Adding games to Debian Xfce menu
Yesterday, I wrote briefly that I am now using snaps, this works really well, but does not add items to the Debian XFCE menu automatically.
To solve this I have installed menulibre, which helps users edit the menu.
apt install menulibre
So adding items to this is fairly straight forward.
- Load up the menulibre program.
menu —> accessories —> Menu Editor
Once loaded you will be presented with:-
The + in the corner allows users to add a new entry.
Click on the appropriate place in the menu to add your program to where you want it. You can also move items around with the up / down arrows at the bottom, don't forget to save (see later) what you have changed.
You can then enter the details of the program. To save there is an icon to the right of the + Depicting an arrow pointing towards a disk drive. Click this to save.
You can then test to make sure your entry works.
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Debian 10 – Gaming
So following on from yesterdays post. I decided to see if I could get some more games working.
The OpenRA allows you to play the WestWood studios Command and Conquer games. However this failed to load on my previous install. So I decided to take a different approach.
Snaps are a new way to package games, so I decided to see if this approach would work with C&C on Debian, so after some reading and experimentation. I can now play: C&C Tiberian Sun and C&C Red Alert.
The above games have been made with the original code released by Westwood, where as OpenRA is an open source version.
As with anything, you need to read, experiment and research in order to get things working.
Tiberian Sun, once loaded it runs full screen.
Installation Screens
Game menu
In game, as you can see this does run windowed, so makes screenshots possible.
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Fresh Debian install
I spent some time, last night, re-installing Debian 10.x. I am now running a nice clean 10.5 desktop system.
As expected, this is a very simple process. After install I spent time restoring data, installing a few programs, I am likely to use more often.
Also nice to have lots of disk space left:-
df -h /home
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 143G 32G 105G 23% /
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ARDUINO SCIENCE JOURNAL
This looks great, really useful to be able to easily record results from science experiments.
A pocket-sized science lab that encourages students to explore how the world works, record data, document observations, and experiment like a real scientist.
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Debian Academy Update 21/9/2020
So a quick update. I am currently working on a Moodle course to help teach how to edit and create presentations in LaTeX / Beamer. We can use this as part of the Debian Academy project. Still work in progress. But hopefully this course will help others.
Please see the Wiki page for details.
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Exeter v Northampton
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Sunday 20th September @ home to Northampton kick off 17:30 : Heineken Champions Cup QTR Final.
Live coverage here
Scores
Exeter 38 Northampton 15 Full time
Exeter 14 Northampton 10 (½ time)
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Software Freedom Day 2020
Today, is Software Freedom Day an annual celebration of all things to do with software freedom.
The FOUR FREEDOMS
- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
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Debian Academy update
As posted about on the 14th September I am involved in the DebianAcademy.
In addition making various related presentations in LaTeX / Beamer. I am currently working on a Moodle course how to do this.
So the LaTeX template, is being used as part of the course, and it can also be used as a basis for other presentations.
So far this is work in progress.
In other news I have submitted an article to the Torbay Weekly to promote the DebianAcademy and reach out to a few more potential contributors.
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Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
This was posted on September 14th. Interesting discovery and worth looking in to what has produced this Phosphine $PH_3$
I have added a topic on Discourse to discuss further.
I will also make further updates to this post as I am linking to Wikipedia at the moment.
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