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If a Debian bug number is referenced in the changelog of an uploaded package, it is automatically closed with a generic message: We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest versi...
Less does not display data files normally, but if it were some sort of Xxd. $ bash --norc $ export LESS= $ file -i /var/log/lastlog /var/log/lastlog: application/octet-stream; charset=binary $...
I have an old Mac Mini (Late 2009 model) kicking around, and as Apple stopped providing patches for it (and as I'm not going to put an unpatched system on the Internet), I was looking for a Linux d...
From man ssh_config: This file is used by the SSH client. Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: read/write for the user, and not writable by others.
How do I make my computer request a new IP from DHCP? I am using Arch with NetworkManager.
By digging further into the details of xdg-open, I stumbled upon this page in the Arch wiki. There it states that xdg-open will delegate the task of opening a file to the handler of the Desktop En...
After a force shutdown on Ubuntu 22.04, installed on a Lenovo Legion 5, the OS seems to have lost its ability to recognize the built-in touchpad or to connect to the internet. For the backstory......
There are a couple of ways of handling this (on PC's in general. I do use Linux, but not Arch, and this will work). The first way is to statically assign an IP address. While you SHOULD be able...
I am using Linux Mint 20.3, with Cinnamon as a window manager. I have a folder named .pytest_cache on my Desktop: $ ls -1A | grep '^\.' .pytest_cache I know that if I open a Nemo window, navi...
My thoughts on the matter are clear from the question, but I'll add some example topics that could be covered by this "basics compendium": A "curriculum" of sorts that lists all the basic topics...
Authentication events such as logging in are ultimately handled by PAM, the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules project. PAM is very flexible and different Linux distributions will ship with dif...
When I enter the login password incorrectly 3 times, my computer locks me out from attempting a login for 10 minutes. How can I increase the number of attempts?
As the keyboard layout wiki suggests, loadkeys only sets the keyboard layout for the current session. In order to persist these changes, the KEYMAP variable must be set in /etc/vconsole.conf. Thi...
I'd forget about messing around with console commands and X configuration files, and just change the keyboard layout in the GNOME Settings panel: You can access this by hitting the Windows key a...
I would like to also nominate Quasímodo Although the community doesn't have a lot of content yet, Quasímodo has contributed generally well-received content on several subject matters (both as qu...
I'd like to hide/dismiss/remove all the notifications that applications like Signal have created. I know I can create notifications with, for example, notify-send -t 10000 "🤖 Here goes my message"...
Since asking this question I've updated to 12.2 (Monterey), but it's the same problem on either. I was nervous about blowing away my existing brew installation, even if I first captured a list of ...
I am currently ripping a bunch of DVDs. Some are encrypted, and some are not. My method for ripping a DVD depends on whether or not it is encrypted, so I am looking for a command-line method to det...
Looking at a few system daemons on my Fedora 36 machine; avahi, rpcbind & chrony. avahi & chrony seem to both do the creating of their /run/<program> directories, rpcbind seems to b...
As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...
I stopped using a former Q&A Network of Sites because of their poor political choices. Before I left, I noticed a number of people who also objected to those politics renaming their usernames ...
For a particular use case, I need to be able to set up a Linux host (specifically Debian) to use a VPN tunnel for routing outgoing connections, but still allow incoming connections outside of that ...
This is originally Ibus' (an input method) behavior. It provides some facilities to extend the basic "input by typing". Examples: Ctrl+Shift+U for hex Unicode input. Ctrl+. for emoji selector. ...
An article in the GTK blog explains the situation very well, but here is my go at it. In my keyboard layout, accents are handled as dead keys, so to insert "ë", first I type ¨ and then e. Nothing ...
Use pavucontrol-qt It can be used to investigate configuration of output - in my case comparing what pavucontrol shown with and without docking station indicated that dock was recognized as "USB h...
