by Dave | Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
OK, that’s an awfully specific problem, but it’s pretty maddening if you run into it. In my setup I have a folder with my web app that’s on a normal Windows partition. In order to have an environment very close to our production webservers, I run a...
by Dave | Aug 5, 2014 | Tinker Blog
For a long time I’ve noticed that if I have two separate Firefox windows open (not tabs- windows), one will be in the foreground and the other can’t be clicked or changed. One has the focus, the other is untouchable until the first has been closed....
by Dave | Aug 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
I kept getting errors about the system being unable to mount an MTP device and have resorted to some ridiculous things trying to get content off devices. Under KDE, Dolphin never seemed to work to get things via MTP (Media Transfer Protocol), but Konqueror did so I...
by Dave | Aug 4, 2014 | Tinker Blog
This morning I was sickened for the last time at how ugly Skype looked when I opened it. While I was a KDE user I rationalized it away thinking that like many proprietary vendors, the Skype developers had targeted GTK and their support in KDE just failed. Or that they...
by Dave | Aug 1, 2014 | Tinker Blog
I’m not a big fan of the Nautilus file app, but it’s ok. On the left side it shows certain folders, location bookmarks, and mounted disks. If you want to hide or change the way they’re displayed, open up the Disks app. Find and select the partition...
