Find duplicate files (3+ methods)
Let’s say you have a folder with 5000 MP3 files you want to check for duplicates. Or a directory containing thousands of EPUB files, all with different names but you…
Xfce Menu Items
Xfce or Whiskermenu Menu items can normally be found in the following locations: For user installed items: $User/.config/autostart $User/.local/share/applications For system-wide installed applications: /usr/share/applications You might also check (for items…
Using “dd” to clone an HDD
The following command (using dd) will clone one hard disk (HDD or SSD) to another hard disk: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=noerror
Find & delete Core Dump files
Find all core dump files: find . -type f -regex “.*/core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$” The regex in the above command matches the file name “core.xxxx” where “xxxx” is exactly four numbers 0-9. If…
Using “dd” to create a Bootable USB
The following commands need to be run in terminal mode, be sure to 'fix' the [distro-name] Start by running the following command on your mounted USB device (to clean it…
Audio Tricks
Make an mp3 playlist: ls -1 *.mp3 > playlist.m3u Make mp3s from raw wav files: ffmpeg -b 192k -i The_Rain_Song.wav The_Rain_Song.mp3 Convert m4a to mp3: ffmpeg -y -i ./BWV0666.m4a -ab…
Fix Sound setup on MXLinux
Slightly modified from the original MakeTechEasier article: How to fix Kali’s sound issue Getting audio output is a simple enough process with a little bit of effort. The first thing…
Convert antiX to an XFCE4 based Distro (a tutorial)
To begin, install a recent antiX per normal procedure (I used and tested this tutorial on antiX19alpha2 version; this may work with previous 17.4 versions, as well). Once you have…
antiX Openbox & Xfce Respin
I recently created a variant (respin, draft release) snapshot of antiX19-alpha2. It contains two non-antiX standard desktops: Openbox Xfce. Things I did not worry about in this initial version include:…
Creating an Xfce4 Thunar Custom Action (Tutorial)
Image Conversion Function(s) The following Thunar Custom Actions require that you have imagemagick installed. Here are the commands for each. To Convert jpg to png; the action command is: To…