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A quick and dirty write up how I configured a Tap-Click under Debian Stretch, Buster and Bullseye on a Libreboot T400.
Configuration¶
Tap to Click¶
I learned that with the upgrade to Debian Stretch Debian switched from synclient to libinput; This is how I configured Tap to click following this how-to of the ArchWiki:
install xinput
Stretch¶
Then at a terminal list input devices:
xinput list
My touchpad is id=11. List device properties:
xinput list-props 11
libinput Tapping is property 295, set to 1 to enable:
xinput set-prop 11 295 1
Buster¶
With Buster it did not work immediately because IDs changed: At a terminal list input devices:
xinput list
My touchpad is still id=11. List device properties:
xinput list-props 11
libinput Tapping is property 305 under Buster, set to 1 to enable:
xinput set-prop 11 305 1
Bullseye¶
With Bullseye it did not work immediately because IDs changed again: At a terminal list input devices:
xinput list
My touchpad is still id=11. List device properties:
xinput list-props 11
libinput Tapping is property 334 under Bullseye, set to 1 to enable:
xinput set-prop 11 334 1
Make it permanent¶
To autoload this change at every login I use a “xinput.desktop” file in ~/.config/autostart/
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=xinput set-prop 11 334 1
Hidden=false
X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[de_AT]=xinput_tap_click
Name=xinput_tap_click
Comment[de_AT]=activate Tap Click
Comment=activate Tap Click
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Install the cl-quicklisp package. At a shell-prompt execute ‘sbcl’. Then:
(load "/usr/share/cl-quicklisp/quicklisp.lisp")
(quicklisp-quickstart:install)
So far so good. I know I am behind with the content on this blog and some instruction for Debian Buster (current stable) are due.
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his blog “Whatever” author John Scalzi wrote a blogpost every day of September tackling different topics covering the span of 20 years. This quote is from day 21 New York:
“[…] New York still feels like a special, different, place to me. Magical? I don’t know about magical. Too much vague urine smell for magical. But as they say, there’s no place like it.”
— John Scalzi 1998/201k Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-One New York
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Spring…
turns into endless summer…
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Introduction¶
If you need wifi and a static IP I can recommend this approach from the debian wiki using wpa_supplicant.
If you need a more dynamic approach but still want or have to use the command line, there is a command line tool for network manager called nmcli. It is not very intuitive. I also had the problem that my Laptop has an internal wifi card and I had to configure a connection for an additional wifi usb dongle. Below the next headline are some useful commands I used to add a new connection and bring it up.
While writing this post I discovered some additional useful links I put at the end of this post.
Short summary of useful nmcli commands.¶
List status of available network interfaces:
nmcli device status
List wifi access-points:
nmcli device wifi list
Add a new connection named “foobar-home” for the network interface with the ifname wlx2824ff1a0227 and the ssid “foo”:
nmcli con add con-name foobar-home ifname wlx2824ff1a0227 type wifi ssid foo
Now we have to modify foobar-home to use wpa-psk:
nmcli con modify foobar-home wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk
Then we set the password “barbaz”:
nmcli con modify foobar-home wifi-sec.psk barbaz
Finally we bring the connection up: nmcli con up foobar-home
Interesting links I discovered while writing this post¶
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his blog “Whatever” author John Scalzi wrote a blogpost every day of September tackling different topics covering the span of 20 years. This quote is from day 19 Hobbies:
“For example, I wouldn’t call “reading” a hobby of mine, because it’s always just been part of my daily life. I read like I breathe. Breathing is not a hobby, it’s an essential. Same with reading.”
— John Scalzi 1998/2000 Whatever 20/20, Day Nineteen Hobbies
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Links worth sharing I found or compiled in July:
Artwork¶
Manolo Gamboa Naon via Jocelyn K. Gleis newsletter
Image under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Image under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Source of images: https://www.behance.net/gallery/67104507/mmrrr
Links¶
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Trash is for tossers, Lauren Singer blogging about her zero waste life. Lots of useful advice to reduce your personal trash and live a better life.
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Local thirty, Blogger Andrea Bemis is going to eat only food from a 200 mile radius of where she lives for 30 days.
My public feeds:¶
- My public tt-rss feed, where I publish selected pieces of various RSS-Feeds I am following.
- My public Shaarli feed, where I publish my online bookmarks.
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Hmm, that one caught me off-guard. Only read recently about it via fsf newsletter:
I don’t like this bullshit at all!
Additional links:
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control
- https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/censorship-machines/
- https://saveyourinternet.eu/
Open letter (fsfe):
Press release European Parliament:
If you speak german, read this interview with Julia Reda:
UPDATE JULY:
1st win¶
one additional important link:
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Recently I have made some slight changes to the elegant theme to add a scrollable list of my posts after the recent posts and all posts listing. It is just a dirty hack and results in a very ugly layout. One can easily notice that the main headlines are much smaller than less important ones. I am going to improve these issues in the next couple of weeks. Still I am quite baffled that I was able to make this hack happen with my almost non existent knowledge of pelican internals, themes and jinja-templates.
Screenshot to document the current state:
I am going to post a how-to once my solution is more polished. Feel free to contact me if you need details now.
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In 2017 I bought a TPE-N150USB wifi adapter from ThinkPenguin because I wanted libre driver and libre firmware. I have already written a short how-to to make it work under Debian Jessie (Debian 8).
Recently I tried to use the wifi adapter with NextThing Chip (armhf board) and failed hard. Then I tried my Libreboot T400 running Debian Stretch and also failed! This was rather unexpected. I lost a couple of hours because I thought the problem is a software not a firmware/kernel issue.
So far I have one working solution:
Install the files from the debian firmware-ath9k-htc package currently available for sid and buster (testing).
It worked great with my Laptop without further issues. It did also work with NextThing Chip but I had to use the hack from the ThinkPenguin page (wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=0) to make a succesful connection.
- Interesting links:
Further investigation and additional tests are necessary. I am also going to contact ThinkPenguin about this issue.
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