Opening gui applications as root or sudo users in linux often we see errors. How to find hardware specifications on linux ostechnix. The gtk project a free and opensource crossplatform. The step by step example below show the example of lshw command with x option lshwgui command to show hardware device information on linux fedora desktop. I opened the laucher and tried changing the command to gksudo lshwgtk and now it works. But id suspect that the output will be the same from lshw and lshwgtk in normal user and as root. It is licensed under the terms of the gnu lesser general public license, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it.
If not, just download the appropriate package for your operating system for centos use the appropriate rhel base version and install it manually with rpm. How to install lshw on kali linux debian unix stack exchange. When i try to run clicking the icon the lshw program nothing happens. Ive included the driver information i got from using the lshw gtk command you list. The redo application features a gui that is a front end to the partclone command line utility, and is capable of baremetal backup and recovery of disk partitions. Kinfocenter kde info center kinfocenter is a part of kde desktop environment. How to find hardware devices in ubuntu linux with lshw.
To install lshwgtk use the following command in ubuntumint. You can also use plain wvdial if you dont have x running. If youre not comfortable with cli, you can use lshwgtk which is the graphical interface for lshw command line tool. Lshw is a linux command line tool that can use to list hardware information on a linux server. The written word offer binary gtkmm packages, with package management.
Linux lshw command tutorial for beginners 6 examples. If efax is currently running, a screen should pop up asking for a telephone number to dial to send the fax. In most cases anyway, if there is a buggy version of lshw with whatever distro. See also proc, linuxinfo1, lspci8, lsusb8 copying lshw is distributed under the gnu general public license gpl version 2. I have installed lshw from software manager to know all my hardware devices. Added support for encrypted volumes with cryptsetup added gui lshwgtk tool to easily identify computer hardware components added the baobab graphical disk usage tool version 0. Sun, ibm aix, sgi irix, hpux, tru64 gcc or the platform compilers. Redo backup and recovery a live linux distribution based on ubuntu and features backup, restore, and disaster recovery software. That shows efaxgtk is able to connect to the driver at device devttyshsf0.
How to get hardware information in linux lshwgtk youtube. Ubuntu, linux mint, and others, run the following command in terminal. Lshw list hardware lshw is a nifty small command line utility that generates detailed reports about various hardware components on the system. The lshw tool doesnt come as an inbuilt tool in most redhat distributions. Whats cool about lshw is that it can get it to output the hardware information to a html or xml file. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, cpu version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. How to install lshwgtk ubuntu package on ubuntu 18. Installed and tried the hardware lister today and got. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, cpu version and speed, cache config uration, bus speed, etc.
I cant say ive played with lshwgtk that much, i dont really need the output in a gui. Show hardware device information on linux fedora desktop. Gtk was released first, but was not objectoriented. Linux hardware identification tools now with more gui.
Excellent, the included benchmark tools put it a notch above lshwgtk. It only listed the motherboard and details on it mostly stated to be filled by o. Quick install instructions of lshwgtk on ubuntu server. How to install ls hardwarelshw on centos 7 e learning. How to display linux hardware info via command line. Installing lshw on a debian system is very easy since it is packaged and can be found in the. Lshw is capable of reporting memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, cpu version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed etc. Mint 19 found the lshw and lshwgtk packages just fine, however, kali didnt find anything. Lshw hardware lister is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. By taking advantage of gtk being a crossplatform development tool and its easy to use api, you can develop amazing apps using the gtk. Debian details of package lshwgtk in stretch debian packages. I always add this immediately after a clean install of a linux distro. It was initially called gimp toolkit because it contained a set of gui libraries that were used in the gimp gnu image manipulation.
Later, the gtk developers rewrote the code to make gtk objectoriented. Gtk2 and gtk3 refer to gtk version 2 and 3, respectively. The lshw x command lshwgui command must be execute in graphical user interface gui desktop environment in order to see the hardware device information on graphical window screen. Along with qt, it is one of the most popular toolkits for the wayland and x11 windowing systems. Lshwgtk detailed information about the computer networkmanager enabled vnc, pptp vpn, openvpn galculator handy calculator gedit working with text files supports uft8, cp1251 and other encodings gpicview view images xfburn recording discs libreoffice writer calc draw impress work with office documents. It does so by reading different files in the proc directory. This confirms that cups and efaxgtk socket is setup properly.
Lshw also comes with a gui frontend called lshw gtk that reports the same information in a minimal graphical user interface. If your trying to open spotify via a terminal or it just doesnt open type sudo startx in a terminal and it should launch a root session and from there you can open spotify. Debian details of package lshwgtk in jessie debian packages. After opening ssh connection to the remote host as explained. The following command will disable the access control, by which you can allow clients to connect from any host. This tool comes in two forms, a command line version and a gtk graphical frontend. As already mentioned, the lshw command lets you fetch hardware info.
If you are interested in developing an app, get started now by developing this example application. A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. Testing for this article showed it to be somewhat less comprehensive than hwinfo, but makes up for it with a useful gui lshwgtk and the ability to output the results to htmlxml. While doing ssh use the option x to enable x11 forwarding. Graphical information about hardware configuration. Get hardware information on linux with lshw command. Gtk ppp is an easy to use graphical dialup connection configuring and dialing tool with system tray icon support. Information can be output in plain text, xml or html. It also uses wvdial dialer as its backend, providing simple configuration via config files.