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Ubuntu keyboard media controls

I've just installed Spotify on my Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome 3.36.8 and I've found out that the media keys on my keyboard can't control Spotify. They control other media players just fine, only Spotify is not working. People say that this is a Spotify bug, but until they solve it I need it to be working.

I have found this post proposing to use a custom key binding to control Spotify. https://fabianlee.org/2016/05/25/ubuntu-enabling-media-keys-for-spotify/ This works! Except that to make it work I needed to disable the default behavior, thus I can control Spotify but I loose control over the other media players.

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Nemo actions

Nemo is a free and open-source software and official file manager of the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is a fork of GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus).

Nautilus is default in GNOME desktop, but although I use Ubuntu, which has GNOME as default, I don't like Nautilus.

Nemo has some features that works best for me, thus I decided to install Nemo on my Ubuntu GNOME.

• Copy current path from the top bar
• Right click option to open current folder as root (good to copy files to protected locations)
• Create custom actions. This is the focus for this gist.

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VSCode VSCodium snippets and settings

Place the snippets at ~/.config/Visual Studio Code/User/snippets or ~/.config/VSCodium/User/snippets
Use "scope" to tell VSCode/VSCodium to use it in a specific language.

VSCode/VSCodium don't come with Python snippets. I am creating them as I need.

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QGIS and Python

QGIS comes with its own Python, but it is missing Tkinter DLLs.
Create a new .bat file to add PYTHONPATH to environment variables. Check if your installation is qgis or qgis-ltr.

C:\OSGeo4W\etc\ini\user.bat

SET PYTHONPATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\python;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\python\plugins
SET PATH=%PATH%;%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Microsoft VS Code

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Code::Blocks settings

File default.conf contains my default settings and syntax highlights (color theme, based on dracula).
Not all languages have their highlights complete.

Place file default.conf in ~/.config/codeblocks

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Upload a Python package to Pypi.org

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Ubuntu 20.04 Wayland

1. sudo apt install gnome-session-wayland
2. Edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and comment WaylandEnable=false
3. Edit /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules and comment all lines
4. Edit /etc/default/grub and add "acpi_osi=Linux" into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"
5. Reboot
6. In login page, select Ubuntu on Wayland in the cogwheel
7. sudo apt install qtwayland5

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Ubuntu extensions and Softwares

On Ubuntu, initially your user may not be in sudo group

# enter as root
su -
# add your username into sudo group
usermod -aG sudo username
exit
# logout / log back in as username

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SFML Visual Studio Configurations

Menu Project >
    "Project" Properties >
        Configuration - Debug >
        Platform - Win32 or x64 >
            Configuration Properties >
                C/C++ >
                    General >