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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...
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...
I can easily run Windows games with wine by running: wine game.exe However, if I want to use Proton I have to run Steam, add the game as a non-Steam game, and run it that way. Since Proton is ...
With Debian 12, it seems that mysql-server is not available in the "default" package distribution and thus, cannot be installed with sudo apt install mysql-server or sudo apt-get... (I know that ma...
I see that this is self-answered, but I disagree that the answer provided is the best way. The best way is to properly utilize the Unix philosophy, by decomposing the problem into simpler sub-probl...
I have some bookmarked folders in GtkFileChooserDialog. I want to add these to my dotfiles. Where are the bookmarks stored?
Restarting NetworkManager should be enough: sudo systemctl restart NetworkManger
How can I run a command later? I'm looking for a CLI way to schedule a command to be run later. I know that I could create a systemd timer, install it, activate it... That is too much work. I want...
How can I search for files on my system? Ideally, I would like to search by various criteria, like date, name, extension, etc.
The ancient utility find should come installed on the majority of distributions. Technically, find recursively locates all files and directories under a path, and prints their full paths. It is of ...
I have an image (a photo) and I want to highlight certain parts of this. I want to do this from the CLI. I am planning to store the pixel coordinates of polygon vertices in a file, and when I run ...
Assuming that systemctl start $SERVICE.service returns right away (some [poorly] written StartExec commands do not), you can run this: systemctl start $SERVICE.service & journalctl -f -u $SERV...
tl;dr: Find the .desktop file that you are currently running It is probably in a system location, so copy it to a user location Modify the file contents The normal way to create icons for...
