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If you run ‘htop’ you might see over 60 processes named ‘console-kit-daemon’. This seems to be a bug. On a mostly-single-user system one might as well uninstall ‘consolekit’ package (seems to be used for fast user switching).

From: http://serverfault.com/questions/10437/how-do-you-swap-the-caps-lock-to-control-in-xfce Run this on startup: /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option “ctrl:nocaps” This can be placed in XFCE’s startup (Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart tab > Add button).

These are my favourite wallpaper sites, ranked by preference: http://nik.bot.nu/browse.fu http://wallbase.net/ http://4walled.org/ http://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers

I found that on my BenQ W9000 projector, when feeding it 1280x720 signal from my computer (for when my gfx card cannot handle the full 1900x1080 at reasonable framerates), and using the Anamorphic mode to scale image to full display area, a fair bit of the image was being cropped. Turns out this has to do with “overscan” setting, which alas is not accessible from regular projector menu. However, it is modifiable if one enters a secret “service menu”. For this projector, to enter the service menu press: