https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/ 2026-05-15T08:32:14+00:00 https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/ https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2025-01-29T16:00:12+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/linux/remove-foreign-fonts-from-debian-ubuntu Remove foreign fonts from Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives To get rid of tons of asian, arabic, oriental fonts takes ages by hand. This script I've made for my Debian 10, removes: * All non english fonts * All the Libreoffice help files except those indicated in the variable KEEP text/html 2024-11-27T18:13:10+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/linux/bash/prompt-on-newline Bash prompt on new line When you have a long path in the prompt, only few characters could be left to write the command before going on the next line. With this prompt instead, the command starts from a new line regardless of the path length. Try it pasting this in a terminal text/html 2024-10-03T09:48:38+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/software/firefox-prevent-update-notification How to prevent Firefox update notification Sometimes you want to stay on a specific version because of bugs in the new one. This is the way to prevent Firefox to update automatically and at the same time to prevent the harassment of the “Update available text/html 2024-06-21T18:09:51+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/software/tar-how-to-speed-up-tar-preventing-seek-especially-with-many-small-files Tar: How to speed up tar preventing seek especially with many small files I've faced this problem archiving a dir with around 50.000 images that are 100k each or less. It used to take more than 5 minutes to archive all those files in a .tar because of the massive seek of the HDD heads. This happens because the tar command has basically zero buffer so the heads are moved back and forth for every file. text/html 2024-01-16T16:26:01+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/software/dokuwiki-tab-indentation Dokuwiki tab indentation Do you think tab indentation gives more freedom and consumes less space on HD? Do you hate to spend time converting tabs to space indentation for publishing on your dokuwiki? Easy peasy! If you use the default theme, open lib/tpl/dokuwiki/css/basic.css text/html 2024-01-16T16:03:41+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/jquery/swap-2-elements-at-any-distance-keeping-events jQuery: swap elements at any distance without losing events This function allows you to swap 2 elements in the DOM, in the same container, regardless of how many other elements are in between, and without losing the events attached to the swapped elements. It works in any direction, left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, and mixed. Before getting to this solution I've done lots of experiments and I can state that nothing can beat this in simplicity. text/html 2024-01-16T15:38:39+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/start Wikiriks - Leaks about computing Here you can find some tips and tricks about programming and computing. If you think something is wrong or there is a better solution or you want to publish something here, write to me --- Rik ---------- Table of contents WikiRiks index text/html 2023-10-09T13:30:21+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/linux/lower-load-unload-hdd-cycles Reduce hard drive load/unload cycles In case with smartctl you notice that the load/unload cycles counter increases very rapidly, there is a way to decrease that with hdparm. E.g. for sda: sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda This setting is retained after at reboot. text/html 2022-10-31T14:16:28+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/linux/advanced-mate-menu-favourites-cant-be-rearranged Advanced Mate Menu: favourites cannot be reordered In previous versions you could move icons simply dragging them around in the favourites menu. On the contrary, in recent versions the icons are unmovable. First workaround The first workaround is to rearrange them from text/html 2022-10-31T14:12:50+00:00 rik (rik@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/linux/advanced-mate-menu-favorites-cant-be-rearranged