Activity for Quasímodo
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| Comment | Post #287557 |
@#36396, I concur but, regarding the flag, it seems that moderators have no way to move this to main Meta. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288008 |
Fails if directory is empty, but `shopt -s nullglob` will address that edge case. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287922 |
Post edited: keyboard-rate is too specific of a keyword, suggesting simply keyboard instead. |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287922 |
Xorg: Option "AutoRepeat" "0 0"
Console: Maybe Udev rules can help (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287715 |
@#58087, OK, I edited the answer. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287715 |
Post edited: Recursive |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287822 |
Do you experience some inconvenience with that solution, or are you asking really just for a simpler solution? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287835 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Vim bindings not working in terminal python interpretter Python's interactive interpreter uses GNU Readline, so Bash's line interpreter, not Zle, which is Zsh's. Therefore, when you enter `python`, the cursor either won't change or will change accordingly to what you have in `.inputrc`, which is GNU Readline's initialization file. Likewise for the Vi or... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287715 |
Hmm, it's probable that you are right, @#8056. I also found it weird that one would use Find in that case, but after seeing many times weird or downright wrong choice of tools for a given job, one loses a bit of that sense.
Let's wait for clarification, if it doesn't come I will rewrite the answer... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287715 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Recursively remove files with the same name as the ones that end in `.part` It is incorrect for two reasons. 1. File names containing glob characters This is an edge case scenario. Consider this structure: ``` . ├── abc ├── abc.part ├── cde └── ce.part ``` The outermost Find will find - `abc.part`, so `base=abc` and the innermost Find looks for files ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287557 |
This request is valid in many, if not all, communities. I believe it should be in [the main Meta](https://meta.codidact.com). (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287563 |
You say "programmatically manipulate". Does that mean that you would be willing to modify its source code directly, or do you mean writing some external program that would affect the state of the bar?, such as one with Appindicator, as r~~ mentions. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #285654 |
Post edited: Ibus must also be killed |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287421 |
Perhaps there is something wrong on my side, but if I try `startx sh -c 'true; exec $HOME/.xinitrc' 2>logfile`, I get some error with _xterm_ and Xorg fails to start:
```
[...cropped...]
(II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc.
(II) modeset(G0): Initializing kms color ma... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287418 |
I'm afraid you can't do that. See `man startx xinit`. You can create a wrapper that writes a xinitrc before launching startx, though. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287418 |
Thanks for taking the time to write an answer! Just a few notes:
If you are using a terminal based browser you can't see pictures, neither can screen readers read their content.
In particular, this picture is unreadable unless one opens it in a new tab or image viewer.
Please edit the post t... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287370 |
Yes, I am familiar with Git, and though unfortunately not all of the packages are maintained in version control system (and tagged by version), that's certainly a good solution in many cases. Thanks for the answer! (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287234 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Preserve the sources extracted by dpkg-source so as to save time From `man dpkg-source`, -ss Specifies that the original source is available both as a directory and as a tarfile. dpkg-source will use the directory to create the diff, but the tarfile to create the .dsc. This option must be used with care - if the directory and tar... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287074 |
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #282978 |
Post edited: Add a kernel tag |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286999 |
It didn't help much :(. But I confirmed via `top` that the hog is caused by source uncompression, `unxz`. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287074 |
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— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287103 |
Post edited: Add reference for bug closure syntax |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287103 |
Post edited: Provide example |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287103 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Retrieve changes that closed a Debian bug 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 version of [package], which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: Random example. This m... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287074 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How do I deal with a "pending update to "snap-store" snap, close the app to avoid disruption" notification in Ubuntu 22.04? If snap-store itself is preventing the update, it's straightforward: snap-store --quit sudo snap refresh snap-store But sometimes it might be something else, in which case the above solution won't work. In which case the general solution is to first run `snap refresh snap-store`. It w... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287065 |
Post edited: Fix copy-paste leftover |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287065 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Set compose key to Shift + AltGr 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:raltswitchmultikey Right Alt; Shift+Right Alt as Compose To enable it, use setxkbmap -option lv3:raltswitchmultikey You should also pass ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287064 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Set compose key to Shift + AltGr 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 compose key to Shift + AltGr again? Adapted from Ask Ubuntu: Upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 has... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286999 |
Thanks @#8049, I hadn't thought about that. I will try it. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286999 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Preserve the sources extracted by dpkg-source so as to save time It takes a long time to build even the source package for a PPA of a huge project, and while the build isn't finished my computer is under heavy load so I can barely navigate a browser. The frustration is doubled when I get an error during that process. Most of the times, errors are caused by a "m... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286930 |
Perhaps --auto overrides --dpi?
