November 21, 2024

Fedora 41 -- odds and ends

updatedb

This is not specific to Fedora 41. I have two disks -- u1 and u2. u2 is a mirror of u1. So when I run locate, I get two identical sets of results, one for /u1 and another for /u2.

There is a file /etc/updatedb.conf. And you can type "man updatedb.conf". What I can do is to add /u2 to the already existing list of PRUNEPATHS: 

PRUNEPATHS = "/tmp /media /dev /sys /proc /run /var/cache /var/spool /u2"

vim

I am in the habit of typing "vi" -- I made an alias for this, but it only works for user "tom". Now I get irritated when I am using "su" to run as root, so I do this: 
su
cd /usr/bin
ln -s vim vi

XFCE window grouping

I have always hated this. Whoever had this stupid idea ought to be shot, or dragged behind a vehicle until dead. Thankfully the behavior is optional and you can opt out of it.

What I am talking about is when I have multiple terminal windows open in a workspace, I get one terminal window "icon" with a count, and to find, or close a window I have to monkey around with this. I swear it didn't use to be this way, and I am sure it wasn't. But here is how to fix this.

They call this nasty stupid behavior "window grouping" and it is fairly easy to turn off: 

Right click on the taskbar, select Panel -- Panel Preferences.
Select the Items tab
Select Window Buttons in the list
Click the Edit button (below and rightish)
Uncheck "group windows by application"
Wow! It is wonderful to bail out of this behavior.
Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

Adventures in Computing / tom@mmto.org