Sometimes after booting the machine up I would just get no sound in my browser / video player and sometimes it would be there working just perfectly. The only way to get the sound if it wasn’t there was to reboot the computer. A strange issue I ignored at first thinking it would go away [...]

If you would like to use irssi on a remote server so that it works as proxy for pidgin, you should already have ‘server’ and ‘network’ parameters set up in your ~/.irssi/config . If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take a look here and also examine the config file. You should figure it [...]

Ok, so I wanted to lock my session after suspending to disk while using Ion3 WM. There are a few solutions to this but what I’ve found works best for me is using vlock. What you should do to make this work is the following (after you have installed vlock): Edit your .xinitrc and add [...]

Here’s a solution on how to use a different keyboard layout in GDM (different then the default en). The problem was that if you wanted to use any special character (that i.e. needs alt gr) or any other character specific to your keyboard layout (in my example čćžšđ), you couldn’t do it even though you [...]

I couldn’t find the option in nautilus preferences to get the left pane appear. I also couldn’t find the solution through google, but somehow managed to get it working. So, here is it: 1. Run gconf-editor 2. Go to: /apps/nautilus/preferences 3. Check the “always_use_browser” option There you go, happy browsing.