HP LaserJet P1005 and foo2zjs
Posted: 2022-04-14 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: arm2hpdl, foo2hbpl2, foo2hiperc, foo2hp, foo2lava, foo2oak, foo2qpdl, foo2slx, foo2xqx, foo2zjs, HP, LaserJet, P1005, print, printer Leave a commentRecently, I had to connect my old HP LaserJet P1005 printer to my CRUX 3.6.1 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 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: terminal, Xresources, xterm Leave a commentAlthough 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 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: touchpad, laptop, synaptics, tap Leave a commentMy 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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Deal with missing *.la files on CRUX
Posted: 2021-12-24 Filed under: system | Tags: CRUX, la, prt-cache, prt-get Leave a commentMany programs started removing *.la files in the recent years. I will not discuss about them, but from what I have understood it is an obsolete system. This leads to problems, when a program would no longer build since it expects to find *.la files that are no longer there.
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Use local time
Posted: 2021-10-02 Filed under: system | Tags: hwclock, localtime, utc Leave a commentI dual-boot Linux and Windows. I want to make Linux use the local time from the BIOS, because this is what Windows uses. I searched around and all I found were tutorials for systemd. This is useless for CRUX so I resorted to reading the manual…
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