probonopd

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

The Wayland project seems to operate like they were starting a greenfield project, whereas at the same time they try to position Wayland as "the X11 successor", which would clearly require a lot of thought about not breaking, or at least providing a smooth upgrade path for, existing software.

In fact, it is merely an incompatible alternative, and not e

niklaskeerl

Encrypted backup

Credits to https://lobotuerto.com/blog/how-to-setup-full-disk-encryption-on-a-secondary-hdd-in-linux/ .

Setup

1. Identify your device name. This is usually easy by comparing the sizes of the drives. Usually, the system device name is sda. So, external devices names start with sdb.

lsblk

rumansaleem

Contents

• Clean pkg cache
• Remove unused packages (orphans)
• Clean cache in /home
• remove old config files
• Find and Remove
  • duplicates
  • empty files
  • empty directories
• broken symlinks

Tafkadasoh

#!/bin/bash
#
# escapeHTML.sh by Martin Wermers[1], 2018
# Written for my answer on the StackOverflow question 'Include another HTML file in a HTML file':
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8988855/include-another-html-file-in-a-html-file/15250208#15250208
#
# This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
# International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 .
#
# Credits to Greg Minshall[2] for the improved sed command that also escapes

shmup

Transmission Blocklist

The Transmission torrent client has an option to set a Blocklist, which helps protect you from getting caught and having the DMCA send a letter/email.

It's as simple as downloading and installing the latest client:

• https://transmissionbt.com/download/

pkazmierczak

(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq TeX-save-query nil)
;(setq TeX-PDF-mode t)

(require 'flymake)

(defun flymake-get-tex-args (file-name)
(list "pdflatex"
(list "-file-line-error" "-draftmode" "-interaction=nonstopmode" file-name)))

KingScooty

#Symlink a folder from a git submodule for use in a project

I recently came across a need to try this out on a project i was working on. So here's how to do it, incase anyone else finds themselves in the same situation.

##Set up your submodule in a seperate directory.

Run this command from your project root.

git submodule add http://example.com/repo.git ./submodules/repo