Dave's Wiki

• Arch Notes
• Manjaro Notes
• Gentoo Notes

Notes about GNU core utilities.

• grep
• sed
• unzip
• rsync

• ErgoEmacs Practical Emacs Tutorial
• FillParagraph - very useful when editing markdown!
• AutofillMode

Key shortcuts:

• Manual
• Limiting Search and Replace operations
• Vundle, a package manager for vim.

• Oh My Tmux
• tmux crash course
• To rename a session:
  • ctrl+b,$
• To list sessions:
  • tmux list-sessions
• To join a previous session:
  • tmux attach -t <session name>
• To detatch:
  • ctrl+b,d

• Arch's resolv.conf page has a lot of alternative DNS servers

• Fixing the intermittent mouse wheel when using Linux as a Guest
• How to get a screensaver in KDE Plasma 5
• How to fix incredibly frustrating scroll wheel issue that prevents some applications from receiving mouse wheel events while the mouse is moving
• Backup and restore entire disk images using dd:
  • Backup: sudo dd if=/dev/nvme1n1 status=progress bs=4M | gzip -c > /run/media/dave/Transcend/windows-backup.img.gz && sync
  • Restore: TBD. (ha!)
• How to properly terminate a frozen ssh connection Type <Enter>, ~ and ..
• How to mount a VirtualBox .vdi file on a linux host