young_souvlaki‭

Question What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive? Notes I am partitioning the drive with fdisk and making the filesystem ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Ullallulloo‭

How do you find out the number of files in a directory from the command line?

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Canina‭

How can I convert PDF to docx using the terminal or a Linux app? The output docx must be formatted with editable text. Some alternative solutions I've seen online using soffice and abiword output...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by samcarter‭

Question How do you specify underscores as Vim word boundaries when using vim mode in either bash or zsh? MWE w on this_word should place the cursor on the underscore. A second w should place th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by young_souvlaki‭

Problem I want to set a global keyboard rate for both the X session and the console that persists for external keyboards, across plug-ins and removals. To my understanding, Xorg and console sett...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Quasímodo‭

If I want to yank my last command I can UP yy, but this does not copy to the system clipboard. How do I configure my terminal to copy to the system clipboard so I can paste into other programs? ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by InfiniteDissent‭

MWE startx && xrandr-invert-colors Problem It seems that anything after startx does not get issued in the resulting X session. I'd like to make a bash function that sets up my monito...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by celtschk‭

How do I copy to clipboard from terminal with yy, assuming it's configured to use Vim bindings? I am using zsh with bindkey -v.

0 answers  ·  posted 20d ago by young_souvlaki‭

MWE touch d less d # jump to editing d without leaving less Question Is there a way to edit a file from viewing it in less? Jumping straight into Vim would be preferred, but an answer for e...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by celtschk‭

I'd like to use the answers in this post while using zsh: compgen -c # will list all the commands you could run. compgen -a # will list all the aliases you could run. compgen -b # will list a...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Canina‭

Problem I can rotate output, but it does not fill screen. Instead it rotates in place so that the right side of the screen goes off the monitor. xrandr --output HDMI-2 --auto --mode 1920x1080 --...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by young_souvlaki‭

This was fixed after restart. I believe this was caused by updating without restarting. It's possible it also had to do with disconnecting the HDMI cable.

posted 7mo ago by young_souvlaki‭

Have I have the DPI on my laptop set in .Xresources with Xft.dpi: 192. I am outputting to the external monitor with: xrandr --output HDMI-2 --auto --rotate left --right-of eDP-1 Want I want ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by young_souvlaki‭

MWE Add bindkey -v to your ~/.zshrc. Invoke python interpreter: python. Type something into the prompt without hitting ENT: this = "this" + "that". Press ESC and try any vim bindings successi...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Quasímodo‭

Problem I'd like to be able to decrease images, particularly jpg and png's, either to a percentage of the original file, or a specified size in bytes. MWE decrease --size=900KB -o image_small....

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by young_souvlaki‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by young_souvlaki‭