Atomicity

During my daily browsing of the web, I read about a concept that I have never considered before: atomicity. This concept usually refers to database transactions and means that the transaction will either completely succeed or completely fail. Journaled filesystems make use of this system in the event of a crash. Before [...]

Changing the default X11 Cursor

Very trivial.
Unpack your cursor package to ~/.icons/.
The directory structure should be:
~/.icons
~/.icons/theme_name
~/.icons/theme_name/cursors

Create a symbolic link between ~/.icons/default and the theme_name and restart X.
ln -s ~/.icons/theme_name ~/.icons/default

If you have any issues, remove the symbolic link:
rm ~/.icons/default
create a ~/.icons/default directory
mkdir ~/.icons/default
and insert the following file (index.theme) into the ~/.icons/default directory:
touch ~/.icons/default/index.theme
vi ~/.icons/default/index.theme
1 [Icon Theme]
[...]

Using xbindkeys to manage media buttons

More often that not, a keyboard will have extra functionality keys that you can bind to different operations.  Xbindkeys makes it easier to make each key perform a specific task.
First, run “xbindkeys -k” to determine the code for a key.  For example:
“Scheme Command”
m:0×0 + c:160
NoSymbol
Then change the “Scheme Command” section to the command that you [...]

xf86-video-intel-2.4.3

The latest Xorg video driver for Intel chipsets will probably cause a slowdown in rendering due to a switch from TTM to GEM. GEM is only supported in kernel 2.6.28 and above so it’s recommended that you stick with drivers released before 2.4.3.
More information: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13922
http://www.x.org/wiki/ttm