Monthly Archives: October 2016

Compress PDF Files Effectively in Ubuntu

Found a great script that does an amazing job with compressing PDF files whilst maintaining a good quality: Get the script from here: http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf/ Just copy the script to a text file and make it executable, then run: ./shrinkpdf infile.pdf outfile.pdf … Continue reading

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How to solve Google Chrome Flickering on Ubuntu 16.04

Just do the following two steps: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop Scroll down to the “Exec” line Add two additional parameters, so that it looks like this: Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable –disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds –enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers %U That’s it, now restart Chrome and it shall work perfectly! I … Continue reading

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