Make backlight buttons work in Debian Wheezy on a HP EliteBook 8460p

The backlight hardware buttons weren’t working on my HP EliteBook 8460w so I was using sudo xrandr –output LVDS –brightness 1 and sudo xrandr –output LVDS –brightness .5 That sort of worked but it only multiplied the gamma values. randr is a software solution – it doesn’t really change the …

How to install Google Chrome Remote Desktop on Debian Wheezy 64bit

Installing Google Chrome Remote Desktop on Debian Wheezy 64bit is possible but there is a caveat: YOU NEED TO RUN GOOGLE CHROME INSTEAD OF THE CHROMIUM BROWSER If you run Chromium you can install the Remote Desktop app but it won’t run. (I don’t think there are any differences between …

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