It's still a problem for many people: applications create directories and files directly under $HOME, not even using the freedesktop XDG standard for user directories. (My filemanager is always set to show hidden files. If yours isn't, try Ctrl-H, you might be surprised what you find.) Manual cleanu...

A coredump is something the kernel initiates when an application crashes/segfaults. Nowadays it usually passes that task on to systemd. This takes time, storage and CPU. I'm not a system developer. I have no idea what to do with a coredump. I don't need it. There's also some threads online suggestin...

Download here | Browse the Repository Download here | Browse the Repository TerminusV (Variable Width) & TerminusC (Fixed Width Condensed), both based on the original Terminus font. Only glyphs for iso8859-1 (a.k.a. Western or Latin-1) are implemented, and only two rather small sizes (9 and 12 p...

Applications that use Pango (the software) cannot use good ol' X bitmap font formats anymore. But they still can use the OTB format for bitmap fonts. If your favorite old bitmap font is not available in this format, here's how to convert it. Prepare For once I found the instructions on Fedora's wiki...

A collection of things you can accomplish with Sailfish OS without the need to install an app. Scripts & configs available here and here (where they might be more up-to-date than here). Preliminaries Most tips require command line access (via SSH), i.e. you have enabled Developer mode (and remo...

This article only slightly expands on what the archwiki says about it. Linking /bin/sh to dash instead of bash is not the same as "changing your default shell". Why Using #!/bin/sh at the top of a script currently defaults to bash which is not very fast. I want startup scripts and everything that ...

There are some apps in Openrepos which do not seem to work anymore for SFOS 4.x. But you don't really need an app, all you need is a systemd timer & service and a simplistic shell script. Gain command line access to your phone and become root. > cd /etc/systemd/system > nano hosts.timer ho...

I recently purchased a second device to install Sailfish OS on. The documentation recommends installing the latest compatible Android baseband version - which essentially means re-flashing Android - before installing SFOS. Olf's excellent guide goes into more detail here, esp. for my XA2 Ultra (H321...