wiki - lwc:linux

compiling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-14T20:51:50+00:00

* build packages from source *

cpu_load

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T13:33:49+00:00

Test Droplet with no load on CPU Digital Ocean Sick $5/month droplet john@mqtt1604testb:~$ sysbench --test=cpu run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 10000 Test execution summary: total time: 524.5674s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event…

davmail

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-02-04T02:30:10+00:00

Creating a Cert Example: cat fullchain3.pem privkey3.pem > /tmp/davmail.pem sudo openssl pkcs12 -export -in davmail.pem -out davmail.p12 # you will be prompted for a password chown root:root davmail.p12 chmod 600 davmail.p12

dell_inspiron_13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-11-06T12:30:16+00:00

touchpad (xubuntu 18.04) It seems the most reliable way to get the right-click to work with two fingers only is explained here and is the one referring to editing synaptics.conf. synclient doesn't seem to work. Having said that...seems like a had a note to do this:

linux_distros

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-27T01:34:15+00:00

Evaluating for ease of use for non-techies: Mint 16: * easy install. Everything worked. * on first update asked whether or not to update a config file that I couldn't know about and should have been a default * firefox defaults to Yahoo search. Setting up Google was not as straightforward as it could have been.

live

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-27T01:34:42+00:00

Customize a live CD/usb: * Start with Ubuntu Mini Remixfor the base * Use Customizer to add stuff * use usb-creator-gtk if making a live USB Customizer: * the directory for the Live User will not exist, but you can create it and anything that you put there will be retained on the live boot

mailman

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-10T20:10:09+00:00

* install from repo did not go well * try instead

misc_incantations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-27T01:35:13+00:00

* multicrop: automatically crop a scan of multiple images

postfix

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-10-20T20:40:21+00:00

Postfix email relay with AWS SES on Linode Ubuntu 20.04 (based off of these directions): sudo apt install -y postfix sudo cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf sudo postconf -e "relayhost = [email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com]:2587" "smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes" "smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous" "smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd" "smtp_use_tls = yes" "smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt" "smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes" sudo sh -c 'echo [e…

power_management

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-20T00:35:14+00:00

xubuntu 22.04 * screen always on * xset -dpms * xset s 0 0 * xset s noblank * (it appears these settings do not stick on reboot) * disable laptop lid from doing anything * edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf, and change #HandleLidSwitch=suspend

setup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-08-01T22:58:58+00:00

As root apt update apt upgrade export NU=USER adduser $NU usermod -aG sudo $NU As created user * sudo apt install emacs-nox * if root has correct public cert: * mkdir -p ~/.ssh && sudo cp /root/.ssh/authorized_keys ~/.ssh/. && sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

snap

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-16T13:21:15+00:00

* Snap runs in a sandbox. * Permissions of the sandbox are defined in the package itself * when possible install from channel --stable which typically offers the app enough permissions to run normally * if not possible to install as stable install with

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-01-23T04:46:00+00:00

Touchpad (Trackpad) Track Pad Touch Pad Disable right click (Kubuntu 22.04) 2 finger click will still work * temporary: synclient RightButtonAreaLeft=0 and synclient RightButtonAreaTop=0 * confirm all 0s with: synclient | grep RightButtonArea

sympa

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-12-15T13:54:45+00:00

Install apt install sympa 6.2.70 on ubuntu 24.04 * Start with the official installation docs using apt * Then when that fails :-o mysql * with install dbconfig-common to set up DB using mysql just doesn't work. * it didn't work for mailman and it didn't work here * it Says “