Month: April 2018
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New bits for “old” computers [12]
The Win10PC has got itself a bluetooth keyboard now as well as the wireless mouse it already had. The Logitech K380 bluetooth keyboard works quite well and is nice and compact, it can be used with up to three devices and has a battery life up to 24 months. I had an existing Promate bluetooth…
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New bits for “old” computers [11]
After looking yet again (as I must have already done hundreds of times) at where I could put a fourth keyboard on the desk, I cut up a spare piece of melamine shelf and then screwed it to the desk top on the left hand side and that is where the Win10PC’s keyboard and mouse…
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New bits for “old” computers [10]
As I detailed recently I have changed my desk layout to allow four keyboards to be used easily and have also changed the screen layout to suit. I had four wireless keyboards to make this happen. Unfortunately the MS multimedia keyboard I use with the win10pc has gone wonky and having go slows and keys…
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KDE vs XFCE [2]
So I have been testing some VMs to see how things compare with different GUIs running on Linux. First tryout has been KDE running on Kubuntu. So far so good. The right click issue hasn’t gone away but drag and drop looks good. Second tryout was LXQT with Kwin running on Debian. This isn’t a…
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KDE vs XFCE
Whilst I have been generally happy with both Xubuntu and Debian with XFCE as the GUI, there have been a number of issues running programs under XFCE that have caused me to doubt its capabilities. Mostly these surface with Qgis because of the nature and extensive use of the software and are in three two areas:…