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Mouse Scroll Wheel Reversed by Latest Update — So my Xubuntu box has just finished a biggish update, and I find myself scrolling the wheel the wrong way. My muscle memory insists that rolling the wheel down pulls the scrollbar down, which scrolls the text up. It seems counterintuitive to push the wheel up to get to the bottom of the page. And yet, that is what my computer now expects. But it is possible that I am just nuts. [A few minutes later] Luckily easily fixed with the control panel…
Static (Non-Blinking) Cursors -- small compilation of settings to make cursors stop blinking annoyingly... -- [gemini link]
Linux Mint seems to work surprisingly well with one of those Lenovo 100w gen 4 laptops. I'm not sure how well other distros would work. It's nice to find a small laptop that isn't a damned Chromebook.
When I start to wander into the weeds of POSIX shell, I come across some wacky stuff. Today's find: Backslash-escaped newlines (used for breaking up a command over multiple lines) are discarded entirely when parsing a line. That means any token that is split using a backslash-escaped newline, if there is no other whitespace present, is reassembled into a single token by the shell. If your shell is POSIX-compliant (most are), you can see this effect for yourself. Running [preformatted] is…
Void Linux is the most stable rolling distribution I have ever used. I pulled out a computer I haven't used in a while. It's running Void. Did a full system update, absolutely no issues. I took a look at what it was running before the update. A couple packages that have a date for a version were dated 2021. Before I got onto Void I used Arch for a year or two. It gave me so much trouble. In that short time I had to do a couple fresh installs because updating something or other requires manual…
Seems I'm starting to miss the "GNU" part in "Linux"...
SELinux is something about: no, you can't read this file from the /home/user location, but you can download it from githubusercontent.com These people are running the show.
Copying actually moves files — For decades of using various file managers, when dragging files or directories the default convention was to copy if moving to a different device and move when on the same drive. Suddenly I am finding source files disappearing when dragging across drives. Have you noticed that or am I going nuts?
Linux geminauts, what display server protocol do you use? — i was curious earlier today so i figured i'd ask
Recovering full BTRFS volume — I brought a SSD for my database, and decided to use BTRFS on it since I have read that it is better for SSDs. But after a few weeks my database application crashed because device is seemingly full. SSD has 256 GB of data (now read-only), with ~118 GB of actual files (btrfs fi du agrees). But fi usage says: [preformatted] Overall: Device size: 238.47GiB Device allocated: 238.47GiB Device unallocated: 1.02MiB Device missing: 0.00B Device slack:...
ls but The Unix Way — Where I build a composable ls toy...
Linux Drags In Unnecessary Crap
tmux Pane Labels — I have a tmux session running on a VPS which contains a bunch of panes, each running a specialized fornax gemini server (with a different game each). As these run, they spit out a bunch of diagnostic information, which scrolls. After a while it's impossible to tell which pane contains which server. It was surprisingly difficult to figure out how to identify each pane. Here is a quick recipe for showing the name of the selected pane on the status line: In .tmux.conf: [...
zim wiki! — anybody here use zim wiki? if you use it, what do you use it for? besides organizing information, i also use it as a static site generator for one of my blogs. at first its output seemed a little limiting, but after making several custom templates to my aesthetic/functional liking, the fact that it's rudimentary turned out perfect for me. instead of thinking about how i will structure my new "today's-post".html file into my site, or instead of rewriting my website navigation if i...
Linux Foundation is nuts. — Words are words, and like any blunt object may be used as a weapon or a stepstool. Unfortunately the Linux foundation, instead of focusing on Linux wants to change our language under the banner of 'diversity and inclusivity' by banning words. Master/Slave, valid engineering terms, out. Retarding, nope. I imagine, delayed is also frowned upon. Blacklist is not allowed. Whitelisting is also racist. Black anything is a nono. How about brown, yellow, pink, rainbow or...
With the release of Debian 13 which includes KDE 6.3 I find myself tempted to switch away from Fedora. Nothing against it but I think I might be getting too old for weekly updates! With flatpak I have as recent software as I want and for CLIs and libs, well, I don’t need everything latest… There’s still some FOMO but then again almost everything out there comes in a .deb to begin with! Has anyone here made the transition to the slow lane?
is there any way to get the git status in a couple characters? (ie +32 -10) for a custom prompt? i tried researching but the closest i could find was git diff --shortstat, which is one line but very very long
So... I have a problem. Just switched back to Fedora, and it was going fine, until I restarted today, and now my system is stuck in "emergency mode". Says "Press enter to continue" and gets stuck on "Starting default.target". So, I have no idea what to do to fix this. There were no error messages. I tried checking the fstab, and that's fine. I checked the btrfs partition for errors, and there weren't any. I disabled the nvidia hibernation services (using chroot), and that didn't fix anything....
Network speed limiting. — I am looking for a way to limit the speed of my network connection to simulating a modem connection, 28.8k like my first modem. I found NetEm and tc command, is this a good choice?
I'd like to set up my non-GUI Debian 12 system so that it automatically launches a specific program in each TTY I log into. Eg: htop on TTY1, mc on TTY2, etc, but I'm not sure exactly what to set up and where. Any advice would be very appreciated.
I've re-installed my OS Debian this weekend as a bit of a refresh, clearing unwanted junk and to get a bit more familiar with the tools I use, especially around locations of config files and how PATH environment variables work and things. It's been a great learning experience. I was wondering if anyone would like to share their methods, if you do this, so I can consider updating my workflow. I have a big [note] that lists everything I need to do once installed. I found my prior backup a bit all...
I'm trying to build my first Flatpak app for some application that people can't install on their modern systems. It's written in C++, requires libboost and some other dependencies to build, like libssl-dev, libdb++-dev, etc. Can I install them from the Flatpak or I should build them from the source?
I want to try DietPi, but my Orange Pi PC+ is not listed there. How difficult is it to create this build for myself? Previously, I patched Armbian to get the LCD screen working, but I'm not sure about the device. Could I potentially damage it by providing incorrect settings at the OS level? [https link]
What about the default firewall on Fedora? Previously, on Debian I used simple ufw frontend for iptables, but I'm not sure if that's what I want here. Could someone advise me on how to create a safe configuration until I run Yggdrasil?
How can I run 'dnf' command without updating repositories cache all the time: [bash] I turned the web upside down, tried -C command, added alias to .bashrc, tried to add 'check_config_file_age=False' and 'metadata_expire=-1' to '/etc/dnf/dnf.conf'but nothing helps - still same message on every dnf install run: [bash] Madness! I never encountered this problem on Debian, but I want to use Fedora because of the Clang bindings, which I need for development.
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