Ubuntu but not orange…
If you like ubuntu but can’t stand this orange/violet melting: sudo apt install vanilla-gnome-desktop Then you will get the vanilla gnome experience, more blueish.
Fedora 31 test
I installed fedora 31 on my macbookpro and I add few things to correct to have my favourite applications working. Docker: due to this Modify Fedora 31 to use CgroupsV2 by default I had to modify the /etc/default/grub file. check…
Ubuntu 19.04 test
Ubuntu 19.04 a.k.a Disco Dingo will be released in few days. I installed it on my 2015 macbook pro. The release plan is the following: Feature freeze: February 21, 2019 UI freeze: March 14, 2019 Kernel freeze: April 1, 2019 Beta…
Nextcloud sync indicator in KDE Dolphin
Nextcloud is a great tool to synchronize and share documents across team and computers. To get the nextcloud indicator you need to install the nextcloud-client-dolphin package for your distribution. sudo apt install nextcloud-client-dolphin The package is also existing for nautilus…
Search for Ghost blog engine
Ghost is a great blog engine but it misses a built-in searching capability. Trying to find some help on the Ghost forum I finally found these resources: After few tries to understand how it works, I finally have…
Timeshift 19.01-1 & vala 0.42.5 incompatibility in Arch
Wanting to install recently timeshift in Arch but it failed throwing a lot of errors during building steps? Looks like Timeshift is not working with Vala 0.42.5. You can downgrade Vala to version 0.42.4 and reinstall Timeshift should work: pacman…
Logitech Media Server Container time wrong!
To set correctly the timezone for your Logitech Media Server running on Docker you nee to open a terminal on your container and issue the following command: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata select your correct timezone like Europe and Zurich for example and…
CH-FR Macbook keyboard & Arch Linux
I installed Arch linux on my macbook and Alt-G key combination was producing “ŋ” instead of “@”. to remediate this I edited the file: sudo nano and changed the option “XkbModel” to “macbook79” Section "InputClass" Identifier "system-keyboard" MatchIsKeyboard…
KDE Plasma
Playing with HandBrakeCLI & parallel
I was looking for some nice optimization of the video encoding process and I found a nice GNU tool: GNU parallel. To encode several videos at the same time: parallel –eta –verbose -j2 HandBrakeCLI -i {} -o {.}.mp4 ‘Universal’ –subtitle-lang-list fre…