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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 ...
How can I manually set default audio device? I connected docking station and Lubuntu is somehow convinced that it can play audio. I want to continue using laptop speakers. Detaching docking stati...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
Certtool from GnuTLS can do this: certtool --certificate-info --infile=server.crt
A convenient but a little risky method Don't do this unless you have backups on a separate drive, and are prepared to restore from them. Properties Pros Easy Uses native BTRFS tools Can be ...
I just installed an SSD into my motherboard's third M.2 slot. After I booted up the computer, the secondary disk is now displayed like an externally connected one. There's an icon for it on the des...
There are probably myriad services for echoing your IP back over HTTP. Here are a couple: curl https://api.ipify.org curl https://ip.me curl https://icanhazip.com
If you just want the minimal set of top-level packages to install on your new system, brew leaves is less verbose than CodeFarmer's brew deps --installed. You get a nice concise list of the packag...
How to configure ZSH shell to print a timestamp on the right hand side of the prompt line when executing a command? I don't want to display the time prior to executing a command. Here's about how ...
The preexec function is called right before executing commands, so it's the place to do this sorta things. This solution is adapted from Dan Berindei's original answer (CC BY-SA 3.0) to a related ...
Suppose I have a directory structure like ├── src │ ├── folder_a │ │ ├── file_w │ │ └── file_x │ ├── folder_b │ │ ├── file_y │ │ └── file_z and I back it up using rsyn...
Wine has options for "Synchronization", like "Esync" or "Fsync". What do these actually do? What is the purpose of such an option? What is the impact to normal usage of a Windows program in Wine?
TL;DR When pacman bugs you for sudo, in bash or zsh (and possibly others but I haven't verified that), run sudo !! Full Answer As I see it you have 2 options: command substitution or an alias (o...
Sometimes your programs fail because the network port they are trying to use is already in use by some other process. How to find out what this other process is?
