Disabling Waking up Computer via Mouse

My Linux machine keeps on waking up someone moves the mouse. Or kicks the table. While it’ll go back to sleep eventually, I’d rather not have it awake unless I want to use it. Disabling mouse events to wake up your computer is surprisingly simple. The thing to know is /proc/acpi/wakeup: XHCx is the USB

Crosh and Web Fonts

Crosh, the Crostini shell, uses CSS to render the terminal. Gives you nice capabilities, but it’s also not compatible how normal Linux is configured. Zsh and in particular the PowerLevel10k theme uses Unicode characters quite a bit. So step 1 is using a font which works: Open the crosh terminal Control-Shift-P In the Text Font

Kubuntu 20.04 and Japanese Input

Enabling Japanese Input Method is always something which takes me more time that it should. Here the short version: Install ibus-mozc: apt install ibus-mozc Run im-config (it’s interactive) Log out and back in (all this is only active after re-login). For good measure re-start your X server (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace if enabled). You should now have the

Fixing DNS Resolver on Kubuntu

systemd is nice in principle, but it does not always improve things. E.g. why does it need a DNS resolver? Fix #1 This will get rid of the initial DNS name not resolvable error I see sometimes: Change /etc/nsswitch.conf and remove in the hosts line the “[NOTFOUND=return]” Fix #2 This removes the local DNS proxy/cache: