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When formatting drives with Gnome Disks, there is an option to "Erase". The help text says this takes longer, but "completely" erases data. What exactly does this option do? Is there a CLI equival...
My system occasionally has an issue that looks like this: I run pacman -Syu Many things get updated Many GUI apps (including all display managers and Xorg) start refusing to run and throw up O...
Another possibility is to use LaTeX. There are several ways in which you could use it to add a polygon on top of an image, one way is TikZ: % !TeX program = txs:///arara % arara: pdflatex: {synct...
You can't, without patching readline. What counts as a word character is hard-coded in the readline library, as of this writing. See: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/vi_mode...
Spotify runs on my computer with higher DPI (bigger UI elements) than I'd like. How can I reduce it?
How do I configure my system so that all GUI apps use a consistent DPI, without configuring each app individually?
If I understand you correctly, you want to skip empty lines at the beginning of a file/stream strip leading and trailing whitespace of non-empty lines skip empty lines at the end of a file/str...
systemctl is a tool for controlling systemd, the "new" Linux init system (actually it's been widely used for 10 years now). Systemd is the first process that runs at boot, which then brings up all ...
There's multiple, sometimes overlapping ways of altering the DPI globally on Linux. You should first ensure these are properly configured and Spotify is still not using them correctly. However, Sp...
It's NetworkManager that sets the IPv6 link-local address and per default it doesn't use the conversion from MAC to IPv6 address of that converter, called modified EUI-64. As mentioned in the linke...
Not quite sure what exactly happens, but the Erase option should do something like overwriting the data that used to be on the disk. When formatting a disk, typically only the partition tables are...
Guix is a rolling release distro. Another well known rolling release distro is Arch Linux. In Arch, you are expected to frequently do system updates. Partial updates are not supported. In my exper...
I can start services with systemctl start. I can see logs with systemctl status or journalctl. But by the time I run the second the process has already started. I'd like to start a service and imme...
At the moment GPG only offers the following options when generating a new subkey the with the addkey command: gpg> addkey Please select what kind of key you want: (3) DSA (sign only) (...
I have an Arch Linux machine connected to a LAN by ethernet. The router runs OpenWRT. DHCP assigns IPs to this machine like 192.168.1.* - quite typical. I want the IP to always be 192.168.1.10. I...
I don't use Gnome, but I'm guessing it relies on xdg-open to figure out what program to use. Your first step would be to do xdg-open ~ to see if it uses the same incorrect program. If so, great - ...
By using the non-interactive --quick-add-key method. This adds separate signing and encryption subkeys with expiration date one year from now: $ gpg --quick-add-key YOUR-PRIMARY-KEY-ID ed25519 sig...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
