2. Quickly turn touchpad on and off

   My laptop has a button to toggle the touchpad on and off. It's an XF86TouchpadToggle button and on its own it's useless. You need something which binds to it and makes it do things. Most desktop environments have an utility which listens to keyboard presses and then toggles the touchpad …

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3. 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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4. 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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