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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 …

Tips on Touchpad

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

  1. touchpad.ntwt together with the disable tap while typing checkbox make things not work use only 1 of them, I suggest you run touchpad.ntwt when needed, don't auto run it …

Copying Files in Linux

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

  1. Generally speaking, you do not want to follow symbolic links when copying files unless you are copying from one machine to another. If you do not want follow symbolic links, use …

Tips on FFmpeg

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

It is suggested that you use OpenCV for Python and moviepy (instead of FFmpeg) to manipulate multimedia.

  1. extrac audio from video

  2. convert between different formats of audios

Record Screen

The command …