If you are writing a document referring to content in a hidden window below which you may wish to read and review then it will be necessary to move the top window out of the way. The traditional option is to move or minimise the active window to access the hidden window below. This can […]
Category: Linux
KDE Dolphin Single Click to Open Files and Folders
Change the setting between single and double click to open files and folders in KDE plasma desktop. The KDE desktop allows for either a double or single click to open a file or folder. Opening a folder with a single click is much like clicking on a link on a website. To choose whether a […]
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Creating a Video from Photos with PhotoFilmStrip
My aim was to create a video of holiday photos. The video should sequence through a series of photos. A transition between each photo, with an effect, such as Ken Burns, when viewing each. Some background music would be a bonus. After some searching I found the programme Photo Film Strip. The program is available […]
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Set a Maximum Age in .htaccess
For a hand coded HTML website adding expiry dates to each referenced file: CSS; js or image can be done as a part of the development. For a dynamic CMS website adding expiry dates to the included images on pages and posts is less easy and may become frustrating. I chose to seek an alternative […]
Thunderbird Setting up a Mail Account
Creating a new email account in the Thunderbird email client program. Before starting have the mail account details to hand. It is assumed that the mail account to be added has already been added on the mail server. It is also better to wait half an hour to an hour to ensure that the addition […]
/usr/bin/xauth: /home/neil/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored
Remotely logging into a Linux computer with SSH I was seeing an error which appeared to stem from the X windowing. The error shown was: /usr/bin/xauth: /home/neil/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored What does it mean, how to resolve and can it be ignored? For ease I had used the up/down keys to access […]
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Heart Internet Redirect to HTTPS
Once you have purchased your SSL certificate, steps are taken to to avoid duplicate content and a replacement of the page by its https version. Search engines don’t like duplicate content. Without the addition of a redirect to the https version of the page it will look like two pages having the same content. Tell […]
URL Change – Add Redirect to New Site
With a change of website URL to implement, the old domain was to be retained, with a 301 redirect added to the .htaccess file. Visitors would be redirected to the new URL. Once the new website was proven then the files and database on the existing domain space can be archived. Shown below is a […]
Automating Debian Updates with Unattended Upgrades
The gist of automating the update of a Debian operating system is to use the package unattended-upgrades. I added the package using apt install unattended–upgrades Having previously worked disabling unattended updates I once again reviewed the details within that article to see where I had turned off its actions. Based on these settings I could […]
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http://localhost/wordpress/about/ Not Found
Changing the permalink settings on a local development server I found that the page was not found when I chose the more usual Permalink setting based on Post Name. I was observing the error: Not Found The requested URL /wordpress/testimonials/ was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.33 (Debian) Server at localhost Port 80 The htaccess […]
