Pairing Bluetooth Mouse on Gentoo

Just a few a days ago, I wrote a blog post about Pairing Bluetooth Mouse on Command Line on a Fedora laptop. So why do I need to write another post about doing the same thing on Gentoo? Well, as it turned out, I need a bit more than just turning on the bluetooth service and pairing the mouse. My Gentoo’s installation is very minimal, and I think this gives me an excuse to document on how I’d solve or get this working on Gentoo....

September 13, 2020 · 6 min · 1148 words · kenno

Installing USBGuard on Gentoo

Let’s find out the name of the package using the awesome eix command, and install that package. ~ # eix usbguard * sys-apps/usbguard Available versions: ~0.7.6-r1 ~0.7.8 {bash-completion dbus ldap policykit static-libs systemd} Homepage: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard Description: Daemon protecting your computer against BadUSB ~ # emerge --ask sys-apps/usbguard These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/usbguard" have been masked. !...

June 29, 2020 · 3 min · 573 words · kenno

feh WARNING: abc.png - No Imlib2 loader for that file format

As the title says, I cannot use feh to open a PNG image. feh on this machine can’t open a JPG image either. Let’s see what’s wrong. I should notice that this problem occured on a machine running Gentoo. :D First, let’s check if feh is installed using my favorite tool called eix: ~ ❯❯❯ eix feh [I] media-gfx/feh Available versions: 3.1.1 ~3.1.3 ~3.2 ~3.2.1^t {curl debug exif test xinerama} Installed versions: 3....

September 1, 2019 · 2 min · 237 words · kenno