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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Backup with rsync
Posted: 2018-03-24 Filed under: security, system | Tags: backup, rsync, ssh Leave a commentI decided to finally get into the habit of backing up my home folder regularly. Till now, I just copied everything to an external hard drive every couple of weeks, which isn’t the smartest way. Therefore, I wanted to do things in a somewhat ‘smarter’ manner.
Sure, I knew about rsync but I had never used it…
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ELILO dual boot
Posted: 2018-02-09 Filed under: system | Tags: bios, boot, efi, ELILO, elilo.conf, UEFI, windows Leave a commentI use a computer that has to have Linux and Windows 10 installed in parallel. Windows came pre-installed and requires UEFI… Therefore I went through Slackware’s instructions “To use UEFI, or not to use UEFI?” before installing Slackware. I told the installer to use ELILO and upon reboot, the system booted straight to Slackware. I installed Slackware -current, but that’s a separate story… Now I want to have the option to dual boot Windows and Linux.
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Prompt colours
Posted: 2018-01-12 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, .bash_profile, .dir_colors, PS1 Leave a commentNow, I have set up my .bashrc and .bash_profile and I have colourful output in my terminal. I decided to customize things a just little bit more…
As a start, I copied the default colour scheme /etc/DIR_COLORS as ~/.dir_colors. I edited to my liking, for example, I do not want coloured files to be in bold.
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.bashrc and .bash_profile
Posted: 2017-12-26 Filed under: system | Tags: .bashrc, .bash_profile, export, source 1 CommentI never had the habit of setting up ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashr_profile or modifying them or any way. I was just happy with the prompt presented when I opened the terminal. It never bothered me that my normal user did not have a colour scheme, for example. Recently, I got curious about that and checked the Slackware Wiki.
Plenty of useful information there.
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