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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. ...

What is BTRFS Because I am currently intensively dealing with BTRFS and doing some research to shed light on this topic for myself, here is a list of my findings, explanations, and instructions. If you have any comments on this, you can find me in the Fediverse (About page). Otherwise, as always, I hope that this article helps one or another person to gain more clarity on the topic as well. And … write more blog articles yourself! ...

Installing NeoVim on Manjaro Note: If you want it to be considerably simpler, but still don’t want to miss the Vim or Neovim feeling, then you can also use this Rust editor: Zed - Your last next editor - https://zed.dev/ Manjaro’s official repositories usually offer a current version of Neovim. With pacman sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S neovim lua51 After installation, you can check the version with the following command: ...

I really like the Vim editor and I also want to use it for programming. However, doing so with the original Vim is quite complicated. So I took a closer look at NeoVim. A more modern fork of Vim. I just looked up the fundamental differences to see which one I need to use now, or whether I can simply keep using “both.” Spoiler alert: I can simply keep using both. ...

What Folds Actually Are In Vim, folds are collapsible and expandable regions in a text document. You can use them to collapse entire paragraphs, functions, or code blocks so that only the first line remains visible. This makes navigating large files considerably easier. The mnemonic for the command is simple. All fold commands begin with z, because the z looks like a folded piece of paper viewed from the side. ...