I recently installed recoll and its Unity lens, and started indexing most of my home drive. Photos, Documents, music, sourcecode, everything.
It is still running (no surprise there) and I would like to know how big the index is now.
But neither recoll nor recollindex seem to give a command line option to display statistics about the index, and I didn't find an option in the GUI either.
How do I get statistics about the index?
I would like to set a default display arrangement for when I connect my laptop to an unknown screen.
My background here is that I mostly work at the university labs, which means I basically have a new display every time I start working.
When I plug the VGA into my laptop, it automatically switches into this mode:
Now, the VGA socket of my laptop happens to be on the left side, so I always place the laptop to the right of the bigger screen. And since that is not going to change until I buy a new one, I would love to be able to make the default behaviour this:
Is there any way to do this? Maybe in the xorg.conf or such? I am running purely on Intel graphics at the moment since my hybrid Nvidia chip is not worth the trouble.
When I want to unlock my screen in a Gnome 3 session, I have to use my mouse to "drag up" the screen and uncover the password input. I would prefer to not use the mouse for that action since I am using a Notebook and that kind of gesture is really annoying.
Is there a way of showing stats abut the whole Darktable system? I would be interested in things like...
I am currently trying out Darktable. Coming from Digikam I am confused about several things, the most prominent for me being:
Does Darktable manage my files on disk?
In Digikam, I define a collection folder where all my files will be stored and then when I import Images from a Camera, folder, SDcard, $whatever it will copy them over to my collection and apply different operation like EXIF renaming in the process. Afterwards I can be sure to find all my files in the collection folder in the format I wanted.
So, does Darktable do that, too? To me it has more of a look that it just manages files I import without everr eally touching them. If so, what are my options for organizing the disk/folder/file part of my collection? Relying only on Darktables collection mechanisms for organizing my collection seems like a "vendor lock in" to me in that it makes migrating to a different product later on way harder than if all metadata is stored in the actual image files and the files are neatly sorted in folder and such.
As a person working in computer science working offline to avoid facebook and thelike is not always (meaning hardly ever) possible for me since I mostly have to be online to work.
I have tried leechblock and similar things but the problem becomes that at some point I start making systems for myself to hack, which is kind of pointless if oyu have root.
I would very much like to try out the method described here. (Short version: reboot your PC every time finish a task or get bored with it)
Unlike for the author of this blog my work is mainly done not in screen sessions but in IDEs ans other not-so-fast-to-start-up stuff, meaning a full reboot including loading all my programs will take its time. So, the question is:
How can I block all user input and preferrably blank the screen for a given amount of time?
The idea would then be to have a keyboard shortcut to activate the script/program (which would probably also have to have root i guess?)
This is a follow-up to this question. I have the possibility to use rsync, ftp, cifs or ftp for my remote backups, provided I can get them to work with the duplicity command line, of course.
Will duplicity leverage any advantages of the protocol in use?
If so, which will perform best on big sets (~100 GB) of data?
If I understand correctly, duplicity is the command line tool for creating backups and can be used stand-alone (i.e. no DejaDup involved) for creating backups.
Is it possible to set up multiple backup plans with different schedules and sources/targets? In particular I would like to:
I think this would just need some time setting up the different commands for the remote backup. The local backup could stay in DejaDup. But will duplicity be able to handle this? Or will it get confused with the different backups? Also: what will the performance for the remote backups be like? How will the actual diff+copy mechanism work in the remote case?
Why I ask this is just that with DejaDup I only get one backup plan, Back in Time only supports local copies (so I would have to mount the ftp locally and diff there which seems a waste of bandwidth) and rsnapshot uses hardlinks and is thus required to run on the target). but duplicity seems to be able to do what I want...
This is related to the issue discussed in Wireless mouse temporarily freezes (sleeps) on battery power.
Summary: the mouse freezes when operating on battery since it is autosuspended after a certain time and needs more time to wake up.
Disabling USB autosuspend for the mouse's receiver in PowerTOP is a temporary solution, but it does not survive a reboot.
How can I permanently disable the USB autosuspend for only one specific device?
A solution that does not involve installing additional packages is preferred (after all, I want to disable something), but it is not required. Removing PowerTOP (which seems to be a solution for some) is not what I want - I like PowerTOP...
And installing laptop-mode-tools to disable USB autosuspend altogether is not what I want, either, thus the new question.
Also: Will this affect the battery of my notebook? The Logitech unifying receiver for the mouse stays connected all the time, so if that prevents the autosuspend from happening for all devices that would probably be bad.
Does deja-dup have some mechanism to detect when I've moved a complete folder into a new subfolder?
Or will it copy all the files in the folder again?
I'm talking about folders that contain some 100 GB of data, so if I do something the wrong way several times, my backup drive could easily run out of space without really needing to.
Using the quickly ubuntu-application template (i.e. python and GTK3), what solutions exist to display a text editor in which I can highlight some parts of the text and add annotations/extra visuals at some places?
The idea is to have a component where the user can type in text and as he does so there are some annotations schown (similar to syntax highlighting).
The editor does not have to be a rich text editor or anything like an office application, just a text editor would be fine.