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Table of Contents

Distro Notes
- Coreutils
- Emacs Notes
- Vim Notes
- tmux Notes
- Networking
- Misc

Distro Notes

Coreutils

Notes about GNU core utilities.

Emacs Notes

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

Key shortcuts:

Shortcut	Description
`M z x`	Change the font size, use then +/- keys to increase or decrease the font size
`M f e d`	Open the current `~./spacemacs` file for editing.
`M f e D`	Diff the current `~/.spacefile` with the default.

Vim Notes

tmux Notes

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

Networking

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

Misc

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 ..

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