Enforce any application to appear full screen in gnome

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

In Gnome, you can force any application to go full screen;
Open System=>Preferences=>Keyboard shortcuts
Under “Window Management” assigne any key combinations such as “CTL+SHIFT+F” for “Toggle Fullscreen mode”.
Open any application (firefox, eclipse, ….) and press “CTRL + SHIFT + F”, the program will goes in full screen mode.

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pass entire parameters in shell scripts

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

example bash file:

save the following in a file called print.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo “$@”
and then :
chmod +x print.sh
./print.sh hello world
Note that, all the parameters you pass to print.sh will be passed to echo, this because of “$@”

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List sessions for a user using Siebel CLI

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“list sessions for login user_name“

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LAN Chat Server & Client in Ubuntu

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“sudo apt-get install chatplus chatplus-server”

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Extract a certain file to a certain directory from a tar archive using GNU Tar

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“gtar -C hobba -xvf aamr.tar aamr/1”

where:

“hobba” is the directory to extract to
“aamr.tar” is the archive from which we’ll extract the file
“aamr/1” is the file inside the archive to be extracted to the destination directory (hobba).

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