Ubuntu Gnome Terminal Customization

Here I share my Ubuntu Gnome Terminal customization as a reference for anyone having same taste and/or requirements as me.

Make LibreOffice Looks Better

Sexy look and feel is one requirement to love the products which you are using. Even though LibreOffice is a good alternative for Microsoft Office, I wasn’t satisfy with the default look and feel of LibreOffice. Here, I am sharing the tweaks I made to fall in deep relationship…

Best Download Manager For Linux

Those who switched to Linux from Windows mostly have this question: “What is the alternative for IDM in Linux?”. I accept the truth that Internet Download Manager is hard to replace in terms of rich set of features but there are download managers available for Linux which…

Verify License Header Before Commit

Working for a software company requires more responsibilities other than coding. One is following their own standards and disciplines which includes adding license header to all the files. I rely on my IDE to automatically add license header to all the new files, but…

Open Guake Terminal Here - Nemo Plugin

Guake Terminal is a sexy drop down terminal for Gnome. As a software engineer, I need to open terminal from the file manager in my case which is Nemo in order to do various tasks in the directory itself. Even though Open in Terminal plugin is there, which is…

Copy Current Directory Path From Terminal

Copying the current path of Terminal is an essential task for a developer. The copied path may be pasted in to the IDE to open the project or in a new tab of an existing File explorer. What we need is a way to copy the current path into the clipboard…

Apache Maven Bash Completion Support

Are you a power user of Apache Maven? Then this is for you. Today, I found a nice trick to enable bash completion for mvn command line tool. If you don’t have any idea about bash completion, open your Terminal, type git ( With an assumption that you have git ;-) )…

WSO2 DAS: SSLException - Fix as a Script

WSO2 DAS may throw an SSLException saying something similar to this:

SSLException: hostname in certificate didn’t match: <192.888.888.1> != <localhost>