misc.md

Miscellaneous topics

Changelog file

https://keepachangelog.com/

Diagrams

• Mermaid: https://mermaid.js.org/
• PlantUML: https://plantuml.com/
• HackerDraw: https://www.hackerdraw.com/

Editors

• ecode: https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode
• Lapce: https://lapce.dev/
• Lite: https://github.com/rxi/lite
• Lite XL: https://lite-xl.com/
• Zed: https://zed.dev/

File Managers

Terminal-based

• Vifm:
  • Main page: https://vifm.info/
  • Tutorial: https://wiki.vifm.info/index.php/Quickstart_Tutorial

freedesktop.org specs

basedir-spec

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Keyboard layout management

On Linux

Command showing the available keymaps:

localectl list-keymaps

Select a keymap from the list and run:

loadkeys <map>

Protocols and APIs

STAC - SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs

The STAC specification is a common language to describe geospatial information.

• Homepage: https://stacspec.org/
• STAC Index: https://stacindex.org/

RAM Disk

ramdisk, ramfs, tmpfs

• https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.html
• https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/tmpfs.html

Mount a tmpfs volume on Linux

sudo mkdir -p /<path>
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=<size><unit-prefix> tmpfs /<path>

Example:

sudo mkdir -p /media/ramdisk
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=2048M tmpfs /media/ramdisk

Remote Desktop clients

X11

• X2Go: https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/start

Windows software on Linux

• Bottles: https://usebottles.com/