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Problem Firefox fails to start with the following error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_xlib_surface_get_display Cause Firefox loads libraries from /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.

The Problem When using lf (the terminal file manager) with Kitty and Tmux, image preview display often causes issues: graphical artifacts remain on screen when switching from one preview to another, making the interface unreadable.

Text prose and code have fundamentally different width requirements.

It is possible to modify YouTube’s appearance using uBlock Origin.

Svelte’s component system features a specific approach to reactivity and component initialization.

Svelte offers remarkable flexibility for creating dynamic components.

A business web application is a specialized software solution designed to help companies manage their operations effectively.

I have a keyboard/mouse/screen switch to connect 2 PCs: one running Linux and one running Windows.

I do a lot of mistakes when typing.

I often need to code some way to have multiple pages rendered in the same location : think about a configuration panel with several sub panels.

So, a few days ago, I saw a video showing a password creation form.

This is a list of useful resources you can access freely on the web, to learn Go : Go Playground : Try Go without installing nothing on your computer.

This article will show you how to set up a new Svelte project to develop a custom tag, using esbuild, with live reloading.

I want to code a simple tags input component in Svelte like the animation above.

During a discussion on a Discord channel, a message puzzled me: Go is not an object-oriented language.

On my workstation, I manage both amd64 and i386 architecture.

We can customize Firefox interface to hide the tabs bar : First, we have to tell Firefox that we want to customize its interface.

Would it be possible to embed a database to avoid managing a MySQL or Postgres instance?

In my previous post, I used Nebula to setup a secured network between 2 virtual machines.

Is it possible to use the public network, namely Internet, to make 2 machines communicate securely ?

You can change the device link so your webcam will be always accessible at the same location /dev/video99.

This days, with 4K monitors, the linux console is unreadable : the font is too small.

How to apply new commits in your forked repo from the parent (upstream) repo ?

How to show a big clock on Linux without using an application or having a browser opened on time.is ?

To change the name of ownCloud main folder, there is a little trick you can do on Linux (may work as well on other platforms).

Define a repo somewhere in your file system with a bare init 1mkdir -p /somewhere/repo/test_project 2cd /somewhere/repo/test_project 3git init --bare Now create a local folder for your work with init only

You can change the mysql prompt client so you know where you are.

If you use a tiled window manager like me, Suckless DWM for example, and have Firefox as your browser, you may be interested by not showing the tabs.

Install LTS Hardware Enablement Stack 1sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04 Clean 1sudo apt purge --autoremove Reboot to load new kernel

How to flash any iso (think about your favorite distro) on an USB key without graphical IHM ?

Using Udev, you can change the wifi interface name.

On my Linux, just after upgrading Go to version 1.9, I lost autompletion functionality in VS Code.

To reduce docker container size we can built the image from scratch instead of using bloated images, like debian or worse ubuntu.

How to configure a Debian based Linux distribution to share a folder with anyone on the network, with read and write access ?

As ‘man convert’ states : The convert program is a member of the ImageMagick suite of tools.

I tried to resync a slave MySQL after it disconnected from the master.

Red is a next-gen programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

Consul is a critical infrastructure service for organizations that rely on it for service discovery, key/value storage, and health checks.

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud.

To import a local CSV file into MySQL, use the syntax below : LOAD DATA LOW_PRIORITY LOCAL INFILE '/path/tofile.csv' INTO TABLE database.table FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' IGNORE 1 LINES (`fie…

To export a mysql results in CSV format, use the syntax below : SELECT field1, field2, ...

By default, in Cheyenne, the header size limit for a post request is 102'400.

Get rid of graphic boot on Linux with a few modifications in grub configuration : 1# edit your grub config 2sudo vi /etc/default/grub 3 4# remove splash, quiet, ... from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT 5GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text" 6 7# save the file and…

Git log in colors.

Default mysql client behaviour is to show column names and grid when returning results but how to get rid of this decorations ?

Just in case you absolutely have to insert a date in MySQL that does’nt exist, eg 2014-02-30, you can run MySQL server in a special mode that authorizes such dates :

byzanz-record -c - duration=60 - x=80 - y=310 - width=800 - height=600 out.gif

A few days ago, I started to have a very disturbing “Not permitted” message when trying to mount a usb disk from Thunar .

In Windows, create a certificate via Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools > Digital Certificate for VBA Projects In Microsoft Outlook, open the VB editor and copy/paste the code below Replace your@email.here and save Click on T…

A few months ago, I read an article about brain training by learning a new language : very interesting story about William Alexander who failed to learn french but strenghten his brain trying to.