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by Mr James
2022-04-05 22:17
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Battery life
Replies: 6
Views: 2344

Re: Battery life

Since the thing dates back to 2015, it probably doesn't support hardware acceleration on the VP9 videos that Youtube is pushing by default. Anyway, what are the codec details on the local videos that consume a lot of cycles? Usually, just running them with vlc on the command line will let us know, ...
by Mr James
2022-04-05 15:12
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Battery life
Replies: 6
Views: 2344

Re: Battery life

You have installed TLP. Have you enabled it? https://vitux.com/how-to-improve-notebook-battery-life-in-debian-with-tlp/ Yup. nnm@laptop:~$ sudo tlp-stat -s [sudo] password for nnm: --- TLP 1.3.1 -------------------------------------------- +++ System Info System = ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. 1.0 S551LB B...
by Mr James
2022-04-05 05:02
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Battery life
Replies: 6
Views: 2344

Battery life

Hello everybody, My setup: Asus Vivobook (Optimus) running Bullseye (all repos, backports) with autocpu-freq and TLP installed. My problem: be it youtube in *any* browser or an on disk file in *any* player (mplayer, mpv, vlc, totem....), the CPU is always 50% to 150%, with my battery thus lasting ju...
by Mr James
2019-08-03 21:32
Forum: Programming
Topic: xkey
Replies: 2
Views: 7986

Re: xkey

Right. First, yes, compilation and installation is done by "make" followed by "sudo make install". Second, if you are running the program within Wayland it won't work. X11 only. Third, yes, you edit config.h prior to compiling to configure the thing. Add whatever bindings you wan...
by Mr James
2019-08-03 12:11
Forum: Programming
Topic: xkey
Replies: 2
Views: 7986

xkey

Hey guys.

So I made a thing. It is called xkey and it is a teeny-weeny xbindkeys replacement is the suckless spirit.
Have a look if interested and feel free to post any criticisms/requests, or star it if you like it.

https://github.com/mreyoud/xkey
by Mr James
2019-06-18 13:17
Forum: Programming
Topic: zero
Replies: 4
Views: 8246

Re: zero

here's to creating statically linked, self contained, binaries in debian.... any and all constructive criticism is not just welcomed, but expected and much appreciated. Looks good, but I have a question/comment. From first glance, it seems that you plan to organize the rest of your library around s...
by Mr James
2019-06-18 12:48
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: xkey
Replies: 0
Views: 3640

xkey

hey everybody,

here's a simple xbindkeys hotkey alternative from your's truly (i created a thing :P ):
https://github.com/mreyoud/xkey

hope some find it useful.

as always, any and all constructive criticism is not only welcome but expected.
by Mr James
2019-06-02 20:32
Forum: Programming
Topic: zero
Replies: 4
Views: 8246

Re: zero

it isn't a libc. it is a utility library.
think glib but with ladd() to add an item to a list, not g_linux_kernel_list_h_inspired_doubly_linked_circular_list_add_head()... :mrgreen:
by Mr James
2019-06-02 16:22
Forum: Programming
Topic: zero
Replies: 4
Views: 8246

zero

hello one and all, i have recently *begun* work on a fully open source C89 static utility library called lib0. you can follow it's progress at https://github.com/mreyoud/lib0 hopefully it and the libraries to follow will be of use... here's to creating statically linked, self contained, binaries in ...
by Mr James
2013-12-31 12:19
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Why do you use debian?
Replies: 595
Views: 2193569

Re: Why do you use debian?

- social contract
- reliability
- respects it's users
- practical
- the swirl is cool
by Mr James
2013-12-31 09:51
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: [SOLVED] Synaptic 0.75.13 says "Ubuntu"?!?!
Replies: 39
Views: 12894

Re: [SOLVED] Synaptic 0.75.13 says "Ubuntu"?!?!

Linadian wrote:How in the world did it get in the DEBIAN repo in the first place is the better question
simple, a hell of a lot of debian packagers are also butnut packagers. it was a mistake.
by Mr James
2013-12-30 21:05
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Debian "rolling"
Replies: 75
Views: 29245

Re: Debian "rolling"

I would probably base it off openSUSE though and not debian, mainly because i can take advantages of some of the tools in openSUSE like YaST. which provide exactly what advantages over the debian tools? YaST is more then a software installer, it has a few nice GUI tools for configuring networks, a ...
by Mr James
2013-12-30 09:02
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: [SOLVED] Synaptic 0.75.13 says "Ubuntu"?!?!
Replies: 39
Views: 12894

Re: Synaptic 0.75.13 says "Ubuntu"?!?!

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666869 Thanks Mr James! My fix, not sure if it will work for anybody else (I'm running only KDE with a sprinkle of Gnome progs), was un-install software-properties-gtk and install software-properties-kde, DO NOT un-install python-software-properties ...
by Mr James
2013-12-30 08:52
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Debian "rolling"
Replies: 75
Views: 29245

Re: Debian "rolling"

Debian4ever wrote:I would probably base it off openSUSE though and not debian, mainly because i can take advantages of some of the tools in openSUSE like YaST.
which provide exactly what advantages over the debian tools?
by Mr James
2013-12-30 00:48
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Newbie - getting rid of Gnome
Replies: 19
Views: 6705

Re: Newbie - getting rid of Gnome

hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and do the following: #service gdm3 stop #apt-get remove --purge gnome* #apt-get autoremove --purge #apt-get install task-kde-desktop #service kdm start That's all good but it may remove some needed Gnome based libs, that's why I did my KDE install like I did from fresh/new, if I in...
by Mr James
2013-12-30 00:16
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Newbie - getting rid of Gnome
Replies: 19
Views: 6705

Re: Newbie - getting rid of Gnome

hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and do the following:

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#service gdm3 stop
#apt-get remove --purge gnome*
#apt-get autoremove --purge
#apt-get install task-kde-desktop
#service kdm start
by Mr James
2013-12-29 23:59
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: Should a New User Learn "su" or "sudo" for Administration?
Replies: 40
Views: 8131

Re: Should a New User Learn "su" or "sudo" for Administratio

... Forget Ubuntu and start to look at "sudo" in Debian. ... That should be "the Debian-way" of this discussion! ... (Especially Ubuntu does not matter!) yes, but unfortunately you get swarms of folks coming to Debian expecting Ubuntu. they are usually easy to spot though: their...