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Using Sox Play to Help Learn GuitarI mentioned last month that I'm learning guitar. It's been going welland I'm having fun. But I've gotten to the point where I sometimes getchords confused: a song is listed as using E major and I play D majorinstead.Also, it's important to practice transitions between chords,which is easy when you only know three chords; but with eight or so,I had stopped practicing transitions in general and was only practicingthe ones that occur in songs I like to play.I found myself wishing I had something like flash cards for guitar chords.Someone must have already written that, right? But I couldn't findanything promising with a web search. And besides, it's more fun towrite programs than to flail at unhelpful search engines, and youalways end up learning something new.Read more ...
Command-Line MetronomeI mentioned before that I'm taking beginner guitar lessons.Justin recommends using ametronome for some of the practicing, and that makes sense:I notice that sometimes when I practice I try to go too fast,which might or might not be good for learning the chord changesbut it also leads to more mistakes and worse chord quality.There are probably lots of phone metronome apps,but I'm usually practicing near my computer (where I watchthe lessons and where I keep all my notes on chords and rhythms forparticular songs), so I thought it would be nice to have a metronomeon Linux.Read more ...
Running Windows 10 under QEMU, Update: Debian Changed OVMFIn October I wrote about making aWindows 10 that Boots off a USB Stick,From Linux.A Debian update today or yesterday (Merry Christmas!) broke thatand I spent a few hours today chasing that down.There's a package called ovmf that puts BIOS/firmwarerelated filesin /usr/share/OVMF/. The command I used in the earlier articleincluded the flag -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fdbut as of today, -bios apparently doesn't work any morewith any of the files there.Read more ...
QEMU Windows Guest: Easy File Sharing with QEMU's built-in SMBLast year I wrote about my efforts tosharefiles in QEMU between a Linux host and Windows guest.Someone in the comments pointed me to WinFSP and WinSSHFS,and I was able to get file sharing working that way, afterinstalling both those packages on the Windows guest.But I recently found a much easier way, using QEMU's built-in SMB handler.Read more ...
Create a Windows 10 that Boots off a USB Stick, from LinuxIn 2019, I wrote about struggling to get any sort of Windows booting offan external USB stick, in order toInstall Lenovo Firmware Packaged as a .exe on a Linux Machine.I ended up needing to borrow a real Windows machine and install Rufuson it.In 2023, things are much better. Aki at atkdinosaurus has written aclear, concise tutorial on that topic:How to create a Windows 10 installation on a USB stick in UEFI mode.I love that it's all command-line, so you can duplicate the steps exactly.Read more ...
Opening a URL in a New Tab of an Existing Browser WindowMy search for a good desktop Mastodon client has led me down a paththat involved learning some fun ways to interact with existingbrowser windows on Linux with X programs likexdotool and wmctrl.Like many people, I've switched from The App Formerly Known As Twitterto Mastodon (where I'm@akkana@fosstodon.org).But the next question was which Mastodon app to use.Read more ...
Getting Linux System Notifications under OpenboxI've been a fan of Linux's lightweight window managers, particularlyOpenbox, for many years.But admittedly, there are some things they don't generally handle.One of those is system notifications.Mostly, I've been happy to go without notifications. Firefox isforever asking me whether I want to turn them on for particular websites(which wouldn't work, but Firefox doesn't know that), usually websitesI'm visiting for the first time and probably don't ever want to visit again,let alone let them spam me with ads as notifications outside my browser.But every now and then it would be handy.Read more ...
Triaging Videos Using VLC's Python BindingsA few days ago I wrote about finding a way totriagevideos by adding captions to mplayer. Better than nothing, but Ireally wanted something likepho orMetaPho where I couldadd the tags in the program itself, rather than keeping notes on apiece of paper.Turns out it wasn't that hard using VLC's Python bindings.Read more ...
A Fake File ManagerAfter learninghow to prevent RawTherapee from intercepting requests for a file manager,I'm happy not to have unwanted RawTherapee windows randomly popping upwhenever some program decides it wants to show me a directory.For instance, in Firefox's Download Manager, there's a little foldericon you can click on -- but it doesn't do anything useful if youdon't have a file manager installed.I suppose I could install a file manager; thunar is relatively lightweight.But it seems silly to have to install a whole GUI program I'll neverotherwise use just to find out where files were stored. Once I knowwhere to look, a terminal, with shell autocomplete, works fine fornavigating my directories, and is much faster and less RSI-inducingthan a mouse-based file manager.Which raises the question:can I make the system do something useful on directory requests,and just show me where the file was stored, or give me a terminalalready chdired to the right place? Sort of a fake file manager?It turned out to be fairly easy.Read more ...
