In order to use the proprietary NVIDIA driver on a MacBook Air 3,1 (11-inch, late 2010) with the NVIDIA GeForce 320M chipset booting openSUSE Leap 42.1 in EFI mode, create the file /etc/grub.d/01_enable_vga.conf with the following content: #!/bin/sh set -e # Initialize
Using the i3 tiling window manager on two screens („outputs“) can be challenging. The number of workspaces grows twice as fast than with a single screen setup and it is easy to lose track of the numbers and contents of workspaces. For me personally it is more intuitive to remember
For rrsync (i.e. restricted rsync) to work, the remote user must have a proper login shell specified (i.e. not /bin/false). Otherwise you will get such cryptic error messages as: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
Um am Login Bildschirm von Fedora nur jene Konten anzuzeigen, die sich in letzter Zeit eingeloggt haben, muss man nur eine kleine Änderung an der /etc/gdm/custom.conf Datei vornehmen: --- old/custom.conf 2011-07-07 09:35:01.462829111 +0200 +++ new/custom.conf 2011-07-07 09:30:27.146258540 +0200
In an earlier post, I already wrote about how to install the proprietary video driver on Fedora. In a brief update I suggested to change the acpi_sleep kernel option to accomplish proper display wake-up from standby. Unfortunately, that solution doesn’t work reliably in my experience. Today I found
Ever since I upgraded my notebook with a SSD, I was looking for a way to minimise or avoid unnecessary write accesses. The tools of choice (on Linux at least) are iostat for a rough summary and pidstat for the details. With the help of those two one can easily
As already mentioned in my last post, my laptop won’t boot from a USB stick prepared using a binary copy of an ISO (by means of dd). Here is the method I use to boot the Fedora Live images off my USB stick using GNU GRUB2. The device node
Often, the simple answers are those you don’t find on the web. Here is one of them with hopefully enough keywords to make it findable: To activate the Ambient Light Sensor on my new HP EliteBook 8440p (article and pictures will follow later) running Fedora 13, the following command
To „lock down“ Firefox on an openSUSE 11.3 machine, I used the four AppArmor profiles you find below. The first is an openSUSE default profile and the second is based on the openSUSE default profile. My changes include support for PulseAudio sound and the Flash plugin, where the latter
I’m using Zotero to organise my bibliography. Not only do I store citation information, but I also love the possibility to let it organise the corresponding PDF files. That way I have full-text search and a superb tagging facility for almost everything I read and might need to use
Die vergangene Woche hat ein paar virtuelle Neuerungen gebracht. Ich habe meinen privaten Server auf eine neue Hardware umgezogen. Tatsächlich geht es zwar genau genommen um virtualisierte Hardware, aber mit dem Umzug haben sich die diversen Ressourcenlimitierungen nach oben verschoben, sprich mehr Speicher und mehr Leistung. Redmine Der Grund für
Theorie Bei diesem Titel versteht es sich vielleicht von selbst, dass FTP hier kein Thema ist. Es ist vermutlich zu einem nicht unwesentlichen Teil persönliche Präferenz, aber wenn ich das Wort sicher im Zusammenhang mit Servern verwende, verlasse ich mich immer gern auf SSH. Im Fall eines Fileservers bietet sich
There are several reports of problems with the suspend hotkey on KDE4 [1] [2]. And there is even a bug report on that issue. Naturally, I wouldn’t write about this if I hadn’t experienced the same problem myself. I solved it by slightly modifiying the approach described at
Wenn man seine Musikbibliothek auf einer externen Festplatte hat, zum Beispiel weil die interne Festplatte des Laptops zu klein ist, kann man dem Banshee Media Player mit einem kleinen Trick beibringen, die dortigen Dateien zu indizieren. Alles was zu tun ist, ist die Datei .is_audio_player im Stammverzeichnis der