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The CentOS Linux Distribution

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  1. The wheel group is the sudo group. So to grant a user the sudo previlege, just add it to the wheel group.
    gpasswd -a user_name wheel
    

EPEL

sudo yum -y install …

Snappy Apps

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Available commands for snap:

abort Abort a pending change ack Adds an assertion to the system alias Enables the given aliases aliases Lists aliases in the system buy Buys a snap …

Fcitx Tips

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fcitx

  1. Add Pinyin method: add -> type in pinyin, type in chinese doesn't help

IBus

  1. I suggest you use CTRL + SPACE as the switching hotkey, because it's the default hotkey for most …

The Tiny antiX Linux Distribution

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  1. I forget whether antiX image is hybrid or not. Try and find this out.

  2. The command line installer of antiX is not intuitive (not as good as command line installer of …

Manage Autostart Applications

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Tips and Traps

  1. Autostart *.desktop configuration files are located in directories /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart/ . By default, autostart applications in /etc/xdg/autostart are not shown to users in …

Lightdm Tips

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  1. it seems that you can choose to enable VNC while starting lightdm. Does this solves the problem of auto-login? If you are allowed to login into the computer via VNC without …