Enabling Emacs Keybindings in Gnome

A while back I discovered a post on someone’s blog that talked about using Emacs key bindings in bash. Since then my efficiency in bash has gone up drastically as these key bindings are second nature to me. This is definitely one of those cases where you wish you could go back in [...]

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How To Disable the Trackpad in Ubuntu

Every laptop user has experience this, you’re typing away and without noticing you graze over the trackpad and your cursor jumps to the middle of the first paragraph. By the time you notice you’ve injected half of the third paragraph into the first. After correcting that typo you find yourself doing the same [...]

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Removing Mounted Drives from the Gnome Desktop

One of the things I found annoying with Gnome is that any time I access one of my Fat32/NTFS partitions it ends up placing an icon on the desktop until I reboot.  Since I do most of my programming in a transparent shell I like to keep my desktop clean.  After doing a bit of [...]

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