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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
I'm not sure it's some configuration I have on synaptic (maybe having the stable-security as the prioritary release? I'm not sure it's set as such, though), or some inherent difference between both (I used to think it was just a GUI frontend to apt-get that would do pretty much exactly the same, once you click to "apply" at least, but it may not be the case), but in some cases synaptic will fail to install some packages, and not really give an explanation why. But the very same package...
When start some random file manager in its default GUI settings, I almost shriek in despair. It seems it's always over-padded design, with huge icons everywhere, with menus always hidden somewhere.
I like detailed lists of files most of the time. This concept is just brilliant, you have all the info you can need in a neatly organized design, can quickly order the listing clicking on some attribute-label at the top and so forth. A great addition over the years were the instant-filter...
There's some weird situation, for me at least, where apparently I can't install the headers of linux 6, due to failure in dkms building the module for this USB wireless adapter. Which in turn depends on the headers themselves being installed, if I'm not misunderstanding, which may well be the case.
Additionally, there were some reported bugs in some stuff, G++ and/or GCC, while updating from frankendebian-pre-Bookworm to what may be a more proper bookworm release. Although I think...
"C" stuff will be much faster than scripts, so sometimes even a "dumb" use of a C program will be more optimal (take less time) than trying to sort out a more minimal task for the C program with bash.
Like
Code:
grep -h -m 1 THING-TO-GREP index_*
versus
Code:
< ... some bash-script logic that tries to figure out the most likely index_NNNN files
so grep has only to work with a few, not all ... >
grep
(Or anywhere using lxqt-notificationd, like in otherwise pure Openbox, which happens to be my case)
The "proper" way would be to have it always explicitly setting something else with "-a," but apparently one can emulate the title-less implementation of other notification daemons with an wrap-around script like this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
if [[ ! "${@}" =~ "-a " ]] ; then
/usr/bin/notify-send -a ""
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