#1 2016-03-27 03:41:48

wrobat

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Registered: 2015-10-15

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Little known settings you can't live without

I thought I would share an interesting setting I just stumbled arcoss and thought others may want to do the same.

In grub2 you can go into the settings and have it remember the last entry used. I really enjoy this option for I have a few os's and usually have a flavor of the month.

/etc/default/grub

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Little known settings you can't live without

# /etc/sudoers
Defaults insults

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Para todos todo, para nosotros nada

Snap

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 465

Re: Little known settings you can't live without

@ wrobat. I used that a lot before becoming a Virtualbox addict. I had all my systems on bare metal those days. Now I'm back to the old one:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

@ HoaS. Love it! LOL.

hhh

Gaucho

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Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Little known settings you can't live without

I can live without these tweaks, but I like them.

I don't have any Bluetooth devices ATM. With my ThinkPad, disabling it happens via...

/sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/bluetooth_enable

Change 1 to 0.

Much more important than that are the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf settings for my touchpad, which does not support multitouch...

hhh@base:~$ grep "TouchPad: buttons:" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    25.320] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right
hhh@base:~$ 

As per the Debian Wiki, the following conf file WFM (disable synclient settings in autostart)...

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier      "Touchpad"                      # required
        MatchIsTouchpad "yes"                           # required
        Driver          "synaptics"                     # required
        Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.5"
        Option          "MaxSpeed"              "1.0"
        Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.075"
        Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
        Option          "TapButton2"            "3"     # multitouch
        Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "0"
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"
        Option          "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ"  "35"
        Option          "EmulateTwoFingerMinW"  "8"
EndSection

https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad#Multitouch

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fog

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2015-10-28

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Re: Little known settings you can't live without

sudo nano /etc/inputrc

Uncomment these lines:

# alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

I usually search through my bash history with page up/down by typing only the first few letters of some really big command lines i often use.

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gako

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Re: Little known settings you can't live without

I have patience issues with slow type

xset r rate 235 45 &

then I can jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk! like a mad man

also backlight shutting off annoys the hell out of me

xset s 1800
xset dpms 0 2400 3600

anything else, oh always set up for bitmap fonts to be enabled