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Thursday, April 04, 2024

KDE wifi keeps disconnecting intermittently

Recently installed MX Linux and KDE and my wifi keeps disconnecting for half a second then reconnecting. KDE doesnt tell me that but Facebook and Spotify keep saying I'm offline then right away back online. I checked dmesg and saw this :

wlan0: disconnect from AP 4a:bd:ce:15:85:33 for new auth to 4a:bd:ce:1c:85:34

wlan0: authenticate with 4a:bd:ce:1c:85:34

wlan0: disconnect from AP 4a:bd:ce:1c:85:34 for new auth to 4a:bd:ce:15:85:33

wlan0: authenticate with 4a:bd:ce:15:85:33

This happens over and over.

The fix for me was :

right click the systray wifi icon
go to configure network connections
click wifi tab at top
click drop down for BSSID and manually pick BSSID

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

XFCE panel increase length of window buttons

In the XFCE bottom bar I notice even when I have free space the window buttons do not expand in size which makes them hard to read. Here is how to make the window buttons in the taskbar bigger in XFCE

Create file

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

add this line

.tasklist { -XfceTasklist-max-button-length: 500; }

restart the panel with this command

xfce4-panel -r

After

Before

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Linux Mint IPv6 not working

All of a sudden my IPv6 wifi isn't connecting. I change the IPv6 to automatic, automatic dhcp, automatic address only, manual config setting default routes, etc - nothing helps. At least 1 hr just messing with the settings. Each time I disconnect wifi / disable re-enable networking and try again. No joy each time.

Finally the solution was old school trouble shooting. Completely delete the wifi connection and re-connect by selecting the wifi network and just typing in the password. After this is works fine.

$ping 2606:4700:4700::64
PING 2606:4700:4700::64(2606:4700:4700::64) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2606:4700:4700::64: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=152 ms
64 bytes from 2606:4700:4700::64: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=14.2 ms
64 bytes from 2606:4700:4700::64: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=15.9 ms

LibreWolf can't play some YouTube videos

Playing a YouTube video in LibreWolf didn't work and I get the console error

NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR --FFmpegDataDecoder : Couldn't open avcodec

It seems to get this to work you need to reboot after making the changes, I don't know why. Restarting the browser and even deleting the profile didn't help. Do not ignore this step.

Everything I tried didn't work, then I rebooted, and it worked.

I installed these packages, unsure exactly which 'did the trick'

gstreamer-plugins-ugly

mozilla-openh264

gstreamer-1.20-plugin-openh264

ffmpeg-4

vlc

gstreamer-plugins-libav

libvpx7

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Void Linux can't install vim

Booted into Void Linux XFCE live tonight and like it. But I notice vim is not installed so I tried this :

xbps-install vim

unfortunately this did not work and I got some error saying there was an issue with package xxd

This reddit thread recommended the follow command which solved the problem

xbps-install -S vim

Monday, March 04, 2024

LibreWolf does not open maximized

When LibreWolf opens it is not maximized and after it's open if I CTRL+N for a new window that is also not maximized. The solution is

1. Go to about:config

2. Search for privacy.resistFingerprinting

3. Change to false with double click

4. Restart LibreWolf

5. Maximize LibreWolf

6. Close / reopen

edit : Also learned way too late it's in settings. Search for fingerprint and uncheck ''Enable ResistFingerprinting"

How to make Vivaldi new page (blank) not be blinding white

My OS is in night mode and when I open a new window in Vivaldi it goes to 'blank page' which is very bright white. The work around for this is make a basic html file, then set Vivalid URL to the html file.

In Linux the file path is like this

file:///home/username/dark.html

This is the HTML code for the file

Sunday, March 03, 2024

Linux Mint play white noise

This plays a mix of brown noise and pink noise just below the normal system volume. Good for watching YouTube on headphones with some static to drown out background noise.

sudo apt-get install sox
play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix gain -5

Use case : sitting in the living room watching youtube videos via headphones while my gf watches a tv show with a lot of yelling.