General Q&A about Linux and Unix-like operating systems
Trying to understand what exactly <!nocheck> does next to a package in build-depends (for example, Perl). Debian Wiki says: Terms can be negated by using an exclamation mark as a prefix ...
How do I copy to clipboard from terminal with yy, assuming it's configured to use Vim bindings? I am using zsh with bindkey -v.
Problem I want to set a global keyboard rate for both the X session and the console that persists for external keyboards, across plug-ins and removals. To my understanding, Xorg and console sett...
How can I grow a libvirtd VM's LVM-backed virtual disk online, without rebooting the vm. My host has an LVM VG for VMs. Each VM disk is an LV to the host. It's easy to grow the VG by adding a PV...
I want the cd command to automatically change to the first directory that matches a fuzzy search, without prompting me to select between multiple options. This is what I've tried: cd() { loc...
Problem I'd like to be able to decrease images, particularly jpg and png's, either to a percentage of the original file, or a specified size in bytes. MWE decrease --size=900KB -o image_small....
Question How do you specify underscores as Vim word boundaries when using vim mode in either bash or zsh? MWE w on this_word should place the cursor on the underscore. A second w should place th...
Suggest me the most security and privacy focused Linux distro within three of them given below. Fedora Qubes OS Whonix. Please help me to choose. Thank you.
Question What is the simplest way to change the cursor to indicate vim mode when using zsh? Notes I want it to show as a vertical line in insert mode and a block in normal mode. This is the cur...
MWE Add bindkey -v to your ~/.zshrc. Invoke python interpreter: python. Type something into the prompt without hitting ENT: this = "this" + "that". Press ESC and try any vim bindings successi...
I want to remove all files with the ".part" extension in the current directory and its subdirectories, including files with the same name but different extension. Is this correct? find . -name '*...
How can I convert PDF to docx using the terminal or a Linux app? The output docx must be formatted with editable text. Some alternative solutions I've seen online using soffice and abiword output...
I am using Linux and Gnome. Using GDK, I would like to programmatically manipulate the Top Bar (i.e., the bar at the top of the screen with "Activities", the time, etc.). Here is a picture of it: ...
My device is Thinkpad E40 with openSUSE Leap 15.4. I've use this device under this OS weeks ago and didn't happen this problem. After normally running, wlan0 device not show in nmcli and my wirele...
MWE startx && xrandr-invert-colors Problem It seems that anything after startx does not get issued in the resulting X session. I'd like to make a bash function that sets up my monito...
Hi, I'm new here. So basically I builded Python 3.11 (https://python.org/) from source (from GitHub python/cpython branch "3.11"). So, here what I did : (obviously first I downloaded the repo as...
Question What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive? Notes I am partitioning the drive with fdisk and making the filesystem ...
I noticed in winetricks that it can install windows dlls to the wine folder. It even gives an option to install almost all of them at once. When should someone install these instead of staying with...
So I ran into that weird "packages being held back" problem while updating my system using apt. After some research, it appears to be the result of "phased updates". What are phased updates, any...
If a Debian bug number is referenced in the changelog of an uploaded package, it is automatically closed with a generic message: We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest versi...
For several days now, I've been getting a notification telling me that there's a pending update to the "snap-store", and to close the app to avoid disruption. I first got this notification while...
I have upgraded Xubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 and my compose key, which defaulted to Shift + AltGr, was disabled. It is no longer available in the keyboard settings GUI either. How can I set the com...
It takes a long time to build even the source package for a PPA of a huge project, and while the build isn't finished my computer is under heavy load so I can barely navigate a browser. The frustra...
Have I have the DPI on my laptop set in .Xresources with Xft.dpi: 192. I am outputting to the external monitor with: xrandr --output HDMI-2 --auto --rotate left --right-of eDP-1 Want I want ...
Problem I can rotate output, but it does not fill screen. Instead it rotates in place so that the right side of the screen goes off the monitor. xrandr --output HDMI-2 --auto --mode 1920x1080 --...
