2. Prevent screen blanking when watching videos in Firefox

   NOTE: as of Firefox 71 (perhaps even earlier), the screensaver/DPMS are automatically suspended when watching videos. This tool is therefore deprecated.

   Watching videos on YouTube always proved to be problematic because my DPMS settings would kick in and the screen would turn off. Firefox didn't suspend them automatically when …

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3. Single instance of mpv

   mpv is a pretty cool media player. It's simple and gets the job done. I've been using it since I started using Linux distributions. I like the simple config and keyboard focus. I even went so far to remove all keybindings and only assign those I actually use. The only …

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4. Change LightDM's language (and its greeters)

   I found myself in a situation where I needed LightDM (and its greeters) to use a language other than the one defined globally by the LANG environment variable. Searching the internet didn't yield any results, so I was forced to achieve it with an ugly hack.

   The workaround solution consisted …

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