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What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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tell me the most ass over backward shit you do to keep your system chugging?
here's mine:
sway struggles with my dual monitors, when my screen powers off and back on it causes sway to crash.
system service 'switch-to-tty1.service'

[Unit]
Description=Switch to tty1 on resume
After=suspend.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

'switch-to-tty1.service' executes '/usr/local/bin/switch-to-tty1.sh' and send user to tty1

#!/bin/bash
# Switch to tty1
chvt 1

.bashrc login from tty1 then kicks user to tty2 and logs out tty1.

if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    chvt 2
    logout
fi

also tty2 is blocked from keyboard inputs (Alt+Ctrl+F2) so its a somewhat secure lock-screen which on sway lock-screen aren't great.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I have a folder full of scripts tied to aliases that fix various things when they go wonky, and I've long since forgotten what any of them do. I just know if xxx app stops working, I type fix_xxx into the terminal and then it does a bunch of stuff and then it works again lol.

Also I have a bunch of aliases tied to common tasks, like e1 = reboot, e2 = shutdown etc. I have no idea where that habit came from.

Edit: ALSO, just the general mish-mash of apps. I won't have anything to do with Snaps, but the rest of it is an unholy combination of native apps, things from the AUR, flatpaks, Appimages, Docker containers and wine setups, mostly (but not all) in Bottles.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dare you to try grep -Irn alias in your home dir.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not even sure what that would do! Presumably list every time the word alias appears in every file across the whole home directory or something like that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rtfm!

No, seriously, -I avoids binaries, -r recursively, -n print matching file and line number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Alright, I'm gonna try it and see how long this takes!

edit: about 8 minutes. Not as spectacular as I'd hoped lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you have games there, yeah. Ripgrep is way faster. But grep is good enough in most cases.

Btw, did you find your aliases?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I did! I know where they are and which scripts they point to, but as for going into the scripts and trying to remember what they're actually doing... I'll get to it some day lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

now im really curious about that xxx app...