These are some simple and unorganized Debian tips that might make your
system nicer or solve some minor problems.
- Change the nice level of the X server. Debian assigns a nice level of -10
to the X server. This might cause some music programs to skip, you can change
that with 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common'.
- If you can't get some programs in X to print correctly (like Mozilla) make
sure your Xprint is working. Install xprt-xprintorg and read the README in
/usr/share/doc/xprt-common
- To get reasonable disk performance install hdparm and tune it by editing
/etc/hdparm.conf
- 'apt-cache search package' will search through the package database if you
are looking for a specific app.
- packages.debian.org (or p.d.o for short) will search through the content of
packages, even if they are not installed on your system.
Some links of interest
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Last updated Jan 06, 2004