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Using For the console: /etc/vconsole.conf ---- KEYMAP=dvorak For X Session: .xinitrc ---- setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak & Problem For the console, it applies the dvorak lay...
A little while ago I was helping someone with running Python in a virtual environment, as root, for some specific purpose. I determined easily enough that this requires explicitly specifying the pa...
I want to generate a list of trending Arch/AUR packages that focuses on user-facing applications rather than background libraries and dependencies. I wrote a script that uses the data from pkgstat...
When you first connect to a host, ssh asks you about saving its fingerprint. If you do, on subsequent connections it will check the fingerprint and refuse to connect if it changed. I get that this...
I compressed some JPEGs with curtail it messed up the filenames. It was supposed to only add -min at the end but ended up adding a random string after the extension 😠: prs@PC:/DOWNLOADS/Pictures$ ...
find . -type f -print0 \ | grep -z -- '-min.jpg-[[:alnum:]]*$' \ | while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do find "$f" -print0 \ | sed -z 's/-min.jpg-[[:alnum:]]*$/-min.jpg/' \ | xargs -0 mv ...
Suppose I have a PDF which is 2x3 in. I want to create a PDF with a single page, which has multiple copies of this. For example, if the small pieces are in landscape, and the large page is in portr...
How to open a port when using firewalld as the system firewall?
Why does XDG_DATA_HOME default to ~/.local/share? Why not something less cryptic, like ~/.data? Why did they decide use that path?
I recently updated Gnome to 1:44.0 and since the update my dark mode settings seem to be ignored for Gnome applications. When setting the dark style in Settings > Appearance, the desktop backgr...
I installed the Nvidia container toolkit so I can use GPU acceleration in Docker containers. However, I can't get the containers to work: $ sudo docker run --runtime=nvidia nvidia/cuda:12.2.0-base...
I have ordered (but am still waiting for it to arrive) a USB-connected webcam that is supposed to be V4L2 compatible. Once it arrives, I'm obviously going to want to mount it such that it provides...
I wonder how I got the red border. I was going to click Ctrl+Tab. Unfortunately, I had clicked on something else. I don't know what I clicked. I had clicked on Enter to see if I could enter the p...
Hi everyone, First post! I'm trying to be able to print from a client machine over my lan to an older HP Laserjet 1012 connected via USB to a Debian box. It prints fine directly. I've gone thro...
Every Gentoo user knows USE flags. Occasionally I stumble upon IUSE flags, for example, man emerge mention them in the description of an option: --newuse, -N ... USE flags may be toggled by yo...
I am using Manjaro(Arch-based Linux). And, I had installed Avro using the following command by getting help of the documentation yay -S ibus-avro-git Avro is software using that software user w...
At first I had listed engines. ibus list-engine > engine.txt Then, I found engines name... Then, I had set engine following way ibus engine xkb:ph:capewell-dvorak:eng
I had mentioned in the comment, @Canina I had updated my system also. But, actually I had updated my system before making changes to /etc/apt/sources.list. You have to work as a root user...
I have installed mysql-server on Ubuntu 20.04 then I tried to sign into mysql-server using sudo mysql -u root but I have got Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mys...
IUSE flags are simply the list of available and default USE flags for a package as defined by the Ebuild maintainer. Definition IUSE is defined from a developer's perspective in man 5 ebuild (...
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...
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...
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 --...
This was fixed after restart. I believe this was caused by updating without restarting. It's possible it also had to do with disconnecting the HDMI cable.
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 ...
