Blacklist (quiet) an annoying PC speaker
Edit: sudo geany /etc/modprobe.d/mjr-blacklist.conf add the following content: #No PC speaker please blacklist pcspkr Close & Save, Restart your PC
Bluetooth won’t start (arch)
If bluetooth won't start try this.... in your terminal: modprobe -r btusb && modprobe btusb If that doesn't work try (much of the following requires systemd): sudo pacman -S bluez…
antiX-ManyRoads Conky
I use the following conky on a number of desktops. Enjoy! Sample Screenshot #-- Informant Conky #-- Date : 26/10/2017 #-- Editor : Erik Dubois #-- Version : v3.0.4 #--…
Podcasting & Videocasting (Applications)
The following list of applications represent a suite of useful Podcasting & Videocasting tools: Audacity (synaptic or mxpi) Open Broadcaster Studio-- flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio FFaudioConverter-- flatpak install flathub com.github.Bleuzen.FFaudioConverter…
Novel & Manuscript Writing (Applications & Tools)
Writing Tools for larger projects such as Novels, Manuscripts manuskript-- http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/download/ bibisco-- https://github.com/andreafeccomandi/bibisco oStorybook-- http://ostorybook.tuxfamily.org/index.php?lng=en plume-creator-- (available in synaptic)
Distraction Free Writing (Applications & Tools)
Distraction Free Writing Tools available include: Traditional applications: focuswriter-- flatpak install flathub org.gottcode.FocusWriter ghostwriter-- flatpak install flathub io.github.wereturtle.ghostwriter elpa-fountain-mode-- https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/fountain-mode.html Text Room-- https://github.com/dbuksbaum/TextRoom Write Space-- https://www.linuxlinks.com/Write-Space/ Web-based Browser applications: Calmly…
Note Taking (Applications)
Note Taking (available via synaptic and MXPI, on MXLinux): Zim (Wiki) (my favorite) Tomboy gnote cherrytree keepnote nixnote2 rednotebook xfce4-notes
Genealogy (Applications)
The following list of tools (apps) are geared to conducting and tracking genealogical research (available in synaptic and MXPI, on MXLinux): ancestris Gramps lifelines geneweb
Convert DjVu -> PDF (script)
#!/bin/bash # convert DjVu -> PDF # usage: djvu2pdf.sh <file.djvu> #by ManyRoads http://eirenicon.org i="$1" echo "------------ converting $i to PDF ----------------"; o="`basename $i .djvu`" o="$o".pdf echo "[ writing output to…
Convert PDF -> DjVU (script)
#!/bin/bash #convert PDF -> DjVU #by ManyRoads http://eirenicon.org OLDIFS="$IFS" IFS=$'\n' for PDF in "$@"; do FILE="${PDF%.*}" echo "Which pages ? e.g. type: 1-6, for all pages, press ENTER" read pages…