How to display the current keyboard layout?
Is there a utility that allows to graphically display the current keyboard layout?
Unix & Linux
How are file permissions applied to newly created files?
I have a directory that has the following permissions set:
How to change the volume name of a FAT32 filesystem?
I know I can set the volume name when I format the partition with the -n option of mkfs.vfat. But how to just change the name without formatting?
Does systemd timer unit skip the next run if the process hasn’t finished yet?
I want to use systemd to run a command every 5 minutes. However, there is a risk that occasionally the task may take longer than 5 minutes to run. At that point, will systemd start a second instance of the command i.e. will I end up with 2 processes running?
Open source duplicate image finder for Linux?
Is there a free and open source duplicate image finder for Linux based systems?
Is there a pdf viewer capable of opening multiple documents in the same window?
I would like to open all chapters of my PDF ebooks in the same window but neither evince nor okular seems to be capable of doing that (at least not out-of-the-box).
Making a process read a different file for the same filename
I have an application that reads a file. Let’s call it processname and the file ~/.configuration. When processname runs it always reads ~/.configuration and can’t be configured differently. There are also other applications that rely on “~/.configuration”, before and after, but not while processname is running.
Best way to free disk space from deleted files that are held open
Hi I have many files that have been deleted but for some reason the disk space associated with the deleted files is unable to be utilized until I explicitly kill the process for the file taking the disk space
Systemd mount fails. Where= setting doesn’t match unit name
If I use this command :
How can I easily make screenshots of screen regions on Arch Linux with i3 WM?
About a month ago I switched from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Arch and I’m quite happy with this decision. However, I miss some features with my new distro, especially Shift+printscr which in Unity allows selection of a screen region to be captured.