There are two locations where you can define the button’s location: dconf and gconf. The dconf-method works for most of Gnome Shell and Unity. However, e.g. Chrome is using the “old” gconf-setting. dconf Install and run dconf-editor. Go to org → gnome → desktop → wm → preferences and find the setting button-layout. The default… Read More »
Here are some Android apps and games I’ve found interesting or which were recommended somewhere for various purposes. And which I didn’t had the time/need to try them yet. Apps Games Specials / Miscellaneous
On my hp Spectre x360, the Ins key is only reachable via the Fn key as in Fn+PrtScr. So I wanted to swap both keys. System-wide – so not only in X (using xev). I finally found this which suggested the following procedure:
Calendar/Contacts servers File Sync servers (Dropbox-like)
In Outlook 2016, you can’t setup an account from an Exchange 2007 server without having autodiscover setup correctly. The Manual Setup only offers “Exchange ActiveSync” which doesn’t work with the 2007 Exchange. (The working method is named “Microsoft Exchange”.) Usually, for an email address account@example.org, Outlook 2016 will look for https://autodiscover.example.org/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml. If that DNS entry… Read More »
Similar to booting different operating systems via network, you can also boot multiple systems from a USB flash drive. This is even a bit easier since you have a boot medium (the flash drive) and don’t have to jump through hoops to get a system to boot from the network. Initial Setup While you can… Read More »
Most tools you want to boot are probably Linux systems. To boot them, you need a kernel and some (initial) filesystem. One way is to load an initrd (initial ramdisk) which contains only the basic stuff and mounts the big filesystem itself. Or you can mount the “big” filesystem directly and use that from the… Read More »
I first stumbled upon iPXE because of a failing info monitor at my local train station: iPXE is an open source firmware, meant as a replacement for the very basic option ROM in ethernet cards. But you can also use that default option ROM to chainload iPXE without having to modify your device(s). iPXE brings… Read More »
I’ll list my modifications (keep everything else as it is) here but keep in mind that you most probably wantdifferent settings. See also this post about iPXE in general. src/config/console.h (commented in to enable:) (changed from us to de🙂 src/config/general.h (changed from #undef to #define🙂 (changed from #undef to #define🙂 (changed from #undef to #define🙂… Read More »
Steam has the bad habit to not run after upgrades of the Steam software. This is, because it uses its own libc which expects libraries not there in Ubuntu. To fix this, delete the file libstdc++.so.6.0.18 from the following folders: Update October 2016 It seems Steam has a few more bad duplicates to make it… Read More »