Comment by Florian Diesch on Using ClassicMenu Indicator from Launcher
Maybe I could add an option top avoid the Notification Area icon. bugs.launchpad.net/classicmenu-indicator/+bug/1859243
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for checking sha256 checksum
Putting an asterisk before the file name tells shasum to treat the file as binary if the system supports this. Id the file should be treated as text file you use a single blank instead.Linux doesn't...
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for Error installing MySQLDb on ubuntu
mysql-python is not compatible with Python3 and can't be installed using pip3. Use mysqlclient (package python3-mysqldb in Ubuntu) or see the Python wiki for some more possibilities to access MySQL...
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for ImportError: cannot import name GUdev,...
You need to install the package gir1.2-gudev-1.0.
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for /var/tmp is going crazy with 43 GIGA BYTES OF...
I don't know if there is any software using the file /var/tmp/safeplace.But it is used in this answer to backup a SD card. If you remember doing something like this and you don't need the backup any...
View ArticleComment by Florian Diesch on list: command not found
What do you expect that command to do?
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for Alias for "echo $?" doesn't work
Use single quotes instead of double quotes to prevent the shell from replacing the $? when defining the alias:alias status='echo $?'
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for How is my language exposed when im on the web?
Your web browser submits your preferred languages to web servers.You can configure that e.g. in Firefox in the "General" ("Allgemein" in German) page in the "Language and Appearance") ("Sprache und...
View ArticleComment by Florian Diesch on Locate website files
Does this answer your question? Where to place my local website starting with the 2.4.7 version of apache2?
View ArticleComment by Florian Diesch on When trying to install CrossOver deb I get...
Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Which version of CrossOver are you trying to install? Did you try to install the most recent version?
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for Apache doesn't start after reinstallation
Mai 21 19:12:32 v14268 apachectl[23971]: AH00526: Syntax error on line 3 of /etc/apache2/conf- enabled/phpmyadmin.conf:Mai 21 19:12:32 v14268 apachectl[23971]: Invalid command 'Alias', perhaps...
View ArticleComment by Florian Diesch on Help adding app to favourites
What do you get if you run the command python3 -c 'from gi.repository import Gio; Gio.DesktopAppInfo.new_from_filename("jmol.desktop").launch(None, None)' (one long line) in the folder where you...
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for tar: p: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar interprets the next argument after -f as the file name of the tar file.Put the p before the f:tar -xvpf file.tar.gz
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Answer by Florian Diesch for Are there any GUI apps that can create .desktop...
Have a look at my project, Arronax:It's available as a plugin for Nautilus and as a standalone application.To install, open a terminal and type:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/stable sudo apt-get...
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for On Ubuntu 20.04 the clipboard is cleared when I...
On Linux the clipboard isn't a place to store data but a way of communication between programs:If a program copies data to the clipboard it actually doesn't copy anything but just registers itself as...
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for Why do Filenames created under UTF-8 not match...
The sort order is controlled by the LC_COLLATE category of the locale settings. It doesn't depend on the character encoding.Note that some programs, especially command line programs, may not use the...
View ArticleComment by Florian Diesch on Unable to use sudo apt update
The error isn't in /etc/apt/sources.list but in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for how to extract arbitrary amount of bytes from...
Use dd:dd if=big_file of=smaller_file bs=1k count=1
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for SETUID not working in my laptop
For security reasons Linux ignores the SUID bit for shell scripts. See for example http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html for some reasons.So your shell script doesn't run as root...
View ArticleAnswer by Florian Diesch for very basic isc-dhcp server config issues
You need a ; after option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1
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