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KDE Power Management in PekWM
After my laptop spontaneously switched off on two separate occasions, because I had failed to switch on the mains socket, I decided that something had to be done about the lack of power management in...
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Three things I love about PekWM
Three things I love about pekwm: Window grouping: I love the fact that you can middle click on a window’s titlebar and drop it onto another window and the two windows join together – with the titlebar...
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PekWM with Tint2 Panel
I have just been recommended to try the “tint2″ panel. It looks lovely and minimalist, and has happily taken the kwalletmanager system tray icon; so hopefully will work on my laptop with battery and...
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Installing Debian on a thin client PC
This Saturday I attended the Surrey Linux User Group meeting held at Sirius in Addlestone. Mike Judd of Akuna Group brought along a number of thin client PCs, along with monitors, keyboards, mice and a...
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XKCD Wallpaper
I confess, I like XKCD. Even though some of them are unfunny and others beyond my understanding, sometimes, just sometimes, they strike a chord. Once I moved to pekwm I found myself with a black plain...
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Upgrading to Debian Squeeze
I finally decided to upgrade my work desktop to Debian Squeeze. Preparing for the Upgrade I manually removed all but the official lenny repositories (and removed the Debian Volatile repository which is...
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Default Applications Launched from Terminal
For some time it has irritated me that launching URLs from my terminal would always launch Iceweasel/Firefox, rather than my default browser Chromium. If you’re running KDE or Gnome, then I accept that...
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