During apt upgrade you get Ubuntu PRO ESM related news. Sometimes, they get quite long and annoying.
At some point, you should have accepted to receive ubuntu-pro news.
The clean and easy way is to rule out repo information of the esm security updates.
In Ubuntu's standard text editor (Gedit), it is hard to spot the cursor on the current line.
The cursor color and the highlighting match, so it is not possible spot the cursor position. The system probably is in the dark theme mode.
By tweaking 'Preferences', there two options: i-) Disable 'Preferences>View>Highlight current line'. But this method makes the editor to lack of a nice functionality. ii-) Change color themeb by 'Preferences>Font & Color>Color Scheme'. This is the preferable solution.
This is useful tip when you need to check exact time of a bash command you've run in the past. You can check your CLI command history by history command on your terminal.
Warning Time information will be recorded in your system as soon as you make to following changes. The commands prior to that will not have correct dates.
Solution is to identify HISTTIMEFORMAT variable. The following command line can be pasted in ~/.bashrc file.
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "
This is a table of contents of my Gists including quick fixes, workarounds and useful tips on programming related tools such as Ubuntu, Linux, bash, Termux, VS Code, docker, and git.
This solution is helpful if you get GLib-GIO-ERROR** .. No GSettings schemas are installed on the system error, when you try to open a dialog window from X11 apps in Termux. This behaviour is typical when you want to "Open File" or "Save As..." (example, Inkscape).
The solution is to identify XDG_DATA_DIRS.
🕊️ Solution The following command line can be pasted in ~/.bashrc file.
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share"
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The following packages have been kept back:
...This may be caused by phased updates or changed dependencies.
fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/storage/emulated/0/<some_folder>'
To add an exception for this directory, call:
git config --global --add safe.directory /storage/emulated/0/<some_folder>This is a simple check (by Git) comparing current user ID and the ID of the owner of the current folder. If they do not match (in case of rootless Termux, root owns them all.), Git will not permit any action (even git status).