Category: Linux

Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro

Randy Usegnu

The Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro will stop responding and/or get glitchy after using it for about 10 minutes. You either have to press the F7 (toggle touchpad) key, so for a temporary fix I made a bash script to run xdotool to disable/enable the touchpad, then added it to a cron job to run every

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Manjaro With Intel UHD 600

Randy Usegnu

Option 1One option is to go to display settings and change the resolution, then change back to original. Option 2To permanently set the screen resolution get the needed information with: [user@Asus ~]$ cvt 1920 10801920×1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHzModeline “1920x1080_60.00” 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120

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fedora

Fedora 36 Tweaks

Randy Usegnu

For file journaling check usage withsudo journalctl –disk-usage Change how much space is used for journaling by editing /etc/systemd/journald.conf and uncomment and change SystemMaxUse=50M Disable Spectre and Meltdown mitigationsEdit /etc/default/grub and add mitigations=off to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line then update grub with sudo update-grub Increase DNF update speedFirst update system with sudo dnf upgrade –refresh -y then

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Disabling Fedora ABRT notification

Randy Usegnu

This was taken from https://robbinespu.gitlab.io/posts/disable-abrt-fedora/ Posted: May 15, 2019 | Reading time: 2 min⚠️ Warning: This post is over a year old, the information may be out of date. I dont like ABRT because it spamming my fedora system notification. It kinda disturbing me, so because of the MCE ABRT notification keep spamming, I suggest to

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Unigine on Solus Linux

Randy Usegnu

Unigine Community 2 Universal real-time 3D Engine for creative enthusiastshttps://unigine.com/products/community/advantages/ Install the following: linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all gcc g++ make ccache libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxrender-dev libxext-dev libx11-dev libglvnd-devel The following are not available: libopenal1 libc6-dev Then install Solus build packages: sudo eopkg it -c system.devel Make the file exectuable: chmod +x UNIGINE_SDK_Browser_Linux_1.9.33.run Run the file: ./UNIGINE_SDK_Browser_Linux_1.9.33.run Run the SDK

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Joplin

Install Joplin on Solus

Randy Usegnu

How to add the Joplin AppImage program on Solus OS Download the AppImage file to ~/.local/share/applications/ Make the file executable: chmod +x Joplin-2.5.10.AppImage Create link with system apps: sudo ln -s ~/.local/applications/Joplin-2.5.10.AppImage /usr/bin/joplin Create menu entry sudo nano /usr/share/applications/joplin.desktopWith the below lines: 2021.11.08 10:20

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Solus Automatic Time Fix

Randy Usegnu

With Solus you can not set Automatic Date & Time, once you close the settings window it reverts back to off. Checking the NTP status as below it failed to load: systemd-timesyncd.service – Network Time SynchronizationLoaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-06-05 21:30:23 EDT; 3s agoDocs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)Process: 3450 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd

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Solus OS Boot Problems

Randy Usegnu

My Predator Helos laptop has two video cards, one intel for low power consumption and one Nvidia 1660 Ti for gaming.I tried to use Optimus with bbswitch to switch between cards on demand automatically. When installing the bbswitch package it also installed the 4.9 lts kernel. Upon reboot I just get a blank screen with

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Install GNOME Shell Extensions Manually

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It’s not that you have to be always online to install GNOME Shell extensions. You can download the files and install it later, without needing internet. Go to GNOME Extensions website and download the extension with the latest version. Extract the downloaded file. Copy the folder to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions directory. Go to your Home directory and

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Use Optimus in Fedora 30 on Predator Helios 300

Randy Usegnu

NVIDIA Optimus is an optimization technology created by NVIDIA which, depending on the resource load generated by client software applications, will transparently and seamlessly switch between two graphics adapters within a computer system in order to provide either maximum performance or minimum power draw from the system’s graphics rendering hardware. From Bumblebee’s FAQ: Bumblebee is

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RPM Packages Explained

Randy Usegnu

Perhaps the best known way the Fedora community pursues its mission of promoting free and open source software and content is by developing the Fedora software distribution. So it’s not a surprise at all that a very large proportion of our community resources are spent on this task. This post summarizes how this software is

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