ubuntu

Change resolution from command line in Ubuntu 18.04’s Wayland

Wayland doesn’t allow applications to change resolution, and there’s no official utility to do that. There’s a third party display-config script, but it stopped working with latest changes in Mutter API. Here’s a short workaround until a better solution comes up:

Typing diacritics Mac-style in Ubuntu 17.10

One can say many bad things about Mac OS, but what they got right for sure is typing diacritics, such as ñ or é. You don’t have to add layouts or switch languages, just use alt+n to get dead tilde and alt-e for dead acute accent.