Yesterday I dug out my old Gateway E-475M laptop and fixed the touchpad which hadn’t worked since I replaced the USB and Ethernet ports about eight years ago. 344 more words
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Accessing another user's DBus in XFCE
In a RHEL73 system with XFCE I wanted to change the wallpaper from a script run by root, so I searched and found that, in theory, it could be done using… 383 more words

A Solution (kinda) to Missing Menu Bars
The missing menu bar on LibreOffice (and Electron apps) has been the source of a headache to me for a few months. I’ve been adding/removing packages and enabling/disabling preferences, but nothing seems to work. 114 more words
Windows Subsystem for Linux - install Ubuntu with xfce
Here are the steps to install Ubuntu on Windows 10 using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
- On Windows 10, go to Settings.
- Type insider and press enter. 331 more words

Shrugging at Vector Linux
I have been interested in trying something based on slackware so I picked out vector linux. It says on its description that it contains LXDE, therefore openbox, which is what I use most often. 466 more words