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Make `set -o vi` vim cursor reflect editing mode when in `read`
I have a script read.sh:
read -ei "hello world"
eval $REPLY
Upon executing chmod +x read.sh and then running ./read.sh, I notice that pressing Esc followed by b or w jumps between the ...
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Strange Grub and lightdm garbled texts
as you can see in pictures grub and lightdm has garbled fonts.
I think it's about refresh rate of monitor. Monitor is 100hz.
How can I change grub refresh rates?
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Docker Container Mount Name, Type and other values
I am writing a bash script and I am aware that I can get information of the mounts attached to a container using docker inspect --format '{{.Mounts}}' <container-name> which gives a result such ...
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`sudo which` command not finding executable that exists in regular user PATH
I'm encountering a confusing behavior with sudo and the which command. An executable is found when running which as a regular user, but not when using sudo which, even though it's accessible when ...
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Two calendar months on the same page
How do I, from scratch, produce a calendar for printing on A4, that is two landscape month calendars side-by-side? I.e.,
Each month's calendar is in landscape view, and the two are placed side by side ...
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MariaDB won’t start after php-updater change – "Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB"
I am running Nextcloud on Debian 11. Recently I tried upgrading using php-updater, and afterwards MariaDB stopped working properly.
System details:
Debian 11
MariaDB 11.3.2
Apache with mpm_prefork (no ...
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manage route redirects received from the default gateway
tldr;
where does a Linux system store route redirects from its default gateway?
First some context:
network1 192.168.1.0/24
default gw: 192.168.1.1
host1: 192.168.1.10
host2: 192.168.1.20
network2: ...
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Postscript: put two landscape pages side-by-side on landscape page
I have two .ps files, 09.ps and 10.ps. They're both landscape PostScript files.
I want to,
fit each onto a vertical (portrait) page, scaling it down to fit the width and centering it vertically. Then,...
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How to rsync a large file by comparing earlier versions on the sending end?
Every day, the remote site builds a large file, and they store the previous few days worth of this file.
Every day, they want to transfer that file to my server, but sometimes it takes in excess of 24 ...
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xfce problem with 2 monitors over a dockingstation
I'm running xfce on a lenovo t460 and a dockingstation. I have the device screen and one screen connected over vga and one connected over dvi. on the dvi screen when i open a window on my desktop and ...
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Determine which are P-cores/E-cores (Intel CPU)
I have a Intel Core Ultra 5 135U processor with heterogenous cores (performance, power-efficient and low power efficient).
How do I check which processor is which?
I tried to see /proc/cpuinfo, but ...
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Some GTK apps don't open before a 30s dbus timeout
This happens for a whole session, every time I launch these apps. For instance, here's the output of dbus-run-session nautilus in such a session:
dbus-daemon[8530]: [session uid=1000 pid=8530 pidfd=5] ...
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sed: invalid usage of line address 0
I need to keep only last 30 days events in the log and remove other data.
Log has timestamp (date +%e/%b/%Y:%H:%M) and next line values like
01/Jan/2025:00:00
value1
value2
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01/Jan/2025:06:45
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Problem with xcb with shm and image = still flickering
I want to show how does it work under X11 with Xshm etc = OK fine if you resize window without flickering problem.
Example:
Code main.c ( X11 version )
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/...
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How to disable Gnome click sounds?
I'm not using Gnome as a desktop environment, but I use some Gnome-related programs. When I press one of the buttons in the title bar in e.g. GEdit, GThumb or ScreenKey or go to the parent folder in ...