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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.
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Workaround for the GTK file dialog causing segfaults or something on appimage versions of Inkscape

Posted 11-05-2020 at 08:46 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Tags gtk, inkscape

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape...note_423123594

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Neilly
[...] Downloading the newer schema file from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-...er.gschema.xml and installing it in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser.gschema.xml, running "glib-compile-schemas ." in that directory and using Alt-F2 r to restart gnome-shell seems to resolve the issue with Inkscape 1.0.1.
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Apparently Linux works in a way that makes perhaps a bit more likely for one to think an USB hdd is going bad

Posted 10-30-2020 at 07:10 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-30-2020 at 07:14 AM by the dsc
Tags lunux, usb

I was googling a lot to figure out what could be happening, but already under the assumption that one of the HDDs I have in a USB dock station was about to fail definitively. In fact, part of my reading was around trying to understand if maybe Linux itself doesn't deal well with this kind of set-up, in ways that could be perhaps more damaging than the normal internal usage of the HDD.

But then I found a piece of information suggesting that maybe what happened was just that the USB...
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tmpfs ~/.cache cleaner daemon-script idea, to clean RAM space while trying to minimize SSD writes

Posted 10-27-2020 at 07:20 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 11-01-2020 at 03:45 AM by the dsc (maybe grammar or worse, maybe style)
Tags hack, script, ssd, tmpfs

In line with the idea of reducing how much it's written on SSD, some people suggest using tmpfs for lots of things, one of them can be the ~/.cache directory. Which must be implemented in a per-user basis or with some pre-mount script that would do such tmpfs mounts before each user login. But regardless, the point is that they may spare the SSD, but not the RAM, obviously. If you quit a cache-heavy program, its cache would still be there, leaving other programs you're running with less RAM to use....
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Miscellaneous links and things that helped me on this new install, with SSD issues, systemd, and removable JFS hdd issues, and whatever else

Posted 10-25-2020 at 08:15 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-27-2020 at 10:56 PM by the dsc (addition)

"rc.local" doesn't run by default anymore, so:

https://www.troublenow.org/752/debian-10-add-rc-local/
https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-serv...l-with-systemd

Which in turn may be useful or necessary to have /var/cache/apt/archives as a tmpfs, with this:

Code:
mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/partial 
mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives 
mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial 

chown -R _apt /var/cache/apt
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QDirstat can have Dolphin as file manager, but not with the "&" after the command line

Posted 10-19-2020 at 04:58 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

QDirstat's "open file manager here" fails from the user perspective if you just replace "pcmanfm-qt" to "dolphin" in the command line, even though it says it was "successful." The default line for that setting on the settings GUI has an "&" in the end, and for some reason, it makes Dolphin automatically exit under that circumstance, for some reason, I assume. While it does work on a terminal, on QDirstat it doesn't.

If whatever...
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