Fluxbox is small and quite flexible window manager. One of its great features is the ability to become pseudo-transparent. What pseudo-transparency does is that it produces effects, which are similar to the features offered by more heavier window managers like Gnome and Kde. Fluxbox does not however create any performance impact if its pseudo-transparency features are enabled. Continue reading
Category Archives: session tweaks
Mapping shortcut keys with xbindkeys
If you are using one of those window-managers, which does not support shortcut keys very well by default (lwm, aewm etc.) then xbindkeys might be just what you are looking for. Continue reading
Adding a new user with useradd command and the case of /etc/sudoers.d
If you want to create a new user in a terminal client you can easily do so with the useradd command. To use useradd you will need to be a root user (which is a result of typing su root OR sudo su inside a terminal).
Gentoo: keywords
When using Gentoo sometimes you face the situation that you just need to add something to your keywords file. More specifically portage will tell you something like: the following keyword changes are required in order to install packages x and y…
Keywords are basically words, whill tell your Gentoo box what is suitable or desired to be installed in your box. Keywords can also be used to install packages, which are not so stable in general use – so caution is adviced before actually enabling any extra keywords.