Activity for Quasímodo
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| Edit | Post #285650 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #285645 |
Post edited: Mostly code block formatting |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284672 |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #285278 |
Post edited: Add the proper error message; Add link to crosspost; Spelling/Punctuation. |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #285144 |
@#53003 True. "Unix-like systems" or "(almost) POSIX systems" would be more appropriate. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #285164 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #285156 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #285144 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284821 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284820 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284642 |
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| Edit | Post #284672 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284642 |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284642 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #282978 |
Suggested edit: Add a kernel tag (more) |
helpful | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284594 |
@#8056 Yes, Gentoo's `lesspipe` also looks for `~/.lessfilter`. Very bad taste if you ask me... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284583 |
Post edited: Show environment variables; Explain why the issue may not be reproducible for some people. |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #284583 |
@#53503 Please see edit. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284583 |
Post edited: The problem is reproducible in a clean environment |
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| Edit | Post #284583 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284389 |
Post edited: Cleanup comments in first script; Add POSIX shell alternative. |
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| Edit | Post #284389 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #284251 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #283816 |
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| Edit | Post #283816 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #283521 |
Post edited: Edit title and remove tag |
— | over 2 years ago |
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