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Get process's timeslice in user mode [migrated]
How can I get the value of process's timeslice in user mode? I designed a new scheduling policy, and I want to check if processes with the same policy (my policy) have the same timeslice to run. It is ...
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Install x11 on my own linux system
I have developed my own tiny linux file system using buildroot and busybox. I used linux-2.6.38.8 kernel configured and cross-compiled for target system(X86) according to needs.Now the filesystem is ...
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Are there any standards/documents which tell me how to produce such nice help messages?
This is a follow up to a previous question, where Silverrocker suggested a nice way to display a help message similar to commands like ls or du.
program --help
Usage: program ...
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getopt, getopts or manual parsing - what to use when I want to support both short and long options?
Currently I'm writing a Bash script which has the following requirements:
it should run on a wide variety of Unix/Linux platforms
it should support both short and (GNU) long options
I know that ...
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In the usage string of my custom shell script, shall I also display --help and --version?
I'm currently developing a shell script, called up, which shows a usage string on the commandline when called with --help. The output looks like this:
$ up --help
usage: up [-n ...
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Why is the terminal case-sensitive?
When I do - CD .. instead of cd ..
it gives me error saying -
CD: command not found
Why is the terminal case sensitive when it comes to linux commands? I mean you should be able to execute the ...
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Modeless vs modal editors
I just started learning Linux and all my previous experience of programming has been using the Windows platform. I came across Vim editor and read that it is modal editor unlike notepad which is ...
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vim: How to switch to the directory listing from file view?
I have opened a dir vim some/dir. I can navigate within the tree, yet once I opened a file I wonder, how do I close the file view in order to go back to the directory listing to navigate to another ...
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apple-like momentum scrolling in linux?
is there a way to make the scrolling on a linux machine (running X11) more like apple's natural scrolling? With 'natural scrolling' I mean the fact that you can flick trough the pages, there is ...
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Light GUI user interfaces
I have some older machines that cannot run new versions of Debian/Ubuntu/SUSE/etc on KDE and GNOME GUI, they just crash. It's probably because of the graphics card driver or unsupported graphic cards ...
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how to forbid a command without a permission
I intended to delete all the backup files in a directory, so I was going to type rm *~ in the terminal. Unfortunately, I hit the Enter before hitting the tilde and unhappy things happened. Although, ...
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Which Linux distro supports GNOME 3 by default?
I was planning on installing a new Linux distribution and I am thinking of trying GNOME 3 interface. Other than Fedora 16 (which has GNOME 3 as default) which other distro supports it? I know it can ...
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Screen blinks when unauthorized action is attempted
I'm running Fedora 16. When I'm using vim or the terminal and I mistakenly direct the cursor to an inaccessible place, eg when the cursor is all the way to the top or left of the screen, the whole ...
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What linux is best suited for people new to computers?
What would be the easiest linux for people who are new to computers?
The computers here have 256Mb RAM with 40GB hard-disks.
UPDATE:
Most of them apparently have more than 265MB of RAM with some ...
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How to turn off the help menu in Lynx
I have a really small space reserved to Lynx for a quick lookup, as I need that often. However, the "Help" menu takes a lot of space and I don't really need it now.
The red oval is what I want to ...
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Linux distribution that offers a good KDE experience
I have been a Gnome user for years (8 years), and I'm looking for recommendations and comparisons of Linux distributions that offers good KDE integration/experience. Some details to mention:
the ...
