Tips & Tricks · The Blog of Boban Acimovic

Add flag to Linux Mint application start command

Modern Linux desktop distributions contain really powerful settings possibilities, but it is very often difficult to find out how to configure something. You may want, for example, to add –disk-cache-dir flag to Chromium start command in order to configure cache directory, so how to do it?

right click on the menu start button and select “Configure”
click on the “Menu” button at the top of the “Menu” window
click on the “Open the menu editor” button
browse the applications and find the requested one (Chromium in this case)
select the application and click on “Properties” button on the right
add requested command flag in the “Command” field

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Install Golang package on Ubuntu Linux

Official Golang documentation contains just tar.gz package to be downloaded and installed on Ubuntu Linux, but this is not quite comfortable way because Golang won’t be automatically updated after new release. Fortunatelly, there is trustable PPA that can be used.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-go