If I want to take a screenshot on Lubuntu, I can simply press PrtSc on my keyboard and have the file available in my home folder. What I discovered recently is that there's a shortcut to take a screenshot of only the window: Alt + PrtSc . Sadly…

I noticed that when I open DeaDBeeF to play some music, some of the tracks that contain Japanese characters were not rendering properly. This concerned me a bit, so I looked up a way to fix it. Turns out a simple font package fixed it: sudo apt-get…

As I'm getting Lubuntu back to how it was before, I noticed that my volume keyboard shortcuts don't work. The Fn keys definitely do their job, but for toggling mute and adjusting the volume level, nothing happens. I try to remember what I did to fix…

Today I get a notification from Lubuntu informing me that an upgrade is available to 15.10, or Wily Werewolf. I was mildly interested and thought why not, and started the installation. Along the way, somehow I had butchered the upgrade process. Let's…

Dual-booting Lubuntu with Windows nowadays is really easy. The later versions no longer need to worry about Secure Boot or UEFI to be installed, which made installation on my Thinkpad Yoga a breeze. I used Lubuntu 16.04 LTS on my setup. One thing…