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For most of the Windows user, the DOS command interface looks like a black hole to them. Their first thoughts are possibly - how can someone can stand of only dull text environment? On Linux, it is very usual to see users customize or compile application in the terminal.

To have a desktop terminal not necessary just to hide the terminal away from Windows users but actually a very convenient method to pin the terminal on to your desktop.

Here I want to share a way to embed the terminal to your desktop by using a software called Devil’s Pie. Devil’s Pie is a simple software to change the interfaces and behaviors of some of the rules you have made to certain applications.

Step 1 Download and install the software:

sudo apt-get install devilspie

Step 2 create configuration file for the specific terminal:

mkdir ~/.devilspie
gedit ~/.devilspie/DesktopConsole.ds

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Desktop Terminal

If you use RedHat, there is rpm installation package and as for Debian, there is also deb install package. Either rpm or deb, it is like msi execution installation package for Windows users. It creates a convenient user friendly straight forward method to install application and you do not need to worry about any library independencies or console command to go through.

But, the problem is sometimes we found rpm package from internet and we want to install it on our Debian system. How to install?

Actually just through a simple application called Alien. What Alien do is more than that, it can converts in between package like Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats.

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Let the Alien help you convert rpm to deb