http://aymanh.com/archives/2006/01/27/firefox-and-middle-click-clipboard-url

So setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false keeps firefox from trying to load the current clipboard content.

As I frequently use the middle mouse button I was not happy (because it often misinterpreted a click for a wiggle-left). As a geek I thought: wiggling the mouse wheel to the left is even easier than clicking on it. I would no longer have to lift my finger off the left mouse button. The question was: How can I remap this 7th mouse button?

After some research I found it was very easy to remap the button.

First you have to correctly configure the mouse in your Xorg configuration file:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Logitech G5"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Gaming_Mouse-event-mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "invert"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "Resolution" "800"
EndSection

(My thanks go to chuck)

From there it took a bit more research to learn that I can use xmodmap  to easily remap the mouse buttons:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 7 3 4 5 6 2 8 9"

Remaps button 7 into the poistion of button 2 ( mouse- wheel-click). For more information visit the very good tutorial by HP.

Now I just had to put the “pointer = 1 7 3 4 5 6 2 8 9″ part into a file into my home directory (surprisingly called .Xmodmap) and let Fluxbox execute it at startup.

Now I just have to get used to other mice not worknig like that ;-)

I encoded it into a simple PHP function – maybe it is useful :-)

plz2bl.php

Somehow I never read nv’s (the free Xorg driver) man page – until today. And there it is, clear as crystal:

Option "Dualhead" "boolean"
    Enables simple VBE-based dual head mode.  This sets the same resolution on both outputs and lays them out
    side-by-side.   The screens will be panned together as one big metamode if the virtual desktop is larger than both
    screens combined.

So I just had to change my Xorg config from:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option        "TwinView"
EndSection

to

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver "nv"
    Option	"Dualhead"
EndSection

So simple!

Reflections on Trusting Trust

In this article Ken shows how easy it is to alter a compiler  to compromise all binaries created with it. Although 24 years old this article is a very interesting read.

I found a good tutorial on writing your own Xorg keyboard layouts:
Creating custom keyboard layouts for X11 using XKB

Using these instructions I created a us_de layout, that uses the us layout and bind alt + a/u/o/s to the german  umlauts ä/ü/ö/ß.

To install the file, just copy it to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ and edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or type setxkbmap -layout us_de -variant basic into a shell): us_de

I have a Lexmark Optra E+ parallel port printer and usually cups shows the parallel port as Device: on the second configuration screen. Only this time cups did not recognize the parallel port. lptest > /dev/lpt0 worked fine, just cups could not see the parallel port.

After about half an hour I finally found the solution:

# ls -l /dev/lpt0
crw——-  1 root  wheel    0,  57 Mar  4 20:00 /dev/lpt0

The rights on /dev/lpt0 were not set correctly. After changing them, everything worked fine:

# chmod 666 /dev/lpt0
# ls -l /dev/lpt0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  57 Mar  4 20:00 /dev/lpt0

Turns out all I had to do was to enable the ATAPI/CAM Driver: link

After some try and error (and a pointer in the right direction by Markus) I finally figured out how to tweak the system.mk to make ion3 compile.

I had to change the following things:

• install to $(HOME)/ion (you have to create this directory first)
• comment DL_LIBS=-ldl (as this lib seems to be part of the FreeBSD libc anyway)
• Set the path for lua 5.1
• uncomment DEFINES =+ -DCF_NO_LOCALE -DCF_NO_GETTEXT

Attached: system.mk