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Stackexchange Answers: Systemd and PIDs

Systemd tracks PIDs. This is kind of obvious but I never thought to investigate before today. These two commands have been and I suspect, will be, very useful:…

Post date October 22, 2016
Post categories In Linux

A Systemd service unit for Redshift

Redshift is a small utility that gradually – as day turns into night – shifts the colour composition of the light from your monitor. The later it gets,…

Post date September 21, 2016
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

“How To Satisfy Debian Dependencies Without Installing The Stupid Package”

I paid for a mindmapping program a couple of years back as I found the open source options somewhat lacking. The program uses java and the provided .deb…

Post date September 4, 2016
Post categories In Linux

How to get domain-specific user stylesheets in Epiphany

Epiphany isn’t really at the top of my browser list. I guess I should say ‘Web’ as it’s now called but a) nobody can google that and b)…

Post date May 8, 2016
Post categories In CSS

These go to 11

The PulseAudio daemon has the ability to set it’s niceness level after launch. This can be helpful if the process isn’t prioritised properly and sound cuts out now…

Post date April 5, 2016
Post categories In Desktop

LibreOffice Online alpha demo looks promising

Post date December 6, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Server

Get up on my cloud: What to consider when choosing private cloud software applications

Getting off of the corporation cloud and onto your own, self-hosted, open source-based is an arduous task. We use a lot of web based services these days and…

Post date December 6, 2015
Post categories In Server

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