> --auto For connected but disabled outputs, this will enable them using
their first preferred mode (or, something close to 96dpi if they (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286725 |
There is an answer here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/595574 (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286778 |
Did you read `man less`? (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #286518 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Bind brightness/volume and other special Fn keys in a tty 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, systemctl start acpid systemctl enable acpid You can read its manual page and inspect f... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286517 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Bind brightness/volume and other special Fn keys in a tty 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 volume up, mute microphone, brightness up, etc. To solve the problem under X, I bound these special keys u... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286368 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Capture separate _and_ combined stdout/stderr 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 to decide whether stdout points to out.txt or to both.txt, and similarly with stderr. Of course, y... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286318 |
I'm afraid even that is not reliable either.
Something like `cmd 2> >(timestamp_err) > >(timestamp_out)` will inevitably cause a race condition since there are still two concurrent processes.
It is not impossible that, in practice, the order of magnitude of the "average delay" between input re... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286318 |
This seems to be hard enough that even Debian's [`annotate-output`](https://packages.debian.org/sid/devscripts) doesn't do it.
Contrarily to what you claim, Zsh also fails to preserve the order in `both.txt`, as my tests confirmed. From https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Redirection.html, "the... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286058 |
Does it really present a histogram? Not according to [this picture](https://losst.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Snimok-ekrana-ot-2020-08-18-18-15-08.png) (not mine). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284642 |
@Canina I meant that making the key a modifier should not change `showkey` output, i.e. the key press and key release events, be it in `--scancodes` or `--keycodes` mode (I don't have `--keymap` available, my --version says "showkey from kbd 2.4.0"). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284642 |
@#53305 You might want to see the edited answer. Unfortunately I could not find a way to determine the PS/2 mode of my keyboard. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284672 |
Post edited: Add Wikipedia and IBM documents |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285962 |
[Using the yum-cron Interface to Automatically Keep Your System Up To Date](https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/7/yum/ol7-yum-cron.html) (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285881 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Scalable fonts are not loaded into the X server database Further digging led me to this post on the FreeBSD forum, in which a user says that > The functionality of the freetype module is contained in the libXfont library. And sure enough I managed to get scalable XLFDs by enabling the truetype USE flag for libXfont2 and recompiling it. The effect ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285867 |
Post edited: Replace repeated reference |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285867 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285867 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285867 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Scalable fonts are not loaded into the X server database 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 ``` ==> /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/fonts.dir /usr/share/fonts/unifont/fonts.dir <== unifont.ttf -misc-unif... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285831 |
Please see whether deleting the `*.emerg` line solves your problem, as suggested by https://superuser.com/questions/1092244/how-do-i-stop-tomcat-rsyslog-from-logging-to-console (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285831 |
For your future questions, please use the three backticks marks to introduce and end full code blocks. Single backticks are for inline `code` and doesn't work well for multiple lines.
I have also attempted a simplification in the way you display your configuration files. I hope you and readers will ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285831 |
Post edited: Formatting |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285654 |
Post edited: Additional references |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285654 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Disable transient symbols for compose and dead keys in GTK programs 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. Now, to complicate matters, GTK has its own input method too, which is inspired in Ibus, an... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285653 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Disable transient symbols for compose and dead keys in GTK programs 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 happens on the screen until the very last step, at which point `ë` is inserted. That, however, ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285646 |
Post edited: Formatting; Use ls -l instead of ll, since the latter is just your user-defined alias |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285650 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: What does capital T mean in the output of 'ls -l'? The reason why you don't find this in `man ls` is that the GNU project (that developed Coreutils) usually provides the complete documentation of its components not in classic manual pages, but in so called Info documents (for more context, see Unix & Linux: What is GNU Info for?), and that is indeed ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285645 |
Post edited: Mostly code block formatting |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284642 |
@#53305 I use my laptop's keyboard — but since [I read that touchpads may be USB or PS/2](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Synaptics#Installation), I reckon a laptop's keyboard might also be so? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284672 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285301 |
I think looking at `$0` is a simple and portable way to figure out what shell one is running. Since it may be, for example, `zsh` and `bash`, but also `/bin/bash` (i.e., including the directory component), pattern matching with a `case` statement would be the way to go, resulting in a POSIX compliant... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285278 |
Post edited: Add the proper error message; Add link to crosspost; Spelling/Punctuation. |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285278 |
Note that Bash also supports the ** construct. Look for `globstar` in the manual. You could then adapt your statements to work in both shells and do away with the if-elif. Unless you really don't want a recursive traversal under `.functions.d` on Bash, only in Zsh (that's what the script is trying to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285144 |
