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Android 14

Here’s a guide how to install your Pebble Smartwatch on Android 14

Extract Android platform-tools

Install an App not targeted for Android 14 in a PowerShell Terminal
.\adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block NAME.apk

Grant Permission for secure system settings, e.g. Keepass2Android Keyboard-Switch-Plugin
.\adb shell
pm grant keepass2android.plugin.keyboardswap2 android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

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Remove OneDrive „Start back up“ from Explorer

German: „Sicherung starten“ entfernen

  1. Open RegEdit
  2. Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StorageProvider\OneDrive
  3. Remove or rename the key StorageProviderKnownFolderSyncInfoSourceFactory

This works instantly, but the key is recreated after reboot. You can prevent this by denying write permissions to the key:

  1. In the left pane, right-click on the OneDrive key and then click Permissions. In the dialog click Advanced.
  2. Add a new access entry for user Everyone (German „Jeder“) of type Deny. Under Advanced Permissions just select Set Value.

https://superuser.com/questions/1811735/remove-start-back-up-in-file-explorer-new-windows-11-update

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Lock computer = instant screen off

It makes no sense to leave the monitor on when the device is locked. This PowerShell command sends the monitor to energy saving immediately.

Because I don’t know how to send powershell commands from a task, I used a bat 🙂

@echo off
echo Der Bildschirm wird in den Ruhezustand geschickt!
powershell (Add-Type '[DllImport(\"user32.dll\")]^public static extern int SendMessage(int hWnd, int hMsg, int wParam, int lParam);' -Name a -Pas)::SendMessage(-1,0x0112,0xF170,2)

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Wacom Settings: Ctrl+Shift / Ctrl+Space shortcuts

Are Ctrl+Shift shortcuts limited to Windows? I tried two programs, and they don’t accept this combination either. But I’ve an idea you could try:

  • Export your settings
  • Open the wacompref-File and edit your button to
    <Keystroke type="kestring"><![CDATA[&control;&shift;0]]></Keystroke>
  • Import the changed settings and try

Or: Install Microsoft Power Toys and use the Keyboard Manager to remap a shortcut to the one you need.

Similar: You can’t use Ctrl+Space with the Settings-GUI, but I could change the 5-Finger-Touch-Gesture for the new Power Toy „Peek“.

<Gesture5FTapAndHold type="map">
              <commandData type="string">&control;&space;</commandData>
              <commandDisplayName type="string">Peek</commandDisplayName>
              <commandID type="integer">8</commandID>
</Gesture5FTapAndHold>

And because we play with the wacomprefs file, we could change the Rubber to Middle Click 😉

<ButtonFunction type="integer">2</ButtonFunction>
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Synaptic Touchpad Scroll Speed on Linux

There are two solutions. The first one just needs some terminal magic, for the other one you need to change a conf.

Note from the future: Maybe xinput doesn’t exist anymore the next time you have a problem. Try this instead: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1413750/how-to-change-2-finger-touchpad-scroll-speed-on-ubuntu-22-04

Terminal Magic

  1. Open a terminal
  2. Find your device:
    xinput –list
  3. Look at the usable properties:
    xinput –list-props [NUMMER]
  4. Change a prop like this:
    xinput –set-prop 10 372 30

xserve / xorg

So I messed around with Linux on my old Lenovo 3000 N200.
Zorin OS Lite works very well out of the box. The only thing that annoys me, is the super fast scroll speed.

This post explains everything, huge thanks to Amir Hossein Baghernezad : https://askubuntu.com/a/1051707

Short version: This (ubuntu based) OS uses an old synaptics driver.

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Now we need to add or edit the ScrollDelta values in the config file. I need 200 and it’s still not sluggish.

cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
sudo nano 70-synaptics.conf

How it should look:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "VertScrollDelta"  "200"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "200"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Save the file and close nano (CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X), Log the user out and back in to feel the changes.

It’s possible to invert the scroll (natural scroll?) with a negativ value, like „-200“.

Speed in Firefox

Open a new tab in Firefox, and enter into the address bar: about:config.

There may be a warning about the sensitivity of the advanced settings within, accept the risk and proceed. There will be a search bar at the top, search for:

mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y

The default value seems to be 100. Change it to something like 50, and save with the check mark on the right.

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Sony WF-1000X3 and Intel Bluetooth

My Sony Bluetooth headphones used to skip audio a lot. A quick Google search revealed, that Intel devices don’t play nicely with Sony.

The best solution to keep the skiping at minimum is to disable a lot of Bluetooth services: