today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2025

• Disable Centered Window Placement on Ubuntu

  More tweaks. The Problem On Ubuntu 24.04, terminals and other windows open in the center by default due to the GNOME auto-placement policy. The Solution You can disable this behavior and force new windows to open in a corner. $ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter center-new-windows false

• Hackaday ☛ Linux Fu: Use The Source (Command), Luke

  You can argue if bash is a good programming language or not, but you can’t argue that it is a programming language. However, there are a few oddities about it that make it different from most other languages you probably know. For one thing, variables are dynamically scoped. Second, you can easily change variables in an upper scope. This leads to a problem when you want to do something like reset your path:

• Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install Input Leap to share Mouse / Keyboard between Linux, backdoored Windows & macOS

  Got multiple computers/laptops but only one mouse & keyboard? Without buying a KVM switch, here’s a software can do the job sharing them between your computers. It’s Input Leap a free open-source application forked from Barrier, allowing to use single mouse and keyboard to control multiple computers in same local network.

• Matěj Cepl: Dreaded “Too many arguments” error with cd

  When using bash(1) option autocd I get often to the situation that multiple directories is found, and then cd fails to work with the error I begun to dread: “bash: cd: too many arguments”.

• TecMint ☛ [Updated] How to Find Running Services in GNU/Linux with Systemd Commands

• Unleash Sonic Perfection: Configuring PipeWire with an RT Kernel for Low Latency Audio