It has been a while since I installed Gentoo. I always searched for new ways to improve the speed my system boot and run. After goggling little bit on net I found something about SquashFs and how to use it…
Magic SysRq key
Nothing special to add about the magic SysRq key than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key. According to the mentioned link above "the magic SysRq key is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low-level commands regardless…
Suspend laptop Linux with 1 line of code
I have Gentoo with Xfce desktop environment. It has a xfce4-session-logout command which displays a logout-suspend-shutdown confirmation screen where you can choose what you want to do. Sometimes I only need to suspend to RAM the session and I want…
Gentoo + Xfce = 98 MB of RAM
I succeed to tune my system so tight as it need only 98 MB of my 2GB of RAM to boot and run Xfce desktop. I am using a custom compiled kernel 3.2.2 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux which starts in top…
Stopwatch in BASH
I was needing a stopwatch in bash and searching on Google I've found a very simple implementation: time read Source: http://www.2ality.com/2010/10/use-bash-as-stop-watch.html
Alternative to Xfce calendar panel
I don't want to install and use the Xfce calendar plugin, because 99% of time I don't need it (so why should I keep the laptop memory busy all the time with something that I rarely use?) As alternative I…
xorg-server no mouse or keyboard
I just started my Gentoo and then my X session. I have noticed that neither mouse or keyboard is working (even if it works ok before starting X). The answer lies in /var/log/Xorg.1.log file. Just search for these lines which…
Handle the network connection on suspend / resume
Whenever I have suspend/resumed my Gentoo system I found my wifi network status as started but actually not working. I guess that standby/hibernate/suspend is handled by sys-power/pm-utils, which is very well described here, I can make use of it to…
Fix PDF file for epdfview
I don't know why but there are PDF files which cannot be opened by app-text/epdfview. I found a solution which seems to fix PDF file in almost all the situations: convert the PDF to PostScript file convert the PostScript file…
Enable Java applets in Firefox
Today I found that I need to run an Java applet within Firefox but Firefox does not provide by default (at least on my system) any plug-in for that. I had already installed the IcedTea but it seams that my…