The Task Manager in Windows 8+ has Disk and Network activity columns for processes. Processes can be sorted by those with highest activity on Disk or on Network.
I do not find these options in the System Monitor in Ubuntu. Is there any GUI or console task manager that has these features?
Is there any tool that helps choose Emoji to paste into the current document or program? Similar to the Emoji picking keyboard that appears in Android or iOS.
Which is the lightest GUI text editor in Ubuntu that supports tabbed windows? I'm looking for a Windows Notepad replacement, but with tabs support.
I have no need for syntax highlighting or any other features.
Packages can be searched and listed using the command aptitude search foo. The status of these packages are listed in the leftmost column. The values of these status is explained in the Aptitude manual: p not installed, i installed.
I see the status pi beside some packages. What does this status mean?
Is there any tool which lists the controller, hubs and devices of USB subsystem in their tree structure at the shell?
lsusb lists flatly and does not show all the details. usbview has a GUI, but shows the tree structure and all details of the devices. Any tool that shows whatever usbview does, but at the shell?
I am using a notebook with a Intel i7 (with its own GPU) and a NVIDIA GPU. On Windows, the notebook uses Optimus to switch between the GPUs intelligently.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I installed CUDA from NVIDIA website to be able to run CUDA programs. This also installed a NVIDIA graphics driver. On booting the notebook, the kernel crashes due to a race condition with NVIDIA graphics driver module, as described here.
Its a kernel crash or panic everytime I boot up Ubuntu, so I cannot even get to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) to remove the driver or fix something. I had to reinstall Ubuntu.
Is there some way to let Nouveau be the graphics driver (using Intel GPU), while being able to run CUDA programs (using NVIDIA GPU)? Is there some method to install the NVIDIA, CUDA and Bumblebee packages and configure them to achieve this?
(Note: There are other similar questions, but they are answered for old versions of Ubuntu or there are no answers to them. In any case, those solutions did not work.)
XTerm is great because I can view images inside it in w3m or ranger. However, as a terminal it does not support tabs or splitting. Is there an alternative that works like XTerm but supports splitting and tabs?
There seems to be a way to get man pages to display in color (see here. It involves setting environment variables associated with less and adding these definitions to .bashrc. I tried doing the same in config.fish for the fish shell, but got no color output.
How to get color man pages in the fish shell?
I can get to a TTY in Ubuntu by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. Once I'm at a shell in this TTY, how can I find out what is the resolution of this TTY?
Note that the GRUB_GFXMODE in my /etc/default/grub file is commented out. So, I cannot find out the resolution from there.
In Terminator, I have a 3-split layout that I have set as the default layout as explained here. But when I open a new tab, it still opens with just a single terminal, not the 3-split layout I want.
How to make Terminator open all new tabs with my default layout?
Note: The answer to this question does not work for layouts.
Why does it take a long time to open certain config files accessible only to superuser in Vim?
For example:
$ sudo vim /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla
It takes 10 seconds on an idle computer for this tiny text file to open up in Vim. The time taken is the same no matter how many times I close and open this file. Other files owned by a normal user open in a flash.
Update: I used strace to figure out the cause of the delay. It turns out that the vim-signify plugin that I was using with Vim was causing this error. On removing the plugin, Vim opens the file in a flash. An issue has been filed with the plugin author.
I know Nautilus has support for Mercurial, but I'm not seeing the icon overlays even after installing tortoisehg-nautilus on Ubuntu 14.04.
I'm interested in knowing which Linux file explorers (both GUI and terminal curses) have support for Mercurial?
That is, if I look at the files and directories in the file explorer, I should be able to quickly see which of them are not in the repository, which are modified and which are up to date.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed the Monaco font from here. The font is visible in Font Manager. I can also set the font in GVim.
However, if I try to set this font in GNOME Terminal, that is not possible. It is not listed in Edit > Profile Preferences > Font.
I am looking for a clipboard manager with favorites feature. That is, I should be able to star or mark some clipboard items as favorites. These items should never be removed from the clipboard history.
I am using Diodon currently and it does not have this feature.
I like the way System Monitor on Ubuntu displays the usage of different cores on the CPU. I write multi-threaded applications and it is useful for me to see how many cores are being occupied, for how long and with how much utilization. All of this information is neatly summarized by the CPU utilization in System Monitor.
Now, the problem is System Monitor itself takes a lot of resources to run. For example, it takes 16-25% of a core when I'm running it.
Is there an alternative to System Monitor that utilizes lesser CPU and has CPU visualization that shows utilization of all individual cores?
All the computers I use run Ubuntu. To work from home, I SSH from my home computer to my lab computer as follows:
# First a port knock is needed
joe@homepc> telnet ssh.university.edu 9000
# Next SSH to one of the external SSH servers of university
# This logs me into one of many SSH servers serving as interface
joe@homepc> ssh [email protected]
# Finally SSH to my lab PC inside university network
student7@university999> ssh joedude@labpc
# And I am in my labpc
joedude@labpc>
How do I use rsync to sync a directory on labpc with a directory on my homepc? Also, it would be awesome if there is some way to automate all of this so that I can rsync with just a single command from my homepc.
Various health reports indicate that sitting for too long working on the computer is not good for health. I need an app that can tell me to take a break, for example once every hour of continuous work.
It would be optimal if it can automatically detect how long it has been since my display was last unlocked or logged in and count from that time. When I take a break, I will lock the display and unlock it when I'm back.
Is there any such app for Ubuntu which help the user take regular breaks?
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc (XBMC) connected to the home network. Is there any XBMC remote control application I can use on my Ubuntu notebook to control the Raspbmc (XBMC)?
This is just for fun and curiosity: is there a tool using which I can visually see the dependencies of a package as a graph?
That is, the packages that a given package depends on. This can be a command-line tool that displays using ASCII graphics (like tree or Mercurial's graphlog) or a GUI tool that shows the dependency graph visually. Any other combination of tools that can show the dependencies visually works too.
I can use aptitude to search for packages using a search term. For example, to search for all packages whose name begins with Foo:
$ aptitude search Foo*
However, this listing does not include source packages (package with source code).
How do I search and list source packages using a search term?