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Plank is a popular application launcher dock in Linux. By default, most application desktop entries do not provide any additional actions. Say we want to add an open ‘new window’ action to our desktop entry for pkgbrowser: Our desktop entry file looks as follows: Simply add the following to the end of the file. OfContinue reading Linux, Plank Dock & Desktop Entries: Add an open ‘New Window’ action
If the gcc version being used is incompatible with cuda version, there will be errors such as: See discussion on GitHub: CUDA Build error on Arch Linux and CUDA Compilers – nvcc compatibility chart. This can be resolved by using an earlier version of GCC which is compatible with the CUDA version. In my exampleContinue reading cmake: /usr/include/c++/10.1.0/type_traits(1396): “error: type name is not allowed” or “error: identifier “__is_same_as” is undefined”
The default version of gcc in the Arch Linux repositories is now gcc10: This can result in errors during linking while building packages, such as: This issue can be resolved by compiling with an earlier version of gcc: Setting these CMake variables will result in using the gcc9 version of gcc, g++, gcc-ar, and gcc-ranlib:
System preferences can be set on macOS using the defaults command. For example, say I wish set the Prevent sleep setting that can be set through the System Preferences interface, but instead via command line. If your settings match those in the screenshot above, running defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist in the terminal should output { “ACContinue reading Setting Energy Saver Preferences on macOS Mojave/High Sierra
scrcpy is an open-source application that allows one to view and control their Android devices from their computer using adb via USB or over a local wireless network. It runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and does not require a rooted device (developer mode must be enabled to use adb).
CloudCompare is a powerful, open source 3D point cloud and mesh processing software available on all major platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux). It is my current favorite tool for visualizing 3D point clouds.
One thing that bothers me about macOS is the lack of the side-by-side “window snapping” functionality that is built into any modern version of Windows and in many Linux windows managers. I often see co-workers manually dragging and re-arranging windows on their screen. BetterSnapTool is a $2.99 app that does exactly this, and much more.
Notepad++ is undoubtedly one of the most popular code/text editors available for Windows. While it does not run natively on Linux (or macOS), many have ran it successfully with Wine. There is also a clone of Notepad++ called Notepadqq that runs natively on Linux that is written using the well-known cross-platform UI library Qt.
Download a fresh copy of VMware Workstation Player for Windows or Linux from the official VMware site. The free trial of this product has no expiration if used for non-commercial purposes. You’ll need to unlock your installation of VMware to use Mac operating system as a guest following these instructions (external link). On a computerContinue reading How to Install macOS High Sierra on VMware Player 14.0.0
Screenshot tools for Linux and macOS generally produce image files in the .png file format. PNG is a lossless compression format, meaning that it can be compressed without losing quality, which is unlike another commonly used image format, JPG. There are 3 command-line tools which can be used to compress PNG files, pngout, optipng, andContinue reading Compressing PNG images with pngout, optipng, and advpng