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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh
How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances?
More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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How to fix tab completion so it doesn't hide entries?
I'm using oh-my-zsh on Mac OS X with homebrew'ed zsh 4.3.12. I stumbled recently on a weird problem. In scripts/not-used I have several .R files:
breakdowns.R eventloop.R ...
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How can Solaris sub-partitions be accessed in FreeBSD?
First of all, Linux detects the partitions:
sdg1: <solaris: [s0] sdg5 [s1] sdg6 [s2] sdg7 [s8] sdg8 >
However, FreeBSD 9.0 shows only the main partition. Is it possible that only Solaris ...
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vim/gvim failing to put X11 clipboard in registers “+ or ”*?
Due to the lack of security with standard vino server, I switched to use x11vnc on my linux (with Xubuntu 14.04) box and SSVNC on the windows side.
With vino, cut and paste from windows to Linux ...
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Creating a virtual microphone
I run a CentOS Server with VNC enabled and some services require a microphone to work properly, but it doesn't have to be used for recording, just a microphone device available. So I was wondering if ...
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Suse 11 vs. Suse 10 difference impacting terminal colors?
I have my dotfiles versioned on github (shameless fork of other people's fine work). At work, I have them on a central linux server (SuSE Enterprise Linux 10). I rsync them from a central management ...
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Laptop VGA Output Randomly Changes Name Between VGA1 and VGA2
Periodically (every few reboots by the look of it) my external VGA output on my Laptop changes name between VGA1 and VGA2. For example right now xrandr is displaying:
timp@helez:~$ xrandr | grep VGA
...
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How to force applications to not start maximised in Awesome WM?
How to reproduce:
ssh -X user@host firefox (or some other X application).
Maximise the window.
Close the application.
Open the application in Awesome WM (tried only locally, but should also work ...
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missing pieces of certain letters in text in Linux Mint
My problem is that as I type this message, in the second word, "problem", there are horizontal slices of missing bits in both the l and the m.
Following perusal of a similar question on the askUbuntu ...
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aspell installs too many languages
I have installed aspell-en and aspell-de. I have expected this will give me the choice between en and de languages. However, the package has installed many versions of en and de languages and now when ...
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Does Android's implementation of SELinux's M.A.C. inhibit root apps with root privileges from accessing app data?
Starting with Android 4.4 SELinux's MAC is enforced. Does this mean that if an app somehow can get installed and exploit the kernel to get root privileges, that MAC will still prevent that app with ...
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How can I get gmake to give me a list of all included makefiles?
I've inherited a major mess of a makefile network that was itself inherited from another project, with makefiles included all over the place. I'm trying to make a simple change without gutting the ...
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Why are cgroups mapped differently on these two systems by systemd
I have two systems, both running customized variants of OpenSuSE 12.2 (Mantis), both running exactly the same kernel. I get two very different outputs of /proc/self/cgroup or /proc/$$/cgroup on the ...
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Cleanup of temporary file ~/.cache/duplicity/temp failed
Often when I run Duplicity I see an error message like this at the end of the run:
Cleanup of temporary file ...
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Rsnapshot destination full - how to safely rerun?
I ran my Rsnapshot backup today but my external drive became full half-way through the incremental backup (I have about 20 incremental backups now).
"rsync: write failed on "": No space left on ...
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Mint 15 High temps on e-450, fan seemingly not reacting
I'm running a 64-bit Mint 15 on a Lenovo x121e with AMD E-450 and Radeon HD graphics.
I'm worried about the high temperatures (I had Ubuntu before and never even noticed anything, so I never checked ...
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How to recover most recently deleted directories on NTFS partition under Ubuntu 12.04
In Nautilus under Ubuntu 12.04, I accidentally selected several directories on a partition and deleted them at once (unfortunately, I deleted them by Shift+Delete such that they don't remain in ...
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Pop-up event reminders in Korganizer, when synchronizing with Google Calendar
I have "connected" my Google Calendar with Korganizer. I create an event within my Google account. I want pop-up reminders to show up when I go home, even though the events weren't create by ...
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Disable keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird
Is there a way to disable those evil keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird ?
When I accidentally hit a, suddenly the message gets archived and a new Archives folder is created. Similarly other keys bring ...
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How to rebuild glibc on Arch Linux?
It seems like MATLAB is royally screwed up on Linux, because it "dynamically loads some libs with static TLS", which doesn't mean anything to me other than I get bunches of errors.
The suggested work ...
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How to enable “Predictable Network Interface Names”?
I decided to check out what name my ethernet device will end up with, but contrary to other distros, Debian doesn't seem to have activated this change (or is holding it back?),
* Keep the old ...
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GCC (toolchain) for Ralink SoC - ELF not found and syntax error
I bought a Chinese P2P camera and there was no MJPEG stream, so I wanted to compile mjpg-streamer for it. Here's my CPU's info:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : Ralink SoC
processor ...
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How to Pass High Resolution from GRUB2 to FreeBSD?
I boot FreeBSD-10-RELEASE from GRUB2. I have set up the GRUB2 boot menu to display very nicely at my laptop's max resolution of 1024x768x32. I know it's possible to pass this resolution to the boot ...
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Limit on the number of btrfs snapshots?
I am considering using btrfs on my data drive so that I can use snapper, or something like snapper, to take time based snapshots. I believe this will let me browse old versions of my data. This would ...
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What values from debconf-get-selections should not be preseeded?
I want to replicate the Debian installation choices made for my system's current configuration in the installation of a new system.
Debian can be pre-configured through a "pre-configuration" (aka ...
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Why does hdparm see two different values for the size of a drive?
