Linux systems today support a wide variety of devices out of the box. For a general system use it is of course a good thing to have a good device support out of the box but if you are using an older computer or just want to have a faster system boot then loading a wide variety of kernel modules might be something you would want to avoid. Continue reading
Category Archives: Tips and tricks
Changing Xdefaults to tweak the look of Xterm
Xterm is a classical lightweight terminal for Linux/Unix which is a simple but yet effective way to get your command line work done.To install Xterm look for something like xterm or xterminal inside your package manager.
One problem with the Xterm is however that by default it might look something that you might like to customize at some point if you are one of those people who always tweak and change things. Continue reading
Lightweight panels part 2:Wbar
I have been using a program called Wbar (GPL) for quite some time now. Wbar is a lightweight launcher tool/panel which gives you easy access to your favorite programs while being easy to customize. Wbar home page can be found from here:http://code.google.com/p/wbar/
Installing and using Wbar
Wbar should be available in a number of modern distributions. Just go to your package manager and searh something called wbar or similar and you should be good to go. If Wbar is not found from your system consider compiling it from a source which is usually a matter of executing the commands: ./configure && make (as a normal user) and then make install (as a root or a sudo) when all the needed dependencies are installed. Continue reading
Creating a fake debian package with checkinstall and the force-overwrite command
Definition: What is checkinstall?
Checkinstall is a tool which creates so called uncomplicated Debian packages. These are not real Debian packages as they will hold no information of the actual dependencies needed by a program which is being build as a package. So in other words: Checkinstall packages are the ones which cannot (or more correctly: should not) be distributed as they will most likely not work outside of the host system. Continue reading