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What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by galaxy_nova@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi Linux Lemmites. Recently finished up school and started working full time and kind of miss working on personal projects. I’m looking to try to make something in rust and try out gpui if I can figure it out or maybe egui. I also want to make something maybe even a handful of people would actually use as I find that motivating, so I ask what would actually be useful to you?

Edit: thank you all very much for the input, I think that maybe doing something akin to a “settings+” would be a fair target for me for a n initial project. If I make anything interesting I’ll make another post in this sub.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is kind of what partition managers do, no?

And CLI-wise, you can just open it in nano... Or where you talking about something interactive?

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn't find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nano is the way to do it in CLI.

Should be:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Should bring your fstab file up right in the terminal. Make the edits and then hit Ctrl+x to exit and save. Reboot to see if it worked.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Problem is that I don't know the format and I couldn't find any documentation on the matter.

You can't exactly type "man nano /etc/fstab" into the console.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Man fstab will work though I think