Joystick Controller acting as Mouse

 Worth a check if things are going wrong.

I installed some emulators including PCSX2 & ReDream. Both when capturing my xbox 360 controller would not release outside the emulation box and they would also cause the mouse and select buttons to activate causing weird things like selection menu's & random open folders to pull to the front and be activated.

Turns out when I installed something it must have also installed the capture mouse package. By uninstalling  xserver-xorg-input-joystick it freed up the mouse to act separately again. 

I just removed it through symantic package installer rather than the command line. Just to be sure I CTL ALT DEL to reach the login screen and logged out and in again.

Everything worked fine then.

 

 xserver-xorg-input-joystick

FreeDos 1.2 on Oracle Virtual Box

Had problems installing.

Fix is

make up your drive NEW

when you get to install from CDROM press tab

Insert "raw" without quotes in the line after memdisk

vis

/boot/syslinux/memdisk

/boot/syslinux/memdisk raw

Press enter

Each time it rebooted to continue install I added it, not sure if made any difference after the 1st though and too lazy to reinstall again for no reason to check it out.

Audio Recorder

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:audio-recorder/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audio-recorder

Not all Thumbnails showing in Preview

sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

Open dconf-editor

Go to path

org / gnome / nautilus / preferences / thumbnail limit

Limit for showing thumbnails is 10mb size picture

add 0 on end for 100mb or double it 20mb whichever you want

Swap space

Good tutorial on adding a swap space. I've been having memory freezes since adding my new Ultra widescreen monitor.


https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-16-04

Back up Pi (on Mint)

To backup the Raspberry Pi SD Card

dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image

To restore

dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/sdx
From here:https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/311/how-do-i-backup-my-raspberry-pi

Check if Pi Zero Working (on MINT)

Remove SD card.

Micro USB to USB A male.

Plug in to USB on PC.

Plug Micro USB into USB port (not end of board Power micro USB) the other.

Open Terminal and type dmesg to check USB port connections.

Should see "Broadcom" come up as a connected device.

Wipe brow as not wasted a fiver by blowing Zero up.