Copying The following command echo “foo” | xclip -selection clipboard will copy “foo” to you clipboard. Try pasting it elsewhere. The clipboard selection is the one used by Ctrl-C Ctrl-V commands. The default selection of xclip is the one used when you select text in linux (XA_PRIMARY). A shorter version would be: echo “foo” | […]
Use the international keyboard. However, the only letter that will not display correctly is ‘ + c, which will display ć. Solution: sudo gedit /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/gtk.immodules Find the line: “cedilla” “Cedilla” “gtk20” “/usr/share/locale” “az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa” And change by this one: “cedilla” “Cedilla” “gtk20” “/usr/share/locale” “az:ca:co:fr:gv:oc:pt:sq:tr:wa:en”
Cron is a Unix scheduler, useful to automate tasks. Rsync is a tool to synchronize files and directories between from one location to another, even if in remote machines. It is smart enough to copy only files that were updated, making it suitable to perform automatic backup. Combining these tools, it’s very simple to perform […]
Instead of the greek letter for summation, it displays a black dot. This is known to happen due to localization. I was using Ubuntu 10.04 with portuguese locale. As suggested here, the solution is to remove the “ttf-symbol-replacement” package.
Today I received the following error when starting up ubuntu: mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/c3c4608e-fb99-4989-bfe2-ede4aec72b38 on /root failed: Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting / sys/ on root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or dirctory Target filesystem doesn’t […]
I just had a hard time installing CGAL from source on a Ubuntu 8.04. First of all, I had to download CGAL (3.6) source. wget https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27222/CGAL-3.6.1.tar.gz Untar, it tar -xzf CGAL-3.6.1.tar.gz And then configure the installation with cmake cd CGAL-3.6/ cmake . Altough I had the required version of boost installed (1.34.1), some examples didn’t […]
Notes on software development 