Mounting an iPhone on CRUX

Posted: 2022-04-24 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

The old iPhone saga continues. I use my phone quite “lightly”, but every couple of years I think it’s a good idea to clean the photos and videos. Should be easy enough right? Heh… I naively plugged it in and nothing happened. Well, the libimobiledevice project is iPhone’s friend on Linux. So, i decided to prepare a few ports.
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Cytoscape and JAVA 11

Posted: 2022-04-21 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I use Cytoscape for network analyses. It’s a JAVA program, that seems to quite picky about the version and flavour of JAVA. At the moment, Cytoscape 3.9.1 requires JAVA 11, specifically AdoptOpenJDK Hotspot. The project has recently moved to Adoptium, that offer prebuilt OpenJDK binaries.
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HP LaserJet P1005 and foo2zjs

Posted: 2022-04-14 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Recently, I had to connect my old HP LaserJet P1005 printer to my CRUX box. I’ve had it for over 10 years, and I remember that on Slackware, it did not work out of the box. Instead, I had to use the drivers provided by foo2zjs. So, I decided to install them again.
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Customised xterm

Posted: 2022-04-06 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Although I’ve always had xterm installed, I rarely used it. Once upon a time it was the default terminal in Xfce, and it opens by default by some programs, but that’s all. I decided to have it polished a bit and customise the colours, font and cursor.
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Touchpad tap

Posted: 2022-02-27 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

My ThinkPad x230 is running CRUX, with packages installed from my own custom repository. Things seem to work just fine, however, the touchpad did not behave nicely out-of-the-box, as was the case with Slackware. Tapping did not work, I had to press instead.
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