Unanswered Questions
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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh
How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances?
More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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1answer
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How to fix tab completion so it doesn't hide entries?
I'm using oh-my-zsh on Mac OS X with homebrew'ed zsh 4.3.12. I stumbled recently on a weird problem. In scripts/not-used I have several .R files:
breakdowns.R eventloop.R ...
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Keymapping problem when working with Emacs and Openbox
I have an Apple keyboard and I had to do some remapping of the keys to make the mod-4 key the first key to the left of the Space bar for when working with Emacs. The below script worked fine when I ...
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vim/gvim failing to put X11 clipboard in registers “+ or ”*?
Due to the lack of security with standard vino server, I switched to use x11vnc on my linux (with Xubuntu 14.04) box and SSVNC on the windows side.
With vino, cut and paste from windows to Linux ...
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3answers
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Using real time kernel headers to compile userspace code vs default headers
Per customer requirements, I installed CentOS 5.6 with the default kernel. With this kernel installed, the time.h file includes the #define CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Now, a real-time kernel was installed ...
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1answer
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How to prevent the Linux kernel from waking a secondary HDD from sleep
Is there a way to instruct the (Linux) kernel not to wake up a secondary hdd after a system sleep/wake-up cycle? I'm asking because in my laptop I have an SSD as a primary drive containing the system ...
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2answers
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Laptop VGA Output Randomly Changes Name Between VGA1 and VGA2
Periodically (every few reboots by the look of it) my external VGA output on my Laptop changes name between VGA1 and VGA2. For example right now xrandr is displaying:
timp@helez:~$ xrandr | grep VGA
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Disable headphone jack detection in pulseaudio
I have a dodgy headphone port on my laptop that does not reliably detect when headphones/external speakers are plugged in. This means that the output is constantly being muted/unmuted which is rather ...
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1answer
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Remapping power key to delete
I have a macbook pro running Ubuntu 13.10 with FluxBox. Unfortunately, the power button is physically above the backspace where I would expect the delete key to be in. In OS X, the PowerKey program ...
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2answers
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Display problem - Random grid appears on screen
I have recently started using Arch with nvidia driver (I had a lot of problems getting nouveau to even work so I decided to try nvidia) and I started experiencing rather odd problems. Every now and ...
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2answers
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How to make linux 'perf record' work for libc and libstdc++ symbols?
I'm using perf record -g on x86-64 Linux to profile a program. Several symbols in libc or libstdc++ have 0 as a parent: __GI___strcmp_ssse3 (libc) and strcmp@plt (libstdc++) for example. (I can ...
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Poor TTY resolution with nVidia driver
The resolution of the TTY1-6 is poor ~ 640×480
Ubuntu 11.10 | Grub2 | nVidia | NVIDIA GT215 Board
I went through the process on this site and after the edit the GRUB menu appears in the correct ...
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3answers
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Escape sequences in output of script called from ncurses application
I'm currently running mcabber as my Jabber client (which uses ncurses) in a tmux session on my homeserver. Locally i run iTerm2 as a terminal emulator, which supports the triggering of growl ...
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2answers
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Why is this Python package trying to use a non-existent gcc?
I'm trying to install PyCrypto for Python 3 on Solaris. Whether I do it via "python3 setup.py install" or "pip3 install pycrypto", I run into the same problem: a call is made to a gcc which does not ...
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What filesystem metadata operations are actually journaled in ext4 & xfs?
I can't find a simple, straight answer about which filesystem metadata operations are actually persisted to the ext4 & xfs filesystem journals. Note that I am not inquiring about what POSIX ...
