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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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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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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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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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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find out which file descriptors share the same “open file description”
If I do (in a Bourne-like shell):
exec 3> file 4>&3 5> file 6>> file
File descriptors 3 and 4, since 4 was dup()ed from 3, share the same open file description (same properties, ...
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What terminal emulators offer tmux integration?
tmux has its control mode, activated with -CC, to allow the terminal emulator to control tmux. iTerm2 uses this to great effect for allowing tmux windows to appear as separate iTerm windows.
Are ...
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Remapping power key to delete
I have a macbook pro running Ubuntu 13.10 with FluxBox. Unfortunately, the power button is physically above the backspace where I would expect the delete key to be in. In OS X, the PowerKey program ...
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Display problem - Random grid appears on screen
I have recently started using Arch with nvidia driver (I had a lot of problems getting nouveau to even work so I decided to try nvidia) and I started experiencing rather odd problems. Every now and ...
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How to make linux 'perf record' work for libc and libstdc++ symbols?
I'm using perf record -g on x86-64 Linux to profile a program. Several symbols in libc or libstdc++ have 0 as a parent: __GI___strcmp_ssse3 (libc) and strcmp@plt (libstdc++) for example. (I can ...
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Poor TTY resolution with nVidia driver
The resolution of the TTY1-6 is poor ~ 640×480
Ubuntu 11.10 | Grub2 | nVidia | NVIDIA GT215 Board
I went through the process on this site and after the edit the GRUB menu appears in the correct ...
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Escape sequences in output of script called from ncurses application
I'm currently running mcabber as my Jabber client (which uses ncurses) in a tmux session on my homeserver. Locally i run iTerm2 as a terminal emulator, which supports the triggering of growl ...
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What filesystem metadata operations are actually journaled in ext4 & xfs?
I can't find a simple, straight answer about which filesystem metadata operations are actually persisted to the ext4 & xfs filesystem journals. Note that I am not inquiring about what POSIX ...
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Personal health records software
Does anybody know personal health records software for Linux?
I want to record blood pressure, pulse, temperature, feel to analyze later. I will write information manually, as my measuring ...
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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 ...
