Change Spotify volume using your keyboard multimedia keys

The Linux version of Spotify provides a way to control the music using the DBus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify service. This lets you skip tracks, play, and pause the music. It doesn't let you change the volume though.

If you are using PulseAudio or PipeWire then you can use the pactl command to...

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Installing libratbag and Piper on Slackware to change your gaming mouse settings

Piper is a Linux application that lets you change the settings of your gaming mouse. It can currently be used to set what the buttons to, change the DPI and reporting rate, and set the LED colors. Piper is actually just a GUI for the libratbag project which does all the actual work of changing th...

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Change the Android long press delay

I recently changed the long press delay in my Google Keyboard settings to be lower than the default because it has started feeling like it takes too long for the long press symbol or number to come up. I don't know if Google changed the defaults or if I am just imagining it got longer :).

Anyway,...

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