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How do I find files? How can I search for files on my system? Ideally, I would like to search by various criteria, like date, name, extension, etc. (more) |
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How do I tweak the start parameters of GUI apps? There are many GUI apps on my computer that show up as eg. items in the start menu. When I launch these, what if I want to control how exactly they are launched, such as setting environment variables or adding additional parameters? For example, I can of course type `SOMEENVAR=foo gedit --some-arg... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289646 |
I don't have time to write a full answer.
However, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI explains most of it. There are multiple graphics frameworks (GTK, Qt, etc) that each have their own separate configuration. Xorg itself also has global DPI settings which the graphics frameworks may or may no... (more) |
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How do I globally configure consistent DPI for GUI apps? How do I configure my system so that all GUI apps use a consistent DPI, without configuring each app individually? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289645 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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How to fix DPI for Spotify Spotify runs on my computer with higher DPI (bigger UI elements) than I'd like. How can I reduce it? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289619 |
A different IP. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289620 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How to get a new IP address from DHCP? Restarting NetworkManager should be enough: `sudo systemctl restart NetworkManger` (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289619 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How to get a new IP address from DHCP? How do I make my computer request a new IP from DHCP? I am using Arch with NetworkManager. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289618 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How do you terminate a DHCP lease in OpenWrt? There is not a way to do this from the Web UI (LuCI). Instead: SSH into the router Delete the corresponding line from `/tmp/dhcp.leases` However, note that this is not enough to get a new IP. Clients tend to request a renewal of the IP they had before, and the router will grant it if it does... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289617 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How do you terminate a DHCP lease in OpenWrt? I am testing some DHCP stuff, and I want to manually end a lease so I don't have to wait hours for them to expire. How can I do this with OpenWrt? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289616 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Static IP on wired LAN I did this with NetworkManager. `nmtui` to open the TUI interface and then select "Edit..." and the ethernet connection You can also use the equivalent GUI or CLI commands, but I find them harder to use Next to `IPv4 Configuration`, click `Show` to see connection details. Go to `Address... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289615 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Dnsmasq vs. dnscrypt-proxy I am trying to run a DNS server on my LAN. I set it up where: Dnsmasq is the "initial" server that clients see Dnsmasq resolves internal domains, and handles overrides (such as if I want to block an ad domain) via its `dnsmasq.conf` file Dnscrypt-proxy also runs on the same machine, and dnsma... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289544 |
Trial and error it is then. :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289541 |
>"bookmarked folders" would seem to be an OS-level (or at least window-manager-level) feature
Why? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289544 |
Do you know if there is official documentation on the syntax of this file? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289541 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Where does GtkFileChooserDialog store bookmarks? I have some bookmarked folders in GtkFileChooserDialog. I want to add these to my dotfiles. Where are the bookmarks stored? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289510 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Run a command *later* How can I run a command later? I'm looking for a CLI way to schedule a command to be run later. I know that I could create a systemd timer, install it, activate it... That is too much work. I want something like `runlater 10min somecmd` and `somecmd` runs 10 min later. I don't want to do `sleep... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289492 |
Exactly what I was hoping for! Magic, indeed. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289489 |
Ripgrep for example has a great way of handling cases. If query is all lower case, it does case insensitive. If it has upper case chars, it is case sensitive. You can also force case sensitive with a switch. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289489 |
Case sensitive search is annoying, no fuzzy search, a lot of complex hotkeys that are hard to remember... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289490 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Ergonomic way to search man pages Not a real answer, but these days there are some nice LLM models and they're good at summarizing text. If you have the CLI scripts to interact with them, you can submit the man page as the "system prompt" (in ChatGPT parlance) and ask the question in the "user prompt". This will be somewhat slow a... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289489 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Ergonomic way to search man pages You often have to read man pages to use Linux/Unix software. However, many man pages are not easy to read. They are very long, not always conveniently arranged, and `man` does not appear to have any way to handle indices or sections. A great example is `man rsync`. I am often in a situation where ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289487 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Highlight regions in an image with CLI I have an image (a photo) and I want to highlight certain parts of this. I want to do this from the CLI. I am planning to store the pixel coordinates of polygon vertices in a file, and when I run a script, a new image should be applied with the polygons highlighted. I am going to be making a lot o... (more) |
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A: Internet connection and touchpad not working on Ubuntu 22.04 after a force shut down This won't be an exact answer. I think with the way it's described, there could be many reasons why the issue manifests. However, the good news is that the live ISO works, therefore the problem is NOT a bug in the Linux kernel or Ubuntu OS. I think that if you did a fresh install of Ubuntu, your h... (more) |
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Do I have to update Guix frequently like Arch? Guix is a rolling release distro. Another well known rolling release distro is Arch Linux. In Arch, you are expected to frequently do system updates. Partial updates are not supported. In my experience, what happens when you try to partially update package `X`, it turns out it now depends on packa... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289462 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Do you still need to update archlinux-keyring before pacman -Syu? For some time pacman used to have a problem where: Occasionally Arch maintainers introduce new GPG keys They start signing packages with the keys Your local pacman doesn't receive these until you update `archlinux-keyring` When you do a full system update, some new packages are signed with ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289454 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Low impact trial installation of Guix to test hardware compatibility I like how Guix sounds based on what I've read, and I want to try it. However, my partitioning scheme is a bit complicated. With Guix it appears like my biggest concern is hardware (I will regrettably need the non-free drivers). So I don't want to resize and move my partitions around, install Guix, o... (more) |
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