Activity for mcastâ€
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| Edit | Post #293723 |
Post edited: remove "# to get good help, you have to ask well" as recommended |
— | 4 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293723 |
OK I'll remove it, but it raises a metaquestion,
"if somebody shows signs of being inexperienced, then what duty of care might one assume by giving advice? and what liability if that advice lacks something which later contributes to harm?" (more) |
— | 4 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293718 |
Post edited: +timing and removal |
— | 4 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293721 |
Post edited: +fedora silverblue |
— | 5 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293718 |
Post edited: found a pile of them, and a recipe for poking |
— | 6 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293718 |
Post edited: ongoing |
— | 6 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293723 | Initial revision | — | 6 days ago |
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A: What desktop environment am I running? There will be various clues, but sometimes they can mislead. "I'm on Gnome" means something very different in a modern Ubuntu vs one still hanging around from 10 years ago. (best not to do that) Start with universal There are many graphical environments, but the underlying command line has a co... (more) |
— | 6 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293721 |
Post edited: +risk of uninformative etckeeper history |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293721 | Initial revision | — | 7 days ago |
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A: How do I keep track of configuration changes? > if I configure everything this way, it will turn into a mess, and after a few months I won't know what things I configured where I agree, and would suggest that we are looking for a way to "manage the mess". Other than taking notes as @matthewsnyder said, you can put copious comments with you... (more) |
— | 7 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293720 |
I have accidentally assumed you're on a laptop... (more) |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293720 | Initial revision | — | 7 days ago |
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A: Auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys BIOS Fn / hotkey hack There is another way, although it doesn't sound like something I would like assuming your BIOS will permit (my previous Acer did, this doesn't), you toggle the need for Fn on all function keys then you associate F7F12 as hotkeys to do the audio tasks lower F1F6 are li... (more) |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293718 |
Post edited: ETA: navigating the object tree |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293718 |
Post edited: add screenshot + alt text |
— | 7 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293718 | Initial revision | — | 7 days ago |
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Dark grey/black semi-transparent rectangle covers Gnome Terminal (bug in Enhanced Tiling?) The bug I'm experiencing is that my (one almighty many-tabbed to multiple `screen` sessions in other places) Gnome Terminal started acquiring a dark semi-transparent rectangle over it. I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (noble), and have been using LTS Ubuntu flavours for a long time. The switch from X1... (more) |
— | 7 days ago |