I really enjoy using Mutt as my email client. However, sometimes I have to log
into my Gmail account to view my contacts. Tired of this, I exported my Gmail
contacts and imported them into abook.
Now I can view my Gmail contacts in Mutt.
Here’s how I did it:
(Sorry, no cut and paste instructions.)
* Export your [...]
In the process of whipping elinks into a tame beast, I discovered several options that I wasn’t aware of.
URI rewriting: allows me to execute Google searches, dictionary lookups, and imdb queries within the ‘Goto URL’ dialog box. It should be enabled by default but if not, go to the Option manager -> Protocols -> URI [...]
xf86-video-intel-2.6.3 — why do you cause so many problems? Ever since the transition from slow console switching (3 – 5 secs) to fast kernel mode switching (<< 1 sec) you insist on crashing when I kill X.org. Perhaps it's just me — perhaps I'm one of the unfortunate few that cannot have a [...]
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]
[...]
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 [...]
An interesting discussion on the freedeskop mailing list revealed that setting MigrationHeuristic to “greedy” in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf may speed up Firefox when using the Intel (intel) drivers.
Read the discussion at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-May/035451.html.
After receiving my HP 2710p, I decided to use IMAP instead of POP for
managing my email. As you know, Mutt is my primary MUA (mail user agent).
The benefits of this setup are obvious: synchronous email (both on the computer
and on the webserver), space savings, and less programs to configure.
In this example, I’ll be setting up [...]
A lot of distributions offer their own wireless management tools. While this can be helpful for a new user, an experienced GNU/Linux user knows that all these tools rely on the generic wireless extension offered by Wireless Tools for Linux.
Today I will show you how to manage your wireless connection by using a subset of [...]
Simply alias startx to ‘exec startx’. For added convience, place it in /etc/bashrc, /etc/zshrc, or /etc/profile. Note, that if you run ’startx 2>&1 | tee startx.log’, this trick will fail.
