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With this you can unlock your KDE4 session via SSH, via mobile phone SSH or e. g. scheduled task in crontab (without asking password). Useful when you need to grant somebody access to your locked profile remotely.
Create an alias (e. g. as "unlock") and use with remote KDE4 lock.
This works only on KDE4 boxes because KDE 3 is using utility with another name.
Tested on Kubuntu 8.10.
Continue with:
killall -CONT -m firefox
Suspends all Firefox Threads. Results in Zero CPU load.
Useful when having 100+ Tabs open and you temporarily need the power elsewhere.
Be careful - might produce RACE CONDITIONS or LOCKUPS in other processes or FF itself.
matching is case sensitive.
Ever since the switch to pulseaudio, Ubuntu users including myself have found themselves with no sound intermittently. To fix this, just use this command and restarts firefox or mplayer or whatever.
Dashboard is OS X utility application. When you hit F12, Dashboard springs forward, dimming the background, some people have claimed memory or performance problems. In my case, I just don't use it, there may be other reasons you?d rather not have Dashboard available.
Change YES to NO to restore the previous functionality.
In Mac OS 9, the "New Folder" keyboard shortcut was Command+N, but in Mac OS X this was changed to "New Finder Window" instead, with "New Folder" taking the more awkward shortcut of Command+Shift+N. This command reverses their mappings.
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) introduced a new, 3D, reflective Dock. For those of us who prefer the Dock to be a little less distracting, this command is the answer. The Dock will be rendered in the same style as when pinned to the left- or right-hand side of the screen. Replace YES with NO to restore the 3D Dock.