Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
106 questions
8 votes
0 answers
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To the programmer getting unbalanced parentheses errors
... your lost right curly brace it's here on Unix & Linux SE. Please collect it or it will be thrown away by our janitorial staff at the end of the day.
9 votes
2 answers
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Do we want to enable an "AI-generated content" banner?
Given the recent announcement Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content and given our stance in How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?, it ...
1 vote
0 answers
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Reputation changes points message not showing or disappearing swiftly
Since a couple of days I noted that reputation changes points message is not showing or disappearing swiftly (I'm not sure yet wich is it). I can only see that the number is higher or lower, without ...
17 votes
0 answers
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Should we add a [trackpad] tag?
I think we should add a tag for trackpad - as a tag synonym of touchpad. "Trackpad" is in common usage, partly due to Apple. But we only have a tag for touchpad. I noticed there were over 20 ...
24 votes
1 answer
363 views
The [X] tag should be aliased to [X11]. (Agree / disagree?)
Questions tagged x This tag can be used for questions regarding the X Window System. For X Version 11 you can use the tag x11. I guess people know they are running X, but they are less confident ...
12 votes
1 answer
352 views
What's the return status of the exit code?
Which do we want to keep and which should be synonymed to the other? return-status, with 118 questions, says: Use this tag If your question revolves around determining or utilizing the return status (...
6 votes
1 answer
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Is there something wrong with tags determining the language for syntax highlighting?
Is it just me, or has the language detection from tags for syntax highlighting been broken lately? I seem to have noticed a couple of times that scripts containing /* were highlighted as if it that ...
31 votes
1 answer
248 views
Suggested change of tag definition for Anaconda
Seems like the vast majority of questions here with the tag anaconda refer to issues with the Anaconda Python and R Data Science package, yet the formal definition of the anaconda tag here is "...
9 votes
2 answers
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Background image has been replaced with boxes
At some time today, the background image on U&L has changed to a strange looking grid of gray boxes. https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unixmeta/img/site-background-image.svg?v=adf85a88e194 This grid ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Merge or synonymize tags 'mate' and 'mate-desktop'
We currently have a tag mate with 195 questions and the following description: MATE is a desktop environment based on Gnome 2. We also the tag mate-desktop with 5 questions and the following ...
17 votes
2 answers
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The "Unix & Linux" logo is using faked small caps, which looks bad
The site logo is using the wrong glyphs for its smallcaps portions. This looks bad. In The Elements of Typographical Style, Robert Bringhurst writes: Genuine small caps are not simply shrunken ...
37 votes
1 answer
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Difference between "foo" and “foo”, 'foo' and ‘foo’ — and -- as well
Look at this title: The meaning of a long dash? Ah, no, it's --, correctly spelled in the title, but mangled in the title, which means that it's mangled in search engine results too. Or look at this ...
17 votes
3 answers
308 views
Alias macOS to OS X?
There are two similar tags macos and osx, and it's confusing which to use. Would be a good idea to make them synonyms?
10 votes
3 answers
104 views
Merge libvirt and libvirtd tags
Shouldn't libvirt and libvirtd tags be merged?
8 votes
1 answer
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Are polkit and policykit tags not the same?
What is the difference between policykit and polkit tag?