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Xubuntu and I3WM

OK, I installed Xubuntu 21.10 and it was OK once I stopped trying to resize the old Arch partition and just deleted and recreated it. Then I grabbed an old pi4 i3wm config file and i3blocks file. Installed i3, i3blocks, and rofi. After a bunch of editing of the config file, installing lxappearance, codium, atom, nextcloud, dropbox, and syncthing, I've got a working system.

Then I followed the jekyll instructions for installing jekyll on Ubuntu and now I've got the whole thing working. Now I'm working on transferring the files to my local server (192.168.86.20) using rsync. Right now I need to check if using the rsync chown option will work.

I messed up Nextcloud when moving the DocumentRoot of Apache2 on 192.168.86.20. I'm not even sure I care - I wasn't using any of the nextcloud apps and syncthing seems to do what I want.

Got simple-scan working on my xubuntu / i3 desktop. Yay.

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Arch - Aargh!

I restored a version of Arch using clonezilla and tried to set up Jekyll. It didn't work and I don't know why I insist on trying to use Arch. I would like to use the i3 window manager, but I think tomorrow I'm going to install Xubuntu and install and run i3 from there.

Then again there's always the possibility that no amount of screwing around with window managers or desktop environments will make much difference. So maybe I should just focus on studying whatever it is that I'm going to study.

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Setting Up Jekyll Site

OK, I've set up another Jekyll Website. I'm hoping to use this one for real. It's in folder real-thing on Nextcloud and I'm not going to bother with Github or Gitlab or anything.

The focus is going to be pages, but there is a posts section where this post is located.

I had to change permissions on 192.168.86.20 so that the owner of /var/www/html is terry and the group is www-data. And I had to change the permissions to 750. The commands I used are:

{% highlight bash %} cd /var/www sudo chown -R www-data:www-data html sudo chmod -R 770 html

I also fooled around with changing themes and it's a pain in the butt. Layouts that aren't there, plugins required for things that I don't care about like SEO.

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May 05, 2021 Daily Notes

2021-05-31 Daily Notes

Did some more grok tiddlywiki. I think it's more than I need. But I plan to continue for another chapter or two. Watched a couple of videos about Joplin and decided to give it another shot. I really like that it's available for mobile and very easy to set up.