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Changing Fullscreen Resoultion for Mincraft on Linux

January 16, 2015

If you have a low-end Laptop and want to run minecraft on a lower screen resolution you might want to use the following bash script to run minecraft

xrandr -s 800x600
java -jar /path/to/Minecraft.jar
xrandr -s 1366x768

This will:

1. set your screen resolution to 800x600
2. run minecraft
3. as soon as you quit minecraft, it will reset to your desired screen resolution again

Install Spotify client on Fedora

January 10, 2015

Spotify has made a Linux version of their desktop client here, but its only available as a .deb package. If you want to install the fedora client, there is a repackaged version on rpmfusion.

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#!/bin/bash
yum install lpf-spotify-client
lpf-spotify-client

This automatically downloads and builds the spotify client and it should also install the necessary dependencies python-devel and dbus-x11.