@#53003 True. "Unix-like systems" or "(almost) POSIX systems" would be more appropriate. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285187 |
A retractation: I'm no native speaker and thought the word "cruft" meant something different, not "trash, debris, etc." Luckily I just looked it up on time to apologize and retract it. I had no intention whatsoever to abase those questions nor to demoralize those who asked them. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #285187 |
Yup, I also feel that way towards Windows (well, non-free software in general) and Smartphones, so I would also prefer never to see those questions. However, at the moment we would receive about a question per day if we merged, and at that rate wading through the cruft wouldn't be hard in the slighte... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285164 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: I deselected a package and changed my mind. How to select it without re-emerging? From Selected-packages set (Portage) — Adding an atom without recompilation (yes, embarrassingly the very link in the question, the word "atom" put me off...), emerge --noreplace xournalpp ``` --noreplace, -n Skips the packages specified on the command-line that have alread... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285156 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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I deselected a package and changed my mind. How to select it without re-emerging? 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 dependency of any other installed package. Hence the aforementioned command does not unin... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #285144 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Should we merge with Power Users? To increase the activity of the site (one of the main concerns related to making Codidact grow), I suggested merging Linux Systems with Power Users on Meta. Do you agree or disagree with merging? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284959 |
Thank you for your kind words. It would be an honour to serve Codidact. I won't be voting on this particular answer so that we can more accurately measure what people think; In case they signal acceptance, I accept the role and hope to live up to the community's expectations. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284956 |
I found a mention of the error message in https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/issues/1353#issuecomment-791727836, perhaps it will be useful. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284821 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Quickly increase virtual console ("TTY") font size on the fly 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 horizontally. This is suitable for high pixel density (e.g. "4k") displays on whic... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284820 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Quickly increase virtual console ("TTY") font size on the fly 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 configuration files such as `/etc/default/console-setup`) or complicated procedures such as looking for avai... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284642 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284672 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Why is Pause/Break key is immediately released? Can that be fixed? From Wikipedia: Break key: > The Pause key is different from all other keys in that it sends no scancodes at all on release in PS/2 modes 1 or 2, so it is impossible to determine whether this key is being held down with older devices. In PS/2 mode 3 or USB HID mode, there is a release scancode, so... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284642 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284642 |
@#8049 Since `showkey` only prints scan codes, it shouldn't matter if the key is made a modifier or not. It's interesting that you cannot reproduce it. I tried it on a spare old computer and it was the same behavior. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284642 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Why is Pause/Break key is immediately released? Can that be fixed? Since the Pause key is useless, I tried to map it to a modifier key. What is straightforward for other keys turned out not to work fine for Pause. By inspecting the output of `xev -event keyboard | grep -E '^Key|state'` for holding Pause and then pressing s, ``` KeyPress event, serial 28, synt... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282978 |
Suggested edit: Add a kernel tag (more) |
helpful | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284594 |
@#8056 Yes, Gentoo's `lesspipe` also looks for `~/.lessfilter`. Very bad taste if you ask me... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284583 |
Post edited: Show environment variables; Explain why the issue may not be reproducible for some people. |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284583 |
@#8049 Thanks, indeed the problem was a different environment variable: `LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s`. So either deleting that variable or using `-L` solves the problem. Would you like to write an answer? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284583 |
@#53503 Please see edit. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284583 |
Post edited: The problem is reproducible in a clean environment |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284583 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Make Less use a normal view instead of hexdump view 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 $ less -EX /var/log/lastlog 00000000 a3 4c d2 60 74 74 79 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.L.`tty2... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284389 |
Post edited: Cleanup comments in first script; Add POSIX shell alternative. |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284389 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: In a bash shell script, how to filter the command line argument list to unique entries only, for processing each? Bash Here Bash's associative arrays come handy. The idea is to put every argument as a key in a separate array, and then only process arguments that are not keys to that array. ```bash #!/bin/bash declare -A processed #Declare that "processed" is an associative array for e in "$@"; do #... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #284250 |
Point 2 is moot: You can put the Sed script in a file and then the shell doesn't get in your way, all quotes are literal. Can you clarify point 1? Sed does allow multi-line scripts and can even do multi-line operations. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #284251 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How to figure out the licenses of files installed from packages? The Debian Administrator's Handbook: The Inner Workings of the Debian Project: > Documentation for each package is stored in /usr/share/doc/package/. (...) The copyright file includes information about the authors and the license covering the software. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #283816 |
@#8049 That is great! I never bothered to find out how to get rid of the latency. Also that led me to find an Arch Linux article with some alternatives (answer edited with that). (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283816 |
