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Interception ToolsWhat is Interception Tools?It's a software that lives between the kernel and the X server. It processes the input events and can modify it. You can modify the keyboard layout, or make the keyboard act like a mouse, or... Pressing Esc is hard. Pressing…

It is probably because some program didn't exit properly. Thankfully, there is a program called stty that can fix this. Here is how to reset all modes to reasonable values for the current terminal: stty sane You can see all settings for the curent terminal…

Install `imwheel`: sudo apt install imwheel Create a file with this content: #!/bin/bash # Version 0.1 Tuesday, 07 May 2013 # Comments and complaints http://www.nicknorton.net # GUI for mouse wheel speed using imwheel in Gnome # imwheel needs to be installed for this script to…

Install CouchDB using snap: sudo snap install couchdb Set the admin pass: sudo snap set couchdb admin=1 Give it permissions that it needs: sudo snap connect couchdb:mount-observe sudo snap connect couchdb:process-control Start the service: sudo snap start couchdb Go to this address in your browser:…

If you install linux without a dedicated swap partition you will get a swap file. The swap file is in root: /swapfile To see the size you can run swapon --show You can turn off swap with sudo swapoff /swapfile If you run `free -h`…