Migrating from LVM to BTRFS

This article is not exactly a tutorial, it’s the sharing of an experience that might help others. Follow this guide at your own risk. Document yourselves before doing anything. „Don’t write code you don’t understand” (Toth Arpad).

After using LVM for a long time, and performing all sorts of experiments with logical volumes on my laptop, to have flexibility and to be able to keep moving and reinstalling all sorts of Linux distros, I’ve decided to go for it and listen to the Open Source community and give BTRFS a run for it’s money.

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Plasma 5 and KF5 demo at UOS 2015

Two weeks ago was the release of the latest and greatest Kubuntu.

Kubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet brought to the market one very important and very significant change: It’s among the first distros to ship with Plasma 5 and the new KDE Frameworks 5.

In celebration of this, together with Aaron Honeycutt, Rick Timmis and of course Jonathan Riddell, I held a presentation of our new Kubuntu at the Ubuntu Online Summit 2015.

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HOW TO: Enable Cover Switch on KDE

The following is presented in KDE 4.10.3.

The default way of application switching on KDE, by using (Left) Alt + Tab, is Thumbnails. A classic representation of the thumbnails of all opened applications in a row. switch_thumbnails

To bring a piece of eye candy to this functionality, you could try to use the Cover Switch.

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Use an enum with custom values with QComboBox

Hello world.

Daily coding brings up new opportunities to search for and discover new ways to accomplish things. Perhaps not always the best solutions but, in time, we’re getting there. Today, life brought upon me a new challenge: simplify previously written code. Among other useful thing I will probably mention in future posts, one needed me to insert a enum with custom values in a QComboBox. I’ll jump right to it. Here’s my enum:

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