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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0answers
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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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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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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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0answers
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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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2answers
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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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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 ...
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3answers
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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
Answers given in ...
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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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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 ...
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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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2answers
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How to customize Bash command completion?
In bash, it's easy enough to set up customized completion of command arguments using the complete built-in. For example, if, for a hypothetical command with a synopsis of foo --a | --b | --c, you ...
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6answers
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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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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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1answer
467 views
Can I color-calibrate a Dell U2413 wide-gamut monitor under Linux?
If I get a Dell U2413 wide-gamut monitor to use with Fedora for photography, will I be able to use it properly? I've got a ColorHug, and I see that there's a U2410 ccmx profile; will that get me in a ...
