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1.7.2025
Sailfish OS - Fully Restore Home Folder
I broke my phone again. Damn slippery things. The screen is completely broken. Fortunately, I did a full backup of the complete /home partition the same day, and I had … -
30.6.2025
Add shell customisations for all users
To add shell customisations for all users, add a file to /etc/profile.d - I named it zzz.sh in the hope it will be sourced last and override some … -
30.6.2025 (created: 24.4.2020)
Sailfish OS - Command Line Interface & Customisation
This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here.Manual changes in system directories could be overwritten by updates. To avoid that, one should use … -
30.6.2025
Sudo on Sailfish OS
Use devel-su one last time for the following steps:And add the line[If you prefer to use nano for editing, set the EDITOR environment variable accordingly.] -
22.6.2025 (created: 14.6.2025)
Change default UI fonts on Sailfish OS
As outlined here.First move aside whatever there is in ~/.config/fontconfig and ~/.local/share/fonts (although these do not exist by default in SFOS). Then:This does two things … -
22.6.2025
How to run multiple commands on a remote server via SSH
SSH automatically opens a shell on the host. It is easy to run a simple command and get the output and its return value. But what if your command contains … -
13.6.2025
Auto-connect to Wifi with systemd-networkd
Let’s suppose you have systemd-networkd configured to auto-connect to a wired interface, but sometimes you also need to connect to a (certain) wireless network.Please replacewith the … -
13.6.2025
Use custom DNS provider on Sailfish OS
Sailfish OS uses ConnMan.By default it gets DNS providers from network providers, then acts as a DNS proxy for itself (this is good for caching queries).If /etc/resolv … -
9.6.2025 (created: 16.2.2016)
Scraping the internet with wget
This will download all playlists for all soma.fm radio stations into the current folder, omiting low-quality 32 and 24kbit/s stations. Should work with other sites containing playlists.If …