Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "What Are Linux Users Putting In Their Config Files?" video.

  1. 9:25 No, that’s not actually a literal “$”, it’s actually “\$”. According to the bash docs, “\$” is expanded to a “$” for a non-root user, or “#” for a root user.
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  2. 28:43 But interesting that you have some people launching KDE Plasma this way, but none doing so with GNOME.
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  3. 24:28 Interesting. That works because all these different players understand a common protocol called MPRIS, implemented over D-Bus.
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  4. 4:35 I found more details about that “alert” alias here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/423646/use-of-default-alias-alert
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  5. 11:48 Bash is not the only program that users GNU readline for user input. There are others as well. For example, Python includes a readline wrapper https://docs.python.org/3/library/readline.html in its standard library.
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  6. 28:24 Interesting to see Emacs used as a window manager, but none of the Vims?
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  7. 11:34 You didn’t mention PS0. Yes, that exists as well.
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  8. You want bash aliases? I’ll give you some of mine: export PAGER='less -iX -x4' alias more="$PAGER" because less is way more capable than more. Also a handy one for opening any file in the Emacs instance I always have running, just by typing “e «file»”: alias e='emacsclient -n' And something to ensure my custom ~/.XCompose is recognized by the major GUI toolkits: export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim export QT_IM_MODULE=xim What, you don’t know about the Compose key? http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey
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  9. 24:08 I run Firefox, but I don’t feel the need for a hotkey for it. I just start it once after booting/logging in, and then leave it running all the time.
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  10. Looking at some of the GitHub users who fork my repositories, I might dispute your inference.
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  11. And who like to complain when the new version changes some behaviour they were used to.
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  12. 19:26 “Sometimes”?
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