Daniel Perelman
The problem# I went to resume a screen session I knew I had running and it failed: $ screen -r There is no screen to be resumed. Since that somewhat frequently happens because the session is still attached, I checked for all of the sessions with -list and to my surprise found no sessions at all:...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Discord releases new versions somewhat frequently. The standard way to update the Linux desktop application involves too many steps, and requires opening a browser to download the new package, so it's especially annoying if I don't have a browser open. The solution# Put the following...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I make heavy use of virtual desktops, so I use browser windows on multiple desktops. When logging into a site that uses passkeys, KeePassXC pops up a dialog on the desktop its main window is on, which is usually not the desktop my browser window is on. Then I have to switch over to...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Last week, I mentioned that I needed a hack to kill xprop that seemed like it should be unnecessary. Specifically, I had its output piped to a Bash while read loop and once that had found a line to act on, there was no further need to get more lines from xprop, but break or exit...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# When running an incremental backup with rsync with the --progress flag, it often spends lot of time outputting nothing as it scans through many unchanged files. If you think of it before starting the transfer, --info=progress2 or the name2/skip2 --info flags would give more detail,...