Find quick troubleshooting tips and useful commands here!

Windows

To bring back old context menu on Windows 11, run cmd as an administrator and enter the following command:

$ reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

Linux

  1. GNOME

Allow resizing with right mouse click

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences resize-with-right-button true

Use Alt instead of Super:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Alt>'

Run GUI apps as root in Sway

If you can’t run GUI apps as sudo in Sway (error: no protocol specified or something similar), run this in a terminal for a quick fix.

$ xhost + local:

Swap Caps Lock and Escape keys

Find advanced options for keyboard in Gnome tweaks for Gnome and Keyboard settings for KDE. For others, see below:

# Set keyboard options
#
# Put this in .xinitrc for startx
# .xsessionrc for Debian
setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape

JAVA apps rendering issue in Wayland

For JAVA apps having trouble rendering display on dwm or Sway, set the following environment variable:

# Put this in .xinitrc, .xsessionrc, .bash_profile
# or in a similar file
$ export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

# If the above doesn't work, try setting wmname to LG3D.
# This requires wmname to be installed.
$ wmname LG3D

Others

Node JS

Fix “error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported”

# Do this in the terminal where you use node commands
# Or set this in your package.json
$ export NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider

Fix the upstream dependency conflict while installing NPM packages

$ npm install --legacy-peer-deps

VS Code

Send Ctrl + P to terminal when terminal is open

Append this to your settings:

"terminal.integrated.commandsToSkipShell": ["-workbench.action.quickOpen"],

Use system keyboard layout

This is useful when you use advanced options with keyboard layout, eg, switching Caps Lock and Escape keys.

"keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode",

Useful commands

  1. Sort pacman packages by install date: 
    $ pacman -Qi | grep -P "^(Name|Install Date)" | sed -r ":a;N;s/Name\s+: (.*)\nInstall Date\s+: (.*)/\2\t\1/" | while read pkg_date pkg_name; do echo -e $(date +%F\ %T --date="$pkg_date") '\t' $pkg_name; done | sort