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Bluetooth Speakers Switch-on-Connect

As a postscript to my previous post about connecting Bluetooth speakers: Getting PulseAudio to switch to the newly connected speakers as the output (and the device receiving ‘Volume…

Post date September 26, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

Bluetooth dual-booting: Sharing a bluetooth device between linux and windows

If you’ve used Linux for several years across various devices you are going to run into some hazy déja-vus – the feeling that you’ve been here before, facing…

Post date September 26, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux
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Everything in it’s Right Place 5: Toggles or Now you see it, now you don’t

This is the fifth and final post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also…

Post date April 4, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

NetworkManager and intermittent lags in Steam Home-streaming

Steam in-home streaming is great. I can play graphics/CPU intensive games on my laptop sitting on my couch. Or I can let the (Windows) laptop run Spelunky while…

Post date March 30, 2015
Post categories In Desktop
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Why GNOME keybindings silently resist customization

Note: This relates GNOME Shell 3.10 in Ubuntu 14.04. Other versions may differ and YMMV. The keybindings of GNOME Shell can be changed using the system settings windows…

Post date March 29, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

Alphanumericalize: Filename munging music file names in ABCDE

Rip-roaring and rigorous

Post date March 21, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux
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Ubuntu Revisited: Back in Brown with 14.04 Trusty Tahr

My pseudo-review of Arch made me realize that it wasn’t the right distribution for me anymore. Not really a critique as should be evident from the pros and…

Post date February 21, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

Resurrecting imwheel

Xmouse for Windows is brilliant. And it makes a mockery of any linux desktop user’s claim to having the more customizable user environment. Well at least as far…

Post date February 16, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux