2010 on The Total Token Vortex

console-kit-daemon x60

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:39:00 +0000

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).

changing CapsLock to Ctrl in XFCE4

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:26:00 +0000

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).

favourite wallpaper sites

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:18:00 +0000

These are my favourite wallpaper sites, ranked by preference:

BenQ W9000 service menu / overscan

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:21:00 +0000

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: