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  • HOWTO: Change application font sizes in XFCE

    Since I am going to have to keep at least one of my computers running XFCE (it doesn’t need remote access) because MTP works better on Debian 9.5/XFCE for now, I needed to look at how to set menu and application font sizes. There is actually not a GUI to do this. There was not…

  • Life with KDE [4]

    There have been a few small hiccups in a couple of areas with KDE so far. One is the MTP support appears to be not as good as on Thunar (XFCE). I have not been able to get a reliable connection to my Samsung Galaxy J2 phone. As a result I have put a cable…

  • Life with KDE [3]

    Since writing about the NUC’s problems installing Debian and Kubuntu in UEFI mode, I discovered the computer has a legacy boot setting which is essentially BIOS boot so with that turned on and UEFI turned on there was no installation problem. Kubuntu was installed successfully first, then I overwrote the installation with Debian-KDE and then…

  • Life with KDE [2]

    Things are getting back to normal with KDE on mainpc and I am getting on with work today. I was planning to have the same configuration on bedroompc (the NUC) but have run into problems with the Linux implementation of EFI when this platform is set to boot UEFI and install Debian or Ubuntu in…

  • Life with KDE [1]

    Having jumped in boots and all into KDE on mainpc (having had to reinstall Debian and choosing KDE instead of XFCE) there are a few things to be aware of. At least we do get 5.8 version of KDE Plasma on Stretch, I would have half expected it to be 4.x because of Debian’s reppo…

  • KDE remote desktop sharing

    One of the best things about KDE is the amount of apps they have available that are integrated into the shell. As XFCE lacks its own remote access integration you have to install x11vnc and muck around trying to get it to run as a service which I have yet to be able to complete.…

  • Computing resources optimisation [6]

    Well computer no.4 is not going to be “ministrypc”, it is going to be a computer for displaying pictures on with the maps project. I just decided this is the best way to do things, because its screen resolution of 1600×900 is higher than mediapc. But also, because I want to keep mediapc just for…

  • Fix for x11vnc problems on Stretch

    Following up to my last article, having tested x11vnc for a day on mediapc, it crashed with the “stack smashing detected” issue. Reported as a Debian bug here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859213 This issue affects multiple distros, including ones unrelated to Debian, such as Red Hat, Arch and Fedora, as well as related such as Ubuntu. The recommended…

  • HOWTO: Share a screen in Linux

    Screen sharing is a generic name for allowing the screen on one computer to be accessed from another. It is similar to, but different from, Windows Remote Desktop. There are a number of options that are mostly based on VNC. I have a Windows 10 Home computer here that has TightVNC Server installed on it,…

  • Computing resources optimisation [1E]

    Got to thinking more about how to make the best use of resources with the computers. The biggest issue is ergonomics. You can only really practically use two keyboards at a time. So if using more than two computers you prefer to have more than two keyboards/mice, but it’s hard to access them without moving…