Sleep Button in KDE 4 Workaround
If you noticed that pushing the sleep button does nothing in KDE 4 (as of this writing <=4.3.3), this is because of a bug in KDEs’ power management tool Powerdevil. It appears that in most cases Powerdevil does not recognize the Xorg servers’ XF86Sleep key. To fix this, you may be able to rebind the […]
Doukutsu (aka Cave Story) with an Xbox Controller
What do you know, Doukutsu (aka Cave Story) can be played with a Gamepad! For a Xbox controller this is how I set the controls: SVG And how to configure it: Works great. I love this game. If you don’t want to install Wine (the configuration tool requires Wine) you can download this config file […]
To Parted Magic with <3
I’ve never gotten into a good grove when it comes maintenance of a hard drive. Usually this process involves me loading a LiveCD like Ubuntu, downloading the tools I needed (Gparted, shredder, Partiso…) and going through the slow proccess from there. On occasion when I have to do this process over I have to download […]
One More KDE 4 Gmail Checker
Not so far back, I was attempting to cope without a mail notification program on my KDE 4 destkop and not doing so well about it. There are plenty mail notification applets available on Linux most are for Gnome though and they pulled in alot of dependencies (mail-notification , gnubiff, checkgmail-notify-osd). For KDE a couple […]
plasmabac – When plasma solidifys.
Plasma being a new technology for KDE it can still, at times, behave like a bad child. Alot of you may have noticed that plasma from time to time will have the tendency to cause the desktop to freeze or crash. This usually happens with widgets that have bugs in them or if there are […]
Mplayer as default DVD player in KDE 4
I got a thing for MPlayer. There’s a good number of video players in Linux but the simplicity of MPlayer has always made it what I like to use. I like to use MPlayer without the GUI because once I learned the keybindings it makes for fast and bare-bones video player (to learn a little […]
Command Line Calculator
I can usually type faster in the terminal than doing mouse click on a gui calculator, so I created this scipt to be able to do it quickly from the terminal. There are alot of command line calculators out there so use the one you are comfortable with but I like using bc because of […]
Chromium test (two days without Firefox)
With Firefox becoming fully-fledged, I wasn’t on the look-out to try another browser. Firefox is a well-done application for all it has to do. I can’t say I’m a complete friend of Firefox as the two huge security exploits in the last year will always keep me a bit leary. IMHO, something so predominantly geared […]
Kwrite Setup
I love Kwrite. Basically when I do text things, I use vim for creation and Kwrite for editing. When it comes to moving large blocks of text and having to scroll quickly through a text file, a gui text editor is needed. Kwrite does good with syntax-highlighting and enables me to easily work on more […]
For the truly paranoid
I’ve been reinstalling my system as of late (been way too along a comin’) and I realized that I hadn’t set up a firewall yet. This, in turn, had me think how many ports were open. I was up too late and probably had too many cokes by then. I had given myself a dead […]
Advanced Urban Terror Setup
Update: 4.2 Release changes added One of the greatest games I’ve ever played is Urban Terror. Urban Terror takes Quake 3 and transforms it to near perfection (in my opinion). Urban Terror is one of the the most successful open source, free-to-play, games of all time. The amount of time to play it, learn it, […]
