Category: Linux

tips’n’tricks

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Install mc (midnight commander) on Valve Steam Deck

It seems that it is not that easy to install mc on steam deck even if you ask chatgpt for help, so after some trial and error here are the steps that worked for me:

sudo steamos-readonly disable
sudo rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
sudo pacman-key --populate holo
sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman -S mc
sudo steamos-readonly enable

Hope this helps someone.

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MusicBrainz Picard Plex naming script

Paste this into Options > Options > File naming > Edit file naming script…

$if2(%albumartistsort%,%artistsort%,%artist%)/
$if($if2(%albumsort%,%album%),[$if2(%originalyear%,%year%)] $if2(%albumsort%,%album%),[] Unreleased)$if($eq_any(%releasetype%,Album,album),, [%releasetype%])/
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)
$if(%tracknumber%,$num(%tracknumber%,2) ,)
$if(%artist%,%artist% - ,)$if2(%titlesort%,%title%)
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Change DPI to 125% in Gnome

For work purposes I am running Fedora desktop in Virtualbox but compared to Windows 10 guest fonts looked quite smaller in Fedora. Settings in Gnome by default have only 100% and 200% options which are not matching 125% used by Windows. So in order to set it up properly you need to run this command in the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.25

Change will be applied immediately.

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Append bash history in real-time and change output to show date and time of the command execution

Bash history can be very useful to re-trace steps performed on the system, but one of the issues is that commands are not logged in real-time but after ending a session. Also history output does not include date and time which is really useful for debugging.

In order to solve this you will need to append 3 lines to your ~/.bashrc file:

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '

In order for this to become active you need either to log out and log back in our execute:

source ~/.bashrc

After this all your commands will be logged in real-time and output of history command will have date & time information in following format:

YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS history