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Adding Custom Actions To Your File Manager

One of the coolest customizations that you can make to your file manager is to add your own custom actions to the context menus. For example, in this video, I create a custom action where if I right click on a directory, the context menu now offers me a choice to open that directory inside Emacs Dired.…

The Killer Feature Of Tiling Window Managers Isn’t Tiling

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

I often get people telling me that they don’t see the point of using a tiling window manager. I think part of the problem is the name “tiling window manager”.…

Two Powerful Command Line Utilities ‘cut’ And ‘tr’

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

Recently, I’ve made videos on command line utilities like ‘awk’ and ‘sed’. In this video, I cover two powerful command line utilities–‘cut’ and ‘tr’. The ‘cut’ command removes sections from each line of a file.…

Pop!_OS And The COSMIC Desktop. The Best Desktop Linux?

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

I’m taking a quick look at the recently released Pop!_OS 21.04 with their COSMIC desktop. COSMIC is a set of customizations that makes GNOME much more palatable.…

Htop Is Great But It Uses The Arrow Keys. Yuck! (#shorts)

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

Htop is one of the more popular programs on Linux. But there’s a big problem with it–htop doesn’t use the vim navigation keys! HTim, is htop improved, it has vim key bindings (h/j/k/l and g/G) and it also has a visual mode that can by used by pressing ‘v’.…

A Base Gentoo Installation

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

Today, I had a few minutes of free time so I decided to install Gentoo. So I decided to do a Stage 3 installation inside a virtual machine, and it didn’t seem right to install Gentoo and not also record it.…

Learning Sed Is Beneficial For Linux Users

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).…

You Are NOT The Software You Run! (#shorts)

Web Monkey2 years ago02 mins

In this YouTube #shorts video (shot in landscape mode like a normal person), I discuss a serious mental disorder that too many people suffer from–identifying with their software.…

If Someone Asks You About Linux, Tell Them…

Web Monkey3 years ago02 mins

I often get people asking me about Linux in real life. It can be tough telling people about Linux that have no idea about it. Here’s how I handle that situation.…