Questions tagged [configuration]
The action of modifying a program's behavior, generally by modifying a text file.
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How can I disable XWayland when using the Phoc compositor?
I'm contributing to a project that uses the Phoc compositor to run some tests, and I need to run the tests in an environment where XWayland doesn't work. Phoc itself does work, but it generates a ...
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How do I keep application windows that are playing a video from dimming in Hyprland when they aren't the focused window?
I am running Hyprland on Arch Linux and have my Hyprland configuration set so that the non-focused windows are dimmed a bit.
~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
decoration {
rounding = 1
rounding_power = ...
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Distinguish between configs and logs/debugs/statistics within sysfs (/sys)
sysfs is a feature of the Linux kernel that allows kernel code to
export information to user processes via an in-memory filesystem. The
organization of the filesystem directory hierarchy is strict, ...
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Do dotfiles require the initial dot?
Is there a difference between a "dot file" and a "configuration file"?
For example, I have torrc file in /opt/homebrew/etc/tor. Neither filename itself nor any of its parent ...
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SNMPD Not Starting After Adding agentAddress in Metasploitable 2
I am facing an issue with SNMPD in Metasploitable 2. Initially, SNMPD was running fine, but after manually adding an agentAddress line in snmpd.conf, the service fails to start. There are no error ...
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Running a command before running user input in ksh
I'm running Korn 93u+ and I want to echo the current time each time I enter a command. I currently just put the time in my PS1, but that's obviously flawed because if I leave the command line for some ...
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How to make my configuration dotfiles also be loaded for sudo use?
Lets say I do some configuration in my $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which is /home/user/.config).
If I run micro text editor and it has custom keybindings and custom theme, doing sudo micro will load the default ...
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What remaps my capslock key?
I am using colemak with capslock remapped to backspace.
I've been trying a remapping of capslock to escape by setting XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape" in /etc/default/keyboard. Now I want to switch ...
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how to set static IP on newer debian
I'm trying to set a static IP on a new raspbian lite OS.
I used to be able to set a static IP address on older debian systems by modifying the /etc/network/interfaces file, but this OS doesn't have ...
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Use libnm or popen(nmcli) to configure network programmatically?
We have a system where we need the user to be able to permanently change the network settings from the interface (via our C code), that used to be achieved by generating a new dhcpcd.conf file and ...
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Write the contents of a .conf file into a variable located in a separate .conf file
I am configuring my hyprland.conf file and I am attempting to do it in a clean and modular fashion. I am trying for a modular fashion so that I can share my dotfiles and someone else can change which ...
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magic numbers in *.d folders
I'm wondering, what is the meaning of magic numbers in filenames in configuration folders? For example, 50 in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades or 52 in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/52unattended-...
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line 41: field enabled not found in type aggregation.Config when start loki
when I am using this command to start loki:
loki --config.file=./config.yml
show error like this:
failed parsing config: ./config.yml: yaml: unmarshal errors:
line 41: field enabled not found in ...
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Strange visible margin around Qmenu in lxqt
I've been tweaking with the linux UI for quite a bit and after a while I noticed a strange margin around the qmenu of the panel isn't margin supposed to be transparent, now the strange thing is that ...
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How to edit /etc/krb5.conf from cli with crudini?
I'm trying to edit /etc/krb5.conf with crudini.
I tried this :
$ sudo crudini --set /etc/krb5.conf libdefaults renew_lifetime 7d
Source contains parsing errors: '<???>'
[line 2]: ...
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