I've been using BSPWM for some time now.  I had been rather bored with making the normal setups/configs for standard window managers fo...

I store my music,  photos and documents in a central location so that I can access them via any of my systems. Since I don't use any w...

I've used LMS (Logitech Media Server) for quite some time.  I stared off running it on a windows machine many years ago.  It was where I...

I've settled on the breeze dark "look and feel" for some time now. I did try ark dark because I loved ark dark in my GTK de...

I had a bit of a disaster with my Manjaro XFCE and despite my best efforts I could not revive it.  If you watch a lot of YouTube videos on ...

I'm now using a KDE build (Antergos) : and loving it! I've been using Latte Dock since I had some issues with Plank under KDE: on...

Since the latest updates to Virtualbox I've noticed a strange issue with the mouse pointer on the guest systems. I usually run Linux ...

If you use the infinality font set one of the fonts you get is Freetype. Recently when  updating I found there was an issue with updating...

I always set up the infinality fonts when I set up a Linux distro.  Its not that Linux is awful at fonts,  but its hard to argue its always...

I use Manjaro (main XFCE edition) on my main desktop machine,  a second hand HP 6000 Pro bought for around £150 a year ago,  upgraded to 8Gb...

I've had a Squeezebox up and running for many years.  Its served me very well in that time,  and although admittedly a bit "techie...

I always like to shut down my computer using a keyboard shortcut rather than the GUI.  For me,  its just faster and its one of the things I ...

The power saving features on the Dell I've been using for a while have been bothering me for a while.  Its running Mint 17.1 cinnamon an...

My favourite linux audio player is Clementine. You can get this in the debian repositories but its a bit out of date: but there is an extr...

I am a big fan of the latest version of XBMC : frodo (version 12). If you are using an Ubuntu based distro then you can get hold of this l...

This is one that has annoyed me for quite some time: so when I finally found a solution I was delighted. The issue is that when you change...

Xubuntu: adjust screen brightness install xbacklight (sudo apt-get install xbacklight) and try: xbacklight -set 50

Linux menus and the Windows Start Key Linux distributions like Ubuntu open the main menu with Alt+F1 instead of the Windows key that m...

Set up a Fog server for open source image deployments Credit for the below should go to the Spiceworks user who posted this on the Spicewo...

Change the kernel that Fog clients use for PXE boot We recently tried to use FOG to image a Dell Latitude E6510, and had problems due to ...