personal reminder: ratpoison and an empty, gray java GUI

"How to un-break graphical Java apps under Ratpoison" suggests wmname to make the JVM believe it runs on a different window manager:

$ wmname LG3D

implies the JVM ran on lg3d (Project Looking Glass - a desktop utilizing 3D aspects in the UI), a non-re-parenting window manager written by Sun; this one is on java's hard-coded list of known non-reparenting window managers.

note for OpenJDK: according to this post "versions of OpenJDK that ship with some operating system distributions—at least Debian (and Ubuntu) and Arch Linux in March and August of 2009, respectively—have had this problem fixed by the vendors."

Manually add account to Google Authenticator - Enter key in Base32 Encoding

wanted to use OpenID with Multi-factor authentication as a Single Sign-On (SSO) for online services; in particular, i wanted to combine a regular password with a One-Time Password namely, a TOTP token.

Google Authenticator supports TOTP, and not only for their own 2-step verification but one can "Manually add" other accounts.

The bridging part from TOTP to OpenID, in my case, comes from Clavid (cf. OTP@Clavid).

Now to the tiny bit of information that might save you quite some minutes: when entering your secret key into these two locations to set-up an account

• Google Authenticator expects the string to be RFC4648 Base32 encoded
• Clavid expects the string to be hex encoded