Signal Desktop: message content not shown in notification (in Ubuntu 20.04)...
Just helping Google out here: the notification just says “Signal(1) is ready”, which is caused by Electron lacking support for Gnome’s focus-stealing prevention feature. This can be worked around with...
View ArticleDell P2416D display blinks/blanks out (turns off and back on again)
If you’re using the USB hub built into the display, try disconnecting it (and all the USB cables connected to the display) and see if the issue still remains. (This may not be a guaranteed fix for you,...
View Articlevlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `–rtsp-tcp’ after upgrading...
This is due to upstream (Debian) decision to disable rtsp in liblivemedia, because it includes non-free code from RFC 3550. The usual workaround is to install the vlc snap: snap install vlc and then...
View Articlesudo -i not working with pam-u2f after upgrading Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04
Authentication for sudo -i has been separated from non -i use (which is controlled by /etc/pam.d/sudo) into a separate configuration file, /etc/pam.d/sudo-i. So any changes you’ve made for U2F/FIDO2...
View ArticleLineageOS 16.0:n asennus Samsung Galaxy Tab 4:ään (SM-T530/SM-T535)
Sama käännös on saatavilla myös pienemmille varianteille, mutta dokumentoin tässä vain nämä kymmentuumaiset, joiden kanssa tästä on omakätistä kokemusta, ja näistäkään en 3G-varianttia (SM-T531) ole...
View ArticleClock Override suddenly only somewhat works (but it’s really not about that)
I use Clock Override to customize the date and time format displayed in the top bar in GNOME Shell. Recently, after a couple of bad logins (Gnome crashing), it suddenly only reacted to the %S modifier...
View ArticleNotes as I go: my attempt to develop a Home Assistant integration, part 1
Set up Development Environment says the “easiest way to get started with development is to use Visual Studio Code with devcontainers”, but I dislike both those things, so I go with Manual Environment...
View ArticleNotes as I go: my attempt to develop a Home Assistant integration, part 2
The documentation keeps referring to “my API”, but leaves everything about it up to imagination. How should I name the file? What code should I put there, and what should I not? The MyEvent example,...
View ArticleHow I made tty1 a live display for (Systemd’s) journal (in Ubuntu 20.04)
Run systemctl edit getty@tty1.service In the override file, enter [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/bin/journalctl -b -ef StandardInput=tty StandardOutput=tty To see it right away (without reboot), run...
View ArticleNotes as I go: my attempt to develop a Home Assistant integration, part 3
One thing that was confusing to me from the start was the seemingly overlapping functionality in __init__.py and config_flow.py, but I think I figured it out: async_step_*() in config_flow.py is for...
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