12 hour time format in thunderbird mail client

 

1.      Open Thunderbird: and navigate to the menu (the three horizontal lines icon in the top-right corner).

2.    Go to Settings.

3.    Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Config Editor option.

4.    In the search bar, paste or type intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_short and press Enter.

5.    Click the + button to add a new string value for this setting.

6.    In the text field that appears, type h:mm a to specify the 12-hour time format (with AM/PM).

7.    Click the blue checkmark button to save the new entry.

8.    Restart Thunderbird: for the new time format to be applied.

After restarting, Thunderbird should now display times using a 12-hour clock with AM and PM. 

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Windows installation date- cmd

 In cmd, 

system info | find /i  "install date"

..

Canon LBP printers drivers installer for Ubuntu

 wget https://github.com/hieplpvip/canon_printer/raw/master/canon_lbp_setup.sh

chmod +x canon_lbp_setup.sh

./canon_lbp_setup.sh

How to make a desktop shortcut on Ubuntu 20.04?

 

For Application Shortcuts:

1. Open /usr/share/applications
2. Copy the application shortcut to desktop
3. Right click on the shortcut on the desktop and select Allow Launching

For Folder/File shortcuts:

Either directly use the terminal to create a symbolic link

ln -s <complete path to dir> <shortcut save location>

or

1. Open the folder in the file manager (nautilus), navigate to the directory to which you want to create a shortcut to.

2. Right click and select Open in Terminal.

3. For shortcut to current directory, type and execute

   ln -s $PWD ~/Desktop/
   

   For shortcut to a file/folder inside the current directory, type and execute

   ln -s $PWD/filename ~/Desktop/
   

   or

   ln -s $PWD/dirname ~/Desktop/