I had a strange problem: when I was using Chromium (Open source version of Chrome): mouse hover was not working. Click, scroll and so on worked fine, but when the mouse hovered above an element on a webpage nothing happend.
I have two different profiles for Firefox, one for work, and one for everything else.
To start Firefox with the correct profile, I have created two different application launchers (.desktop files) in ~/.local/share/applications, one called firefox-work.desktop and the other firefox-home.desktop
I run zsh in tmux, and sometimes I end up in a deep directory where the path matches that of another window in tmux (for example in my local docker development environment and on the testing/production server). When this happens just seeing the last part of the path as the window title is not enough, like this: …/sites/all/modules/somemodule.
I have switched from using Vagrant to Docker as my local development environment, and I’m still mentally trying to switch :)
As I’ve just got a new Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB SSD for my work laptop (HP ProBook 6360b), I wanted to try switching from BIOS booting to UEFI.
Although the instructions for upgrading the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc (not the new S version) are pretty detailed there are some twists that are not documented:
My ADP1 has been running Android 1.6 (Cyanogenmod 4.2.x) for quite a while now, and I was exited to see that it would be possible to run Android 2.1 on it thanks to Cyanogen :). This guide is a digest of information found on Cyanogen’s wiki, like: ADP1 Firmware to CyanogenMod, please consult the wiki for up todate information and warnings :)
I had the chance to test AnySee’s USB based DVB-C tuner with MythTV, and I can confirm it “just works”.
Since Xfce 4.6 I’ve had the wallpaper autorotated on my Xfce desktop with the help of a small script and cron. But after an update of some component (probably libxfconf / xfconf) my script did not work anymore and I got this error if I tried to run the script from a console or via ssh: