Setting CPU governor to on demand or conservative
I’m struggling with cpupower on ArchLinux. I want to set governor to ondemand or even to conservative.
Unix & Linux
Isn’t $HOME supposed to be the location of the user’s home directory?
I’m having trouble with a web application I’m writing: The web application, which runs as user nobody, needs to launch an inkscape process to manipulate some SVG files. Because this runs as user nobody, there is no home directory. What I am doing is creating a temporary directory under /tmp and trying to set that as the home directory via export HOME=/tmp/someUniqueId. I then set a few things in that “temporary” home directory, like a symlink .fonts to the folder for the font files to use.
What’s the difference between various $TERM variables?
I tried vt100, vt102, vt220, and xterm by using top.
Gmail blocking mutt
When I try to log in to gmail with mutt, it flashes a quick Webalert with a url, something like accounts.gmail.com or something. It’s too quick for me to see or copy it. Then it says Login failed.
Why use install rather than cp and mkdir?
I’ve seen in many places used install -d to create directories and install -c to copy a file. Why not use mkdir and cp? Is there an advantage in using install?
What return/exit values can I use in bash functions/scripts?
I want to know what return values we can use that will not be mistaken by for ex. SIGINT?
How do i make this script print out multiple boxes?
I have this script that prints out a box frame with Asterisk signs, and I need to make it so that the script prints out multiple boxes under each other. How can I do it?
When patching what’s the difference between arguments -p0 and -p1?
What’s the difference between patch -p0 and patch -p1?
How to block non-free with apt preferences?
I want to block all packages from non-free, except for those that I
name explicitly. Currently, I have:
How can I lock my screen in Gnome 3 without GDM?
There is no “Lock” option showing up in the user menu, and the standard shortcuts (Ctrl+L or Ctrl+Alt+L) don’t do anything.