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Polono PL60 Label Printer on Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Cats: command line, label printer, linux, linux mint

By PJ on July 21, 2023


Very smooth setup. Plug in usb and power. Kernel recognized the usb device but no drivers were present. Head over to https://www.polono.com/pages/driver-user-manual Then grab the linux drivers for the PL60. If it doesn’t work, you can grab my local backup … Continued

Ubuntu/Linux Mint – Brother QL-800 Label Printer

Cats: command line, label printer, linux, linux mint, printers

By PJ on June 2, 2021


Holy, this took a while. First thing first, leave the USB off. When you first plug in the power, if the “Editor Lite” light is on, then hold the button until it turns off. Editor Lite causes it to mount … Continued

Ubuntu/Linux Mint and DYMO LabelWriter 4XL Drivers

Cats: command line, label printer, linux, linux mint, printers

By PJ on October 1, 2020


Bit of a headache. Apparently DYMO stopped supporting the drivers because the repo version (and even their downloadable version) do not work. Luckily there are some fine souls updating a fork of the repo. At the time of writing, it … Continued

Script to Set Window Opacity in Linux Mint/Cinnamon

Cats: bash, command line, linux mint

By PJ on October 28, 2019


Simple Usage: So, for example: Here’s the set-opacity.sh script: Modified from a script found in here: https://github.com/smurphos/nemo_actions_and_cinnamon_scripts

Simple Pomodoro Timer Bash Script

Cats: bash, command line, keyboard shortcuts, linux, linux mint, pomodoro

By PJ on September 7, 2018


This is a simple timer script, implementing the pomodoro technique for time management. There are tons out there already but I didn’t like how they auto- started breaks. And most lacked shortcut abilities, so that was a dealbreaker. The script … Continued

Spotify Single Instance (Linux App Alternative)

Cats: keyboard shortcuts, linux, linux mint, spotify

By PJ on August 29, 2018


The Spotify app for Linux seems to trigger a cascading failure with Cinnamon on my machine, where it balloons up sucking up all my ram and cpu power. Great! So let’s switch it to a single instance app using Chromium.

Linux Mint Beep on Command Line

Cats: command line, linux mint

By PJ on June 12, 2018


Since it seems the beep command is blacklisted in Linux Mint (or rather not loaded by default into the kernel) and it’s ugly af, we can make a better beep.

Appending to the Bash Title in a Gnome Terminal Window in Linux Mint 18

Cats: bash, command line, keyboard shortcuts, linux, linux mint

By PJ on November 3, 2016


For some reason, they took away the ability to change the title of bash within a gnome-terminal window in the new Linux Mint 18 Sarah. I needed it to identify certain windows. Add this bit to your .bashrc to get … Continued

Getting notify-send to Work in Cron-Jobs and Over SSH on Linux Mint 17/18 Cinnamon

Cats: bash, command line, linux, linux mint, Uncategorized

By PJ on November 1, 2016


Add this little bit of code to your script:

Asus Zenbook HiDPI Support on Linux Mint 18

Cats: asus zenbook, linux, linux mint

By PJ on September 20, 2016


This works great on the Asus Zenbook! I have a Surface Pro 2 which has a relatively dense, 10-inch 1080p screen. It hurts my eyes to look at individual UI elements and text without dpi scaling. On Windows, everything is … Continued

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