Category Archives: Linux
EspoTek Labrador USB board on Raspberry Pi 4
EspoTek’s Labrador is an excellent single board, all-in-one USB oscilloscope / signal generator / power supply / logic analyzer / multimeter with a cross-platform Qt5-based GUI frontend. It is especially useful for use with Raspberry Pi-series computers. It works out … Continue reading
Lain widgets
Some time ago I made two additional widgets for the Lain widget library used by the Awesome window manager. You could place them in ~/.config/awesome/lain/widget/, or somewhere else in your lua search path. ryzen.lua [Download] The original temp.lua widget seemed … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi 4 bluetooth madness, part 2
Well, that obsoleted quickly! I mean the alarm-bluetooth-raspberrypi package. There’s finally a more or less native support for bluetooth in Arch ARM kernel and libraries, so there’s no need for external packages or weird configurations any more. Here’s how to … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi 4 bluetooth madness
There seems to be a lot of problems in getting a working bluetooth system on Raspberry Pi’s with Arch Linux, and the solutions are as numerous as the problems. When I originally installed Arch on my RPi4, I was able … Continue reading
Useful snippets #3: dual wallpapers on Awesome window manager
The main configuration file of Awesome wm is ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua. The default function in rc.lua on multihead systems is to install the same, maximized, theme.lua-defined wallpaper to all screens. That is all well, if a) you really want the same wallpaper … Continue reading
