Tag: system administration

  • Disabling Unity Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay

    Recently I’ve been using Windows 8 as a virtual machine on top of Ubuntu 14.10. One thing that bugs me is the Windows Logo Key, or known as Super Key in the *nix community. In Windows 8, we frequently need to press the key to go back and forth between the Desktop and the Start…

  • Migrating From Linux Mint to Debian with Encrypted Home

    Debian has long been attracting me, so I finally decided to replace Linux Mint Maya running on my good old Acer laptop with Debian Wheezy. However, a problem stumbled the migration process: my home directory was encrypted. Unlike Ubuntu or Linux Maya, the encryption support was not built in the Debian installation process, so this…