The ability to rebuild a package from the source can be beneficial to any Linux power user because it allows you to change packages, enable or disable a feature, or even apply custom modifications. This article describes simple steps to rebuild a package from the source. 1. Enable Source Repositories The first step before rebuilding a source package is to enable the source repositories for your distribution. Enabling the source repos allows you to search and download source packages using the default apt package manager....

Many laptop owners often connect their machines to external displays, whether monitors, televisions, or projectors. For display chips that support XrandR, the setup is usually rather simple. For users with Nvidia chips, it is still easy but not quick. To switch to an external display, you either have to configure it in the xorg.conf file to automatically recognize it or use nvidia-settings and click through a series of options each time you want to use it....

Change Spotify Username and Display Name Your username on Spotify cannot be changed. It is assigned to you when you create an account for the first time and is permanent in nature. Spotify uses it for identification purposes only, as you don’t need it to sign in or anything else, really. However, while you can change your display name, you can only do so on desktop. Follow the instructions below: The following instructions show how to change your Spotify display name on mobile....

Changing the console font is very easy. Here is what you need to do. Open a terminal and type: You will see this: Press “Enter” to select the default. Next, it will ask you for the character set the console should support. Similarly, press “Enter” to select the default. The next screen is the one that is most important to you – changing the font used in the console. There are only a few choices: VGA, Fixed, Terminus, TerminusBold and TerminusBoldVGA....

Why It’s Important to Lock Your SIM Your SIM card doesn’t just contain your address book. Actually, the small plastic card also stores other valuable data, including SMS text messages, billing information and data usage. As it happens, this data can’t be secured merely by setting up a PIN, passcode or some type of biometric lock on your phone. Only by activating the SIM PIN lock can users make sure this information will be secured against any potential hacking attacks....

Why is Apple throttling phones? It recently came out that Apple is intentionally throttling, or slowing down, older iPhones. As the battery degrades, iOS purposefully reduces CPU voltage, helping the device run more efficiently while reducing computational power. This contributes to the user-reported experience of iOS devices getting slower over time. Many have attributed this slowing to newer versions of apps and iOS being written for more powerful devices, and that surely plays a part....

The feature is similar to what’s found in Google Docs, iCloud Pages, etc. It allows multiple users to collaborate and work together on a single Note. You can invite a friend or colleague to view and make changes in the Note, and the ability to highlight all these changes makes it easier to identify all the edits made in the Note. Requirements To highlight changes in Notes, you’ll first need to learn how to share a note from your device to another person....

What Is GSConnect? GSConnect is an extension that sits within the GNOME Shell and uses the KDE Connect protocols written in GJS for GNOME Shell 3.24 and above. The concept is that it allows users to avoid the KDE dependencies, although the KDE app is still required for your mobile device. Just as with solutions like Airdroid, both the GNOME device and mobile device need to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network in order to work correctly....

One new technology is gestures. A gesture is what allows you to use your body-parts to control your machine. For instance, you can just wave your hand at your machine and it will respond. Most of the time, the gestures are used while playing multimedia content. If you are a Mac user you have a cool app called ControlAir that lets you control the multimedia content on your Mac using gestures....

iClapper is a semi-free Mac app that recognizes your hand clapping commands by analysing the sound input of your Mac’s microphone. As the website states, you can assign any action to a certain number of recognized claps, as well as to a combination of claps. The app is free, but there is also a Pro version that supports custom Applescripts. Let’s see how it all works. Getting Started Download iClapper from the Mac App Store and open it up on your computer....

It may be that you worked on a Docker instance on your local computer and decided to move it to a more powerful server. Or maybe you just want to deploy your customized container on multiple computers, “copy and paste” it around. Other times you may be dissatisfied with a cloud-computing provider and want to switch to a different one. Whatever the situation, there’s a rather simple procedure to do this which will be detail below....

Scribus is a popular open source desktop publishing software that allows you to create publication like e-books, brochures, type setting and other print publications easily. Being a close competitor to Adobe Indesign and QuarkXpress, the advantage that Scribus has is that it is free and supports many features like CYMK color support and PDF creation. Moreover, Scribus is available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX, making it a much worthy alternative to those commercial products....

Set your own rules, such as match time, freeze time, max players, friendly fire, and so on. But watch to be sure you don’t break important rules, especially these.Have private matches with your friends.Organize contests/tournaments.Play on custom maps. Why Create a Game Server on Linux? Some of you might be thinking, “Wouldn’t this be easier on Windows, on my own computer even?” Well, first of all, if you host a game on your home computer, that’s usually good enough only for local network games....

Follow the simple steps below to create a free basic browser that reflects your personal taste. We will use Visual Studio for this activity, but there is very little code to deal with. Installation and Updates To start, you must download the Visual Studio Community Edition by Microsoft which remains absolutely free. The software is updated frequently, so you must migrate to its latest version. Visual Studio might be a bit clunky and oversized, but it has many free templates, including web browsers....

What Is Malware? Malware, short for “malicious software,” is any type of program that interferes with the operation of a user’s computer or acts against the desires of the user. According to Wikipedia, this includes “computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other malicious programs.” Most malware is installed without the user’s consent or knowledge. However, thanks to misleading file downloads or false advertising, users sometimes intentionally install malware....

The kernel of an operating system is kind of like your cardiovascular system. You tend to forget about it until something goes wrong. It isn’t all that often, but kernel upgrades can and do go wrong. When the updated kernel won’t let you use your computer, it’s time to downgrade. Boot into an Older Kernel The good news if you’ve recently updated your kernel is that this process almost never gets rid of the old kernel....

If you are one who often downloads files from the Internet, it may be more convenient for you to do this from Terminal because you won’t need to leave your browser open. Plus, you can view the progress of the download and speed in real-time, which can be very handy – especially when downloading large files. Open Terminal on your Mac and enter the following command: That’s a capital letter “O” – this is very important....

For emails with any other form of attachment, such as image files, word documents etc, you can easily view/save them to your phone. However, if the attachment is a zip file, you will see a “Info” button and when pressed, show this message: “Can’t save or open this type of attachment because it could contain malicious software.” Not so helpful, right? Google has completely blocked the downloading of zip attachment from the Gmail app....

Activating the Kate Build Plugin In order to make this pandoc output automagical, we’ll need to activate the “Build” plug-in. If this worked correctly for you, you should see an item at the bottom of the screen labeled “Build Output.” This is where we’ll tell Kate how to generate the output from the currently-edited file via the pandoc command. Setting Up Your Build Profile Like the name suggests, this feature is generally targeted at developers writing code, and will compile that code for them....

This tutorial is applicable only if your Web host is using phpMyAdmin to manage your database. Log into your Web host account and go into the phpMyAdmin admin page. Search for the database that you have configured for the WordPress account. If you have no idea what is the name of your WordPress database (probably because you used the auto installation script in cPanel) or forgotten the database name, download the “wp-config....