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Importing SSL certificates into Mono store
Run cert-sync –user /etc/ssl/cert.pem. Omit –user to synchronize for entire system (note that this installs them in /usr/share/.mono rather than /usr/local/share/.mono). Without this you might be experiencing errors like “Ssl error:1000007d:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED” or similar
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When application is not listed in preferred applications in MATE
Reason for this is application .desktop file missing MimeType specification. For example for me mplayer and thunderbird are not listed as choices for video and mail respectively. To fix this edit application’s .desktop file (in /usr/local/share/applications directory, or in ~/.local/share/applications) and run update-desktop-database afterwards (with -v to show its warnings). For thunderbird I usedMimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailtoand for…
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Get list of manually installed packages
To get list of manually installed packages (ie, those not installed as dependencies) use this command:pkg query -e ‘%a = 0’ %o | sort
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Unzip files with unicode names
In case normal unzip can’t handle them properly (I was unable to make it do it properly) use 7 zip instead (package p7zip) – command to use is7z x path_to_zip
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Making timelapse video
Quite useful tutorial for making timelapse.
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If Java applets don’t work after installing IcedTea
Obviously plugin has to be enabled when building IcedTea. Apparently some systems (like iLo) can’t use java web start with OpenJDK. For them applets have to be used but by default they won’t open in Firefox – for iLo to work without surprises it is necessary to choose “always activate” for java plugin (Tools >…