• MagicShel@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    I use Linux as my daily driver and I still don’t understand half of what people say when they talk about Linux. I support this idea. Not because I have dumb questions, of course, but I think everyone else’s would be very educational…

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      8 months ago

      It helps to look up certain concepts in the Wiki (Arch Wiki is probably the most complete and well explained) as you come across them. The idea is to increase knowledge little by little, but over time it compounds.

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        8 months ago

        I will. It’s mostly the conceptual stuff I need to grasp the context. Me and Google “how to grep” or “how to install .deb files” are old friends.

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        8 months ago

        It’s not stupid to ask questions! That’s how you stop being stupid!

        Quote from a movie, whose name I forget.

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      8 months ago

      Interesting, I didn’t know about it.

      Or should we just have every Linux content here as the community is still quite small?

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    8 months ago

    I prefer individual questions. More searchable that way. Should have mandatory formatting to ensure the question is summarized in the title. Weekly discussion threads make it more difficult to find answers to your questions if someone has had the same question in the past.

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      8 months ago

      Please, go ahead! I like what you did previously, asking about recent improvements people applied to their systems. Just now, I have realized that moderating is also about inspiring significant contributions within the community. Challenge accepted!

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      Not as a Linux guy, but as a developer, that has to be enabled and configured in the application. It has to have a listener hook into the keyboard events.

      Now you could write a program that hooks into the keyboard and invokes another program on button press, but the program would have to have as an option that you could run it with a command line parameter to do the thing you want to do.

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        8 months ago

        Oh, sorry I deleted the question because I noticed that I started too early and this wasn’t the start of the help thread.

        (My question was about creating hotkeys for a program running in background)