Posted on October 26, 2022
How to setup LUKS on LVM for Arch
In this blog post, I’ll guide you through the steps to set up LUKS on LVM with Arch Linux. Step 1: Boot the Arch Linux installation media To start, you need to boot from the Arch Linux installation… Read More
Posted on January 30, 2017
Use MariaDB with PhpStorm
Update August 2018: PHPStorm now includes MariaDB as a schema type but does not include the driver files. It does offer to download the MariaDB driver for you, but if you want to use the native driver, install… Read More
Posted on September 28, 2016
Automatically switch Xfce panel layout when plugging in a monitor
Xfce has great multi-monitor support. Different panels on each monitor, it all works great. I’ve used it with multiple monitors on my desktop for 5+ years. Love it. But you run into some annoyances with laptops. Half the… Read More
Posted on January 13, 2016
Clicking notifications in Chrome causes the window to change workspaces
This is a simple and obvious fix, but it was annoying me for awhile before I looked into it. The situation: You have a Chrome window open in workspace that’s different to the one you’re currently in. You… Read More
Posted on March 14, 2015
Use Bash to get the memory usage of applications like Chromium
It’s not always easy to tell how much memory Chromium/Chrome is using, because of the different threads it starts. Here are a couple snippets with explanations to get you started. Percent of memory use Code: ps -eo pmem,comm… Read More
Posted on September 26, 2014
Play games in borderless windows with Compiz
I like to play games and luckily there are a lot of games for Linux now; I have 51 games in Steam which run on Linux. But not all of these games do a good job when running… Read More
Posted on February 21, 2014
Compiz – Window border edge overlaps when using the grid plugin
Problem: Window borders overlap when using the grid plugin in Compiz This one has been bothering me for awhile. Turns out it isn’t a Compiz bug at all (well maybe it is), it’s an Emerald bug! Are you… Read More
Posted on May 22, 2013
English style decimal marks with a European keyboard layout
Suppose you live in Europe where they separate numbers with commas instead of periods. Written: Six thousand eight hundred and forty three and two tenths English/American: 6,843.2 European 6 843,2 Suppose you also have a European keyboard and… Read More
Posted on September 23, 2012
How to make Chrome use Deluge for magnet links in Fedora
Sep 2014 update: This was written for Fedora 17. Apparently the desktop file has been renamed to deluge.desktop (the sane choice). The three things you need to know: 1) Unlike Firefox, Chrome uses xdg-open to choose the default… Read More
Posted on September 21, 2012
How to install Compiz on Fedora 17 XFCE Spin
Let’s just be clear, this is not for the faint of heart. Why isn’t Compiz in the Fedora 17 repos? Compiz is a replacement window manager for the GNOME window manager called Metacity. When GNOME 3 came out… Read More