Installing .deb packages in Manjaro

You should in general prefer to install from the official Manjaro or AUR repos whenever possible. But in the rare case (cough Microsoft Edge cough) where this is not possible, here are a sequence of steps you can follow to install a .deb package in Manjaro (and other Arch based distros) You need to install…

Mounting SMB shares reliably on a Linux WiFi Laptop with AutoFS

As I mentioned here, I have been running Manjaro Linux on my home laptop for almost a year now and for the most part it has worked well. My setup is that most of the useful storage is on my home server and I was mounting these as SMB shares on the laptop. Initially, I…

Configuring Ubuntu – Getting 5 button mouse to work

I run an Ubuntu guest on VMWare Player (host OS is Windows 7) at home. For the longest time, one big annoyance has been that I didn’t have my 5 button mouse (Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 – but this tip applies to any 5 button mouse) working properly. Specifically, the two buttons on…