Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Crunchbang Linux, minimal and mouseless

Who can use these laptop and netbook touchpads, trackpads, whatever you call the thing you-accidentally-tap and lose-focus-and-type-into-the-wrong-spot. Specialized layout keyboard navigation is the way to go! Customized Conky to a top horizontal bar, always visible by setting my desktop margins. Installed Pytyle to organize my windows running on top of Openbox, with vi-like keybindings relying on [...]

Solved: mpd blocks other audio from playing

Revisiting(mpd) I have this problem when using alsa (default) output: it blocks other audio sources. Playing a video in vlc while listening to music, gives us this flak: Potential ALSA version problem: VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any). Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this [...]

Linux version 3.0

The last two lines in my .bashrc file prints out a fortune, and displays my kernel version, in every terminal I open. I see 2.6 regularly, more often and more relevant than my birthday. *Linux is turning version 3.0* Close enough to GNU / Linux’s 20th birthday, Linux is turning 3.0-rc1. So what’s new? Well, [...]