All new Linux people are worrying about being productive with Linux, as an engineer Matlab is a program that can eliminate most of my technical computational needs. the first time i downloaded it. It looks like walking in a jungle of folders,scripts and files; in the second time i could wrap almost all the process .

if you are ready, let us begin :

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Packages are a very clever tool to make your software have true dependencies and updated, .deb packages make it easy for the package manager to maintain the database of the libraries dependencies. It was a problem for me how i can have my software downloaded from internet separated from the Ubuntu? how i can share others with my packages ? especially for whom does not have internet.It is essential to have a backup of your software for rebuilding your system. Finally i find a very nice tool to do all the job while your drinking coffee.

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Folders on Desktop:

1. right click on the desktop, choose “create launcher“
2. Fill the dialog as follows
   • Type : Application.
   • Name : the folder name or anything that you want.
   • command : nautilus the/file/path
   • comment : anything that you want to appear in the tooltip when pointing over it.
   • no icon : press to browse the specific icon you like.

ok, to change the keyboard layout :

1. go to any panel in your desktop.
2. press right click then choose Add to panel
3. in the search text box enter “keyboard indicator“
4. double click on the icon ,so u will get it .

To make shortcuts for Keyboard layout :

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Are you tired from directing the terminal for a specific directory ?

You may faced a nice option in KDE -when you press F4 ?

It opens the terminal directed to the active directory window.

does Gnome with its file manager Nautilus have one ?

the answer is YES.

you only have to type this command in the Terminal.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

to test it

• Open any directory or folder.
• Right click you should find a new option called open terminal, choose it and enjoy …

Lastly thanks for Walco.

On Ubuntu there are many ways to do that, one of them -which i prefer- is modifying the menu.lst

1. Open a terminal.
2. Write cd /boot
3. Write cd grub
4. Write sudo gedit menu.lst
5. Enter your password if you are asked to.
6. you will see a text file opened with gedit -the default text editor in Gnome desktop.

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I am always hesitant to write posts; i am not very good in writing, but i felt how important to do this. World is changing in exponential way, so i decided to change my way of thinking by joining the free software philosophy and using Linux.

From the name you can assess that all of that is only for learning, so no problems in making mistakes and correct them, i will be pleased to get your comments and corrections.

I’m not aiming to make it something personal, i’m looking forward to participating all of you by asking and writing all your experiences in free software world. I’m waiting for you guys.

It’s a trial and a hope that it will be nice one .