Save common commands on this server to .useful file

bgstack15 — Fri, 29 May 2020 12:34:11 GMT

Command line productivity takes many forms. Some people live by bash autocompletion. I disdained it when I first started using bash (coming from ksh93) but over time realized that it's a fantastic method for discovery (it's much more complete on Debian-based distros than Fedora-based ones) and ease of use when typing long pathnames. When you manage a disparate set of systems, and there are some tasks you repeat often, you usually try to list history and find the useful commands. One of mine:

sudo /var/storage1/shares/public/www/example.com/repo/devuan-deb/update-devuan-deb.sh

But over time, I have many commands I log in for, just to run the one command, and log out. So I have started using a text file: ~/.useful. Inside this file, place your oneliners. So whenever you log onto a box, and you need to see what commands you run here commonly, check what you've saved:

cat ~/.useful

Of course, it's only useful if you bother to populate it.

echo 'vi $( newest /var/log/debmirror/ log )' >> ~/.useful

KDE always show keyboard underscores

bgstack15 — Mon, 01 May 2017 12:54:05 GMT

Overview

I like to use the keyboard to interact with my computer, even in the gui. On my KDE system, I wanted my accelerator keys to always be visible. I had to poke around the World Wide Web for a while to find out exactly how to do that. These instructions are valid for kdelibs 6:4.14.30-1.fc25.

KDE always show accelerator keys

Open up "System Settings" application.
Select "Application Style."
Select "Widget Style" tab.
Select "Configure..." button beside Widget style.
Adjust "Keyboard accelerators visibility" to "Always show keyboard"

References

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