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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Start Slack Minimized on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

It might seem silly, but I just hate having to see the Slack Connection window every time I start my computer. I just wanted it to start minimized, no big deal! To start it minimized, just append -u to the … Continue reading →

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Add a custom resolution to your display using xrandr on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

Just in case your monitor’s supported resolution is not properly detected or if you want a custom resolution to be used: In this example, we will try to add 1368×768, with a refresh rate of 60 Run cvt to get … Continue reading →

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Force remove an entry from Ubuntu Online Accounts

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

I was trying to delete an entry in my online accounts (since I restored Ubuntu 18.04 files over 17.10), and it wasn’t getting deleted. The solution is to edit the following file: ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf Then simply remove the entry you wish … Continue reading →

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Solve /boot getting 100% full issue on Ubuntu Servers

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is an issue affecting many Ubuntu servers. It basically happens when you enable automated security updates, multiple kernel packages get installed automatically, without removing the old ones, which gets /boot 100% full and the package manager is no longer … Continue reading →

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How to change default terminal emulator in Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

Ctrl+Alt+t is the keyboard shortcut to open a terminal in Ubuntu. By default, it opens an ‘x-terminal-emulator’ terminal. I wanted to change that to use my favorite terminal emulator, which is ‘terminator’ To do that: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec ‘terminator’ … Continue reading →

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