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Installing Emacs Documentation on POP!_os
Dec 1, 2019 (Updated Dec 1, 2019)
Tools · emacs · linux · info ·
Apt spells “emacs core docs” as “emacs-common-non-dfsg”.Sep 12, 2019 at 2:43 pm
The two day event will feature presentations by the Microsoft team behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature; the creators of the ‘Pengwin‘ WSL distributions; and (more pertinent to our tastes, perhaps) the Ubuntu on WSL team at Canonical.
The free-but-small WSLConf is scheduled for March of next year, so WSL 2 will probably be generally available. Much easier than staying caught up with the Fast Ring.
I may have to check this out.
Aug 17, 2019 at 4:29 pm
There's been way too much “it just works (more or less)” in my desktop life lately, so I started using the awesomewm tiling window manager.
Disappointingly, it works just fine.
Still, good chance to learn enough Lua to customize my setup. Looks like I'll be revisiting Kitty terminal and a few other tools that have been on the task list for a while.
Jul 30, 2019
tl;dr: Use
xkcdpassto generate more secure passwords, like “correcthorsebatterystaple”.
Jul 29, 2019 at 7:31 pm
Getting work done on one machine, trying Manjaro with KDE on the other. I got used to GNOME Shell, which also means I got used to how slow it is. KDE's pretty heavy-weight too, but so much snappier.
Jul 16, 2019 at 2:42 pm
Been impatiently waiting for the general release of WSL 2 – the Windows Subsystem for Linux. What's interesting about WSL 2?
WSL 2 delivers a much faster file system performance and full system call compatibility, which lets you run more applications like Docker!
Looks like it's scheduled to go out in the first half of 2020. So I can either wait several months or switch my rarely-used Windows partition to the Insider Ring.
I should at least wait until Build 18917 or later shows up in the Slow Ring on Flight Hub.
fidgets a lot
We'll see.
Jan 1, 2017
TL;DR: Cinnamon screenshot and recording shortcuts are in Settings -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> System.
Sep 17, 2014
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a partition of my laptop today. This is not a novelty. What is unusual is the fact that today I decided to track what I installed before I felt like I had a “Minimum Viable Linux.” Turns out there was quite a bit.
Nov 27, 2007
xcb_xlib_unlock issues - Java on Fedora
Nov 26, 2007
I decided to install the Sun JDK on my new Fedora install today. Tried downloading the JDK/NetBeans self-installing bundle. It didn't work. I got an error in xcb_xlib:xcb_xlib_unlock - something about a failed assertion. While running the installer. Drat.