Inspired by my previous post on Firefox’s about:blank, I decided to take some time to investigate changing my desktop background colour.
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When it comes to all the fancy software tools out there, I’m finding myself becoming more and more luddite.
I’ve learned through reading and discussion many ways on how to handle data. It’s something I’m always interested in. However, the one thing that I’ve learned – and sometimes the hard way – is that no matter how awesome your handling of your data it all falls to pieces when your tools break.
So I’ve been farting around after a long break from doing much of anything on Linux. I was prompted by my new hard drive arriving.
I spent some time migrating data from five separate hard drives and a stack of DVDs. One of my next goals was to get backups working, so that I can back up from my SSD to this new drive.
I have an old backup script, but I decided that I could spend this afternoon screwing around with it to optimize it a little.
Using the wonderful mcedit which comes with Midnight Commander, I hacked away. Linux being what it is, there was a tangled horror of stuff I needed to try to remember, look up through my notes, get answers to and/or figure out.
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Followup YouTube+RSS-related stuff is in Atheist YouTube channels, now gone
I was intending to do a decent post every day, but I got really burned out. Why? I’ve been struggling with several different programs over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been sick and tired of the clumsiness that my apathy has allowed.
I think everyone has a sort of apathy towards usability issues. We take them as excusable or as some sort of status quo “that’s just the way it is”. I’m sick and fucking tired of that. Seriously.
Yes, I actually had to look this one up. Apparently nobody thinks DVD menus and using your mouse for them) would be a sensible default.
mplayer -mouse-movements dvdnav://
And no, this doesn’t work with gmplayer. That would be crazy. =/
~/.Xmodmap
Xmodmap‘s keyboard mapping configuration.
gMPlayer example ∞
This works right away for gMPlayer.
! https://wiki.xfce.org/faq ! All possible keysyms can be found in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or ! /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB. To ensure that the .Xmodmap file is loaded ! when you start Xfce add /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap to your ! .xinitrc or .xprofile file. When you start the shortcut editor the ! assigned keysyms should show up when you press one of your multimedia ! keys. Now it is possible to assign a command to them. ! Add /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap to your .xinitrc or .xprofile ! Dell multimedia keyboard: keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext ! Volume control knob keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume ! note key keycode 129 = XF86AudioMedia ! The application keys are: ! 234 233 232 231 178 236 198 161
I had speed issues, as well as anomalies on the background images of some websites, like http://slackware.com/. Most annoyingly was the horrible hanging in the visual editor when making a new post in WordPress. This is using Slackware 12.2 and either Firefox 3.0.11 or 3.5.1, with or without safe mod.
Here’s how I solved the issue.
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was inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/index.html
A Unicode VGA font.
- DOSEMU’s vga font is an equivalent non-Unicode font.
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See also 9×15 versus DOSEMU’s vga font
