Automatic screen locking on XFCE/Security Onion

Screen Locking on XFCE

This may be old-school, but I like to have X screen locking. It does not come by default on XFCE and, by extension on Security Onion
To get it working, I did the following:

apt-get install xautolock

Created ~/.config/autostart/runXinitrc.desktop with the following content

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Script
Type=Application
Exec=/ASOLUTE/PATH/TO/HOME/.xinitrc
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Hidden=false

Created .xinitrc with the following content:

xautolock -time 15 -locker /usr/bin/xflock4 &

And, as an added bonus, for those who want the control key to the left of A where God and Richard Stallman intended it, create ~/.config/autostart/ with the following (change Exec location to suit):

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Script
Type=Application
Exec=/ASOLUTE/PATH/TO/HOME/bin/fixctrl.sh
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Hidden=false

and finally, create /ASOLUTE/PATH/TO/HOME/bin/fixctrl.sh with:

setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps'

…yes, there are probably better, simpler ways to do all this…

ArkOS

http://m.slashdot.org/story/192479

org mode refiling

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Refiling

How retro can I go? Sketchnotes: visual thinking on paper.

In the possiblyUsefulFoo category

http://www.core77.com/blog/sketchnotes/sketchnotes_101_the_basics_of_visual_note-taking_19678.asp

I'm already using a 35-year-old text editor (emacs, org-mode) for most of my thinking and
writing.    Why not go even more retro?

This is more "amusingfoo" than "usefulfoo"

Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) tweeted at 9:24 AM on Thu, Jun 20, 2013: Emacs unfill-paragraph and unfill-region http://t.co/Q9zXOJ86X4 (https://twitter.com/UnixToolTip/status/347706446848356353) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

Adding new Mac OSX keyboard shortcuts

No default keyboard shortcut for  "maximize window" (Zoom).  Sheesh.

And, of course, Emacs does not honor it even when defined.

http://osxdaily.com/2013/03/22/5-simple-window-management-keyboard-shortcuts-to-improve-workflow-in-mac-os-x/

remote git repository as backup/central point ... needs to be "bare"

http://bitflop.com/document/111