Tag: xorg
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Simple script to toggle touchpag on/off
Here is simple script to toggle touchpad on laptop on or off First you have to discover which device id is actually touchpad – you can do that using xinput list. There touchpad will be shown as one more mouse. Then you can update script below with touchpad’s ID on your system (replace <ID> with…
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How to display only glyphs actually present in font
Simply use FontMatrix tool
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Disabling bitmap fonts in X
To disable bitmap fonts in X create symbolic link to ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf in /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d # cd /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d# ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
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FreeBSD 11, X and UEFI
If X doesn’t start with message similar to Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs and you are booting your system using UEFI you should install package drm-kmod, and make sure to load appropriate module before starting X (for example i915kms.ko), but beware that after installing package modules with same names will be present…
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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…