Archives for the ‘troubleshooting’ Category

ReverbNation WordPress plugin not working

Ok, so you want to merge your bands Reverbnation profile with your wordpress website and you have installed the official WP plugin (v0.1 at the time) but it’s not working when you put the shortcode into a text widget? There are two possible reasons for this: 1. Your WP theme does not support executing shortcode [...]

Sometimes no sound in browser / video player on Arch Linux

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 [...]

Thomson SpeedTouch 780WL – port forwarding to broadcast address

For your home network to be able to wake-on-lan a computer from the Internet so that you could later remotely access it, you need to forward a port to your broadcast address. This way you can broadcast a magic packet to all the computers in your network and then wake only one of them using [...]

GDM keyboard layout change

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 [...]

Nautilus – left pane missing

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.