Federico Fuga

Engineering, Tech, Informatics & science

Is your audio continuously switching from Headphone to speakers?

30 Oct 2023 11:55 CET
If your audio card is continuously switching the output from headphones to speakers, making it impossible to use the sound, well, you are stumpled in a 9 years old bug that’s still unfixed despite the solution is as simple as editing two lines of a text file. This happens at least on my mint desktop, that is a 12 years old Intel i7 3rd generation, with linux mint 21.1 cinnamon. Continue reading

How to switch "\" with "<" keys in linux

28 Nov 2020 10:16 UTC
When using the Apple Magic Keyboard with linux and certain keyboard layout, some key may be exchanged with some other key. In my case, I have an Italian Magic Keyboard and a Ubuntu 20.10 running on VmWare Fusion and the “" and “<” keys are switched. The fix is pretty easy, but not easy to find on the net. This is the recipe: you need to force xmodmap to exchange the two keystrokes. Continue reading
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