This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here. Manual changes in system directories can be overwritten by updates. To avoid that, one should use Patchmanager patches to implement such changes. Doing Things on the Command Line MTP (the same protocol Android ...

Since CACert still isn't "Browser Trusted", and I still don't want to use letsencrypt, I decided to give this a try. Company-specific (certum.pl) The company resides inside the European Union and is the cheapest I could find. This was the process to get the certificate for anyone who's interested: ...

I did practically everything described here (archive). However, for automating the whole process with fstab on both client & server, this provided important extra information, esp. about bind-mounting existing filesystems into a dedicated NFS folder, and also about /etc/fstab entries. That's it ...

How can I create a wallpaper that reflects my color scheme? Assuming the color scheme is available to you, save it in rrr ggg bbb format to a plain text file with a short header. Example for Gruvbox: GIMP Palette Name: gruvbox-test Columns: 5 # 142 192 124 69 133 136 215 153 33 204 36 29 60 56 54 Sa...

Other solutions involve installing Plasma integration, but this would pull in most of KDE. Fortunately, Qt apps still respect X resources. Add this to your login profile (e.g. ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.xinitrc): export XCURSOR_THEME="$(awk -F= '/gtk-cursor-theme-name=/ {print $2}' "$XDG_CONFIG...

Video stabilisation FFmpeg can use the vid.stab library to stabilize (i.e. remove shakiness) video. Some guides say it needs to be installed explicitly (vid.stab on Arch Linux, libvidstab* on Debian) but on both my systems it already came as a dependency of ffmpeg. It requires a 2-pass process. vid=...

Requirements Two servers capable of running WordPress, both providing Command line access (usually via ssh) phpMyAdmin or a similar web admin UI capable of managing SQL databases. Both WPs are installed into the webroot folder (top level, /) or the exact same subfolder (e.g. /blog). If your situa...

Most desktop environments already have a daemon to deal with so-called multimedia hotkeys, but I use plain Openbox, hence the clunky title. Preparation Test your setup with xev1: launch the command in a terminal make sure the little window stays focused press keys and watch the terminal output, loo...