Category: NZTekonverse -> Debian

  • Linux video editing, revisited

    Some way back, I don’t recall exactly, I talked about Linux video editing. When I set up mediapc the idea was that was going to be its key function. Then I ran into some roadblocks trying to find FOSS software that could do this, and just gave up and stuck with Avidemux, which can do…

  • Rolling back a Flatpak application to a previous version

    Today on my main graphics editing PC, I decided to update Gimp from 2.10.16 to 2.10.18. Which should have been OK. Except that it wasn’t. I have spent all day dealing with Gimp crashing during saves and trying to work around with ever smaller files to be saved. It did crash last night as well…

  • Stopping desktop notification popups on LXQt

    I see a fair bit of LXQt, whether it is on my one desktop that is running it on top of a Debian install, or my preference for laptops and virtual machines which is to install Lubuntu for fast pain-free installations, especially with non-free firmware and low resource use. Debian remains my preference for my…

  • Rsync Backup System [5]: Ongoing Backup Journey

    Since writing the first four articles on this topic, I have not yet figured out how to implement an incremental backup strategy, and so I am still doing only the full backup every few months. Hence right now I am doing my first full backup of mainpc for three months. The first issue that has…

  • Debugging Linux startup issues with JournalCtl

    My computers running Linux are very reliable but every so often a spanner will be thrown in the works and the computer will refuse to come up beyond a command prompt. When this happens you have to look at the logs to try to work out what is happening in the system and how to…