Useful Linux Stuff

rsync -avh sourcedir/ destinationdir/

Copies all the files in sourcedir to destinationdir. If you omit the "/" slash, if will copy with the folder.

wget -mpEk "url"

Download websites ONLY with internal links and correct path.

expac "%n %m" -l'\n' -Q $(pacman -Qq) | sort -rhk 2 | less

List largest directories on system.

sudo ./woeusb-5.2.4.bash --device /destination/of/windows.iso /dev/device-of-usb-nonumber --tgt-fs NTFS

Create windows ISO via WoeUSB, on Linux (for some reason).

To use yt-dlp, install yt-dlp from AUR or any package manager.

yt-dlp --remux-video mp4 "VID_LINK_HERE"

Will download a video (both frames and audio) in mp4 format.

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 "VID_LINK_HERE"

Will download a video's audio file only. You may prosper with this useful package on many sites on the web; YouTube, Bitchute, Odysee, etc.

fc-list | grep "Iosevka"

You could combine fc-list to search for a specific font, like the Iosevka family, just like above.

Works only on Xorg, as far as I am aware.

setxkbmap -layout hu,us,ru -option 'grp:win_space_toggle'

Allows you to change inbetween keyboard layouts, with WIN+Space keys.

find . -type f -name '*.xml' -exec rm -f {} +

This command will remove all .xml files recursively. Thanks Christos.

Download the minimal installer of Conda from the official miniforge GitHub Releases page, then run the shell script.

When you'll be installing Conda from the miniforge installer, you'll be prompted to install it somewhere, usually at /home/anon/miniforge3/. I set mine to be at .miniforge3 to make it hidden. By default, you won't have the binary files be on your PATH, so set them on your path (for Fish):

set -gx PATH $PATH /home/anon/.miniforge3/bin/

To check Conda version:

conda --version

To create a Conda project:

conda create --name newProject python=3.10

1. If you use Fish shell:

conda init fish

1. If you use Bash:

conda init

To "get inside", or activate the project:

conda activate newProject

To install a package:

conda install numpy

To view installed packages:

conda list

To deactive, or "detach" from an environment:

conda deactivate

To see all your environments:

conda env list

To remove an environment:

conda remove --name newProject --all

After you're done with the Conda environments, make sure to use this command if you use Fish:

conda init --reverse fish

To create:

conda create -p /home/anon/Projects/newProject python=3.10

To activate:

conda activate /home/anon/projects/myenv

setxkbmap -option keypad:pointerkeys

xkbset ma 60 10 10 5 2

Install xkbset from AUR. Press Ctrl+LeftShift+Numlock to enable/disable.

To make Wacom tablets work on Arch Linux, install libwacom and xf86-input-wacom from AUR or any other package manager that has them.

Then, run sudo modprobe wacom to add Wacom as a module for the current running instance. Do the respectable changes if you'd like to start Wacom on every launch of your machine.

The command below will display you all the Wacom devices.

xsetwacom list devices

In my case, it displays:

Wacom One by Wacom S Pen stylus id: 15 type: STYLUS Wacom One by Wacom S Pen eraser id: 16 type: ERASER

In this case, typing in these commands will ensure that the STYLUS device will run on the main monitor, on 1920x1080 resolution.

xsetwacom set 15 MapToOutput 1920x1080+1920+0
xsetwacom set 15 Area 0 0 15200 8550
xsetwacom set 15 PressureCurve 0 0 100 100

Apologies for the lack of better words.

Use EOF (heredoc) inside fish shell:

echo -n "
one
two
three" > test.txt

I had a problem with the Hungarian hyphenation in LaTeX. I solved it by installing the whole texlive group from the Arch Repository (probably not a great practice, but this worked). Then, I put hungarian loadhyph-hu.tex in all the language.dat, language.us files I could find (the ones in /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config, and /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config). You only need to download texlive-langeuropean and texlive-langother for hyphenated languages to work correctly.

I remember having small but really frustrating freezes on my Thinkpad X260 machine. Turns out, a functionality called Panel Self-Refresh caused this.

To resolve this issue:

1. You must add this snippet to your grub configuration (sudo nano /etc/default/grub): GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.enable_psr=0"
2. Then remove old grub config : sudo rm /boot/grub/grub.cfg or sudo rm /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
3. After that generate new : sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg or sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
4. Reboot your system.
5. (Optional) For better touchpad functionality add psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.

Many such cases is that Virtualbox won't work nicely on Arch-based distros, if you don't follow the official wiki. Running sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules-arch, then sudo vboxreload will most likely fix the issue. If the problem persists, doing a full system upgrade doesn't hurt.

If NVIDIA drivers break your display manager somehow, the solution is here to solve that problem.

First off, delete all NVIDIA drivers: sudo pacman -R nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-open

Blacklist Nouveau so it doesn't start automatically (you can enable nouveau by sudo modprobe nouveau or disable with sudo modprobe -r nouveau): echo "blacklist nouveau" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-blacklist.conf

Then, install these drivers: sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils

If some issue arises, and it spits out messages about files existing in the filesystem, resort to this command:

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils 2>&1 | grep 'exists in filesystem' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo rm