linux

Dark theme in Flatpak apps

less than 1 minute read

To get flatpak’s to honor your systems dark mode and not show you horrible white menubars, you can use this little snipplet:

Deploying a Mastodon server on Oracle Cloud

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I’ve been meaning to test out Mastodon again for a while. It’s is best described as a federated version of the blue bird platform (Twitter), while not being Twitter. No ads, no algorithms.

Using JACK for lower-latency audio on Linux for piano practice

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About a month and a bit in me learning the piano, I’ve had to rethink my remote piano learning setup. The latency was at points really annnoying (sometimes nearly a second) - it’s confusing when you hit a key and only hear it when you’re hitting the next key. So, time to look for a lower-latency setup.

EDID for ViewSonic Vx2025wm

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I recently reinstalled Fedora on my desktop machine, which has (amongst others) a ViewSonic Vx2025wm screen connected to it. It’s an oldie, but still works (quite well). Unfortunately, Linux just complained that it didn’t get a proper EDID out of it, and refused to activate it - might also explain why Windows doesn’t recognise it as a PnP monitor - I guess the chip fried somewhere along the ...

Hibernate after suspend (on Fedora)

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I recently found out that Windows has this nice feature where, after suspending your laptop, it’ll go to hibernate after a while to preserve battery. Seems like a really cool feature, saves your battery too, so I wanted it on my linux installation. I’m using Fedora 27 right now. To get it working, you’ll first need to verify that your suspend to ram and suspend to disk actually work. There are...

ASUS UX305UA and Linux

2 minute read

The ASUS UX305UA is an ultrabook with the Skylake microarchitecture - the (as of writing) latest iteration in Intel processors. Unfortunately, Skylake support on Linux wasn’t really a granted thing the time the device got released. Fortunately it’s gotten a lot better of late.

Using adb with a OnePlus X on Linux…

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… is not really that hard. Just annoying. Since OnePlus’ USB ID is not in the default adb list, you need to add it yourself: echo "0x2a70" >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

Managing TP-Link easy smart switches from Linux

2 minute read

I’ve recently acquired some TP-Link ‘Easy Smart’ managed switches - cheap, decently built (metal casing), and a lot of features above the usual unmanaged stuff:

XPS13, Linux, suspend and Intel Rapid Start Technology

1 minute read

As an addendum to my previous post on how to install Debian Sid on the XPS13, I’ve been having issues with suspend - the laptop would sporadicaly not go to sleep properly on lid close, or it wouldn’t come out of suspend afterwards.

Dell XPS 13 and Debian Sid

6 minute read

I purchased a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, to replace my ageing Apple Macbook 2,1. After six years of daily use, it’s (over)due to retire.

Adobe AIR 2.6 and Debian Sid 64-bit

2 minute read

I wanted to get Adobe AIR to work on my 64-bit Debian Sid installation, to try out some other twitter clients, more specifically Saezuri. (On a side note: the offering of twitter clients on linux is … mediocre. Bad, even. The (imho) best one is Pino, but it has problems of it’s own).

Multiseat on Debian

5 minute read

Since I have a rather well-scaled desktop PC (nothing really fancy by today’s specs, but it’s underused as it is), and my gf sometimes wants to use it, and sometimes we both want to use it at the same time, I decided to turn it into a multiseat configuration.

Using an Alcatel X200 under Linux

less than 1 minute read

I recently purchased an Alcatel Onetouch X200 3G USB modem, to be able to use internet on various locations where there is no wired or wifi available. Works fine under Windows/Mac OS X, bit more of a hassle under Linux.

World of Goo!

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A good friend of mine introduced me to a new game: World Of Goo!

Linux on the Apple Macbook

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I was bored recently, and decided to install Linux on my Macbook. I opted for the distribution I like best - Debian (unstable/Sid).

Reading DRM'ed Adobe Ebooks on Linux

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Sade linked me to this nice ebook by Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere. Unfortunately, you need Adobe Digital Editions for it, which only exists for Windows and Mac. Since she’s a Linux user, that one didn’t really fly with her.

Funpidgin

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Thanks to a post on Frank Goosens’ blog I discovered FunPidgin! A fork of Pidgin, a multi-messenger client formerly known as Gaim.

Linux on my MacBook

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I’m currently trying to get Linux (Debian Sid) working on my MacBook… it’s installed, but still needs lots of tweaking.

Fixing your VMWare's guest clock

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If you’re using VMWare on a variable-speed processor (like all most modern cpu’s these days) you might have noticed that sometimes the guest OS runs a lot faster (causing the guest clock to run faster and all kinds of weird effects).

Vmware console on Debian Lenny

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I just installed VMWare server on my gf’s linux-laptop, but the server console didn’t want to start for some reason… Just came back to the command line, nothing happening.

Vmware and Linux-2.6.22

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If you’re rolling your own kernels, and upgraded to 2.6.22, you might have bumped into a compilation issue:

Gallery-Remote

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I was trying to get GalleryRemote installed today on my Linux installation (because for obscure reasons, using the java applet in gallery directly crashes my browsers), which wouldn’t run. Attempting to run the installer gave obscure errors like: awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dirname: error while loading shared li...

Linux, distcc and Mac OS X

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If you’re like me, and have Fink installed on your Mac and compiling away all those wonderful unix applications, and you have a desktop nearby running linux (with more processor power being unused), you’ll want to setup distcc so you can harnass all that power.

September in Spain

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On tuesday, 20 september I took the plane (yes, I gave it back ;p) once again to spain, to visit Diana :) :)

atvsync 0.1

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ATV Sync is a simple script that allows you to easily synchronise the premade ATV PalmOS databases to your PalmOS-powered handheld.

phpComics 0.4

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This is a collection of scripts that allow you to download complete archives of web-published comics.

htmlpop! 0.5

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This script allows you to download POP3 mailboxes over an HTTP interface. I wrote it to allow me to get my mail through the company’s http proxy server.