I want an easy way to map the default Sans, Sans-Serif and Monospace fonts to fonts of my choice. I have seen posts on the internet where this is achieved by editing $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: <!-- Generic name aliasing --> <alias> <family>sans-serif&lt...

Not Recommended This approach is doubtlessly very clever and professional, but I failed miserably in using it, and almost wrecked my $HOME in the process. This has made me much more careful and I now favour this approach. In the past, I already attempted to manage some of my configuration files, ...

After major data loss, I made a plan: Backups! I reorganized my hard drive, which now contains a separate partition only for backups. This will be mounted when needed. After a little preliminary search i decided on Borg - it is simple to use, and deduplicating. Automation is the key. Weekly backups,...

Get Rid of Login Manager, Back to Startx systemctl disable graphical.target didn't cut it. Armbian uses nodm, which has its own sysvinit service, but it can be disabled with: systemctl disable nodm. This brings me to a familiar console login after a reboot. startx is possible, ~/.xinitrc is parsed. ...

Create a file inside /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. The following options allow you to run commands or scripts before or after invoking dpkg/apt/apt-get tools: # This is a list of shell commands to run after invoking dpkg/apt-get # DPkg::Post-Invoke {"command";}; DPkg::Post-Invoke {"/path/to/script";}; # This...

This is not a complete step-by-step HowTo. You will have to look at each of the linked articles and make your own choices depending on your device, android version and so on. Last year I got myself a used Acer Liquid E700. It's a nice phone, big enough, and very powerful for its price. A cruci...

Requirements Install mpv on your computer. Install youtube-dl on your computer. More about that later. Install the Open With addon. It seems to be available only for Mozilla browsers, but I'm pretty sure something similar also exists for chromish browsers. Setup Make sure mpv is working with local...

Several applications to record your desktop exist, but ffmpeg can do it all by itself, via its x11grab format specifier. But there were some challenges: Performance What ffmpeg does when recording your screen is to transcode the X11 video into compressed output, based on file extension. But I wanted...