A system daemon needs to create several files under /run/program-name/ (and possibly other subdirs of that). They are the PID file, and at least one Unix socket file (but maybe more). The FHS spe...
I'd like to use the answers in this post while using zsh: compgen -c # will list all the commands you could run. compgen -a # will list all the aliases you could run. compgen -b # will list a...
How do you find out the number of files in a directory from the command line?
If I want to yank my last command I can UP yy, but this does not copy to the system clipboard. How do I configure my terminal to copy to the system clipboard so I can paste into other programs? ...
I am running Debian stretch on a Lenovo laptop with only a window manager (i.e. no desktop). Out of the box, this configuration of Debian ignores the keys with special Fn functions, such as volum...
I run an environment that, until recently, did all local name resolution by putting names in /etc/hosts. I'm in the process of replacing that with local DNS. The DNS part works fine, and now I'm tr...
I'm playing with NAT, and have a script now that, at startup of my little Linux machine, creates some DNAT rules, which take one incoming special port, and forward that to another interface with a ...
Using BASH, how can I redirect stdout and stderr each, to two separate files, simultaneously? That's a mouthful, let me clarify a little: I have a hypothetical script that may/will generate outpu...
I am currently ripping a bunch of DVDs. Some are encrypted, and some are not. My method for ripping a DVD depends on whether or not it is encrypted, so I am looking for a command-line method to det...
I have a RPi in the car that I need to act as a mobile AP. I need it to provide a consistent, unchanging ESSID (in AP mode) using the onboard wlan0 for all devices that stay in my car. Dashcams, t...
GNU Screen and Tmux allow you to run command-line programs on a server, and 'disconnect' from them but let them keep running remotely. This is great if your primary computer is a laptop and it has...
I would want to... ... turn my sensors output into a live histogram. How to? Any available script already written? (✿◠‿◠)
I have a few CentOS servers that I want to stay automatically up to date with yum-cron, and I want to get emails when there are problems but I do not want to get so many emails about repos being ou...
I have some old X11 applications complain that they cannot find a ISO8859-2 font. So I executed grep -r 8859-2 /usr/share/fonts/ and, to my surprise, found many matches, for example ==> /us...
I have a GNU/Linux host that I use to aggregate syslog events from a few switches, printers, and generally less versatile hosts on my LAN. I set up rsyslog years ago to listen on UDP:514 and save ...
For a particular use case, I need to be able to set up a Linux host (specifically Debian) to use a VPN tunnel for routing outgoing connections, but still allow incoming connections outside of that ...
An article in the GTK blog explains the situation very well, but here is my go at it. In my keyboard layout, accents are handled as dead keys, so to insert "ë", first I type ¨ and then e. Nothing ...
I had a nightly cronjob start throwing errors about "inappropriate permissions..." rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/data2/home/redacted/alsoredacted/opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/open...
Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS) When I run sudo apt update, apt flags libvkd3d1 and libvkd3d1:i386 as upgradable, but sudo apt upgrade does nothing and reports tha...
I have a shell script with a syntax compatible to both bash and zsh, except for a section that has zsh specific syntax that throws syntax errors if sourced from bash. Is there an easy way to escap...
I executed emerge --deselect xournalpp , which means "I don't need the xournalpp package anymore", so it can be removed by a future --depclean action in case Portage figures xournalpp is not a ...
I'm still trying to solve my problem with installing Ruby on a new Mac, and some discussions are saying that I need to reinstall brew because of the change from the old chipset to the M1. (I'm jus...
A project I want to work on requires Ruby. I was directed to RVM or rbenv. I tried rbenv first because it has Mac instructions, ran into failures, uninstalled it and installed RVM, and still ran ...
I just want to "zoom in/out" in the text console, is there a straightforward command to do that? I have found various sources (1, 2, 3) that either suggest permanent changes (e.g. modifying config...
