Thursday, 31 March 2022

[NetBSD] fluxbox-generate_menu doesn't work

This is an issue mainly on NetBSD , looks like a bug since 2009? I bet that not even it's maintainer does not use this window manager - well well no surpices if some people hate BSD's , primadonna maintainers that usually boot to windoze...

how to fix it:

  • edit the /usr/pkg/bin/fluxbox-generate_menu as root
  • at the line 1223 there is :    USERFLUXDIR="\${HOME}....... 
  • remove the \ before the ${HOME}



Thursday, 13 January 2022

"lean" debian? ... try NakeDeb

nakeDeb is a french* Debian based derivative distribution intended to deliver an ultra-minimal debian installation allowing you to quickly install a working system or use it as a lightweight live backup.


*fear not, the distro is way useful for non-French speakers , like me. It is in fact my main OS on the PC , at least not the crap-o-bloat of Gnome/KDE , Fluxbox is bit ancient here - 1.3.5 from... 2011 ! the "latest"  one is 1.3.7 (2015? IIRC)  not that much of difference as no super-duper new features are there.

Feel free to install - play and customise this gem!

for more info: https://nakedeb.arpinux.org/

cheers to Arnault !!

Friday, 7 January 2022

Easy templates in Org >= 9.2 (emacs) are not working?

Easy templates on org-mode allowed you to type quick the block codes eg 

<s [tab] would produce

#+BEGIN_SRC 

#+END_SRC

Things were changed after org-mode v9.2, so now you have to type C-c C-,

or

add  (require 'org-tempo) to your init file

Sunday, 17 October 2021

fix Arduino IDE ESP32 "No module named serial" - on a python3 system.

First of all install the darn pyserial

pip3 install pyserial

If you see this error - again- then it's 100% because is a python c*ck up as /usr/bin/python points to the python2.x not the python3 binary.

solution (tested on OpenSUSE) :

sudo rm /usr/bin/python

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

Saturday, 31 July 2021

installation notes: notification-daemon

It is way better to install "notification-deamon" as notification app instead of the useless crap called "dunst" as the dunst-crap is NON interactive.

Wednesday, 24 March 2021

KaiOS is rubbish...

If you think to switch from android etc to a KaiOS phone and want to do something more than phone calls or texts then THINK TWICE, the OS is buggy and the company don't give a f about the issues.

JUST read the issues - posted on Reddit :

https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/mbjlzz/contacts_limit_of_100_only/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/m6i2fe/nokia_6300_4g_bugs_feature_requests_should_i_send/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/m0bnjn/kai_os_needs_a_serious_update/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KaiOS/comments/mikhbr/ok_for_lolz/




Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Gnome: Calendar and/or contacts constantly requiring Google authentication (aka gnome fuckup)

 this "may" solve this crap...

rm -rf ./.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf
rm -rf ./.config/evolution
rm -rf ./.local/share/evolution