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— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283816 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: With a V4L2-compatible webcam, how to see its video feed for the purpose of adjusting aiming? I routinely use MPV for that. mpv --profile=low-latency --untimed av://v4l2:/dev/video0 You may need to try other devices, as listed by `ls /dev/video`. Thanks to Canina for suggesting the two --options, necessary to avoid latency. I also found Arch Linux: Webcam setup: Applications,... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283657 |
Are the dollar signs part of the copied selection? If not, does it not work if you paste it right away in the terminal? In most cases, each newline character should trigger the execution of the line as a command. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283521 |
Post edited: Edit title and remove tag |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283522 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: What are IUSE flags? IUSE flags are simply the list of available and default USE flags for a package as defined by the Ebuild maintainer. Definition IUSE is defined from a developer's perspective in `man 5 ebuild` (not `man ebuild`!): >IUSE > > This should be a list of any and all USE flags that are l... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283521 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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What are IUSE flags? Every Gentoo user knows USE flags. Occasionally I stumble upon IUSE flags, for example, `man emerge` mention them in the description of an option: > --newuse, -N > > ... > > USE flags may be toggled by your profile as well as your USE and package.use settings. If you would like to skip rebui... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281869 |
How would unatended-upgrades package figure out that you, as a person, has access to root account? Also, from the `sudoers` file + (if needed) groups info it could figure whether the logged user has full, partial or no sudo rights, but it could hardly figure out whether a user actually has the sudo p... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283088 |
Post edited: Mention manual page; Add tag. |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283088 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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What does `emerge --update --newuse --deep @world` have to do with package removal? In Debian-based distributions, one can update the system with `apt upgrade` and cleanup unused dependencies with `apt autoremove`. Period. On Gentoo that is apparently not as straightforward. From Gentoo Cheat Sheet: Package removal: > The recommended way to remove a package is by using `em... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282695 |
The question describes that the GTK theme changes. This may be caused by the GNOME desktop environment. If you switch to a non-GNOME environment (no need to uninstall it, rather just don't start it), you might narrow down whether GNOME is to blame by looking at programs that use GTK, such as Firefox.... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282695 |
It's hard to tell what's going wrong. Can reproduce that behavior in a small and simple window manager (e.g. Dwm or Cwm)? GNOME is too pervasive for tracking things down... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282408 |
Post edited: A firmware tag should be appropriate. |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282411 |
Post edited: Some users may already have configured sudoers, so let them choose to use sudo or su. |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282411 |
Suggested edit: Some users may already have configured sudoers, so let them choose to use sudo or su. (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282409 |
Great answer. I'm just wondering about the necessity of editing the modules files (see, for example, [Modules – Debian Wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/Modules#Automatic_loading_of_modules)). In my Debian system the wireless card firmware is auto-loaded at boot and all I ever had to do was to install th... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282408 |
Suggested edit: A firmware tag should be appropriate. (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282372 |
If it contains a non-line, it is not a text file. See for example a more extended answer in [What conditions must be met for a file to be a text file as defined by POSIX?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/446237/what-conditions-must-be-met-for-a-file-to-be-a-text-file-as-defined-by-posix). Al... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281930 |
I don't really ask for a Platonic category of file, but for the POSIX category. Most text-processing utilities (sed, grep, awk, ...) assume text files in the POSIX specification. To keep my applications portable, I try to conform to POSIX. But then there are many users/editors that, for example, don'... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281930 |
Post edited: Fixed misplaced hyphenation |
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helpful | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281930 |
Indeed, I had only read `man 1p file`. To be honest I don't see how the information you bring explains the matter. Note that none of the files are reported as UTF-8, but instead the first three as "ASCII", the next two as "non-ISO extended-ASCII" and the last as simply "data". An important question: ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281929 |
@celtschk Well, `file` is [POSIX specified](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/file.html), so I would suppose it conformed to POSIX idea of what a text-file is. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281929 |
@Moshi But then any kind of file would be a text-file, since you could say it contained zero lines. Even a file with a NUL would be a text-file. Instead, I interpret that if the file contains non-lines, then it is not a text-file. In that sense, an empty text file would be the only case for which "ze... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281929 |
Post edited: Octal 200 cannot be the first byte of a character |
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| Comment | Post #281929 |
@Moshi True, I said 0x80 was straightforwardly invalid but it is not. Still, it cannot be the first byte of a valid character. It forcefully follows that neither file 4 nor file 5 are newline terminated or that they have an invalid character. File 3 is also not newline terminated (even in ASCII encod... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281929 |
Post edited: Fix link that pointed to a irrelevant section; address Moshi's comment explaining why I think files 3 to 6 are non-text files. |
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| Edit | Post #281929 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Why does the file command fail to recognize non-text files as such? POSIX defines - Text file as > A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINEMAX} bytes in length, including the \ character. - Line as > A sequence of zero or more non- \ characters plus a ter... (more) |
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