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Getting dual-screen (xinerama) to work with Matrox G450/550 graphics cards...
Gentoo finally decided to update Xorg to 1.5. Because this has very substantial changes against the previous version, some things break and there is a migration guide that you are nagged to read. After...
View ArticleFixing FreeNX / NoMachine NX keyboard glitches (e.g. ALTGr)
There is a add-on technology to X or VNC called NX by an Italian company called NoMachine. It's quite useful as it speeds up working on remote desktops via slow network connections (i.e. DSL pipes)...
View ArticleKubuntu 9.10 (karmic) 64bit firefox java plugin
For some unknown reason the (K)Ubuntu developers did not update the Java plugin for firefox after jaunty (yet?).The version that Karmic (9.10) pulls out of the multiverse repository is still jaunty's...
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Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 Bluetooth UMTS Dial-up (DUN)
Using a mobile phone's Bluetooth Dial-up network (DUN) to connect to the Internet (UMTS/GPRS) while on the road is quite convenient for me. Sadly so this is not supported out-of-the-box in Ubuntu...
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Prevent Ubuntu from phoning home
Ubuntu unfortunately has decided again to implement another "phone home" feature, this time transferring your lsb_release information, CPU model and speed (from /proc/cpuinfo), uptime output, most of...
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Unbalanced volume (channels) on headset audio
I use a headset to make phone calls and when they are mono the great awesomeness of the Linux audio stack seems to change volume only on the active channel (e.g. the right channel). So when I listen to...
View ArticleFirefox asking to be made the default browser again and again
Firefox on Linux can develop the habit to (rather randomly) ask again and again to be made the default browser. E.g. when started from Thunderbird by clicking a link it asks but when starting from a...
View ArticleXfce 4.12 not suspending on laptop-lid close
Xfce 4.12 as default in Ubuntu/Xubuntu 18.04 LTS did not suspend a laptop after closing the lid. In fact running xfce4-power-manager --quit ; xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon --debug showed that xfce4...
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