Electricsheep save directory
Posted: 2019-04-19 Filed under: desktop, media, system | Tags: electricsheep, xscreensaver Leave a commentI have Electricsheep installed and have selected it via XScreenSaver. However, my /home is on a SSD and I decided that maybe it is not a good idea to have the constantly evolving sheep stored in ~/.electricsheep. Therefore I looked for a way to specify a different directory.
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Vivaldi HTML5 Proprietary Media
Posted: 2018-12-08 Filed under: media, network | Tags: codec, ffmpeg, vivaldi Leave a commentI have been playing with Vivaldi browser recently. It is available from SBo, where the recommended dependencies are pepperflash-plugin, ffmpeg and vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra. However, I still seemed to experience problems with some websites content. Maybe I did something wrong…
So, what to do?
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Mounting an iPhone
Posted: 2018-05-07 Filed under: desktop, media, slackbuilds, system | Tags: documents, ifuse, iPhone, libimobiledevice, mount, phone, photos 1 CommentDue to several reasons that I will not discuss here, I decided my next phone to be an iPhone SE. Of course, I naively expected that when I plug it in my computer, it will behave. Well, it doesn’t. The phone has iOS 11 and in Slackware 14.2 the system sees it, but there’s no way to mount it. In Slackware -current I can access my photos only. Well, I googled a bit and here’s what I did on -current.
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Microphone mute key
Posted: 2018-04-07 Filed under: media, system | Tags: acpi, capture, microphone, mute, pulseaudio, x230 Leave a commentI have a ThinkPad x230 with Sound (mute/unmute), Volume, Microphone (mute/unmute) and Lock Screen physical keys. The Microphone key does not work out-of-the-box, and I finally decided to search a bit for a solution. I found this nice post about Ubuntu.
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Swap speakers
Posted: 2017-10-08 Filed under: media, system | Tags: pavucontrol, pulseaudio, speaker, swap Leave a commentI have a pair of active speakers and I need to swap Right and Left. Simply, cabling will be much easier this way. I cannot set this in the speakers themselves, so I searched for a software solution. I googled around and found this discussion for Ubuntu. One of the posts had the solution, that works also for Slackware.
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