Monday, March 23, 2020

Lenovo dual DVI usb 3.0 dock and Ubuntu

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I got this Lenovo dual dvi usb 3.0 dock and thought I'd see if I could get it running with my Ubuntu 19.10 laptop. After getting the ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Jgrasp and Focus Follows Mouse

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I was fiddling with the Java IDE Jgrasp on Ubuntu and one of the things that had been driving me crazy was the setting for "focus follo...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Tools key brings up settings in Ubuntu 19.10

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One of the things I really liked to do was to set up my keyboard's Tools Key to put the computer into suspend. On my dell keyboard (y-u...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Fiddling with the Matrox DualHead2Go on ubuntu

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I saw one of these on ebay so I thought I'd give it a spin. I got the dualhead2go digital edition which has VGA input and dual DVI outp...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

XSane preview window bug and failed to start scanner invalid argument

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I had a problem the other day with XSane. It's been working awesome and then one day, the preview window wouldn't come up properly...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Weirdness with VGA to HDMI adapter and i915

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So I've got an older TV that I wanted to use with a laptop and do triple monitors. The laptop has got its own 1600x900 built-in screen,...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Non blocking reads in lua

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So I wanted to try reading some midi data from my keyboard with lua and ubuntu. I installed lua 5.3 and lua posix with "sudo apt insta...