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SSH agent prints some envar commands for sourcing in a shell. However, these are bash-style, and I use fish. Fish barfs at the bash syntax. How can I fix it?
There are three options. I will list them from least practical to most, because I don't want people to stop reading halfway through :) Parse ssh-agent output with your custom script and re-print...
I was able to make this work with: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id wpctl set-volume -l 1 @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ 5%+ bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id wpctl set-vol...
I have a script that does git fetch for a repository. When I run this in my shell it works fine. I want to run it in a systemd user unit. However, I am using an SSH url, and the systemd unit fails...
I like how Guix sounds based on what I've read, and I want to try it. However, my partitioning scheme is a bit complicated. With Guix it appears like my biggest concern is hardware (I will regretta...
For some time pacman used to have a problem where: Occasionally Arch maintainers introduce new GPG keys They start signing packages with the keys Your local pacman doesn't receive these until ...
This won't be an exact answer. I think with the way it's described, there could be many reasons why the issue manifests. However, the good news is that the live ISO works, therefore the problem is ...
$ echo "4c 6f 72 65 6d 20 69 70 73 75 6d 20 64 6f 6c 6f 72 20 73 69 74 20 61 6d 65 74 2c 20 63 6f 6e 73 65 63 74 65 74 75 72 20 61 64 69 70 69 73 63 69 6e 67 20 65 6c 69 74 2c" | xxd -r orem ipsum...
Answering your question as written, this is a hardware-specific question. Since solid-state storage chips typically keep the details of which cells are being used to write data hidden from the OS, ...
After some digging, I was able to figure out the problem. I actually have multiple keys. In Kwallet, I noticed that one of them has the wrong passphrase. So looks like I put the passphrase of Key X...
This appears to be set by the option unlock_time in /etc/security/faillock.conf.
When I enter the login password incorrectly 3 times, my computer locks me out from attempting a login for 10 minutes. How can I change the timeout?
How do you securely erase data from a thumb (USB/flash) drive? With traditional (magnetic/spinny) hard drives, it used to be that you could use various tools to simply overwrite with random data, ...
On Arch Linux, I installed albert (from AUR) and picom as the compositor. I am using i3 as the window manager. When I bring up the albert window, it is surrounded by the ghost of a window in the b...
If I have an email in EML format, how can I determine its spam status from the terminal? My mail provider appears to insert a X-Acme-Spam-Status header. It looks like X-Acme-Spam-Status: v=1; e=b...
You can try to search your shell's history for brew install. Every shell has its own history command, but for example on fish I can do history | rg brew install. (rg is https://github.com/BurntSush...
How to lookup user-id with the user's name? E.g. What's the UID of user linus?
When I run Kmail on i3, and then close it, it appears to continue running some stuff in the background. For example, I periodically get notifications about new mail from dunst, even though I have c...
You don't. sudo is for there for security purposes. If you alias it as sudo pacman than you can mess up without knowing. You can login as root su - to execute consecutive commands.
How to ignore server certificate when using ldapsearch command-line tool? Of course this isn't something you should be doing regularly, but it would be a handy asset for troubleshooting.
BTRFS is capable of spanning over multiple drives. How to add one more to an existing filesystem?
Add a new drive with the device command: # btrfs device add /dev/new-device /path/to/the/filesystem/youre/adding/to Then you probably want to balance the filesystem so that some data will actua...
I upgraded to WSL 2 because I discovered several instances online where people had run into issues with WSL and Solr together. This fixed the problem of Solr not starting. However, it triggered a n...
Most Linuxes are small, and I would consider them for experts by default. This is because you won't be able to just Google problems and copy the solution from some blog. You'll have to actually tro...
