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...

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 ...

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...

A coredump is something the kernel initiates when an application crashes/segfaults. Nowadays it usually passes that task on to systemd. This takes time, storage and CPU. I'm not a system developer. I have no idea what to do with a coredump. I don't need it. There's also some threads online suggestin...

Applications that use Pango (the software) cannot use good ol' X bitmap font formats anymore. But they still can use the OTB format for bitmap fonts. If your favorite old bitmap font is not available in this format, here's how to convert it. Prepare For once I found the instructions on Fedora's wiki...