SwayWM on BearDog (Debian) & EndeavourOS (Arch) (tutorial)
revised: 1 Jan 20242 Dec 202320 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 Lately, I have taken the time to see how SwayWM/ Wayland might function for me (and you?). I began on…
ascii Terminal Art / Info (Linux)
If you like ascii terminal art (?) here are some entertaining ideas/ links/ guides. ItsFOSS provides some interesting options. Because not everything can be found in every distribution, I have…
Get respect from your QT apps….
If, like me, you have been irritated by QT apps rarely respecting dark themes (or any GTK themes), here is a link that will allow you better alignment of your…
xterm & URxvt – make ’em look nicer
If you are interested in small footprint, low resource use terminals, there are few skinnier than xterm and URxvt. The 'thing' that scares most people away from these tiny terminals…
dwm and i3wm systray removal & desktop setup tricks
These days, there are two window managers I enjoy using "more than the others I have tried". They are dwm & i3wm. After long time use (more than a year…
An adventure creating a single user environment with 4 desktops.
Creating a single user with 4 desktop environments... an adventure. I have begun a project to create a single user environment that offers 4 desktop options, 2 beyond the current…
tdrop (terminal drop-down function)
Are you looking for a nice tool to create drop-down terminal functionality (not all terminals support this natively)? If so, you might find tdrop of interest. It is extensively tested…
cli-visualizer (Install)
If you enjoy music visualization and are looking for a terminal based visualizer. cli-visualizer is a good option that is easy to install, even though it is not accessible in…
locales ‘Repair’
If you manage to bork your system locales in Debian, here's a fix that works for me. Open a terminal window and enter the following in sequence... sudo apt-get purge…
Restore LightDM Username drop-down
This fix is courtesy of @oops. If you are like me and prefer the username to be available in a drop-down on lightdm Here's what you need to do to…