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Posts by Quasímodo‭

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Q&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 ho...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A 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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys

It is true that Fn combinations are usually implemented in hardware, but in X11 (not Wayland of course!) you can circumvent this issue for most or all your keys.[1] For example, my F3 -> F3 and...

posted 11mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A 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 yo...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&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 (...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&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 --no...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&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...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A 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 frustra...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Monitor computer temperatures

The Linux kernel exposes that via the Thermal Sysfs. You can then print the temperatures with cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp You are better off, however, using tools that collate sen...

posted 11mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to open documentation in qch format in Debian based systems?

I wanted to download C++ documentation and found cppreference-doc-en-qch in Debian's archive: Description: C and C++ standard library reference (English, Qt Help variant) A version of online C ...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Where did xterm's ctrl-middle-mouse-button menu go?

To map it to Ctrl+Backspace you can add XTerm*vt100.translations: #override\ Ctrl ~Meta ~Shift <Key> BackSpace :popup-menu(vtMenu) to your Xresources file and reload the X resource ...

posted 5mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How do you rotate webcam feed by 90 degrees?

mpv --video-rotate=90 --profile=low-latency --untimed av://v4l2:/dev/video0 Press s to take the picture. /dev/video0 is usually the right file, but if the command fails with "inappropriate ioct...

posted 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How to open documentation in qch format in Debian based systems?

Install Qt Assistant (either 5 or 6 works): apt install qt5-assistant This might be already installed, the package in the question does depend on it but for some reason qt5-doc does not, i...

posted 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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