Notes
This page contains various notes I've collected on various (technical) subjects. That can be small code snippets, handy commands etc.
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CSS
Debian
Fedora
GIT
GNOME
GNU/Linux (desktop)
GNU/Linux (general)
GnuPG
ImageMagick
mutt
Perl
screen+tmux
Shell
Vim
Archive
CSS
Force a "hand" cursor
Debian
Up-to-date Nvidia driver on Debian stable
Fedora
Using screen-bce on Fedora
The vulkan swrast lavapipe driver is being used instead of the nvidia driver
GIT
git push with a pre-push hook exits with 141
Label a file for adding some time in the future
Staging partial commits
GNOME
GNOME 3: Lock and unlock the screen from the commandline
Run a script on login in GNOME
GNU/Linux (desktop)
VirtualBox: Hide the statusbar and menubar
Disable HTML5 video in Epiphany/Webkit2
Fix choppy video in firefox installed as a flatpak from flathub
Fix choppy audio when using pipewire while the system is under heavy load
Add a tray/statusnotifier icon for Signal
Enabling "sudo mode" in GNOME
sudo with X11 programs
Run a command on resume using systemd
GNU/Linux (general)
Automatically run a command on boot as a user
Install a local .deb package (and resolve dependencies)
Logrotate as a user
Rsync "sparse" files (aka. files with holes - ie. kvm/qcow images)
Run a command as root with sudo without password prompts
Use xz for logrotate
Various useful utilities
GnuPG
Generating a new GPG key
gpg: Quick and dirty
ImageMagick
Resize an image to a fixed size while maintaining the aspect ratio
mutt
Maildir-indexing for full-text search
Perl
A simple one-liner REPL
screen+tmux
Recreate a deleted screen socket
Recreate a deleted tmux socket
Shell
Detach a process from its terminal in bash/zsh
Vim
Disable any use of bold fonts
Archive
GDM3: Set default session/desktop environment in Debian 6 (Squeeze)
HOWTO: Using GNOME3 without pulseaudio in Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Nicer KDE apps when running under a GTK-based environment (ie. GNOME)
Using pulseaudio on a second X server (on Fedora 18)
Using wine on Fedora with SELinux enabled