HP dm4 laptop right click fix

On Linux Mint Cinnamon, (and probably most Ubuntu versions at or before 12) my hp dm4's synaptics touchpad did not automatically detect that it has a right a left button.

To fix this, create the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

Then place this file into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d:
https://bitbucket.org/zachwolfe/dotfiles/src/88321594ef20/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

Restart the X Server (Ctrl Alt Backspace or log out or reboot)

nginx HTTP/HTTPS setup

Setting up nginx SSL is pretty easy. I'm running nginx/1.0.10.

Use make-ssl-cert to make your SSL certificate.
make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/private/zachwolfe.org.crt Copy this file to /etc/ssl/private/zachwolfe.org.key and /etc/ssl/certs/zachwolfe.org.crt.

Modify /etc/ssl/private/zachwolfe.org.key to only include the key (as follows):
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...key text is here....
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Modify /etc/ssl/certs/zachwolfe.org.crt to only include the certificate (as follows):
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
...certificate text is here....
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

nginx setup:

File /etc/nginx/conf.d/zachwolfe.org.ssl.conf
server {
    listen       443;
    server_name  zachwolfe.org;

    ssl                  on;
    ssl_certificate      /etc/ssl/certs/zachwolfe.org.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/ssl/private/zachwolfe.org.key;

    ssl_session_timeout  5m;

    ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;

    location / {
        root /var/www/;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }
}

File /etc/nginx/conf.d/zachwolfe.org.conf
server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  zachwolfe.org;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/zachwolfe.org.access.log;

    location / {
        root /var/www/;
        index  index.html index.htm;
}

Running vim as a server without X

So far, running vim as a server without X is impossible as far as I know. I don't understand why vim depends on X at all, especially for this case.

$ vim --servername foobarbaz
doesn't work, and even worse, silently fails. No warnings, errors, etc.

I thought it could be that vim didn't have some kind of compile option, but:
$ vim --version | grep client
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments

The only way to use vim's built in server is to give it a valid DISPLAY value at startup. This makes vim behave a little slower, which is especially noticeable at startup.

DISPLAY=:11 vim --servername foobarbaz

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To start a server:
DISPLAY=:0.0 vim --servername mainVim

To edit a file on an already running vim server:
DISPLAY=:0.0 vim --servername MAINVIM --remote-tab-silent `find -type f -name filename`