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Thunderbird is a great e-mail client, but what it lacks is a good unread mail notification. Why not do it yourself?

05 Apr 2022

Geany is a great text editor and you can use it in many ways. I use it for coding, but also as a great note taking application. Let me show you how you can do it.

09 Mar 2022

If you connect your printer to the PC via a USB port, you expect the printer to be detected by your system. It sometimes does not happen. Here is what to do if you are on Arch.

08 Nov 2021

If you have more than one user on you Linux machine, each user should be able to log in with the last selected session (XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, etc.). Sometimes the lightdm display manager loads the last session used by ANY of the users, which is not what we want.

27 Jun 2021

After a fresh installation of Arch Linux or other Arch-based distro you sometimes see a black screen (possibly with an error message). a small change in the lightdm config file might solve the problem.

08 Feb 2021