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…

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…

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…

Firewalld stops F29 shutdown process

If your Fedora F29 is hanging during the shutdown process press <ESC> and you will see the shutdown messages. If your computer has a broadcom wireless adapter you may see this for several minutes: A stop job is running for…

HTML5 in firefox – fedora 29

Trying the version 29 of Fedora linux distribution I had issues to run HTML5 content in Firefox. Some librairies are not installed by default because of license issues. The solution is to install RPMFusion repositories: : sudo dnf install (rpm…