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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
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Everything in it’s Right Place 4: Launch and switch

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

Post date February 15, 2015
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Everything in it’s Right Place 3: Setting dedicated workspaces with devil’s pie

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

Post date August 23, 2014
Post categories In Desktop

Arachnophobia: Getting the macro keys on the Razer BlackWidow to work on linux

I bought the Razer BlackWidow for the hardware, not for Razer’s Synapse software or all the joys that it offers (Google suggest for searchers entering Razer Synapse? “Razer…

Post date August 3, 2014
Post categories In Desktop