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…
Kindle won’t connect
If like me you use a Kindle eBook reader, you may have experienced an Error sending books to & from the Kindle (I use Calibre for that.). If you are…
binary space partitioning window manager (bspwm) Resources
In an effort to consolidate informative resources related to my two major binary space partitioning window manager (bspwm) projects, I plan to maintain an archive of useful assets here. If…
Kittey Terminal w/ Kitty Help
Lightweight Panels & Menus (examples)
revised: 20 Dec. 2020 26 Apr. 2023 The following Panels & Menus are intended for Linux/Unix use. These tools represent a much lighter weight set of panels & menus (consuming…
USB Pointers & Tricks
The following two articles offer excellent assistance in getting troublesome USBs (broken USBs) to function: Repair corrupt USB Drive (Make Tech Easier) How To Fix A Broken USB Drive Using…
Find duplicate files (3+ methods)
Let’s say you have a folder with 5000 MP3 files you want to check for duplicates. Or a directory containing thousands of EPUB files, all with different names but you…
Xfce Menu Items
Xfce or Whiskermenu Menu items can normally be found in the following locations: For user installed items: $User/.config/autostart $User/.local/share/applications For system-wide installed applications: /usr/share/applications You might also check (for items…
Using “dd” to clone an HDD
The following command (using dd) will clone one hard disk (HDD or SSD) to another hard disk: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=noerror
Find & delete Core Dump files
Find all core dump files: find . -type f -regex “.*/core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$” The regex in the above command matches the file name “core.xxxx” where “xxxx” is exactly four numbers 0-9. If…