Install Niri on Gnetoo

emerge -av gui-wm/niri gui-apps/waybar gui-apps/fuzzel gnome-base/nautilus gui-apps/mako x11-base/xwayland

Terminator: Failed to Load Module Canberra-GTK-Module

yay libcanberra

Arch: Krusader does not have open with menu

install yay xdg-desktop-portal-kde
and
cd /etc/xdg/menus
ls -Agl # to show the links in the directory as they are
sudo ln -sf ./plasma-applications.menu applications.menu
sudo ln -sf ./plasma-applications.menu gnome-applications.menu
sudo ln -sf ./plasma-applications.menu kde-applications.menu
ls -Agl # to see of they changed

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/krusader-does-not-remember-file-associations/6449/13

Linux: use FreeRDP instead of rdesktop


rdesktop -u "domain\userID" -a 16 -z -g 1850x1080 -r sound:local:pulse -r disk:b=/mnt/b ip_addr


xfreerdp3 /u:userID /d:domain /v:ip_addr -themes /dynamic-resolution /drive:/mnt/b,b


gentoo: No icons font in distrobox

install `fontawesome-fonts-all` fonts.

sudo emerge -av media-fonts/fontawesome
Fedora:
sudo dnf install fontawesome-fonts-all Arch:
sudo pacman -S otf-font-awesome

Run KDE Menu Editor from a commandline

kmenuedit

Krusader: add user action to open distrobox terminal in the currently active folder

cd %aPath% && distrobox-host-exec bash -i

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/krusader/krusader/useractions.html


cd %aPath% && distrobox-host-exec bash -i


podman: container cannot bind to priviliged port 631 (cups)

On the host, you can make 631 to be unproviliged
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=631
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-on-linux/51439516#51439516

udisks2: manual mount and unmount hard drives

For example: udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1
udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1


gentoo & xfce4: no authorized to mount hard drives

https://gist.github.com/Scrumplex/8f528c1f63b5f4bfabe14b0804adaba7

xfce by default uses https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/gnome-extra/polkit-gnome

If not automatically started, you can manually start it (as a user, not root):
/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

distrobox fedora

distrobox create --nvidia -i quay.io/fedora/fedora:42 -n fbox -H ~/home-fbox --init --additional-packages "systemd"
https://distrobox.it/compatibility/#Host-Distros

gentoo: reinstall packages after changing USE flags

emerge -avtDUu @world

distrobox: ublue-os/arch-distrobox

distrobox create --nvidia -i ghcr.io/ublue-os/arch-distrobox -n abox -H ~/home-abox --init --additional-packages "systemd"
https://github.com/ublue-os/arch-distrobox

LibreOffice: Use XLOOKUP instead of VLOOKUP

=IFERROR(XLOOKUP(C2,'file:///mnt/marks.ods'#$Sheet1.$C$2:$C$115,'file:///mnt/marks.ods'#$Sheet1.$AC$2:$AC$115,""),"")

vscodium in flatpak golang not found

Install SDK extensions:

flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.golang

and then set env variable `FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT`:

#in fish in ~/.config/fish/config.fish
set -U FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT 'golang'

https://gist.github.com/pojntfx/2e1ea30df020924e5d40f823adc6ae09

Ansys 25 R2 and SolidWorks plugin not working

Create `SolidWorksAddIn_Ansys252.bat`:
@echo on
copy /Y "%AWP_ROOT252%\Framework\bin\Win64\Xalan-C_1_12.dll" "%AWP_ROOT252%\aisol\CADIntegration\SolidWorks\winx64"
copy /Y "%AWP_ROOT252%\Framework\bin\Win64\XalanMessages_1_12.dll" "%AWP_ROOT252%\aisol\CADIntegration\SolidWorks\winx64"
copy /Y "%AWP_ROOT252%\Framework\bin\Win64\xerces-c_3_2.dll" "%AWP_ROOT252%\aisol\CADIntegration\SolidWorks\winx64"
copy /Y "%AWP_ROOT252%\Framework\bin\Win64\zlib1.dll" "%AWP_ROOT252%\aisol\CADIntegration\SolidWorks\winx64"

and run as Administrator

pandoc: Word to markdown

pandoc input.docx -t markdown_strict -o output.md

Join lines in a file with a comma

paste -sd ',' myfile.txt

Add Browser MCP to Claude Code

claude mcp add-json browsermcp '{ "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["@browsermcp/mcp@latest"]}'
https://github.com/browsermcp/mcp

Linux: convert docx to markdown using pandoc

pandoc -f docx -t markdown_strict input.docx -o foo.md From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33149947/248823

Linux: join pdf files into one file in a reverse order

pdftk $(ls -r *.pdf) output joined.pdf

Arch Linux: Failed to start Virtual Console Setup

`/etc/vconsole.conf` should be:

KEYMAP=us
FONT=lat9w-16

terminator: size and location in xfce4

terminator --geometry=2100x650+250+1150

Convert all pdf files to txt files

find . -name '*.pdf' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 pdftotext