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The following are instructions for using the command-line interface to set up your own instance of Charles Li’s Saktumiva (Upama) on your ow...

I gather that there were good security-related reasons for discontinuing gksudo. But it's quite inconvenient not having it, for example...

This is well documented elsewhere , but just for clarity, here are my settings, that work. I.e., the Google drive appears automatically moun...

When I upgraded to Linux Mint 19.1 with Cinnamon, I encountered a problem that my screen flickered immediately after logging in.  Others enc...

Sometimes one encounters a website that displays a book or manuscript page-by-page as individual jpeg files.  But what you need for your re...

With the update to Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon, the sliders controlling the trackpoint's accelleration and speed on my Thinkpad T560 and T500...

I sometimes  do some processing on PDFs if I think they are important, or I want to read them more conveniently.  I was trying to explain my...

https://gareth.halfacree.co.uk/2013/04/bulk-downloading-collections-from-archive-org https://pypi.python.org/pypi/internetarchive Much...

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/688270/mouse-speed-too-fast Put the following commands in a file (foobar.sh), make the file executable...

Further to https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2012/01/ibus-bug-fix.html , I found the same bug cropping up in Linux Mint 18.1, with IBUS 1.15.11. ...

The problem There's been a long-standing issue about using the Gnu Freefont fonts with XeLaTeX.  The fonts are "Free Serif...

I've been very happy with Linux Mint 17, and the Cinnamon GUI. Except for the occasional system freezes.  This happened usually when I ...

I had this problem, that was solved by purging pango-graphite: sudo apt-get purge pango-graphite

Gnome 2 and 3 Ubuntu with Gnome 2 Ubuntu with Unity After moving to Ubuntu GNU/Linux for all my work, in 2009, I used the default ...

I'm finally moving to 64 bit Linux (since all my machines are fine with that).  My disks have my /home and root files in different parti...

In older Linuxes, if xapian indexing is sucking up all your CPU cycles, here's a fix: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9304431...

When Canonical decided that Ubuntu would have a new user-interface, "Unity," to replace Gnome 2, there was a lot resistance and di...