Category: NZTekonverse -> InstallMyPC
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Life with KDE [5]: Install on Debian over XFCE
So I haven’t written too much on this blog for a couple of weeks. Now I am writing about KDE because I have decided which computers will have it and which won’t. serverpc gets it installed because it is fast and has 16 GB of memory, and mediapc will be the one that doesn’t because…
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HOWTO: Change application font sizes in XFCE
Since I am going to have to keep at least one of my computers running XFCE (it doesn’t need remote access) because MTP works better on Debian 9.5/XFCE for now, I needed to look at how to set menu and application font sizes. There is actually not a GUI to do this. There was not…
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KDE remote desktop sharing
One of the best things about KDE is the amount of apps they have available that are integrated into the shell. As XFCE lacks its own remote access integration you have to install x11vnc and muck around trying to get it to run as a service which I have yet to be able to complete.…
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HOWTO: Add extra display settings permanently to Linux
I have a Veon TV that I use as a display for the bedroom pc and its major problem is that it is detected as a resolution of 1920×1080 but its native resolution is actually 1360×768. With other computers the instructions I dug up were to use xrandr commands in some of the lightdm config…
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HOWTO: Connect a Nexus 5X to a PC
Previously on this blog I have bemoaned the apparent lack of support for the Nexus 5X on PCs. It turns out however that the connectivity is not well documented (not as far as I am aware with Android 8). Earlier efforts failed because I thought a driver was needed, of which no such thing actually…