.bashrc and .bash_profile
Posted: 2017-12-26 Filed under: system | Tags: .bashrc, .bash_profile, export, source 2 CommentsI 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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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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TP-LINK TL-WN722N driver
Posted: 2017-09-02 Filed under: network, system | Tags: driver, kernel, module, TL-WN722N, TP-LINK, wifi, wireless 6 CommentsI bought a TP-LINK TL-WN722N usb wireless adapter. Turns out it is not supported out-of-the-box on Slackware 14.2. The adapter box said that it is supported in Linux, so naively I put the CD provided and looked for the driver. In the Linux folder, there was a README file advising me to go download the drivers from http://www.tp-link.com/. I will not discuss the requirement to go online in order to obtain the drivers for a network adapter…
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xflock4: lock the screen
Posted: 2017-06-19 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: lock, xfce, xflock4 Leave a commentI am using XFCE and I want to have an entry in the menu that will lock the screen. The command that locks the screen in XFCE is
xflock4
yes… it took me some time to figure it out. Anyway, from here it is quite straightforward. I made the following xflock4.desktop file:
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