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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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...
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...
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 boot ...
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...
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 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 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 ...
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...
unzstd yourfilename.zst works fine sudo apt-get install zstd or similar is likely to be needed
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...
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...
Gnome should have a Settings app with a Keyboard shortcut section. Here you can click Add Custom Shortcut which will let you bind any key to any shell-style command. source Unless you are very sur...
From what I can tell, both NixOS and Guix are built around a package manager which, instead of installing package into the "common environment" as is traditional, isolates them to mitigate issues a...
