Category: NZTekonverse -> Linux
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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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Life with KDE [4]
There have been a few small hiccups in a couple of areas with KDE so far. One is the MTP support appears to be not as good as on Thunar (XFCE). I have not been able to get a reliable connection to my Samsung Galaxy J2 phone. As a result I have put a cable…
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Life with KDE [3]
Since writing about the NUC’s problems installing Debian and Kubuntu in UEFI mode, I discovered the computer has a legacy boot setting which is essentially BIOS boot so with that turned on and UEFI turned on there was no installation problem. Kubuntu was installed successfully first, then I overwrote the installation with Debian-KDE and then…
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Life with KDE [2]
Things are getting back to normal with KDE on mainpc and I am getting on with work today. I was planning to have the same configuration on bedroompc (the NUC) but have run into problems with the Linux implementation of EFI when this platform is set to boot UEFI and install Debian or Ubuntu in…
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Life with KDE [1]
Having jumped in boots and all into KDE on mainpc (having had to reinstall Debian and choosing KDE instead of XFCE) there are a few things to be aware of. At least we do get 5.8 version of KDE Plasma on Stretch, I would have half expected it to be 4.x because of Debian’s reppo…