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Tobias I wanted to use the widget layout of a custom card picker settings preference to show the selected cards, but it was quite difficult to do so. First, the layout file has to be created. My file just contains an image view, which I want to update according to the chosen settings. It has to … Read more
I want to describe how i added a toolbar to a settings activity. First approach: Add a new Style My app used navigation drawer activities, which add a custom toolbar to the activity in the layout.xml. The settings activity doesn’t have a layout file by default. A look in the res/values/styles.xml file showed that the … Read more
The WLAN module of the Medion Akoya E1318T has under Linux some problems, also with a recent kernel. The WLAN works, but the connection speed drops very fast to zero. This problem can be solved with a little configuration file. Create under this folder: /etc/modprobe.d/ with root privileges this file: rtl8723be.conf and insert this content … Read more
This is going to be an extensive guide to install Nextcloud and WordPress with the latest software on a Raspberry Pi. I used /var/www/ as root directory for the server and WordPress. Nextcloud will be installed in a sub folder. INFORMATION: I did my best to exclude errors and to make it secure. But i … Read more
The nice Linux Mint boot logo disappeard after the installation of the proprietary Nvida driver and got replaced by a lot of “£” characters. But it is really simple to get the boot logo back. You have to edit the grub settings, which start Linux Mint. Type the following code in the terminal: sudo nano … Read more
I have searched for a suitable laptop for the university which is cheap, not too big and has good performance. On the Internet, I finally found the Acer Travelmate B-116-M, which is sold without Windows for about 300 €. Data: Intel Pentium processor with 4 cores and 1.6 GHz 4GB DDR3 RAM 500GB hard drive … Read more
Just a little list about free readable Linux magazines, which i found 🙂 Notice half of them are German. Completely free: Freies Magazin (German, discontinued) Full Circle Magazine (English) PCLinuxOS Magazine (English) Linux Voice Creative commons issues (English, discontinued) Will be published as a free community edition with some articles: Linux User Community Edition (German) … Read more