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Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
One thing that didn't carry over from my i3 setup when moving over to Sway (i.e. Wayland) was the touchpad configuration. Input devices was a display server concern under X.Org, so the window manager had nothing to do with it. Notably, now click-on-tap is not working for me …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
Wayland appears to be the future of window systems in the world of Linux, replacing the aging X.Org window system. The Arch Wiki article on X.Org refers to it as "the alternative and successor [of X.Org]" and Canonical even dropped its own Mir display server in favor …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
If you open a man page on a *NIX system (such as a Linux distro), you'll
always see a number next to the subject of the man page. Like GIT(1),
SUDO(8) or open(n). What's that thing in parentheses? To cut a long
story short, it's the section …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
I recently got myself a Dell XPS 15 9520 to replace my aging laptop. It's highly Linux-compatible and just following the official installation guide got me 90% of the way of having a well-behaved Arch Linux laptop. One big thing wasn't working, though: 3D graphics!
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
On any Linux distribution, there's a file located at /etc/passwd. This file
contains information about users that exist on the system, including their
username, user id, group id and more. In this short article, I'll outline the
structure of the /etc/passwd file, and also illuminate why it doesn't …