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 ...

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...

Email Recently (?) the HTML view of emails became tiny, and zooming does not work properly either. The size can be adjusted by editing ~/.cache/com.jolla/email/.mozilla/prefs.js, adding or editing this line: user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx", "3.0"); If your eyes are better than mine, "2.0" migh...

Thunar is XFCE's file manager. Recently I have tried it again, after having used pcmanfm for many years. After setting everything up the way I like it I noticed that the shortcuts in the sidepane cannot be rearranged (I am used to having devices first, then bookmarks). After much searching, I found ...

Previews for my collection of Base16 color schemes.

It's still a problem for many people: applications create directories and files directly under $HOME, not even using the freedesktop XDG standard for user directories. (My filemanager is always set to show hidden files. If yours isn't, try Ctrl-H, you might be surprised what you find.) Manual cleanu...