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Edit Post #287074 Post edited:
over 1 year ago
Edit Post #282978 Post edited:
Add a kernel tag
over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286999 It didn't help much :(. But I confirmed via `top` that the hog is caused by source uncompression, `unxz`.
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over 1 year ago
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Edit Post #287103 Post edited:
Add reference for bug closure syntax
over 1 year ago
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Provide example
over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287103 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question 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...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287074 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer 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...
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over 1 year ago
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Fix copy-paste leftover
over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287065 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer 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 ...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287064 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question 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...
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286999 Thanks @#8049, I hadn't thought about that. I will try it.
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #286999 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question 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...
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over 1 year 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
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #286725 There is an answer here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/595574
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286778 Did you read `man less`?
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #286518 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer 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...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #286517 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Question 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...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #286368 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer 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...
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almost 2 years 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...
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about 2 years 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...
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about 2 years 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).
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about 2 years 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").
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about 2 years 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.
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about 2 years ago
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Add Wikipedia and IBM documents
about 2 years 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)
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about 2 years ago
Edit Post #285881 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Answer 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 ...
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about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
Edit Post #285867 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Question 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...
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about 2 years 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
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about 2 years 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 ...
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about 2 years ago
Edit Post #285831 Post edited:
Formatting
about 2 years ago
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Additional references
over 2 years ago
Edit Post #285654 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer 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...
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #285653 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Question 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, ...
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #285646 Post edited:
Formatting; Use ls -l instead of ll, since the latter is just your user-defined alias
over 2 years ago