Scanimage is a command-line interface to control image acquisition devices such as flatbed scanners or cameras. The device is controlled via command-line options. After command-line processing, scanimage normally proceeds to acquire an image. The image data is written to standard output in one of the PNM (portable aNyMaP) formats (PBM for black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale images, and PPM for[…]
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How to download an audio or video track from a YouTube video with openSUSE Linux
YouTube is the gold mine of audio and video content, the opium of millennials, the concentration of thought of future generations. With the videos on YouTube, we can do, say and be anything. Learning to play an instrument, transmitting our thoughts to the world, let us read a good book, learning to taste a refined wine and so on, we[…]
Read moreRice your Linux desktop. Listen to your music with mpd and ncmpcpp
As you know, we like to rice our Linux desktop environments, we love to follow /r/unixporn and we find really relaxing put hands in dirty configuration files. For the ricing, you can change desktop, windows, fonts, wallpapers and more. You can also create your own theme or modify the themes of other people. This is the beautiful of Linux and[…]
Read moreThe shell. Your interface to the Linux system
The shell is certainly one of the most significant programs of the Linux system as it allows the interfacing and the dialogue between user and system. Through the shell it is possible to issue commands to the system and it is also used as a programming environment through script shells that contain system commands. There are different types of shells,[…]
Read moreHow to use your .bashrc file
The Bash configuration file can do a lot of things to improve your work: aliases, functions and prompt configurations improve workflow and help to be more efficient. In my recent post about setting up Ubuntu with Bash scripts, I briefly alluded to the magic of .bashrc. This didn’t really do it justice, so here’s a quick post that offers a[…]
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