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goomwwm startup applications and background

24th January 13 | Linux

I’ve been using Goomwwm on and off, but seeing as it’s post-new-yearness I’m going to give it a try full time.

To set the background, I decided to use feh.

Simply create a .goomwwmrc in your home directory.

# Background
exec /usr/bin/feh --bg-center /home/osaka/wallpaper.jpg

# Sart up applications
exec /usr/bin/lxpanel

That sets the background to an image in my home directory and start lxpanel up once goomwwm has started.

From here you should be able to work out how to start other applications. Simply prefix the application location with the command ‘exec’

Connect to Eduroam using wpa_supplicant

24th January 13 | Linux

Less: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_edu.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        key_mgmt=IEEE8021X WPA-NONE WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="abc1@uni.ac.uk"
        password="*****"
        #ca_cert="/location/of/cert" # This might not be required.
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
        priority=2
        auth_alg=OPEN
}

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Libre Office Spellchecker Not working

11th September 12 | Systemless

sudo apt-get install myspell-en-gb This should make it work, this will work for any debian variant.

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Eclipse and Android Dev

2nd September 12 | Programming

If you get the following error with Eclipse on Linux (Maybe Windows): Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: Android Development Tools 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704) Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.4.v200910220141-17704) requires ‘org.eclipse.wst.sse.core 0.0.0′ but it could not be found 1. Go to [...]

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vnstat: Network Stats

19th August 12 | Linux

To gather network statistics about the amount of data your interface is using, have a look at vnstat

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FreeBSD 9 Keyboard mapping

18th August 12 | Systemless

To get HAL to set your keyboard mapping on boot create the below file: vi /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi Enter this into it: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?> <deviceinfo version=”0.2″> <device> <match key=”info.capabilities” contains=”input.keyboard”> <merge key=”input.x11_options.XkbLayout” type=”string”>gb</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> For this to work you will need to have HAL enabled in rc.conf. echo ‘hald_enable=”YES”‘ [...]

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Install Mongo DB on Debian with PHP support

13th August 12 | Linux

Steps to Install MongoDB – This should work with Debian and Ubuntu, with the upstart init system. sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv 7F0CEB10 && sudo sh -c ‘echo ”deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list’ && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen; If all goes well you should have a fully working MongoDB. [...]

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