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Vanilla Music Player.

Vanilla Music Player is an awesome music player for android. Check out the website or look it up on the Google Play. It’s now my go-to music player app on all my android devices....

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Fix wordpress permissions on ubuntu.

I've come to find that wordpress permissions can often be broken with a fresh install on Ubuntu. Thankfully Angel Alonso has made it super easy to fix. Simply open a terminal and wget his script from github, chmod it & then execute it. That’s the base of it, but see the three steps below....

wget https://gist.github.com/Adirael/3383404/raw/6c5446d56477426faeb709e5b807f00422acdea2/fix-wordpress-permissions.sh

chmod +x fix-wordpress-permissions.sh

sudo ./fix-wordpress-permissions.sh /var/www/html

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Lipstick Left XFWM theme.

Lipstick left is a simple theme with only a left border. This theme is designed to be super minimal, space saving & out of the way....

Download the theme from GitHub or check out my post on r/unixporn. Here’s a dirty screenshot & the original clean screenshot....

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Loading YouTube video’s full width & height of your browser.

YouTube can load videos and have them take up the full width & height of your browser. To make YouTube do this simply copy the video id from the url & paste it after youtube.com/embded/. For example....

STANDARD YOUTUBE VIDEO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-WiwLZ6ZdM

FULL WIDTH & HEIGHT VIDEO.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/R-WiwLZ6ZdM

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Styling multiple html links with css.

You can style multiple html links differently on the same page simply by adding a class to the link & then some css. For example....

HTML

<a href="something.html" class="newclass">Link text</a> <a href="somethingv1.html" class="anothernewclass">More link text</a>

CSS

a.newclass:link { color: #444444; text-decoration: none; }

a.newclass:visited { color: #444444; text-decoration: none; }

a.newclass:hover { color: #f2f2f2; text-decoration: none; }

a.newclass:active { color: #444444; text-decoration: none; }

a.anothernewclass:link { color: #f2f2f2; text-decoration: none; }

a.anothernewclass:visited { color: #f2f2f2; text-decoration: none; }

a.anothernewclass:hover { color: #222222; text-decoration: none; }

a.anothernewclass:active { color: #f2f2f2; text-decoration: none; }

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Fullscreen background css.

Add the code below to the top of your .css file. Change the image name / location & everything's good to go....

html {  background: url(image.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;  -webkit-background-size: cover;  -moz-background-size: cover;  -o-background-size: cover;  background-size: cover; }

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Turning off YouTube’s new mini player.

Some people dislike YouTube’s new mini player. If you happen to be one of those people, then you can easily turn it off....

Head over to your YouTube settings.

select "Playback and performance".

Uncheck "Enable Mini Player" & your done.

It’s super simple.

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Lubuntu is taking a new direction.

Lubuntu is an operating system based on Ubuntu and for the most part has aimed itself towards user's with older hardware. With the transition to LXQt currently under way, the Lubuntu team have made the decision to take a new direction. You can read everything about this on their blog post....

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This isn‘t I3....

This isn’t I3.. This is xfce with a no-border theme installed.

Here’s how to create your own no-border theme for xfce or possibly any other window manager. Just follow the steps below or download the theme from here GitHub....

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/themes/empty/xfwm4

Replace "empty" with whatever name you want. This will be the name of your theme.

sudo touch /usr/share/themes/empty/xfwm4/themerc

Leave this file blank and your done.

Finished!!

Open up your window manager settings and choose your newly created theme.

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Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS has been released.

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS has been released. Offering up a bunch of updates & improvements over 18.04. It's now a good time to upgrade if you've been thinking about it. You can head over to the Ubuntu Fridge to read the official announcement & then to the wiki for the release notes....