https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/Recent content in Posts on chriswalsh.devHugoen-usThu, 20 Jan 2022 00:04:18 +0000https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/increase-swap-partition/Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:04:18 +0000https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/increase-swap-partition/Why do you need a swap partition? There are a variety of reasons you may need a swap partition. However, the main reason will most likely be that you do not have enough RAM to process some tasks that you want to do. To help mitigate this, you can increase the swap space available to your system. The following are the steps to increase swap file size: First, find the location of the current swapfile.https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/copy-path/Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:57:00 +0000https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/copy-path/This is for KDE5 with Dolphin as the file manager. First we need to install xclip: sudo apt-get install xclip Next we then need create a desktop file at the following path: ~/.local/share/kservices5. You may need to create the above directory. Then run: sudo nano ~/.local/share/kservices5/copy-path.desktop Paste in the following: [Desktop Action copy-path] Exec=echo "%U" | tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard Name=Copy Path Icon=edit-copy [Desktop Entry] Actions=copy-path ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=all/all Type=Service X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel Finally restart dolphin, a top level context menu should appear when you right click on a file, to copy its absolute path.https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/font-ligatures/Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:12:00 +0000https://chriswalsh.dev/posts/font-ligatures/First, we need to install the ligature font systemwide: sudo apt-get install fonts-firacode Next, we need to add the following into the VS Code settings file. Go to File->Preferences->Settings. And then search for font ligatures. Edit the line with editor.fontLigatures to match below, and all the extra line underneath it. { "editor.fontLigatures": true, "editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code" } Restart VS Code and your programming symbols should now be displayed as ligatures.