From the monthly archives: February 2015

Installing a certificate in Linux/Firefox using a smart card reader

By On 19 February 2015 · Leave a Comment

You will need the following installed and started:

libccid opensc pcsc-tools – can do without this but it has nice troubleshooting tools in case you get stuck pcscd – this is a daemon, make sure your distro enables it after installation. It must be running in order for the libccid to be able to communicate […]

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How to edit the XFCE “Start” menu

By On 18 February 2015 · Leave a Comment

Find the files in ~/.local/share/applications
OR
Download and install lxmed. However lxmed was not designed originally for the XFCE menu and so it does not see some of the menu entries and generally speaking does not always work.

… and why the otherwise awesome XFCE has no standard menu editor out of the […]

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grub2 make Windows the default boot option

By On 8 February 2015 · Leave a Comment

1. Examine /boot/grub/grub.cfg to find out the boot order of your multiboot system or just remember the order of your boot options as they appear during boot.l Count which one is windows (counting is 0-based, i.e. the default boot option is 0, next one is 1, etc).

2. Edit /etc/default/grub. You need to be logged […]

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