by Zaptoid | Jan 9, 2018 | Arb, HowTo, Technologhy
What is a Keyboard Shortcut?
In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a set of one or more keys that invoke a command in software or an operating system.
They are typically an alternate means for invoking commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a mouse, or an aspect of the user interface. These shortcuts can expedite common operations by reducing input sequences to a few keystrokes.
These shortcuts can provide an easier and quicker method of using computer programs. These commands are commonly accessed by using the [Alt] key (on PC computers), [command key] (on Apple computers), [Ctrl], and [Shift] in conjunction with a single letter.
These shortcuts are for the following programs and applications.
- Word
- Windows
- Internet Explorer
- File Explorer
- Windows System Commands
- Firefox
- Excel
- Mac
- Finder
- Chrome
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by Zaptoid | May 5, 2017 | HowTo
There’s good news and bad news:
Bad News:
You expected to struggle with this. You expected that this will be as tricky as it used to be. Rotten luck, chum.
Good news:
Create a file called called:
60-plugable.conf
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by Zaptoid | Apr 11, 2017 | HowTo
Sometimes you want stuff to run at startup, be it an application or a forced setting. This is fairly easy to achieve in Rasbpian, here’s how:
You can use the Raspbian preferences via the GUI to cause the pi user to be auto logged in at boot up and the GUI to automatically run. However, if you need to run with root privileges due to needing IO pin control (PLEASE NOTE: It is not advised to run as root) then set the Raspbian preferences to boot to the command line. Now open this file by editing it(you can use your favourite editor, for this example we use nano):
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Before the “exit 0” line in it add the following line:
#Auto run the GUI as root
sudo startx
Save it by pressing Ctrl+X, ” Y“, ENTER
Reboot your RPi and it should automatically run the GUI as the root user.
Setting An Application To Automatically Run In The GUI (more…)
by Zaptoid | Apr 11, 2017 | HowTo
Does that annoying screensaver keep popping up? Is the screen going blank another thorn in your side? No problem:
First you have to edit the autostart file
For the standard Pi user:
sudo nano /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
For the root Pi user (if running the GUI with “sudo startx” for instance when running apps that access the IO pins):
sudo nano /root/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
Unfortunately in recent updates, the above has changed in that really annoying way that happens all to often with Linux versions, but seems to be the current file that needs to be edited. It used to be these but they no longer seem to work with the latest version of Raspbian:
sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
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by Zaptoid | Apr 13, 2016 | Arb
Here are some tips that makes troubleshooting easy:
1) Check the event log
2) Google it
3) Reboot
4) Run IISreset
5) Empty the Recycle Bin
6) Hit [CTRL]+[BREAK]
7) Kill the ASPNET worker process
8) Clear Temporary Internet Files
9) Touch the config file
10) Degauss the monitor (Not that applicable any more, I suppose)
11) Simmer ground rhino horn on a bed of whale pancreas
12) "get latest" and rebuild
13) Login as admin
14) Run ipconfig /renew (Windows)
15) Check if CAPSLOCK is on.
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