today's howtos
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Change the Priority of PPAs or Apt Package Repositories in Ubuntu
This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, GNU/Linux Mint, and their based systems. Besides using the default system repositories, we can also install additional packages from third-party or software’s own repositories.
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Enrico Zini: ncdu on files to back up
I use borg and restic to backup files in my system. Sometimes I run a huge download or clone a large git repo and forget to mark it with
CACHEDIR.TAG, and it gets picked up slowing the backup process and wasting backup space uselessly.I would like to occasionally audit the system to have an idea of what is a candidate for backup. ncdu would be great for this, but it doesn't know about backup exclusion filters.
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Barry Kauler ☛ Fix xkbcomp warning messages
We have had this issue for a very long time. File /tmp/xerrs.log records stdout and stderr when Xorg is started (see /usr/bin/xwin script), and this is part of it: [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ Fix run X11 apps in containers
Alfons reported that X11 apps, such as ycalc, rubix, even lite-xl, do not start in containers. Try to run them in a terminal, and see "cannot load font" error message.
I found the cause. These apps need to load .pcf fonts, that are at /usr/share/fonts/misc; however, the Xephyr nested server does not look there. It does see the TrueType fonts in /usr/share/fonts/TTF
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Desktop Environments/WMs
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Nico Cartron ☛ Make dmenu do case insensitive searches
As part of my switch to i3, I'm using dmenu to launch applications.
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