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Edit file /etc/issue. My (colorful) contents

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Post-login message resides in /etc/motd file.

Remove the ^[c sequence from /etc/issue - this sequence clears the screen. More information here.

See this page.

Check the configuration file /usr/share/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps (or /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps)

On my keyboard, there is no convenient insert key. I decided to override print screen (which I don't use at all). In file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc I commented out original lines (within xkb_symbols “editing” section)

key <PRSC> {
  type= "PC_SYSRQ",
  symbols[Group1]= [ Print, Sys_Req ]
}

and and replaced by

 key <PRSC> {	[  Insert, Print	]	};

and it worked

To support MIDI playback for KDE, I used Timidity (Arch How To).

There is encTeX extension which can provide input and output (re)coding. To create a format that uses encTeX open /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf and add lines like

enctex          tex	  -         -enc      tex.ini
encpdftex       pdftex  -	    -enc      *pdfetex.ini

this will result in a plainTeX format but with encTeX extension enabled. To generate the format do

fmtutil-sys --all

To use the format, run TeX by

tex -fmt=enctex your_file.tex

or

pdftex -fmt=encpdftex your_file.tex

The input and output encoding can be specified in your tex file

\input utf8-t1.tex

In this example, it converts utf8 input to T1 (font) encoding. The other files may be found in /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/enctex/

For Czech fonts, it is more appropriate to use CSF encoding by

 \input utf8-csf.tex

http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm

This helped: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2.

This helped: http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html. To edit your user cron table, do

export VISUAL=vim  # gvim doesn't work for some reason
crontab -e

An example record (to generate Garmin map from OSM every Friday, 2:00am)

00 2 * * fri $HOME/fun/gps/bin/makeGenevaSurroundings >> cronLog 2>&1

File lists can be obtained (B stands for the memory card, note the asterisk)

gnokii --getfilelist "B:\\Images\\*"

Then, files (camera pictures in this example) can be downloaded by

function Download()
{
	echo "$1"
	gnokii --getfile "B:\\Images\\$1" "$1" &> /dev/null
}

Ring tones can be found in B:/Extra/predeftones/predefringtones/. To upload a file (ring tone in this example)

gnokii --putfile hagfis.mp3 B:/Extra/predeftones/predefringtones/hagfis.mp3