Activity for Karl Knechtelâ€
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| Edit | Post #289792 |
Post edited: Fix example for the starting point; fix attempt to match and explain issues with this attempt |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289792 | Question closed | — | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289792 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Higher-order functions in Bash? Say I have some Bash function `my-func`, that expects a filename and does some processing on the corresponding file. For demonstration purposes, ``` my-func() { cat "$1"; } ``` If I want to apply that function to all the text files in the current directory, I eventually figured out that I can d... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289772 |
(It looks like you've already considered this, but.)
While I'm interested in this task and agree that there's at least an *intuitive* distinction to be drawn between libraries and applications, I'm not sure that there's a rigorous way to defined that distinction that's good enough for a programmat... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289736 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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How can I get a Flatpak dependency graph? `flatpak uninstall --unused` currently tells me that there is `Nothing unused to uninstall`. This seems wrong to me, based on the list of packages I see vs. the "root" packages I explicitly installed plus what I think their dependencies should be. Is there any way I can get Flatpak to show me a gr... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289684 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Suggestion: Basic Linux skills compendium I've been persistently advocating for an analogous effort in the Software community, and generally think that any Codidact community could likely benefit from doing something similar. As a practical matter, everything that can meaningfully be "mastered" has far more beginner practitioners than expert... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289683 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
What are the concrete security risks of forcibly terminating a process? I'm using the Gnome System Monitor in Linux Mint. Whenever I attempt to "End" or "Kill" a process, I am given this warning via a modal dialog (emphasis mine): > Killing a process may destroy data, break the session or introduce a security risk. Only unresponsive processes should be killed. (Sim... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289541 |
Suggested edit: attempt to clarify (more) |
declined | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289541 |
Based on the answer that "worked for" you, it seems that I did have the right "bookmarks" in mind. You can create these in other ways, for example by using ctrl-D in Nemo while a window is focused. (There is an [outstanding bug report](https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/2921) for Nemo, whereby ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289541 |
... Because they persist between uses of the dialog? And because, at least in Nemo, I can see bookmarks in the left-hand panel of the file browser windows? If you had a different kind of bookmark in mind, then I don't understand what it is and the question would probably be better of with an explicit... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289541 |
It's not clear to me how GtkFileChooserDialog relates to the question, since "bookmarked folders" would seem to be an OS-level (or at least window-manager-level) feature, not something specific to an API call for a GUI library. Do you mean that you used a program that generates a file-save or file-lo... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #288309 |
On Stack Overflow I have often ended up closing questions as a duplicate of multiple, mutually unrelated existing canonicals, because the task is a trivial matter of putting those steps together. This isn't exactly ideal, but it's way faster than getting the "needs more focus" close votes. Of course,... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289207 |
It's mainly an aesthetic preference. The desktop is the main place I *put things* for ready access, and I want to be able to *see* whatever ends up there and deal with it according to my preference, without having to hop over to a terminal.
More to the point, I was *surprised* when I initially dis... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289207 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Question | — |
How can I show hidden files and folders (with leading dot in name) on the desktop (actual desktop, not a window)? I am using Linux Mint 20.3, with Cinnamon as a window manager. I have a folder named `.pytestcache` on my Desktop: ``` $ ls -1A | grep '^\.' .pytestcache ``` I know that if I open a Nemo window, navigate to the Desktop, and choose to "Show Hidden Files" (Ctrl-H), I can make the folder app... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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