TV-out - NVIDIA

# sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "video card"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# binary 'nvidia' driver must be used
Driver "nvidia"
# force display(s) detection; useful for KVMs
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
# TV-out mandatory settings
Option "TwinView"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
# MetaModes: "CRT,TV @virtual; CRT,TV; ..."
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1024x768 @1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 640x480,NULL"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
# TV-out other/optional settings
#Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
#Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
#Option "TVOverScan" "1.0" # decimal range 0.0 to 1.0
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Icons - KDE

- get icons from kde-look.org

- put them in

* for a single user

~/.icons/new_icons_dir/

* for a global system setting

/usr/share/icons/new_icons_dir/

- select new icons

KDE Control Center: Appearance & Themes->Icons->Theme

Mouse cursors

- get mouse cursors from kde-look.org

- put them in

* for a single user

~/.icons/new_cursors_dir/cursors

* for a global system setting

/usr/share/icons/new_cursors_dir/cursors

- select the new theme

KDE Control Center: Peripherals->Mouse->Mouse Theme

- sync X cursor (visible on X login screen, in Firefox, etc.) with KDE's

# cd ~/.icons
# mkdir default
# vi default/index.theme

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=new_theme


Swap like RAID 0

# sudo vi /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0

- if partitions are on different drives and maybe separate controllers, read and write throughput should theoretically nearly double

Firefox extensions

Adblock

All-in-One Gestures

All-In-One Sidebar

BugMeNot

Compact Menu

Extended Statusbar

Fasterfox

Image Zoom

Linkification

MR Tech Local Install

Organize Status Bar

Popup Count

RefControl

Resize Search Box

Search Button

SmoothWheel

Super DragAndGo

Tab Mix Plus

User Agent Switcher

xyzproxy

Monitor power management

# sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
Option "OffTime" "10"

- takes effect as soon as X login screen is up and in misc window managers which don't have power management settings

KVM switch - mouse problems fix

- press CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch away from X, then log in

# sudo rmmod psmouse
# sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps # or 'proto=bare' (disables mouse wheel)

- permanent fix on boot

# sudo vi /etc/modules

psmouse proto=imps

- alternatively

# sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/options

options psmouse proto=imps

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- alternatively pass psmouse.proto=imps to kernel in LILO or GRUB