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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...
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...
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......
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...
How do I make my computer request a new IP from DHCP? I am using Arch with NetworkManager.
I tried to think of some for a while, but couldn't find any good ones. That said, there's plenty of programs I don't know. For reference: $ echo -en "hello\nworld" | tee 1.txt | bat -A ───────┬──...
Hello everyone, I am encountering an issue when running pytest in my virtual environment. Although I have installed the required modules in my virtual environment using pip, I am still getting a M...
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?
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
While there doesn't seem to be a general command like notify-send to hide all notifications, we can use features of our specific notification daemon, like mako in this case, to hide all notificatio...
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...
I had a nightly cronjob start throwing errors about "inappropriate permissions..." rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/data2/home/redacted/alsoredacted/opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/open...
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...
You can find a list of options in man xkeyboard-config. Under the section "key to choose the 3rd level" is the one you are after: lv3:ralt_switch_multikey Right Alt; Shift+Right Alt as Compo...
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 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...
Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS) When I run sudo apt update, apt flags libvkd3d1 and libvkd3d1:i386 as upgradable, but sudo apt upgrade does nothing and reports tha...
The pager less(1) less(1) is the usual pager nowadays; you would do well learning to use it. It's also used for paging the manual pages, in most systems. The most common operation is searching,...
You can use rename for this. Many distributions package it; for example, it's apt-get install rename in Debian. In normal usage, it is used to apply an arbitrary regular expression substitution ex...
You could try and convince Linux kernel maintainers, but they are reticent to that. I wonder what they'll do after POSIX.1-202x (Issue 8) possibly will forbid those. Maybe you could patch your ke...
