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No Title: Working around the missing –title parameter in Gnome Terminal

About a year ago the Gnome developers took away the option to run Gnome terminal with the –title parameter. This allowed you to give the terminal window a…

Post date December 3, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal

Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal (so that they’re available for ncurses programs)

Post date October 25, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

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

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
4 Comments on NetworkManager and intermittent lags in Steam Home-streaming

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
2 Comments on Alphanumericalize: Filename munging music file names in ABCDE