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jEdit showing Connect to FTP Server window on start error fix

Does your jEdit file editor show you “Connect to FTP Server” window every-time you start it? And then if you cancel it and then try to load your bookmarks window or try to connect to a FTP connection through FTP plugin window it does show you I/O (input/output) error message? Continue reading

Creating new virtual host while using Xampp in Ubuntu (Linux)

I need this stuff quite often. Every time i need to create a new virtual host in Ubuntu i have to google/search to find this solution as i cannot remember these paths properly. I am posting it here for quick reference for myself. Bookmark it for yourself (which i am going to do after i have finished posting it ;) ) Continue reading

Broken jEdit FTP plugin fix after upgrading Ubuntu release

Just a note:

After upgrading my Ubuntu machine to latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS version my preferred code editor started to have issues. I opened it as normal and it showed me 3 FTP connection windows at once and after closing these windows when i tried to launch a FTP profile from bookmarks it didn’t work and kept saying the “Already running command error”. I thought i needed to re-install the jEdit (the upgrade actually re-stalled the latest release of jEdit while upgrading) and tried a re-install but it did not fix anything. Then i removed the FTP plugin of jEdit and re-installed it and hurray, it works!

Moving close, maximize, minimize icons to top right of a window in Ubuntu 11.10

Just a tip on how to move close, maximize and minimize icons to top right of a window in Ubuntu 11.10. Continue reading

A tip on saving doc or docx files in LibreOffice

What i did i created a new .doc file through “Create New Document” that generally appears listed on pop up menu when one right clicks inside a folder area in Ubuntu. The file was created ok. Then i opened it in LibreOffice Writter, created a few lines and “bulletted” paragraphs with formattings, saved and closed the file. Continue reading

How to edit or download .htaccess from cpanel file manager where it is hidden

In my cpanel (dont know the version number) it didn’t show .htaccess file and hid it by default. If it happens and as a lazy person like me you dont want to do ftp like things to get the htaccess appeared on you,  just click on a visible file and open it in cpanel editor. It will give you the url something like below. Continue reading

Getting a way around the “No protocol specified, …cannot open display:0.0″ message

After doing sudo su - (to give myself root privileges) when I tried editing a file using gedit info.txt it would show me the following error message: Continue reading

Finding files using ‘find’ command in Linux

Here’s a list of most useful linux “find files” commands i have summarized recently.

Finding files with filename

Find file by exact name
$ find / -name 'script.php' Continue reading

Keyboard shortcuts to switch among split views in jEdit

Here’s the keyboard shortcuts to navigate or switch among split views or text areas or window panes (whatever you call it) in jEdit.

Alt-Page Up	Send keyboard focus to previous text area.
Alt-Page Down	Send keyboard focus to next text area.

Flash player APT “natty-partner” installation issue fixed

For last few days i had struck with installing flash player since i had updated my system (kUbuntu) softwares through it’s “Updates Available” feature. Since then, now and then, i had been trying different things in this regard but eventually could not make flashplayer work and run flash content in any of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Rekong (included by default in kUbuntu) browsers. Being quite busy with other stuff and perhaps i didn’t feel a desperate need to run flash content in the meantime i had been just ignoring the issue altogether. Continue reading