Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Multi-monitor shortcuts under Ubuntu

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One of the best things to know with Ubuntu and multi monitors is to know the shortcuts to move windows from monitor to monitor. Shift+Wind...
Monday, April 6, 2020

2mm leads from golf pencils

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I had a couple of golf pencils that broke in half that exposed the lead inside. It's a 2mm lead so it doesn't fit anything, so how ...
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...