To open a LUKS container file in Thunar file manager in Linux, right click on the container file and select the option Open with Disk Image Mounter. This way, the LUKS container will appear as Device in thunar and can be mounted.
How to enable greyed out Get Quotes button in GnuCash for stock quotes retrieval
On fresh install of Xubuntu 20.04 LTS, it was noticed that the Get Quotes button on the Price Editor option of GnuCash was greyed out. To diagnose this, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:$ gnc-fq-check <enter> The error Can't locate Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Asia.pm in @INC is displayed. This means that the Finance::Quotes module is … Continue reading How to enable greyed out Get Quotes button in GnuCash for stock quotes retrieval
How to enable Android Studio AVD to use only lesser number of CPUs than available on the computer
To use only 2 cores of the CPU of the computer, do the following action after opening a terminal window in Linux, where Device10.avd is the Android 10 AVD created: $ vi ~/.android/avd/Device10.avd/config.ini <enter> Change the values in red for the below parameters in the file to those in blue as below.hw.cpu.ncore=4 hw.cpu.ncore=2 Save the … Continue reading How to enable Android Studio AVD to use only lesser number of CPUs than available on the computer
How to fix the ADB Binary found adb is obsolete and has serious performance problems with Android Emulator error in Android Studio for Linux
The default Android SDK installed with Android Studio already has the adb application installed and it is the latest. The error ADB Binary found at /home/user/ adb is obsolete and has serious performance problems with Android Emulator appears only if from Android Studio, menu option, Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools, the Android SDK … Continue reading How to fix the ADB Binary found adb is obsolete and has serious performance problems with Android Emulator error in Android Studio for Linux
One more way to speed Android Studio in Linux
At times, Android Studio just slows down while indexing files on the Linux file system. To overcome this problem, some files like Thumbs.db or thumbs.db can be prevented from being taken up for indexing. To do so, start Android Studio and select the File->Settings -> File Types. Then at the end of the list of … Continue reading One more way to speed Android Studio in Linux
How to speed Android Studio in Linux by changed VM Options
After installing Android Studio 4.1 on Linux, one of the biggest issue was speed of Android Studio at startup. To improve speed vmoptions64 or vmoptions needs to contain the setof lines in blue below. You can change the file using a text editor as follows by opening a terminal window: $ mousepad ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config/studio64.vmoptions <enter> or … Continue reading How to speed Android Studio in Linux by changed VM Options
How to change GPU mode for Android 10 Google Play API Pixel 3 AVD in Android Studio for Linux
If you install the AVD with Google Play Store, you cannot modify the GPU from Automatic or Hardware to any other value. It appears greyed in the AVD settings. Some of us do not have graphics cards on our systems and therefore, this setting has to be changed in order to enable Android Studio AVDs … Continue reading How to change GPU mode for Android 10 Google Play API Pixel 3 AVD in Android Studio for Linux
How to install Epson L365 Ink Tank printer driver on Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS
Several attempts to install the Epson L365 ink tank printer on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS computer were futile as the L series printers never showed up on the list of printers in Settings -> Printers and Add printer. Even though Epson was available for selection, it only showed the dot matrix printers in the list … Continue reading How to install Epson L365 Ink Tank printer driver on Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS
How to use India income tax Java utilities on Linux
Upon download and execution of the income tax India utilities for the ITRs for Java, the following error is display when the utility is run using Java 11 on Linux. "Error: JavaFX runtime components are missing, and are required to run this application" This is error basically indicates that to run the income tax java … Continue reading How to use India income tax Java utilities on Linux
How to shred a file on Linux leaving no remnants
Sometimes we have files on our hard disks that we would like to remove for good. If you have set up full disk encryption when you installed Linux on your computer, you will have an encrypted hard disk which is pretty much useless to anyone without the password that only you know. However, sometimes, to … Continue reading How to shred a file on Linux leaving no remnants
