About Linux
Zoom and XScreensaver do not get along well. When my screensaver would sometimes activate it would sometimes start Zoom and crash XScreensaver. I found this: https://www.gunnard.org/zoom-launches-as-screensaver-in-linux-solution/
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It’s just a few days away. Oct. 17th is the day. I’ll be running Lubuntu. That’s Ubuntu with a LXQt desktop. It’s super light-weight which is great for my MacBook Airs. They have 2GB of RAM, an I5 and a 64GB SSD. So Lubuntu is a good choice. I have installed the beta in a
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) does not have a package for MySQL Workbench. It was difficult to build from source. I don’t even remember what I did. But once I built it, I saved the source tree in a zipfile. Then in the build directory, wb-build, I copied the Makefile to Makefile.install. I removed any dependencies
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I got a little desktop editor written in java called lxmed (lx menu editor) https://lxmed.sourceforge.net/. It used gksu to call the .jar file. So I set out to find gksu (I have built it before). To make a very, long, story short, I found a ppa with gksu because everyone has deprecated and removed it
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