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Activity for Karl Knechtel‭

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Edit Post #289684 Initial revision over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #289683 Initial revision over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year ago
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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 ...
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over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year 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,...
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over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #289207 Initial revision over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year ago