Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Tips on VNC

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. it seems that VNC is very unsecure, the password can be at most 8 characters. My Ubuntu has been hacked into by vnc multiple times. Fortunately, I'm using Linux system. Avoid …

Fcitx Tips

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

fcitx

  1. Add Pinyin method: add -> type in pinyin, type in chinese doesn't help

IBus

  1. I suggest you use CTRL + SPACE as the switching hotkey, because it's the default hotkey for most …

The Tiny antiX Linux Distribution

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. I forget whether antiX image is hybrid or not. Try and find this out.

  2. The command line installer of antiX is not intuitive (not as good as command line installer of …

The Xfce Desktop Environment for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. broken symbolic .bashrc stops Xfce from login to GUI I guess this is a common problem

Shortcuts

  1. Set a shorcut for Xfce App Finder which is frequently used.

  2. Set a shortcut …

Manage Autostart Applications

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Autostart *.desktop configuration files are located in directories /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart/ . By default, autostart applications in /etc/xdg/autostart are not shown to users in …