Setup your Git username and email
by A version control system, combined with an issue tracking system, are must-have tools for serious software development. Each time you commit a code change, you …
Author: PragmaticLinux
Long term Linux enthusiast, open source software developer and technical writer.
How to change the font of the Gnome top bar
Enjoying the Gnome desktop, including the default Gnome Adwaita theme? Just wish the font on the Gnome panel was just a tad smaller? Then you …
Install the VirtualBox guest additions in Ubuntu 22.04
Bummed that you can’t change the screen resolution in your freshly installed Ubuntu virtual machine? An easy fix exists for this: You just need to …
Read a file line by line using Python
Did you ever encounter a situation where you needed to just make a small change in a file? Perhaps even quite often, to the point …
How to create an array of strings in Python
Looking for a way to create and array of strings in Python? You came to the right place. This hands-on article explains several ways of …
Install Python applications with pipx
The new kid in town in Python land is pipx. With pipx, you install and run Python applications in a convenient way. Under the hood, …
Install software from the Debian Backports repository
Did you ever run into a situation where Debian Stable was just a tad too stable for you? You needed a newer version of a …
How to link a shared library with GCC and CMake
Interested in using a shared library in your C or C++ application? Not sure how to build your application with the GCC compiler, such that …
