Get your Desktop Icons BACK on Ubuntu 19.04 with Nemo

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

Gnome disabled OOTB support for managing Desktop icons, and is now handled via a gnome shell extension that is missing many features and not quite usable.

The best solution I found so far was to install nemo (file manager on Linux Mint) and make it the default instead of Gnome Files (formerly nautilus) and let it handle the desktop icons as well.

  1. Disable the Desktop Icons extension (from Gnome Tweaks -> Extensions) if it already exists
  2. Install nemo:
    1. sudo apt install nemo
  3. Make nemo the default file manager and disable nautilus control of desktop:
    1. xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search
    2. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
  4. Add nemo-desktop to your startup items

That’s it, Enjoy!

Source: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/07/how-to-replace-nautilus-with-nemo-file.html

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Reset your Ubuntu Desktop to its default settings

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik 
dconf reset -f /

Sources:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/how-to-reset-ubuntu-desktop-to-default

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How to check the DHCP server on Ubuntu

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

This is if you need to know which server gave you your dynamic IP:

cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases

That’s it, Enjoy!

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Change default storage location of docker containers on Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

This was tested on Docker version 18.09.4, build d14af54266, it includes ALL docker data.

Just edit/create a file inside /etc/docker named daemon.json and add the following:

{
  "data-root": "/new_location"
}

then simply restart docker:

sudo service docker restart

Source:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd/

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Print a batch of files on Ubuntu 18.10

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Ahmed Tawfik

Here we will send a batch of files inside a directory to the default printer in Ubuntu.

First of all, you’d better define a default printer in your system by going to Printers and then select Use Printer by Default:

Next, just invoke the lpr command, e.g.

lpr *.pdf

That’s it, Enjoy!

Source: https://makandracards.com/makandra/24202-linux-how-to-print-pdf-files-from-the-command-line

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