vim: copy to clibpard

Add this to ~.vimrc, for ctrl+c shortuct vnoremap :w !xclip -i -sel c

Bash: reset bash conosole

tput reset

PulseAudio: Stream sound from home to work computer over ssh and vnc

1. At work use papref to "Enable network access to local sound devices"and restart computer.

2. Copy pulse cookie from work to home: ~/.config/pulse/cookie so that work and home computer share same secret (cookie).

3. At work start: sudo start-pulseaudio-x11

4. At work open reverse tunnel for pulseadio: ssh -X -R 9998:localhost:4713 home

5. At work use vnc to connect to home.

6. Once connected using vnc to home, start firefox (for example) at home computer using: PULSE_SERVER=localhost:9998 firefox

The instructions are based on this: http://psung.blogspot.com/2011/09/network-audio-with-pulseaudio-made.html

Atom: Change command-palette:toggle keybinding

'atom-text-editor:not([mini])':
'ctrl-shift-:': 'command-palette:toggle'

Arch: System freezes when coping large files from usb

Add the following two lines to /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf (create if not exists)
vm.dirty_background_ratio=1 vm.dirty_ratio=2
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50

To apply use sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf or restart.

Arch: Python 3.6 rpc/rpc.h missing

The solution was to manually specify where `rpc/rpc.h` was for configuration: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/tirpc" ./configure --prefix=/opt/python362 --enable-shared -I/usr/include/tirpc

Qt Creator: Set number of threads in Kit for make

MAKEFLAGS=-j3

youtube-dl: download mp3 and skip on failure

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -i PLAYLIST_URL_OR_VIDEO_LINK

Docker: Install Amazon Linux for AWS lambda development

docker run -ti -v ~/mylambdapackage:/mylambdapackage amazonlinux:2017.03.1.20170812

From: https://medium.com/@samme/setting-up-python-3-6-aws-lambda-deployment-package-with-numpy-scipy-pillow-and-scikit-image-de488b2afca6

MATLAB: vision.ShapeInserter crashes in Arch Linux

Seems its same problem as here: https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/364727-why-does-matlab-crash-on-linux-fedora-26-with-a-segmentation-violation-r2017b-or-later#answer_289066

Solution was to remove libfreetype files from /opt/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/glnxa64

sudo mv libfreetype* exclude/