Use XKbdOptions instead of Xmodmap in Xorg7.3

I’ve upgraded my desktop machine to Xorg 7.3 recently, and one thing annoyed me: My xmodmap settings that make the capslock key another Ctrl key won’t work.
Searching the web and mailists and I found some reports that for people don’t use Xmodmap, the CapsLock key and the NumLock key won’t update the LED on the […]

Quake like terminal with Fvwm

 
Contents

Why
What do we want
Accessible with a single key stroke
Available on all virtual desktops
No Title, No border
Transparent background
Not shown on task-bar, task switch, or Alt-Tab
And finally, nice animation

 
Why

Well we already have many quake like terminals already:

Kuake
Yakuake
Tilda
Stjerm

But what if you don’t like loading the whole KDE libraries to get
this? Or, what if all those programs lacks some […]

the many ".serverauth.####" files in home directory

Where the “####” here means some digital. I’ve seen lots of these and delete them from time to time. And today I found this blog entry that explains why.
That blog is about running X on some Linux distros and unfortunately it happens on FreeBSD too.
So I took the solution the auth offerd. However, as both […]

Upgrade my box

Last weekend my box got an upgrade as a birthday gift from my wife. The new hardwares include a Athlon 3000+, a ASAU A8N5X motherboard, and a Gitabyte 7300GS display card. Of cause I choosed the hardware
After replacing the old CY 1.7 CPU and motherboard, there comes a problem: the old power supply […]

Let Emacs handle mailto:

Well Firefox is a web browser only and it doesn’t come with a mail client, so it will call the system default mailer to handle “mailto:” links.
It is hard to say how to define the system default mailer. It’s different according to your OS: On windows they use registry, in the Unix world it depends […]

win key and menu key

I can use xev to see what key I just pressed. Also the Emacs
C-h k runs the command describe-key
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `help’.
It is bound to C-h k, <f1> k, <help> k, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key>, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key-1>.
(describe-key key &optional untranslated up-event)
Display documentation of the function invoked by key.
key […]

mozilla on two machines

Well I’ve found some reference for Mozilla is Amazing here: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

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mozilla is amazing

If I have one running on notebook, and I invoke another on the server, it will show in the notebook with the same process if I set DISPLAY! I mean, the same process! Not another process on server and just display on notebook! Is this something related to my cross NFS mount home?

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