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I run cygwin at work. Inside cygwin, I run screen and emacs.
I keep running into the problem where I hit C-a x or C-a C-x which brings up the lockscreen in screen.
After I get rid of the...

I'm running cygwin on windows at work. I'm editing code in emacs(-nox) under gnu screen. Occasionally in my haste to enter commands I'll enter some keystroke that blanks the screen and prompts with...

I've written a Gweled bot that plays the game for me. Currently I have to manually click the "New Game" button on the Game Over window. I'd like to automate this task for testing purposes of...

I know that conky is running as stated in the OP by using ps. However it is not visible on the desktop. It just shows the background image with no overlay of conky.
Although conky draws its own...

Conky shows up as a running process under ps, but it is not visible.
It will often start as visible but as I run other programs throughout the day it disappears.
My conky script grabs a background...

I finally found the soluttion.
You need to use the svn switch command.
syntax:svn switch --relocate OLD_URL NEW_URL
e.g. svn switch --relocate svn+sshtunnel://192.168.0.1/home/bob/fu...

I appreciate your help jjex22.
I suppose I wasn't completely clear.
I didn't have my old home directory on a different drive.
I think for the time being I'll copy individual files or directories...

I'm playing with the Arch distro and want to be able to access files I have saved in my old users home directory.
What is the best way to do this.
Could I create a new user with the name of my old...

I have a subversion service setup on my computer.
On my old lan the computer's ip was 192.168.0.3.
On my new lan the computer's ip is 192.168.1.76.
When I issue a svn command it is picking up the...

A process filled the HDD while performing a kernel upgrade. I then couldn't graphically log in although there was a gui login (but not the normal one, the theme was different)
I attempted to delete...

I have two computers on a Lan.
Both are running sshd.
I tried to connect from A( old Dell Inspiron Laptop running Arch) to B (old P3 desktop w/usb wireless card running Ubuntu 10.10).
I received...

Thanks!
I'm pretty sure that /etc/init/ssh.conf will do the trick

Somehow the -D option got tacked on to my sshd when I start up.
How do I remove the -D option when sshd is started at boot?
I'm guessing I need to edit something in /etc/init.d but not sure what....

Thanks but I was trying to do it without using sed since bash all ready has the same pattern replacement capabilities in it.

I thought trying to escape with a \ wouldn't work but it does


echo ${Mens/\'/99}

the above code replaces the apostrophe / single quote.
You just can't use the " to enclose the variable. It...

How do I perform pattern replacement of a single apostrophe in my script?
This is what I've tried to no avail.



#!/bin/bash ...

I'm wondering if there is a proper way (or just best practice) to using temp files and the /tmp directory.

Background story:
In a script I had been using mktemp to create temp files in /tmp....

What options do you get when you do the right click > add to panel ?
Mine starts off with
Custom Application Launcher
Application Launcher
Brightness Applet
....
Trash
...
Workspace Switcher

I have a temperamental wireless connection that will disconnect randomly and then not reconnect without some fidgeting. I shutdown last night when I had disabled the networking to prevent it from...

@vanadium
I guess my lazy self was hoping for a single command to perform what I desired. It didn't want two steps to get me where I wanted to go. I didn't mean to poo-poo your help. I was just...

Thanks for the reply but I'm looking for more of a one-stop command.
Any other suggestions out there?

How do I delete just directories and not files when performing a "rm -r foo*" command?
E.G. I have foobar.txt foofoo.o foorebar.jpg and foo/ foonuggets/ and footemp/ in a directory.
In one fell...

I hate that if things *really* go wrong I have to download the iso burn it or unetbootin it to get myself up and running.
I much prefer the Microsoft method of making you guard your OS CD (if they...

I'm trying to figure out if there are other options when setting your background transition. It seems that the default is overlay. Are there any other options? Screen,Multiply??
Just curious.

I believe this will get the job done for you.
It is UNTESTED since I cleaned out my extra kernels but I'm pretty sure that it works keeping the last entry in the /tmp/kernelList file. This last...