May 17, 2010
I recently deleted my Facebook profile. I think I updated my status twice in three years, and made little or no effort to solicit friends, but I did read the front page, and sent an occasional message. The overt service was moderately neat, and I liked being able to see what others where doing, if [...]
May 13, 2010
Well, something in the behaviour of X changed again after an update, and now in response to the previous code, xinput set-int-prop ‘”Logitech USB Trackball”‘ ‘Evdev Wheel Emulation Button’ 8 8, I get this error: unable to find device “Logitech USB Trackball”. So I go a-hunting in man xinput and find that, if the name [...]
February 11, 2010
As near as I can tell, some update or tweak in the way X works has invalidated the configuration of my mouse via hal. This is definitely getting tiring. I have had to work around it by putting this in my .xinitrc: xinput set-int-prop ‘”Logitech USB Trackball”‘ ‘Evdev Wheel Emulation Button’ 8 8 xinput set-int-prop [...]