Category: NZTekonverse -> InstallMyPC
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PulseAudio settings in Debian
As everyone knows, PulseAudio is pretty common in Linux for controlling audio levels. It was written by the same guy who wrote systemd. You can make up whatever politics you want around that. PulseAudio has a configuration file called daemon.conf that is located either in ~/.config/pulse or in /etc/pulse . An important setting is flat-volumes…
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NFS on Linux
When it comes to file sharing on Linux, you have two main choices. NFS is the one that is intrinsic to Unix environments, that have been carried down into Linux by convention. It has been around for a long time and is quite stable and reliable. Since the development of Samba, you also have SMB…
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Optimising Gimp’s temporary and swap storage
Whilst Gimp is a great piece of software, its default behaviour is to put temporary files into the home drive. If for some reason it needs to cache to disk it can become very slow. For me, I thought that creating my swap partition on the SSD would address this. However Gimp doesn’t make use…
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Viewnior, Manjaro, Lubuntu, LXQt
Viewnior is another image viewer that is included in most Linux distros. It is significantly better than Eye of Gnome (EOG) because it can handle very large images. As such I expect Viewnior will become the default image viewer on all of my Linux computers. I got to hear about Viewnior because I recently built…
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Backup setup commands (btrfs, rdiff-backup, ssh)
Once btrfs-tools is installed these are the commands to create a single partition volume and add a filesystem to it. First step is to wipe the existing partition table with wipefs, then use mkfs.btrfs to create the filesystem. This is the best way to create a backup disk, even if it is for more than…