I’ve finally decided to pull my PinePhone Braveheart edition out of it’s box and plug it in. There’s a task for it; acting as an LTE hotspot through a USB tether for the network. That’ll plug into a tiny Atom based SFF computer running OpenWRT… but that’s a write-up for another day. On with fixing…
Tag: Linux
Running Arbitrary Script on Multiple Login Attempts (Linux)
It so happens that someone was having trouble writing a login script to run after failed attempts. And they needed not only a login script but one to run after some number of failed login attempts and to commit some arbitrary actions. You could do that with fail2ban, sure. But in this case there’s already…
Disable Middle Click to Close in XFCE4-Terminal
If you’ve used XFCE4 Terminal as a terminal emulator on the desktop you may have noticed an odd behavior. Every so often a tab will inexplicably close while you’re using it or floating the mouse pointer by it on the desktop. As it turns out this is a middle mouse button click to close. In…
Fixing WebCollage Screensaver Headers.pm “Use of uninitialized value $vals” error
Tired of getting errors scrolling down the screen in the WebCollage Linux screensaver? So was I. WebCollage (here’s the link to the .deb on Ubuntu), for a bit of background, is a nice Xorg screensaver for Linux that displays a random collage of images fetched from various search systems on the Internet and popped up…