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This Tip was taken from a TechRepublic article by Vincent Danen. It will allow the user to map unused key combinations to run custom commands in the shell.

To obtain the key sequence from a function key, use the read command. The following is an example of pressing the [F12] key:

$ read

^[[24~

Note that different keyboards will produce different key sequences, and modifiers to the function keys (such as [Ctrl][F12] or [Shift][F12]) will produce other sequences as well.

The next step is to bind that key sequence to a particular shell command. For example, you can bind [F12] to the ‘history-search-backward’ shell command:

$ bind ‘’\e[24~’: history-search-backward’

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The following command allows you to start a xterm and export its display to another system with a white foreground on a black background . Very useful when working on headless systems

/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :0.0 -fg white -bg black

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A good collection of Debian Linux hints and Tips:

http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/DebianTips

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Subversion is a really powerfull versioning system like CVS. Here’s a tutorial On subversion that tells you who to set it up : Subversion Tutorial

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Compiling a linux kernel is not an easy job if you don’t know what you are doing and most of the articles and tutorials out there don’t really make sense to me. I found a Debian kernel compile how-to by Falko Timme which does a really good job of explaining what to do and how to do it.

Check it out over here.

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