Linux adventures

 MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.   You just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create playlists as in other players. MOC Supported Files MOC designed to supported file formats such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, Speex, WAVE (and other less popular formats supported by Sndfile), MOD, WavPack, AAC, SID, MIDI. Moreover most audio formats recognized by FFMpeg/LibAV are also supported (e.g. MP4, Opus, WMA, APE, AC3, DTS - even embedded in video files). New formats support is under development. MOC Features Below are lists of MOC ( Music on Console )player features : Mixer (both software and hardware) and simple equalizer Color themes Searching playlist or a directory Configurable title creation from filenames and file tags Optional chara...

                                  Bspwm   Bspwm is Binary Space Partitioning Window Manager. This is a tiling window manager. If you come from a traditional desktop environment like Xfce, you notice that the primary way of managing open windows is the mouse. Those are floating window managers. Then there are tiling window managers, where all windows are visible on the desktop and are automatically arranged so as to fill the complete screen real estate. A tiling window manager doesn’t mean it needs to be controlled via the keyboard, however, the way they function, it is very efficient to use keyboard shortcuts to control your windows. Bspwm only manages your windows. The keyboard shortcuts are handled by a different program called sxhkd . This is different than i3wm, where the window manager manages your keyboa...

  Fixing FireFox Sorry We’re having trouble getting your pages back Problem Sorry. We’re having trouble getting your pages back. We are having trouble restoring your last browsing session. Select Restore Session to try again. Still not able to restore your session? Sometimes a tab is causing the issue. View previous tabs, remove the checkmark from the tabs you don’t need to recover, and then restore. View Prevous Tabs [Start New Session] [Restore Session] Solution (1) about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful. (2) In the search box above the list, type “resume_from_crash” (3) Double-click the browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to switch it from true to false .

  Just copy/paste the right code in your terminal and install manually . Type ‘ neofetch ‘ in your terminal (when it is installed) to read what kernel you have. When you are working on Linux kernel sudo pacman -S virtualbox sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules-arch sudo pacman -S linux-headers When you are working on Linux-lTS kernel sudo pacman -S virtualbox sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-dkms sudo pacman -S linux-lts-headers update-grub

 Open terminal and type : gpg --recv-key 824A5E0010A04D46 Install eid -mw via AUR Install packages pcsclite, ccid and opensc. $ sudo pacman -S pcsclite ccid opensc Enable and start pcscd $ sudo systemctl enable pcscd $ sudo systemctl start pcscd acsccid via AUR Don't connect eID -reader when installing software. Switch computer off, connect eid -reader and restart system. Install Belgian eID addon in Firefox.

  First you need to install some software. Arch Linux doesn’t give you anything for free except a rock solid bare OS.    Here’s what you need to install:  sudo pacman -S cups ghostscript gsfonts libcups system-config-printer   After installing these you’ll want to enable and start the cups.service in systemd. sudo systemctl enable cups.service sudo systemctl start cups.service

I was about to update my Arch Linux system. When I issued the following command to update Arch Linux, it showed an error, and won't let me to install any package or remove any package. # pacman -Syu Sample output: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed to update core (unable to lock database) error: failed to update extra (unable to lock database) error: failed to update community (unable to lock database) error: failed to update multilib (unable to lock database) error: failed to synchronize any databases error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) error: could not lock database: File exists if you're sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck   The beauty of Linux distros is sometimes they will the explicitly display the solution along with the error message. As you can see in the above output, it says: "..you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck" . So, I simply deleted the aforementio...

    Open a terminal and run the command below yay -S linux-zen After it completes, update grub entries by running command sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Now when you reboot, you will see new entries in your grub menu. Choose Linux Zen from the menu. Installing Linux Zen will not remove your old kernels. You can keep multiple kernels at a time and you can choose at boot which one to use. To remove, simply run, yay -R linux-zen Then run the grub config generation command i gave above.  If you're switching from the arch kernel and you have external kernel modules, like the nvidia proprietary driver and virtualbox modules and whatnot, make sure you are using the dkms version of those packages and that you also have the linux-zen-headers package installed otherwise you're going to have a rough time.

   It’s a dynamic window manager that makes use of different types of window sorting. With it, windows can be sorted in numerous ways — not just the traditional “tiled” way. It is highly configurable, fast and targeted at power users who have a little bit of technical know-how. To be clear: heavy customization will require the user know the LUA programming language. On the surface, this seems pretty intimidating because programming is difficult to those that are not versed in that kind of thing. New users: don’t worry! The defaults are good enough that the average user will most likely not need to change anything at all.   sudo apt install awesome sudo pacman -S awesome   AwesomeWM can easily be installed by searching your package repository for “awesome”, or “awesomeWM”. The only thing to keep in mind is that some operating systems may label it as “awesome”, or something similar. If you’re not able to find it in your distribution’s repository, consider go...

 SparkyLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution created on the top of Debian GNU/Linux operating system.   Sparky “stable flavor” is the best choice to change your existing, other operating system and try a GNU/Linux distribution without need of installation and changing your computer partition table. Sparky “rolling (testing) flavor” is targeted to more advanced users, whose don’t afraid of a little less stable version of applications, and want to work with/on latest version of offered the software.   Main features of Sparky – Debian based – stable or (semi-)rolling release – lightweight, fast & simple – your favorite desktops to choose – special editions: GameOver, Multimedia & Rescue – CLI Edition (no X) for building customized desktop – most wireless and mobile network cards supported – set of selected applications, multimedia codecs and plugins – own repository with a large set of additional applications – easy hard drive / USB installation In genera...

There is a utility called “ xsct ” or screen color temperature for Debian-based systems which is super lightweight to install and very easy to use. Open up a terminal and install it using below. sudo apt install sct Once installed, you can start using it anytime with just a command. Even you can use it for your shell script as well. Syntax sct [temperature]   What is Color Temperature As per Wikipedia – “ Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, horticulture, and other fields” . It has a value range from 1000k to 10000k (k = unit in Kelvin) which controls the display brightness. In layman’s term, the default color temperature value of your monitor is 6500k. So, anything upwards e.g. 7000k, etc are “blue-ish” or “cooler” and downwards are “warmer” or “yellow-ish”. Take a look at this chart (credit: Wikipedia).