I was inspired to use the bspwm Tiling Window Manager by @BrodieRobertson and @Luke.
Took me a while, but I got it correctly configured. I also wrote a script that will "assist" in installing and configuring bspwm on Linux Mint and Ubuntu. It even works on LiveBoot sessions, which I show in this video.
More information to come in later videos about how I got it set up and the script I am writing to automate the process.
Originally published using peertube at: [video.retroedge.tech/w/aY4DtHBm2q2qWHwwc3Y15e](https://video.retroedge.tech/w/aY4DtHBm2q2qWHwwc3Y15e)
A lot of people have legitimate issues with Youtube, such as being concerned that their channel might be banned if they talk about a topic that Youtube doesn't like.
In this video, I express what I believe to be the long term solution to this problem.
-- Matthew from [RetroEdge.Tech](https://retroedge.tech)
One of my goals has been to set up a graphical user interface, specifically a Tiling Window Manager, on Alpine Linux.
In this video I explain some of my reasoning for that and some of the configuration. I also demonstrate Alpine's package manager, apk, by installing SpaceFM; a file manager based on PCmanFM. Then, I set up a shortcut key for SpaceFM in the sxhkd configuration file, sxhkdrc.
https://retroedge.tech/
Install Cinnamon desktop environment on mxLinux.
sudo apt install cinnamon
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This is an inexpensive HP laptop. With a slow spinning hard disk drive and 4GB of memory, this laptop would be frustrating to use.
It can be upgraded... and it is worth doing. This videos shares my thoughts on that.
-- Matthew from [RetroEdge.Tech](https://retroedge.tech/)
Originally published with Peertube at: https://video.retroedge.tech/w/4H7gaWNHWFryoqWHSZMogZ
Doing another giveaway drawing of a corebootbook laptop. I use the Linux core utilities (programs that come with Linux) to help me do the drawing.
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Most people don’t use the Caps Lock key, except by mistake. Here’s how to make that key useful by remapping it to something else.
This guide is for the Cinnamon desktop environment. Screenshots were taken on Linux Mint, but this applies to Cinnamon installed on any Linux varient (Manjaro, Fedora, et cetera).
I’ve been using vim, a text editor with modes. To get out of the insert mode, you press the “esc” key. However, that key is far from the home row so it’s not easy to reach. The Caps Lock key is on the home row, just to the left of “a”.
Let’s make Caps Lock have the fuction of Esc and make that key useful again!
https://retroedge.tech/microblog/capslock-esc/