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The Pitivi team still needs our help for bringing their simple to use open source video editor to a professional level. The campaign has past half of its goal and counting...

Delete lines containing a specific string with sed

The following command makes sed delete every lines containing the matching pattern from the file named foo. If this file is important, we make sure to back it up first!

$ sed -i '/pattern/d' /path/to/foo

The -i flag (GNU version only) edit the file in-place. For non-GNU version, we can redirect the output with >.

$ sed '/pattern/d' /path/to/foo > /path/to/foo

Less than 20 days to help fund the Gooseberry project from the Blender Foundation

Update: having more than 3000 supporters, the team has decided to extend the campaign until May 8th. It is not too late to join in!

Less than 20 days to help fund the Gooseberry project from the Blender Foundation. Blender is a free (as in freedom and free beer) 3D modelling software. After several small films showing all its capabilities, the foundation has launched a crowd-funding campaign to help realise its first full-length film.

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Lubuntu (LXDE): restore a logout/shutdown icon in the taskbar

From time to time, an inexperienced user for whom I have set up a Lubuntu 12.04 LTS system, inadvertently mess the layout of her taskbar (a lock feature as in KDE's plasmoids would be nice ;-).

While restoring all of her stuff, I couldn't find how to display a shutdown shortcut. This option/item was just not in the widgets list. After a little duckducking, I found I had to edit the following file:

$ sudo leafpad /usr/share/applications/lubuntu-logout.desktop

And comment out¹ the line starting with "NoDisplay":

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Shutdown
Name[zh_TW]=關機
Type=Application
Comment=Shutdown or Reboot
Icon=system-shutdown-panel
Exec=lubuntu-logout
#NoDisplay=true
Categories=Settings;DesktopSettings

After that, I was able to re-add a shutdown icon:

Right Click on LXPanel > Add/Remove Panel Items > Add > Application Launch Bar > Double Click on Application Launch Bar > Preferences > Select Shutdown from the list and Click "Add" > Close > Close

¹ or maybe change its value to false, or delete it, be CRAZY!

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GOG.com is going to support Linux

After Desura and Steam, GOG.com is going to support Linux with their good old games!