Unanswered Questions
54,211 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to combine zsh autocomplete for wrapper function arguments and existing command
I work mostly in gvim and many terminals. Originally, I preferred to open all my files in a single vim instance. To that end I used an alias to open files from my terminals in the current 'vim ...
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Why does ZFS scrub not complete?
First off let's start with what I'm running. This is a home media server running Ubuntu 16.10. I have one pool of mirrored 6 terabyte drives that are about half full. I built the system about a month ...
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Zsh tab completions not working as desired for partial paths
I want case-insensitive fuzzy completion for files and directories in zsh. After reading the manual for a few hours, this is what I came up with:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:globbed-files' matcher 'r:...
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zsh can't input to terminal when piping stdin and stdout with variable command that has tty output
System info:
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0)
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
Scroll to the EXAMPLES at the bottom if you just want to dig ...
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Random "deauthenticating by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)"
I'm running
uname -r
4.10.6-1-ARCH
on my dell XPS 13 developer edition (2014). I'm currently having strange problems with my wifi (I use Networkamanger with nm-applet for KDE):
1) at the most ...
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Fractional scaling in GNOME + Wayland above 200%
I've successfully enabled fractional scaling on my GNOME 3.38 + Wayland in Arch as stated here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Wayland
However, in gnome control center it now only shows ...
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wpa_supplicant end process if wrong password detected
Normally when I run wpa_supplicant I'll get some output like this:
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[...
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How can I calibrate Zathura's zoom levels to my monitors?
I'm using Zathura (using the MuPDF plugin) to review various layouts for printing. It's important to me that I'm looking at things approximately the same size as they will come out on paper. I realize ...
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Is it necessary to explicitly flush the HDD on-disk write caches?
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Sometimes, the Linux kernel is not aware of on-drive write caches of external USB storage devices. Is it necessary in such situations to explicitly flush those caches prior detaching these ...
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Microphone volume on USB soundcard very low, snd_usb_audio options?
I have a C-Media USB soundcard installed on my Raspberry Pi: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0d8c:0008 C-Media Electronics, Inc.. It is a USB cable with an XLR end on the other side, to which I have an XLR ...
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Sharing unix sockets across unprivileged lxcontainers
I have two unprivileged containers and I'd like to share a unix socket between them. Each container has its own user on the host, complete with separate subuid and subguid mappings.
I've tried ...
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How to increase sound volume on eMac P69 running FreeBSD 10.3?
I've got FreeBSD 10.3 (PowerPC) installed on eMac P69.
I'm using MPlayer to test loudness. I already use -af volume=10:1-like options but they tend to distort sound pretty quickly + it is not really ...
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Emacs slow loading time with AUCTeX on TeX files
I installed the auctex and emacs packages on two Xubuntu 14.04 computers, both of which have been working fine. Emacs itself works fine on both, but now with the auctex package installed, when I load ...
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Problem Installing UBUNTU 14.04 (AND Mint 16, which is based on UBUNTU 13.10) as dual boot on RAID 0 with Windows 8.1
Ok, I know that there is https://askubuntu.com/questions/455511/dual-boot-ubuntu-14-04-and-windows-7-on-fakeraid-installation-error-question-m#new-answer?newreg=f2b8bde40c8947f8ac8e3cedec0d1964 and ...
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Graph is too large for cairo-renderer bitmaps Error
Im trying to use pyreverse to generate images of UML diagrams for a project source code. When I run the pyreverse command and specify to generate .png images, it runs and then after a while, it shows:
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