Modify Xfce Terminal cursor
Posted: 2018-06-05 Filed under: system | Tags: blink, cursor, terminal, terminalrc, underline, xfce Leave a commentI’ve always liked to have my terminal cursor as a blinking underline. This feature is present for the new Xfce Terminal that ships with Slackware -current. Unfortunately it cannot be enabled from the preferences of Xfce Terminal in Slackware 14.2. It is, however, possible to set it by modifying the config file of the program.
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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 Leave a 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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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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