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How do I find the exact code of a key on my keyboard?
My DE has a bunch of programs in the start/applications menu. How can I add my own in there? For example, say I found a terminal command foo --bar --baz that does something I want. But I don't want...
On Linux, the basic way to run every program is to invoke it through a terminal. The shortcuts in DEs come from ".desktop" files. On a Linux system, there are a couple of directories (system wide,...
When I view my document camera's feed in guvcview it is in landscape mode. I want it to capture things in portrait mode, since I usually take photos of documents. Currently, I have to rotate all t...
If the program was installed with your package manager, the package manager should be able to tell you that. For example: $ pacman --query bash bash 5.2.026-2 If you don't know the package n...
Keep both your / and /home on the SSD, and then create the /data partition on your HDD. You could link individual directories from home as you say, but I usually create just one link to the HDD ro...
There is a popular partitioning scheme, described in the Arch wiki as LVM on LUKS. The meat of this is: /boot is its own unencrypted partition The rest of the drive is a giant LUKS partition I...
First, consider your needs. There's a decent chance that everything you want will fit on the SSD anyway, at least if you aren't an enthusiastic multimedia collector. Nowadays a 1TB SSD can be had c...
When I use my computer, one question I commonly want to answer for myself is "how much space is being used by the contents of this folder?". Typical file/window managers, IMX, answer this question ...
How do I find all actual files (not devices, sockets, etc) on my system that are: Not part of a package Not under /home (I assume that packages are supposed to never put files there) on Arch...
I want to download an application from the internet, but the website is listing versions for "bookworm", "bullseye" and "buster". I do not know which version of these to download, as I don't know w...
If I run journalctl --list-boots I get a list of my previous boots. How can I tell which ones of these were resumes from hibernate, and which were booting "from scratch"? I want to do this becaus...
Yes, you can run most Windows games on Linux through Wine. There are some specific caveats when using Wine, such as sandboxing (security), the choice of runner, drivers, video, controllers (gamepad...
You can use ExecStartPre= to delay the execution of the systemd unit. Use systemctl edit myunit.service to create a drop in file and add the following lines: [Service] ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30...
Problem I have Super+. mapped to Switch to workspace on the right in gnome settings keyboard shortcuts. It works everywhere except when focus is on the terminal. There, it enters an e in the termi...
How to display details about a site's certificate using CLI tools?
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....
It is not the most elegant solution, but you may be able to use the string escape function of fish, as in: echo abc | sed -E (string escape 's/b+/X/') This would still escape the special charac...
Begin with the logs I'd begin with the logs: journalctl -u NetworkManager You may want to create a log config file for this: vim /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/95-nm-debug.conf # perhaps sudo, to ha...
It depends on a couple of factors: Whether the interface is directly connected to the internet, or is behind a separate firewall which is forwarding on to your machine What you are using to ass...
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 ...
That bar is part of GNOME Shell, and user applications don't get to mess around with the shell. You need to look into writing shell extensions to modify that in a general way. One common thing for...
I do not see a way to tell on the main list of questions which ones have been marked as "works for me" by the OP. I can see the questions which indicate they have zero answers, but I consider any ...
My keyboard has keys for mute, volume up, volume down. In i3wm, I used to have these bound with: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pulsemixer --change-volume +10 --max-volume 100 ...
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...
