Peek is an animated GIF recorder. It basically allows you to record part of your desktop and export it to GIF which is very useful when you need to graphically show something short. This guide will focus on how to install it on your Fedora box. Since there is no prebuilt package you’ll need to build it from source. To do that we need to make sure we have all dependencies....
I used to use AwesomeWM back when I was still running an Arch Linux. After switching to Fedora I decided to stay with Gnome to try it out. With time I got used to it again, and in matter of fact I found myself liking it a lot. Yesterday I had a conversation with my brother about broad selection of topics regarding Linux, text editors, desktop environments and much more, amongst all we touched on the topic of Awesome window manager....
Rainbowstream is simple command line based Twitter client. If you prefer reading your twitter stream in browser, client like tweetdeck and similar, go ahead, I won’t stop you from doing that. But if you, like me, want to experiment with command line twitter client then this guide will help you set it up in Fedora (24). Rainbowstream is available as the python package and is just “pip away”. To install it you can use:...
Thing that I miss with Apache on CentOS 7, and in the matter of fact, every SystemD based distribution is running service httpd status and immediately seeing full Apache status along with number of active connections, server uptime etc. This article will focus on how to enable mod_status in Apache 2.4 so you can successfully utilize apachectl fullstatus command from your server to display web server statistics. Prerequisites for apachectl fullstatus option to work are mod_status module installed and enabled in Apache configuration and links or some other text based web browser....
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Here’s an article on how to change your current Apache MPM on CentOS 7 machine. Apache version I’m using is Apache 2.4. To check which MPM is currently in use you can run: httpd -V which should print something like: ... Architecture: 64-bit Server MPM: prefork threaded: yes (fixed thread count) forked: yes (variable process count) Server compiled with.... ... Default MPM worker should be prefork. If you want to change that, to let’s say, worker MPM you can do that by changing the file located in /etc/httpd/conf....
Great article by Jos Poortvliet of NextCloud on how to upgrade to NextCloud 9. I upgraded from ownCloud 8.2 and it worked flawlessly.
During the start-up of my Fedora powered laptop I noticed in the boot messages list that some service has failed to start. Looking more closely I noticed that docker-storage-setup.service was failing, now, let’s go down the rabbit hole. First thing i checked were logs, of course, and journalctl -u docker-storage-setup said: Jun 16 21:44:48 scotty.tomica.local docker-storage-setup[1096]: ERROR: Docker has been previously configured for use with devicemapper graph driver. Not creating a new thin pool as existing docker metadata will fail to work with it....
Have you ever messed around with GNOME shortcuts and ended up with all of the shortcuts turned upside down? No? Well I have. To reset all shortcuts to it’s default state you can use: gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings or if you wish to reset just one shortcut you can use: gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings maximize where maximize in this case is the name of the property you wish to reset (eg. show-desktop, switch-windows etc....
Since I try to use vi/vim editor for almost everything related to editing text and I use it for writing emails too. I use mutt with vim as my text editor but I also have it set up in a way that it wraps text on 80th column: set editor='vim -c "set textwidth=80" -c "set wrap"' That’s great, and works great… except when you all of the sudden remember to write something in the middle of existing text, then it all falls apart....