Linux

The Starting Point The menus and dialogs should appear in English, the keyboard should remain German. QWERTZ, umlauts, the familiar layout. Sounds simple, but in KDE Plasma it’s not quite trivial, because language and keyboard layout are two completely separate areas. Under Wayland there’s an additional peculiarity, because here the compositor KWin manages the keyboard directly. I worked my way through the settings and the command line and will show what actually works. ...

I regularly copy files onto USB sticks or SD cards that are formatted with FAT32. And every time there is trouble with file names that contain characters FAT32 does not allow. Colons, question marks, asterisks, everything that is completely normal under Linux becomes a problem on FAT32. So I wrote myself a Bash script that takes care of the work. It searches the current folder, replaces all invalid characters, and also takes care of leading or trailing spaces and dots. Collisions are avoided by appending a counter. ...