I had a fairly subtle glitching issue on my Samsung Ativ Book 8 running Openbox on Debian Jessie. Basically icons in Docky/Plank had a orange box outline and Tint2 icons also looked unsmooth. In order to fix I did the following: cd /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ sudo nano 20-intel.conf Then put the following in the file: Section "Device" … Read more
Plank is the dock which features in the very nicely presented Ubuntu distro Elementary linux. I recently switched from Docky as I like Planks simplicity. This is what was required. Get the latest tar.xz from https://launchpad.net/plank Install dependencies sudo apt-get install automake gnome-common intltool pkg-config valac libbamf3-dev libdbusmenu-gtk3-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgee-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libwnck-3-dev libx11-dev libgee-0.8-dev … Read more
Since my previous post showing how to install Nvidia drivers in Debian Wheezy 64-Bit I found out that the driver in the standard Debian Wheezy repo is very dated (around 304.xx or something!). As a result I started looking at the options for a new driver. They break down like this: 1. Download & Install … Read more
Right now my new favourite and daily driver desktop is a minimal install of Debian Wheezy (i.e. installing the netinstall from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ with just Openbox and few other choice apps). I will do a guide in the future to setting up this Zen Desktop :-). As pretty much the only games I ever play are … Read more
So I recently upgraded my iphone 5 to IOS7, then recently noticed that all the shared calendars I had which used to work no longer work…. After much digging there is a solution. By default it appears shared google calendars are no longer enabled by default for IOS7 (possible all older versions too). In order … Read more
Ever have that problem where you’re running a large database mysql database dump through putty, and the connection to the server is somehow lost? I recently encountered this fairly unlikely situation occur and the below commands solve it. Command nohup command & Runs the process in the background and allows you continue using your ssh … Read more