• alsa volume indicator with notifications

    alsavol I recently found a thread in ubuntu forums that explained how to get a gnome-like volume indicator in Xfce.

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  • xorg - proper greek keyboard layout

    I was getting recently a lot random crashes with xfce4-xkb-plugin. Also when I opened the plugin properties the greek layout variant text was all scrambled and ineligible. Having searched through the internet and bug trackers I couldn’t find something similar so I started suspecting that my setup was broken. A look in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst showed me that the greek layout was ‘gr’ and not ‘el’ as I had specified it.

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  • weechat howto

    weechat-front Weechat (We Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a lightweight, extensible, console based irc client. It is written in C and licensed under GNU GPL3.

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  • Enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in Xorg

    Add

    Option             "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

    to your Keyboard InputClass to enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill your x server

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  • running eagle on arch linux using libjpeg6

    Eagle 5.6 depends on libjpeg6 to run. I case you have upgraded to libjpeg7 there are a few tricks to help you run eagle.

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