Make gVim clientserver work with Wayland
In the past I created the Open With gVim Dolphin Service Menu to open the selected files with gVim and display them in separate tabs.
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openSUSE 15.6 to 16.0 upgrade notes
In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper and the plugin zypper-upgradedistro, but some issues might always happen for a specific version, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE Leap 15.6 to 16.0 during and after the installation process.
Fixing the blinking cursor as a symptom of SDDM crash under openSUSE 16.0
After upgrading openSUSE to the latest 16.0 version and restarting the machine, the cursor stopped blinking as it was waiting forever for something that would never be loaded. It is something that might scare even the oldest user, but with a little bit of discernment, things can be quickly fixed.
openSUSE 15.5 to 15.6 upgrade notes
In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper and the recently released plugin zypper-upgradedistro, but some issues might always happen for a specific version, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied, switching from openSUSE Leap 15.5 to 15.6 during and after the installation process.
openSUSE 15.4 to 15.5 upgrade notes
In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper and the recently released plugin zypper-upgradedistro, but some issues might always happen for a specific version, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE Leap 15.4 to 15.5 during and after the installation process.
Using Jekyll as a static website generator in 2024
In a previous article I introduced the world of static website generators, explaining the reasons that pushed me to adopt this solution in general and Jekyll in particular.
Overcome the ibus daemon autostart after installing Zoom
After installing the Zoom app I found it quite annoying to have that small applet in the systray bar just after each restart, And even more annoying I haven’t been able to find a clear method to stop the autoloading of the related daemon as I would do for whatever else SystemD daemon.
Search for packages with the zypper-onlinesearch plugin
Thanks to the openSUSE Build Service infrastructure, tons of free software is packaged by third part users and made available to every openSUSE user.
Playing with DBus and KDE applications (part 3)
In a previous article I have shown how to handle the D-Bus resources provided in general and in particular by the Konsole and Yakuake D-Bus services, and take advantage of them in a Bash script. This time we will explore more services that provide useful features to embed in our Bash scripts.
openSUSE 15.3 to 15.4 upgrade notes
In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper and the recently released plugin zypper-upgradedistro, but some issues might always happen for a specific version, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE Leap 15.3 to 15.4 during and after the installation process.
Upgrading openSUSE Leap with zypper-upgradedistro
After using the procedure explained for years in the upgrade with zypper article, I decided to collect all these steps in a practical script, which take care of all the statuses and, when needed, asks for confirmations, or suggests how to proceed manually in particular situations.
The media couldn't be loaded error
After an upgrade or an installation from scratch, we might notice a weird behavior while navigating among the streaming websites: some videos play well, others raise an error like: The media couldn’t be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported
openSUSE 15.2 to 15.3 upgrade notes
In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper but after the first reboot some issue might always happen, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE 15.2 to 15.3.
Playing with DBus and KDE applications (Part 2)
In a previous article I introduced the DBus technology and provided some examples built around the Klipper service to integrate the clipboard area within our scripts.
Be more productive with Bash aliases
Aliases are one of the most interesting features provided by a Bash shell, and probably the last to be regularly adopted. Usually, they are intended as a way to create shortcuts to execute the most used commands followed by the options that are not assumed by default from the command itself. However, there is a more appealing way to write them that boost our productivity when executing either…
Playing with D-Bus and KDE applications (Part 1)
Speaking about the several ways that a Linux system offers to users to create custom automation, there is a software technology that hides under the hoods of modern desktop environments, D-Bus. To make parallelism, in the same way we use piping | the output from a shell command to the input of another, we might altogether find interesting to get some info from an application running on our DE, no…
Add a network printer through Yast under openSUSE
Some day ago I got a brand new Xerox multifunction Wi-fi printer (B215 model for the record), so what’s the best chance to test the power and the ease of use of Yast to install it? This is also my first Wi-fi printer and I was very curious to see how user-friendly was the procedure, without knowing anything about the supported protocols.
Handling multiple versions of the same application with update-alternatives
In a previous article I shown how to rollback a package installation, just in case we get a buggy application after an update and want to go back to the previous version. This time I want to show how two or more versions of the same application can be installed without conflicts, and with the help of the small CLI application update-alternatives, how easy it is to switch from a version to another.
openSUSE 15.1 to 15.2 upgrade notes
In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper, but after the first reboot some issue might always happen, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE 15.1 to 15.2.
Rollback a package installation under openSUSE
Even if the 99,9% of times all the applications released through the official repositories are reliable and perfectly working, sometime a buggy package might get installed on our systems after an update. With a few steps we can rollback to the previous version taking advantage of the feature made available by package managers and repositories.