I have a 1 TB drive attached via USB. It contains an LVM physical volume filling the entire device (without any partition table). When I tried to extend a logical volume by using the entire PV, the ...
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No elevated permissions when using GUI applications on i3 wm
I'm running Lubuntu 13.10 with the i3 window manager. Tasks that need elevated permissions, like installing applications from the lubuntu software center or using the gnome-disks, complain about not ...
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How to investigate a random reset on TCP client port connected via loopback interface to a server
I have a test suite which initializes a server on the localhost and then runs thousands of stress tests which include starting and stopping clients connecting to this local server on same machine. I ...
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Command-line incremental backup tools
Which command line backup tool(s) has the best compression ratio? I want to backup my entire system, including media files, text files etc.
I found this list on the Arch wiki site but I don't know ...
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Using git to manage /etc?
I am thinking on a system, where /etc were tracked on a remote git repository. I am thinking on a git workflow, where every host machine where a different branch.
Every previous versions on every ...
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automatic disconnection of RAID array
A RAID array connected to my system (Debian 7) via USB frequently disconnects itself for no apparent reason. Upon initial connection to the system, the device is detected, and the array can be ...
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Set custom locales in Gnome3 (on Fedora 20)
I've created my own custom locales and placed them in /etc/locale.conf which successfully takes effect if I log in on a virtual console (Ctrl+Alt+F2). In my Gnome3 session those variables are not set, ...
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Why does my firewall (iptables) interfere in my bridge (brctl)?
I set up a bridge br0 "attached" to two interfaces:
eth0, my physical interface connected to the real LAN,
vnet0, a KVM virtual interface (connected to a Windows VM).
And I have this single ...
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How to detect a desktop application hanging
I want to write a script that will detect whether a particular desktop application is responding and kill it. Is this possible?
I know I've seen the GNOME desktop put up a "Application is not ...
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Problem Installing UBUNTU 14.04 (AND Mint 16, which is based on UBUNTU 13.10) as dual boot on RAID 0 with Windows 8.1
Ok, I know that there is Dual-Boot Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 on FakeRAID Installation error - question marks "????..." and that that post has some answers for me, but I don't know if it ...
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Is there a tool(!) to list assigned subuid and subgid values for users?
The question is basically in the title.
usermod -v (--add-sub-uids) and usermod -w (--add-sub-gids) can be used to manipulate the subuid and subgid ranges for a user account, but there appears to be ...
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firefox multiple profiles
I have two instances of firefox running under separate profiles:
$ firefox -P default &
...
$ firefox -no-remote -P second &
Now I can open a new tab from the command line with:
$ firefox ...
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Tracking my shell path in Emacs
Not a long time ago, I found the following precious snippet that allows Emacs to track my current directory on any ansi-term buffer.
More specifically, if I cd <some/path> from within a ...
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weird output when typing letter c in shell (non english input)
I had keyboard set to Georgian language input. Forgot to switch it back to English and typed letter c in shell.
c = ც
english c key is mapped to georgian letter ც - if this makes any difference.
...
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Execute code on shutdown on Fedora 19
I need to catch any OS shut down and execute some actions before letting the OS be shutted down.
I'm using Fedora 19 and C++.
I'm able to catch a shutdown signal given by the console with the ...
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Why mutt keeps asking for imap username and password?
Unsetting mutt's configuration variables imap_user, imap_pass (and perhaps preconnect, imap_authenticators as well) via an account-hook . "unset ... " call, seems to be common practice, if not a ...
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Create a custom XDG_DIR with custom icon
I'd like to create a custom XDG_CUSTOM_DIR directory in my home directory pointing to $HOME/Custom and assign an icon to it.
I've done:
xdg-user-dirs-update --set CUSTOM ~/Custom
So far so good... ...
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Convert UTF-8 character to xmodmap name
Is there a way of converting a UTF-8 character to its corresponding xmodmap name?
So if the input is ” the output would be rightdoublequotemark.
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Is there a multi-user webdav server available for linux?
I'm looking to completely decommission my SMBA service and replace it with a WebDav service.
All the google searches so far have pointed me to using Apache / Webdav. This is close to what I need but ...
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EDID Invalid on USB DisplayLink Device
I have a Sabrent USB to HDMI adapter which is a DisplayLink device. It's recognized by udl as being a DisplayLink device, yet seems to be rejected/disabled due to having an invalid EDID:
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Auto-switching PulseAudio profiles based on input(s) channel count
I'm running audio over HDMI to my receiver, which has a full 7.1 setup connected to it. However, most of the stuff that I listen to has far fewer channels—some is mono, most is stereo, a bit is 5.1. ...
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GRUB 2 scripting: convert device name in GRUB notation into a Linux device name
I'm trying to use partition labels (or UUIDs, that does not matter) to select root partition without use of an initrd/initramfs.
With initramfs, this is fairly easy: root=LABEL=... or ...
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Unable to reconnect to a WiFi network on Fedora 20?
Problem
After leaving my Fedora 20 laptop running overnight, I open it back up and it prompts me to re-enter the password for my home WiFi network. The password is already typed in and censored, but ...
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How to get a Finepoint Digitizer Tablet to work under Fedora Core 16?
How to get a Finepoint Digitizer Tablet to work under Fedora Core 16?
The hardware in question is a Gateway m285-E. It uses an active pen (has a battery in the pen).
cat /dev/ttyS0
returns ...
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Is it possible to use xsetroot and dwm to set the top and bottom bars at different time intervals?
I'm using dwm with the dualstatus patch. This adds a status bar on the bottom of the screen, in addition to the standard bar at the top. The text in each bar is set in ~/.xinitrc (for example) like ...
