From Chakra to Manjaro

From Chakra to Manjaro

I’ve recently moved from Chakra Linux to Manjaro Linux. Here I’m not going to explain why Manjaro and all the Arch-based distro are so fantastic, but I only want to point out why for me Manjaro it’s a better choice than Chakra.

Redshift Plasmoid 1.0 Released

Redshift plasmoid 1.0 released

In this release the code has been cleaned and commented with doxygen style comments, the files hierarchy has been changed to make everything more clear, the README has been updated and ported to markdown syntax. Because of all this changes the code is now supposed to be easily maintainable.

Minix Neo X7 DIY VESA Mount

Minix Neo X7 DIY VESA mount

In this post I’m going to show you how to build a TV VESA mount 200 x 200 for the Minix Neo X7 for few euros. The mount is used to hang the Neo X7 and possibly a 2.5" hard drive behind the TV in order to hide them. Notice that this solution won’t allow to use the Neo X7 remote anymore, because there …

Minix Neo X7: Make Smart Your Dumb TV

Minix Neo X7: Make smart your Dumb TV

I recently bought a Samsung Smart TV but as I expected it is not smart at all, but I consider it pretty dumb. Actually is not the TV that is stupid, but the the real stupids are the Samsung developers and managers.. but this is another point I may analyze in depth in another post. So to add some grey matter to my TV I …

Persistent Okular Review Tools

Persistent Okular review tools

As we all know, Okular is a great piece of software. One of the feature I most like in Okular is the review tools, a system that allows to make any kind of annotation in the document. When I’ve begun using it, I noticed that after selecting a tool and using it once I needed to reselect it for every next …