Posts by 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
