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# When writing a blog post like last time's, I often will be at least partway through the process before I realize it's interesting enough to write a post on. Then I need to somehow go back and reconstruct a narrative of the troubleshooting steps I performed. The solution# As long as I...
Daniel Perelman
Most desktop environments provide options for customizing keyboard shortcuts. In XFCE, there's settings panels for both for window manager shortcuts and application shortcuts. While the term "application shortcuts" suggests using them for launching applications, and many keyboards do have special...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I want my computer to act differently when I'm actively using it as opposed to away from. I almost always lock the screen when I step away from my computer, so I want to have the same signal do more than just start the screensaver. The solution# Save the follow script which is...