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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...
In Bash, you could use the $COLUMNS environment variable to detect the width of your terminal and truncate each line to that length in your sed script. Something like this should work: sed "s/^\(....
Sorry it was a typo, _ instead of -, that caused the problem. I want to have a key combination to alter the keymaps. It worked with one for us and one for hu, but now I want to use one key combina...
This isn't exactly what you asked, but the letters-too-small problem could also be solved by using a larger console font. Here is a decent overview of how to change console fonts, though I don't k...
I think that you have two options. The literal answer would be to pass video= to the kernel. For example, you could pass video=720x400 to run the framebuffer at a 720x400 resolution, assuming that...
Neomutt (and probably Mutt too, but I didn't try) seems to be hiding header fields from email, such as the Message-ID field, and fields that are added by SMTP servers when they receive the message....
Gnome should have a Settings app with a Keyboard shortcut section. Here you can click Add Custom Shortcut which will let you bind any key to any shell-style command. source Unless you are very sur...
From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues a...
flatpak uninstall --unused currently tells me that there is Nothing unused to uninstall. This seems wrong to me, based on the list of packages I see vs. the "root" packages I explicitly installed p...
Neat idea. In favour. Bottom-up is better I'd propose bottom-up here, instead of grand idea to strive for. I'd cut the list of topics down to real basics. I agree with @KarlKnechtel on Git. I'...
I wasn't there two decades ago when the spec was first being developed, but based on other parts of the spec they're clearly attempting to establish a parallel with /usr/local. The intended minimal...
Say I have some Bash function my-func, that expects a filename and does some processing on the corresponding file. For demonstration purposes, my-func() { cat "$1"; } If I want to apply that fu...
What is a modern and practical way to handle scheduling tasks on a Linux desktop? Modern means basic features should not rely on obscure or convoluted commands and standards Practical means you...
Is this what you want? Edit: Credit to Kamil Maciorowski for catching an unsafe interpolation in the previous draft; it will work for non-adversarial inputs but this newer version is safer and a ...
iterate through all chapter-*.xhtml files in a directory Assuming bash, and assuming that at least one such file exists in the current directory (otherwise adjust the path and/or shopt -s ...
In some cases, when you want to apply a pipeline or a complex command to each file, I find it useful to use while read: find . -type d \ | while read d; do find $d -type f -maxdepth 1 \ | hea...
I'm trying to run a pipeline to update a PDF after every push to the 'main' branch. I want it to be atomic, so it doesn't touch the existing PDF until it has finished, so I need to use sponge(1) (...
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 ...
