As the moon goes down...
Pardon a brief interruption of the ongoing silence but; Guess what? Turns out, this place isn't quite dead just yet! :-) It has been quite a while since I posted around here, or anywhere to be fair,...
View Articlekalu 4.3.0 is out
As I'm sure you have noticed by now, a new version of pacman (5.1) has been released, and with it API changes to ALPM requiring some compatibility changes. Nothing big, but it needed to be done of...
View Articlekalu 4.2.0 is out, speaks Spanish
About time a new release of kalu was made, so here it is! Apart from a few bugs being fixed, this release sees a couple of command-line options mainly useful for CLI use, and the addition of Spanish to...
View Articleanopa 0.5.0 released
A new version of anopa - init system/service manager built around s6 supervision suite - has been released. Main changes since 0.4.0 are : tty: Fix when multiple devices are listed as console. Thanks...
View ArticleStatusNotifier v1.0.0 released !
As long last, a new version of statusnotifier is out! This has been due for a (very) long time, and it's finally arrived. Many thanks to everyone who helped, especially contributors Bradley Xu and...
View ArticleWhat to restart after a system upgrade ?
If you're familiar with Windows, you know rebooting is something pretty common. You're usually asked to reboot after a system upgrade, after (or in order to) installing a new application, after...
View ArticleRename a group of files at once
One thing I need to do pretty much every day, is rename a batch of files, using a set of predetermined rules. A few months back, when I was still on Windows, I used to have a tool to do just that, so...
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Keep Arch Linux Up-to-date with kalu
Keeping one's system up-to-date is something that should be done regardless of one's system. It's not that it's more true with Arch Linux, just that updates are (likely to be) more frequent, due to its...
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kalu: Keeping Arch Linux Up-to-date
One thing you (should) do quite often, as a good Arch Linux user, is upgrade your system. Arch is, after all, a rolling-release distribution. As a result something one ends up doing often is sudo...
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PkgClip: Does your pacman cache need a trim?
pacman - Arch Linux's package manager - is a great application, and one I probably use every single day, which - given Arch's rolling release principle - I'm sure is the case of many others as well....
View ArticleScrolling/mouse wheel improvments (VTE-like) in urxvt
When I started, and having decided to use XFCE, I did originally install it with a lot of what it comes with. That is, I used the panel of course, which I still use & like very much, but also...
View ArticleXFCE Window Manager
I am using XFCE as my Desktop Environment, and that includes XFWM - XFCE's own window manager. I could have used another one, but I find XFWM to be quite good. I did look briefly at what other WMs are...
View Articlepmount & safe removal of USB device
When you plug an USB device on your computer, under Windows it automatically becomes available. Under Arch, not so much. It makes sense, I didn't install/configure anything to do so, so why would it?...
View ArticleMiddle-click in Firefox
It's a very common thing in Linux, but coming from Windows this was new to me: select something, and the mere fact that it was selected/highlighted is enough to make it available for "paste" using the...
View ArticleChoosing a display manager, or not
One thing that happens when you come to Linux from Windows, is you start seeing the different parts that make up your system. For instance, on Windows when you power up your computer, you have a boot...
View ArticleAutomatic backups with rsync
As I've explained before, one of the first things I did upon installation of Arch was to set up a backup solution. This was done simply using a little bash script, which itself would launch rsync to do...
View ArticlePrecious data, not to be lost
One of the first things I did, after having installed Arch, was to think about a backup solution. Well, in fact I had been thinking about that before I even knew which distro I would use, and I had...
View ArticleOn my way to Arch...
Windows or Linux? If you were to ask me, the answer would have to be Windows, I am running Windows. Not really per choice, mind you. Of course no one is forcing me, it's more simply that, back in the...
View ArticleNew version of slicd, a simple lightweight Linux cron daemon
Time for a new release of slicd - a simple lightweight Linux cron daemon - with fixes regarding DST handling and the addition of a new per-job "special DST" mode, amongst other things. DST handling By...
View Articlejournal-triggerd 0.2.1 released
This is a "minor" bugfix release, mainly affecting building of journal-triggerd; though there was an important issue since configure was still looking for libsystemd-journal even though it has been...
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