No Way Know How

OK, got netctl-auto handling my wifi as per the instructions on the nrtctl page in the Arch wiki (see last post for link). I also added a new service as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/netctl#Problems_with_netctl-auto_on_resume to handle automatic reconnection on resume from suspend. All good. Then I had a nice time adding some lines to .conkyrc to display relevant information about the network connection (when up). So now I think I have everything I need. The next ball-ache started when I started trying to add a netctl profile for the eduroam service at work. Not only could I not get this working, in the process of trying I somehow managed to stop my previously functional netctl-auto service from doing it's thing. *sigh*. Anyway, long story short: after trying all kinds of start/stop enable/disable I found that netctl start [profile] worked fine, it just wouln't work automatically. I found this forum post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopi...

xps suddenly started having wifi problems. something weird with NetworkManager and the brcmfmac driver/kernel module. p2p_disc error and the network interface wlp58s0 already assigned and nonsense like that. After fucking around for ages I thought I'd identified the issue as being a conflict between netctl and NM, but I've tried disabling netctl and it doesn't seem to resolve the problem with NM. netctl does, however, work perfectly for me, but it's not that useful for logging on to random networks when I'm out and about - the whole point of the xps. so, I'vebeen all round the houses, even trying to get rid of NM completely (can't becuase it's a cinnamon dependency *sigh*) and use systemd.networkd with the wpa_gui  (which is promising, but I can't get to work. I've also mesed about hiding .conf files and creating test ones at /etc/wpa_supplicant /etc/systemd/network, so look out for those if you're looking at this in the future!) my c...

Q: bash command that'll remove all empty folders in the present directory A: find . -type d -empty -delete find finds, . specifies the present folder, -type d specifies directories (to avoid deleting empty files), -empty specifies empty, -delete instructs to delete. duh.

Q: bash command that'll remove all empty folders in the present directory A: find . -type d -empty -delete find finds, . specifies the present folder, -type d specifies directories (to avoid deleting empty files), -empty specifies empty, -delete instructs to delete. duh.

I noted way back when that I'd got the wireless Pixma 535 Canon printer working easily with packages from the AUR - I never took note of the ACTUAL packages. Needed to install it on the xps. cnijfilter-mx530series for the driver simple-scan for the frontend. Works off the bad. FAB!

default shortcut ALT + SHIFT cycles through keyboard layouts for different languages. to disable, go to control panel -> Clock, Language and Region -> Change Display Language Language -> Change keyboards -> Advanced Key Settings -> select "between input languages" click Change Key Sequence select Not Assigned for both OK Apply OK/Cancel [edit: to go here quickly open Start, type intl.cpl , enter, then Keyboards and Languages tab] absolutely fucking batshit. This is only for Windows 7 as well... [edit: after removing the shortcut, my keyboard was stuck on something else.