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Suggested edit: Clarify vs. installing to disk when in live USB (more) |
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A: Run programs of normal OS from a live USB It sounds like what you want is: >There is a program installed in the regular OS on my hard drive, but I am booted into a live OS. How do I run that program? The common way to do this is to use chroot. Linux looks for programs under certain standard paths like `/usr/bin`. If you're in a live... (more) |
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It seems like when used for a wallpaper, feh is designed to pass the image to X and exit. So either I would have to find a way to reinvoke feh when the screen configuration changes, or find another tool.
i3 does get notified about new screens since it adds new workspaces for them. But I don't know... (more) |
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Reliably set a wallpaper in i3 Currently I set my wallpaper by having a call to feh in my i3 config. This does set the wallpaper, but it seems buggy. Whenever my monitor configuration changes, the wallpaper gets moved partially off screen, distorted (too big or small), and empty spaces appear in the corner of the screen. When I re... (more) |
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I think `~/.config` is supposed to be that now. (more) |
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Andreas - on Unix, it's a very common convention to start filenames with `.` to indicate that they should be "hidden". Shells, file listers, file managers are all supposed to oblige by treating them as such. Mac follows this tradition.
Usually the things people want to hide are in fact the config ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291964 |
I would assume that when it's busting the cache for `/` for example, it would only re-scan the parts that changed. It would be very silly if it scanned the whole drive because just one file changed.
I guess baobab doesn't solve your problem then, sorry. Hopefully someone else will find a solution.... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291974 |
I don't use the out of repo tree, I have symlinks from ~ pointing to the repo itself.
I could probably could get the same effect as you say by listing all files in my ~ and then filtering out those which are symlinks pointing to my dotfiles repo. (more) |
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How to clean up junk files in my home directory? After many years of using Arch, and many applications, my home directory is completely cluttered with junk. Of course, much of this is useful and needed for the normal operation of programs. For example, Chrome and Firefox create thousands of files in your `.config` in "normal use". There are also ma... (more) |
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How to find all files not part of a package on Arch? How do I find all actual files (not devices, sockets, etc) on my system that are: Not part of a package Not under `/home` (I assume that packages are supposed to never put files there) on Arch Linux? I've been using this install for a while and I suspect there's been a lot of cruft, like ... (more) |
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A: Efficiently determining disk usage of a folder (without starting from scratch every time) Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer is a GUI program with similar purpose as du and ncdu. I haven't used it in a long time, but I believe caches scan results. Subsequent scans should become faster, barring unexpected cache invalidation (which, granted, is "hard CS problem"). (more) |
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Actually, maybe that's an answer, so I'll post it. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291925 |
It is in fact ext4, but I just realized it's an nvme drive and gets over 1 GB/s. But when you say "internal SSD", is that also nvme? It seems a bit odd it's taking so long for you. Can you try testing the drive speed? You might need `fio` or `nvme-cli`, or Gnome Disks might be able to do it.
As fo... (more) |
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Mute sound on boot When I boot my computer, I want the sound to start out muted, even if it wasn't before. For bonus points: It should also reduce volume to 0% This should also happen when coming out of hibernation I am using Arch Linux, so this will probably need to be done through a systemd solution. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291263 |
Andreas, this is a very common approach in Unix (it is trickier to do on Windows so it's less common there). If you search online for "dotfiles" you can find lots of information. You can also ask here (and use the `dotfiles` tag).
It is a somewhat extensive topic, and it would difficult to cover i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291925 |
`du` which you have mentioned has switches like `--no-dereference`, `--count-links` and `--one-file-system` for dealing with links as well as mounts. Are these enough for you, or do you want something more sophisticated? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291925 |
For me, `ncdu` can do ~1 million files in 5 seconds. `du` on the same is 2 s. This already seems pretty fast. (more) |
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In Gnome? Or in KDE? (more) |
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A: Basic GPU usage monitoring This doesn't really answer the question as posed, but IMO it's a useful footnote: If the primary interest is to monitor GPU usage specifically during a 3D application that uses Vulkan, MangoHud can provide a lot of data through its overlay. This is often more convenient than using system utilities... (more) |
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A: What's the "big picture" of how my operating system is put together? This varies because, being modular, Linux will have different components according to what it's used for. I'll write mainly for a mainstream desktop distro. Systemd manages most of the stack these days. At boot, kernel and systemd are started automatically. You can replace the kernel with a varian... (more) |
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How can I fill out PDF forms? I often need to fill out PDF forms, like government paperwork and stuff for banks. How can I do this on Linux? Best I could find was Foxit, but it has strange limitations in the Linux version, like not being able to use black text (only navy). Also the software is quite low quality and poorly made... (more) |
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Yeah, I think it's much better now. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291800 |
I'm on Arch Linux. I guess I mentioned two concerns: 1) Grub will erase my manual grub.conf changes 2) The syntax of grub.conf is bad. I guess I'm actually more concerned about 2, while 1 is a minor problem. When I check my `/boot/grub/grub.cfg`, one of my entries is ~10 lines and looks very complex.... (more) |
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Confused about what "Linux" means I've heard people say that Linux is a misnomer. Supposedly, the operating system is not Linux, Linux is just a part of it called a kernel, and the operating system should be called something else. But other than times when people are pointing this out, everyone seems to say "Linux" and mean the op... (more) |
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A: What are the most active distros without systemd? I can't answer this question fully, but I'll try my best. A reasonably comprehensive list of non-systemd distros can be found at https://nosystemd.org/. There might be some which are not on that list, but if they're not on that list they're probably not very active, so it doesn't matter in this ca... (more) |
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That curiosity can be readily satisfied by clicking the button saying "Ask Question", surely... (more) |
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