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  • Configuring Docks in Gimp by editing the sessionrc config file.

    Anyone who has used Gimp is familiar with the use of the toolbox and the docks that appear on the screen. People naturally have their own preferences about how to arrange these user interface elements. I worked for a long time with screens in landscape mode, with a dock on each side of the screen.…

  • HOWTO: Enable Hibernation in Kubuntu 24.04

    Long-time readers of this blog may recall a similar article about how to enable hibernation in Kubuntu 20.04 LTS. These instructions did not need to be updated for 22.04 LTS because they were the same. For Kubuntu 24.04 these do need to be updated however. Part of the previous post is copied below. Before you…

  • Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [2]

    In the first post of this series several years ago, I wrote on how to add a second swap partition to increase the size of the swap space, by adding a second swap entry to the fstab file. This is very much the simplest way of increasing the swap space by using multiple disks, if…

  • Gimp 2.99.12 beta fails to fix major undo bug from 2.99.10

    Currently, the Gimp project is developing a new release, 3.0. The beta version is being produced as version 2.99 with nightly releases having odd subversions e.g. 2.99.1, 2.99.3 etc and the production releases having even subversions e.g. 2.99.0, 2.99.2 etc. The project has now released version 2.99.12. However, a major bug in the undo function…

  • Bye Bye Debian

    Well since writing about steps in migrating to Kubuntu from Debian I have pushed ahead and migrated practically everything so now it is only a spare or two that is still running Debian. This is quite a step forward as I have previously regarded Debian as being the distribution of choice for someone like me.…

  • Flatpak rollback to previous version of Gimp Beta

    I did blog this before, but I have this time around had a successful instance of using this, because in this instance the application concerned did have sufficient commits available to roll back a point release. This example is the beta edition of Gimp, which I have been testing on a computer for some months.…

  • Upgrade from Debian/KDE to Kubuntu

    So I have upgraded one of my systems from Debian bookworm to Kubuntu 20.04, this system was freezing a lot on bookworm so it is better to have something more stable/reliable. The other bookworm system has also been migrated to Kubuntu. Current plans are to use the built-in upgrader to take it up to 22.04…

  • HOWTO: Enable Hibernation in Kubuntu 20.04

    One of the little annoyances of the Buntus is they don’t have hibernation enabled by default; you have to set it up yourself. This entails a few extra steps, fortunately these are fairly straightforward. [Re-enable hibernate by default in upower]Identity=unix-user:*Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernateResultActive=yes [Re-enable hibernate by default in logind]Identity=unix-user:*Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.handle-hibernate-key;org.freedesktop.login1;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-ignore-inhibitResultActive=yes After you reboot, hibernation should work correctly. There is…

  • Debian Falling Behind In Hardware Compatibility

    One of the great controversies in the open source world is manufacturers who supply closed source drivers for their devices for open source operating systems like Linux. Debian uses the term “firmware” to describe these drivers and Debian, more than almost any other Linux distribution out there, prides itself on a firm policy of “officially”…

  • NFS Mount Options For Part-Time Servers

    A lot of posts on this blog are more in the way of tips and howtos, short articles that explain how to get things done in Linux. Here’s another one and the subject today is to explain how to configure NFS to work with “part time” servers. By this I mean a computer that is…