Zoom Pops Up a Window for ... RawTherapee??I've been annoyed for some time by the way that Zoom, when it finishesprocessing a recording after a meeting, pops up a ... Raw Therapee window??RawTherapee is a program for handling RAW image files, the kind thatmany digital cameras can generate but that most image apps can't read.It's a fine program. But it's not a file manager, nor is it a video player.It makes absolutely no sense to pop it up to handle a video file.And it's very slow to start up, so I would leave a Zoom meeting, andthen half a minute later this weird window would pop up for noapparent reason.I've seen a few other programs, like wine, pop up these RawTherapee windows.I've been trying for many months to figure out whythis happens, and I've finally found the answer, and a fix.Read more ...
Unexpectedly, one of the hardest parts ofMigratinga VirtualBox Windows Virtual Machine to qemu/kvm/virt-managerwas finding a way to exchange files between Linux and Windows.In virtualbox, setting up a shared folder is trivial.In QEMU, not so much.Read more ...
Limiting Battery Charge on a Lenovo Carbon X1Ever since I got my Lenovo Carbon X1, I've wished there was some wayto limit the battery charge. I keep it plugged in to a USB hub and externalmonitor most of the time, which means that the battery is at 100% forweeks on end. That isn't particularly good for lithium ion batteries:it's better for battery life to stop charging at around 80%.Lots of laptops, including Dells and Apples, have a charge limit feature intheir BIOS, but I searched through the CX1's BIOS several times andnever found anything, so I'd resigned myself..But just this week I accidentally stumbled on a way to set this at runtime!Read more ...
Virt-Manager Beginner TipsA couple of small tips on QEMU/KVM/VirtManager that I picked up whilemigrating my Windows 10 virtual machine from VirtualBox, for useonce yougetvirt-manager running andmigrateyour VirtualBox VMs to virt-manager/QEMU:Read more ...
Migrating a VirtualBox Windows Virtual Machine to QEMU/KVM/virt-managerA month ago I wrote aboutGetting virt-manager Running on Debian.The ultimate goal of this was to migrate my Windows 10 install fromVirtualBox to QEMU, because VirtualBox is becoming increasinglydifficult to install on Linux, especially on Debian, which hasremoved VirtualBox from Bookworm (testing) and there are indications thatit might be removed from Sid (unstable) as well. I gather there'ssomething unsavory about the license now that Oracle owns it,but I haven't been following the details.Anyway, after getting virt-manager running, I'd been putting off therest of the migration out of a suspicion that there lay dragons.I was right: it took several days of struggling, but I now haveWindows 10 working under virt-manager and qemu/kvm. Here's how.Read more ...
Activate the Microphone on a Lenovo Carbon X1 Running DebianWhen I bought my Carbon X1 laptop a few years ago, the sound card wasnew and not yet well supported by Linux. (I knew that before I bought,and decided it was a good gamble that support would improve soon.)Early on, there was a long thread on Lenovo's forum discussing,in particular, how to get the microphone working. The key, apparently,was the SOF (Sound Open Firmware) support, which was standardin the 5.3 Linux kernelthat came with Ubuntu 10.10,but needed an elaboratescript to get working in earlier kernels.It worked fine on Ubuntu. But under Debian, the built-inmic didn't work.Read more ...
Getting virt-manager Running on DebianA conversation that happens every so often on a Linux chat channel:
newbie: Which is easier for virtualization, KVM/qemu or virtualbox?enthusiast: KVM/qemu is really easy if you use virt-manager.me: If you're running a full Gnome desktop, maybe. I've triedto use virt-manager several times, with virt-manager enthusiasts on thischannel helping, and never got it going.That happened again a few weeks ago, and one of the virt-managerenthusiasts on the channel wanted to help me track down the problems.Since I didn't have anything much going on, I agreed, and kept at itinstead of giving up after the first few iterations.It took about 45 minutes offiddling, installing more packages, web searching on the error messagesand discussing them on IRC, then fiddling some more,getting a little further with each package I installed.In the end, I did get virt-manager running.Here's the list of packages I had to install, as wellas adding myself to the groups kvm, libvirt and libvirt-qemu:apt install virt-manager libvirt-daemon qemu qemu-kvm libvirt0 libvirt-bin virt-manager bridge-utils libvirt-daemon-system qemu-system-x86 qemu-utils dnsmasq gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0Part of the problem, apparently, is that Debian's virt-managerpackage isn't set up to require on all the other packages it needs to run.They might be there in the "recommends" and "suggests", butI don't install those by default, sincethey tend to pull in all sorts of silly bloatware I'll never want.With most packages, the "depends" are all that's needed to use apackage in its basic form, and "recommends" and "suggests" are for optionalextra features.But if you install just virt-manager without at least someof the suggested and/or recommended packages, it won't run at all.I haven't run any real virtual machines yet under virt-manager, butI think it's working now.At least I'm to the point where I can boot from a Debian installerISO and see the initial screen.