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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] 2 points 3 months ago

My Fedora distro can't restart and stalls when it tries to shutdown with the auto update checked. So it never shuts down. I set up a cronjon to run dnf update to make sure that I don't need to uncheck the auto update option. Just a really silly thing that bothers me.

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

About a decade ago I was playing a game on Linux and the game crashed and took the entire DE with it. So I went to a different tty and started a fresh x desktop session and started playing again until the game crashed again (I was running a bunch of mods so it would crash every couple of hours or so) and still didn't feel like rebooting so I went to yet another tty and started yet another x desktop session. I did this about 3 times in total before I finally went "I should probably actually reboot because this has to be making a bigger mess of things"

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

When installing an encrypted Arch system, I couldn't figure out how to change the keymap in GRUB stage 1, which asks for the passphrase and then decrypts /boot. I just entered my passphrase with the default en-us keymap without really knowing what characters it outputs.

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

Hmm. Maybe systemctl enable rc-local because I was too lazy to get the service order correct and I just wanted something to happen last and be done with it.

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