Category: FreeBSD

Open dconf-editor and go to org, gnome, control-center and last-panel. Set the value to default. This worked for me. Thanks to bpurgar for the solution in FreeBSD Bugs. See more at Bug 259007.

Configure FileZilla to access and use an SFTP server in order to upload and download files. Tested with FileZilla 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 13.1 on 2022-11-04.

Continue reading “Finding large files and sorting by file size on FreeBSD, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X.” →

This is how a number of PDF files can be concatenated, which is also known as merge, join or combine PDF files, with pdftk on the command line.

This is the procedure for restoring (undeleting) accidentally deleted or modified files from a snapshot of a file system on ZFS.

This is the procedure for updating (patching) the FreeBSD system by downloading (fetching) and installing the binary patches from a FreeBSD mirror. Tested on FreeBSD 13.5 and 14.3. Updated 2025-10-31.

This is the procedure for setting up ImageMagick to take screenshots in GNOME on FreeBSD. The filename will be named in the ISO 8601 format.

This is guide for setting up headset and audio for a Jitsi Meet video meeting in FreeBSD and GNOME. This guide also answers, why Jitsi Meet is better than Zoom and Teams.

This is the procedure for creating a simple mail list on FreeBSD with Sendmail, that is installed by default. The purpose of a mail list is to create an email address or mail list alias, that distributes the message to each member of a list.

This is the procedure for installing and running the Spotify desktop client in GNOME on the FreeBSD operating system by using FreeBSD’s built-in Linux Binary Compatibility. This procedure has been tested on Spotify (2021) through 1:1.1.84 (2022) on FreeBSD 13.0.