I’ve been switches a bit between distros from the Debian family and the Red Hat family. In doing so I’ve also been switching between using if-up.d and NetworkManager/dispatcher.d for mounting and unmounting my NAS network shares as one wasn’t available on one distro, and vice versa. The way I had it set up, was I […]
If you’re seeing this error, you’re probably trying to start a GTK application as root and having no luck doing so.
Luckily the fix is really simple.
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably received the warning when running for instance xterm or dmenu_run.
Here’s how to easily fix the problem.
After switching to kernel 4.13 I suddenly got a bunch of these errors when attempting to mount my NAS using CIFS (samba):
CIFS VFS: ioctl error in smb2_get_dfs_refer
Here’s how to easily solve the problem.
I’ve been running Ubuntu “server” for quite some time on my workstation now, and lately the upgrade to 17.10 completely broke it.
So I figured I’d try something else, and as Fedora had a “minimal install” option, I immediately fell in love.
I recently switched to running a clean Ubuntu Server with i3 as my window manager – this meant no more network connect, and thus I couldn’t simply use the checkbox “Use this connection only for resources on its network”.
So running a barebone vpnc, I finally figured out a simple way to split the traffic, so only traffic intended for the remote network runs through the VPN.
I recently needed to re-encode a lot of my ripped CDs to a lower bit rate for my car stereo (it doesn’t cope well with 320 kbit apparently)
So I figured it’d be easy to do in a bash shell, and it was 🙂
Taking a brief detour from “My journey to Linux”, I wanted to overclock my Geforce GTX 760, as I had done the same on Windows.
Doing so proved to be very easy, and yield a rather good increase in performance.
In part 4 I go over configuring my keyboard shortcuts to mimick those I commonly used on Windows.
I also configure automatic trim of my SSD, so I don’t have to worry about degraded performance over time.
In Part 3 I go over mounting my Synology NAS, which proved trickier than I anticipated, as well as connecting to a Juniper VPN.