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Check your laptop battery in Linux

If you run Linux off a laptop, you might want to check your battery status alt least once a year: grep -F capacity: /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info This will output something like design capacity:         7800 mAhlast full capacity:      6414 mAh

Touchpad scroll with two fingers tweak

Apple laptops allow the user to perform scrolls by using two fingers on the touchpad. This can easily happen in Linux by adding the following to your InputDevice section from /etc/X11/xorg.conf : Option “VertTwoFingerScroll” “true” Option “HorizTwoFingerScroll” “true”