutorial will work for most other Linux distributions too. How to see which groups a Linux user belongs to Open up … Read more
TeamViewer is a popular application that can be used for desktop sharing, remote support, online meetings and file sharing between remote computers. It is a cross-platform application and can run on Windows and Linux, this means that you can use it to help friends and family remotely with Windows problems from your Linux desktop. Teamviewer … Read more
When you are using a system with multiple user accounts, you have to use switch user option so that other users may access your system. But switching user account is not the optimum solution as it does not end a user’s session. All the opened applications of a user keep running in the background and … Read more
This tutorial will guide you on how to install and configure Nextcloud file sharing web service from sources in Debian 9, codename Stretch. Nextcloud, a fork of Owncloud, is an Open Source client-server application used for file sharing. Similar to other cloud services, such as Gdrive, Nextcloud functionality can be extended easily through a suite … Read more
The resolution of your display monitor/screen means the clarity of the content (text and images) that you can view on your screen. When your screen is set to a higher resolution, say 1366×768, the contents appearing on your screen will be sharper to look at. You might also notice that in high resolution the items … Read more
Most Millenials would remember the stand-alone radio device from the old times that was dedicated to one purpose; fetching and playing radio signals from radio stations. Times have changed now and there are multiple applications that let you listen to your favorite radio on your smartphones. Listening to radio on your computer system is a … Read more
In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, there is a customized version of the Gnome desktop. Ubuntu has done some changes on its 18.04 release to make it look like Unity desktop. However, some users might not like these changes. For them, there is a simple and minimized Gnome desktop environment also known as Vanilla desktop that they … Read more
System administrators create user accounts when they have finished setting up a new machine. Removing and assigning root privileges to existing users is also part of their job. In this article, I am going to discuss the topic of managing user accounts in Debian version 10. This includes creating a new user, changing the password, … Read more
Ubuntu collects information from your system including hardware and software and sends them to Ubuntu servers. The data includes the information about the packages you have installed, how you are using it, and the applications crash reports. It also generates reports related to generic hardware related information like upgrades, processor architecture, installed memory, screen resolution … Read more
This article is about the installation of two famous drawing applications on Ubuntu, that give you the same experience as MS Paint. These are the XPaint and Pinta tools. Both these applications can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Manager and from the command line. For educational purpose we will explain a different method of … Read more