Tag Archives: linux

Sway window manager

For the longest time I’ve stuck with MATE as my primary interface in computers. It is familiar and themed using the old MacOS 9 interface which is retro and comfortable. I have been using the same setup on Mint and Gentoo for over a decade. I moved up to MATE from WindowMaker and hardly anyone […]

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Turning off a trackpad in Linux

My new HP Spectre laptop is good, but the touch pad is huge and the linux palm detection or turn off the trackpad when typing setting doesn’t work well.  For a few months I had to type slowly and carefully in order to not send the mouse across the screen or worse, move the cursor […]

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System admin lecturecast, episode 6

Episode six is a review of how to read and use Linux man pages. This is covered in depth in chapter three. That’s the assignment for the week, read chapter three. [podcast]http://www.skoda.net/podcast/cis2230-ep6.mp3[/podcast]

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