Category: NZTekonverse -> Linux
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How to create a desktop menu entry manually in Linux
This is kind of an odd thing to be posting about nowadays with Linux desktops mostly including a menu editor or installable third party packages like menulibre and alacarte being able to achieve the same outcome. However, LXQt does not include a menu editor that is comparable to the above options, and whilst both of…
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How to PERMANENTLY disable an input device in Linux (Xorg Display Server)
About 2 months ago I posted on how to use the xinput command (on Ubuntu and derivatives) to disable an input device. This, however, only works until the next time the computer is restarted. In addition, not all distros provide the xinput command; Debian doesn’t, and I haven’t done any research to determine whether this…
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Setting up a second swap partition for Linux [1]
In my last post I waxed lyrical about the merits of the Linux file system and how it is possible to have two swap partitions. Today I am setting up just that in my computer. It has an existing SSD with 100 GB available for swap, and due to an upgrade on the other computer,…
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Linux has the best filesystem ever 🙂
I’ve been in the IT industry for something like 30 years (longer if I was to include the time in my secondary education) and in that time I have used a few operating systems, starting with Apple DOS 3.3, UCSD P-System, CP/M, Acorn MOS, Macintosh System 6/7, Netware, MS-DOS, Windows (since 3.1), macOS and Linux.…
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Python Scripting [6D]: Layer Sidecar Duplication & Renaming for NZ Rail Maps 4
Since we last looked at this topic a couple of months have gone by with everything working as expected when the duplicate script is used, both for duplicating sidecar files for layers that are the same size as the original and ones where the destination layer has been increased in size. The former is the…