mr Tsjolder‭

According to the keyboard layout wiki, keyboard configurations (for both the console and Xorg) can be conveniently set using the localectl command. In order to set a second keyboard layout, we hav...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

As the keyboard layout wiki suggests, loadkeys only sets the keyboard layout for the current session. In order to persist these changes, the KEYMAP variable must be set in /etc/vconsole.conf. Thi...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

By digging further into the details of xdg-open, I stumbled upon this page in the Arch wiki. There it states that xdg-open will delegate the task of opening a file to the handler of the Desktop En...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

I somehow managed to unknowingly change the default app for opening directories on my laptop. E.g. when I use the option open containing folder in a program like Evince, my editor (vscode) opens u...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

I am trying to debug an issue with audio playback in MuseScore. During this process, I realised that I had/have no clue about audio playback in Linux (or in general for that matter). I already le...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

Typically it is recommended to reboot your machine after a kernel update (because of the issues you mentioned). If you really do not want to reboot, there is a workaround by means of the kexec sys...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

Not quite sure what exactly happens, but the Erase option should do something like overwriting the data that used to be on the disk. When formatting a disk, typically only the partition tables are...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

I recently updated Gnome to 1:44.0 and since the update my dark mode settings seem to be ignored for Gnome applications. When setting the dark style in Settings > Appearance, the desktop backgr...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

I have multiple systems, each of which has two different hard drives: one fast SSD and my good old spinning rust. Originally, I had set up the drives to have my root directory / on the SSD and my ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Iizuki‭

It seems like Gnome requires xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. that has been removed to be installed. It turns out that things used to work due to a fallback path that has been removed now. Installing t...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