Unanswered Questions
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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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1answer
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Keymapping problem when working with Emacs and Openbox
I have an Apple keyboard and I had to do some remapping of the keys to make the mod-4 key the first key to the left of the Space bar for when working with Emacs. The below script worked fine when I ...
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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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4answers
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support for utf-8 encoding with lpr
While trying to send a text file to the printer via lpr from xterm, the content was corrupted beyond recognition, the cause of which was ultimately traced to the encoding of the file. If I instead ...
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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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1answer
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Kernel modesetting hangs my boot, but the ATI driver requires it
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro. It has an integrated Intel video card and a discrete ATI video card. Ideally, I'd like my Xorg to use the ATI card with the free driver (no Catalyst).
Here's the ...
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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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3answers
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Enabling IOMMU in the kernel for graphics card pass-through
Short question:
How can I turn on the intel_iommu setting in the Linux kernel? I run a Debian host, using the grub2 bootloader. Documentation I've seen says to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, which seems ...
8
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1answer
536 views
USB audio only outputs white noise
I am running OpenBSD/i386 5.1 on a 5 year old laptop. The speakers and headphone port work, but the headphone port is a little loose so I am trying to install an external USB sound card (Fiio E17 USB ...
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3answers
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Using real time kernel headers to compile userspace code vs default headers
Per customer requirements, I installed CentOS 5.6 with the default kernel. With this kernel installed, the time.h file includes the #define CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Now, a real-time kernel was installed ...
8
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1answer
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How to fix Java applications mouse pointer offset in Awesome WM?
How to reproduce in Awesome WM v3.5.2 through 3.5.5 (so far):
Install OpenJDK or Oracle Java 7. This bug has been observed with both.
Start a new Awesome WM session with the default configuration.
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0answers
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Reserve fixed RAM memory region as a block device ( with a given start physical address)
There have been a lot of questions about RAM Disks and I am aware of ramfs and tmpfs which allow the use of ram as a block device. However my interest is in using a fixed memory address range as a ...
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0answers
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regarding portable sed -e… d b or ! b?
In this edit
Stéphane Chazelas POSIXifies (again) my sed formatting by inserting an -expression break and another -expression statement. Now, I might just ask him why in the comments, I suppose, but ...
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5answers
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“find: .: No such file or directory” while using find on the current directory
Find command seems not to work at all. For example, I'm in a directory where there absolutely is file named index.php and I execute this:
[root@server htdocs]# find . -name "index.php"
find: .: No ...
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2answers
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A shell-like environment for binary processing
This question came to me a couple of times before, now in response to the question
Loop through binary data chunks from stdin in Bash
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