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linux

KDE Plasma: Restart taskbar

I recently switched from Mate-Desktop (Ubuntu Mate) to KDE Plasma including Bismuth as tiling Window Manager. Tiling is really a new concept to me and I really have to get used to it. But I do like it so far. But... from time to time my KDE Taskbar is disappearing

c

C: Get reference to parent struct from within nested struct

That title sound a bit confusing so here an example: typedef struct { int x; int y; } point; typedef struct { int width; int height; point topLeft; } rectangle; Taking this example: If you got a pointer on a point-struct 'topleft' but don't know about the struct that contains

Gameboy Advance Setup

retro-platform-jam 5 is about to start and I think I will give GameBoyAdvanced a try. Not sure I will finish something due to the RoomGame and the NetworkGame need some love. But I could use it to write a new renderer for RoomGame. Ok, enough blabla. Here how to setup

Playstation1 GameJam

Here a video of my beloved game made for 'retro gamejam': PS: Downloads via itch.io

C# Memory-Alignment

EDIT: You can ignore most of the stuff written here. Rule of thumb. Classes will out of the box arrange the data-structures as good as possible, structs build their data-structure (JIT-wise) as the code tells if not [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Auto)] is set. The rest of the text might still be

Batch-Resize Images(Linux)

Keeps aspect ratio find . -iname '*.png' -exec convert \{} -verbose -set filename:base "%[basename]" -resize 64x64 "./64x64/%[filename:base].png" \;`` Forces size: find . -iname '*.png' -exec convert \{} -verbose -set filename:base "%[basename]" -resize "64x64!" "./64x64/%[filename:base].png&

dotnet publish: specify RuntimeIdentifier

Ever came across this error on publishing a dotnet project that includes libs of your own: error NETSDK1097: It is not supported to publish an application to a single-file without specifying a RuntimeIdentifier. You must either specify a RuntimeIdentifier or set PublishSingleFile to false. E.g. using urho.net with

urho3d

Build Urho3D for special chipset

I had the problem that I tried to run urho3d-headless on our server for a small game-instance-server-test but got some 'illegal chipset' core dump-mayham. Our server is quite of age. Good that Urho has some options for this out of the box. There is a cmake-option: URHO3D_DEPLOYMENT_

Visual Studio Code: c# omnisharp crashing

Quick tip: If you are using c# in vs code and for some reason the c# language server omnisharp crashes (e.g. you are running/debugging test-cases (in my case xunit)) fastest way to get going again (also with Test to be triggered from within the editor, just restarting omnisharp

git

git: fixing lfs push looping with error 413

Just stumpled over a problem that I wanted to push a large file (400+mb) as part of a commit into our remote-repository but git ended up continuosly pushing 400+mb and then starting over without any progress. The long story short without knowing what why this fixes the problem:

qt-creator

qtCreator: debugging not working anymore?

All of a sudden (I guess after upgrading lots of libs in archlinux) qtCreator's (at the moment 4.15) debugging stopped working. I tested with gdb manually. Symbols were there and everything looked(!) fine. BUT not a single breakpoint was hit, and manully breaking ended up in the

linux

Route traffic through ssh-tunnel

Install tun2socks‌‌ Create interface:‌‌ sudo ip tuntap add dev tun0 mode tun user <someuser> sudo ifconfig tun0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 bind connection: badvpn-tun2socks --tundev tun0 --netif-ipaddr 10.0.0.2 --netif-netmask 255.255.255.0 --socks-server-addr 127.0.0.1:1080 This