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Question How can I view storage usage breakdown by media type? MWE Notes Commandline would be great, but open to anything.
Problem I want to set a global keyboard rate for both the X session and the console that persists for external keyboards, across plug-ins and removals. To my understanding, Xorg and console sett...
I'm posting the same answer on both sites, because the questions are basically the same. Personally, I am in favor of merging Linux Systems Codidact and Power Users Codidact, ideally by transferri...
Brew's deps command might help: brew deps --installed will list out top-level packages and their installed dependencies. Note that some of the top-level packages might be dependencies for other t...
If I want to yank my last command I can UP yy, but this does not copy to the system clipboard. How do I configure my terminal to copy to the system clipboard so I can paste into other programs? ...
The special Fn keys typically trigger ACPI events, for which the ACPI daemon can trigger actions. Install ACPI daemon (apt install acpid) and make sure it is started and enabled. If it isn't, sy...
I am running Debian stretch on a Lenovo laptop with only a window manager (i.e. no desktop). Out of the box, this configuration of Debian ignores the keys with special Fn functions, such as volum...
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...
To double the font size: setfont -d. To revert to the default font: setfont. From the manual page: -d Doubles the size of the font, by replicating all of its pixels vertically and ho...
I just want to "zoom in/out" in the text console, is there a straightforward command to do that? I have found various sources (1, 2, 3) that either suggest permanent changes (e.g. modifying config...
Each file descriptor can only point to a single file. File descriptors can be duplicated such that both point to a single file, but a file descriptor cannot point to two files. Hence, you have ...
Beginner: Assuming you have experience with windows, my vote for best beginner linux is the quaintly named: Puppy Linux. It is a LiveCD distro. You just stick it on a CD or thumb drive, and boo...
How can I manually set default audio device? I connected docking station and Lubuntu is somehow convinced that it can play audio. I want to continue using laptop speakers. Detaching docking stati...
I executed emerge --deselect xournalpp , which means "I don't need the xournalpp package anymore", so it can be removed by a future --depclean action in case Portage figures xournalpp is not a ...
I have some old X11 applications complain that they cannot find a ISO8859-2 font. So I executed grep -r 8859-2 /usr/share/fonts/ and, to my surprise, found many matches, for example ==> /us...
I have upgraded Xubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 and my compose key, which defaulted to Shift + AltGr, was disabled. It is no longer available in the keyboard settings GUI either. How can I set the com...
unzstd yourfilename.zst works fine sudo apt-get install zstd or similar is likely to be needed
Perl 5's /x modifier ignores whitespace in the regex, but it doesn't seem to ignore whitespace in the replacement (and I don't know enough perl to fix this). However, if you want to match whitespac...
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...
MWE startx && xrandr-invert-colors Problem It seems that anything after startx does not get issued in the resulting X session. I'd like to make a bash function that sets up my monito...
With Debian 12, it seems that mysql-server is not available in the "default" package distribution and thus, cannot be installed with sudo apt install mysql-server or sudo apt-get... (I know that ma...
Begin with the logs I'd begin with the logs: journalctl -u NetworkManager You may want to create a log config file for this: vim /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/95-nm-debug.conf # perhaps sudo, to ha...
My keyboard has keys for mute, volume up, volume down. In i3wm, I used to have these bound with: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id pulsemixer --change-volume +10 --max-volume 100 ...
It is not the most elegant solution, but you may be able to use the string escape function of fish, as in: echo abc | sed -E (string escape 's/b+/X/') This would still escape the special charac...
