Patch for quicksynergy to support starting minimized
quicksynergy patch
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emacs tip of the week #8: spolsky theme
My new current favourite theme for emacs is spolsky. If you use elpy / highlight-indentation, you might want to define this too: (set-face-background ‘highlight-indentation-face “#1B2025”)
Windows shares no longer mounting on Linux
I use autofs to mount a windows share on my router, this stopped working with “mount error(112): Host is down”. Looks like it was due to some arch linux update, as per dmesg: [ 5986.858242] No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to a more secure dialect, SMB3 (vers=3.0), from CIFS (SMB1). To use …
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Mapping Razer Chroma Keyboard in emacs
;; This maps the M1 key (global-set-key [XF86Tools] ‘smex)
emacs tip of the week #7: smex
Smex is M-x on steroids. It gives you an ido completion buffer for all commands you run this way, prioritizing more recently used to the front.
alacritty terminal – for when you really need to scroll quickly
alacritty – GPU powered shell
Where does gnome-terminal store its profiles?
Install dconf-editor & go to /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles
Get a ping sparkline
Using pysparklines: ping -c 20 192.168.5.1 | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”[=]|ms”} {print $4}’ | sparkline
gnome-terminal failing to launch on arch after upgrade to Gnome 3.22
With “Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying” Try: sudo pacman -R –nodeps –nodeps vte3-notification sudo pacman -S vte3