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Norwegian Macbook Keyboard Tweaks (Ubuntu 24.04)

This patch modifies the Norwegian Macintosh keyboard layout on Ubuntu Linux to better match that of a modern Macbook's physical labels and expectations:

Replaces | (pipe) with ' (apostrophe) as the primary symbol for the key below esc
Promotes $ to Shift+4
Introduces € as AltGr+4
Demotes ¤ (currency) to Shift+AltGr+4 (since this is hardly used these days)
Swaps the order of the dead keys of the ´ (acute) and ` (grave) acents on the key to left of backspace ←
Enables access to higher level symbols by setting the right-most Alt ⌥ (Option) key as AltGr

To print the time in Swatch .beats from the terminal, issue the following:

printf @;TZ=UTC-1 date '+scale=2;((%H*60+%M)*60+%S)/86.4'|bc

You can save this as a shell alias so that you can check the time in .beats whenever you like alias beat="printf @;TZ=UTC-1 date '+scale=2;((%H*60+%M)*60+%S)/86.4'|bc".

Notes:

This is a short shell script to make date named directories.

#!/bin/sh
a=`TZ=UTC-1 date +%y%m%d-%T`;b=${a#*-};c=${b#*:}
mkdir -v ${a%-*}`printf %04d $(echo "((${b%%:*}*60+${c%:*})*60+${c#*:})/8.64"|bc)`|grep -Eo \[0-9]+

Usage

The following is a quick guide on how to manually download, extract and run Signal for Linux on a non-(deb)apt based distro (and includes a shell script that automates the entire process). This is for use when no suitable, native (re)package is available. It also includes some additional instructions on how to integrate with your desktop environment. Almost any recent distro (configured for desktop use) will likely have all the dependencies already installed—especially so if you already have any other Electron apps or a Chromium based browser installed, since they will require the same things.

[Note: Triple-click to easily select any of the lines below for copy and pasting into the terminal]

Fetch, extract and launch

Switch to a directory you think is suitable for housing Signal (for example ~/opt)

mkdir -p ~/opt &amp;&amp; cd ~/opt

Replaced with register-vivaldi.sh

Make an install directory somewhere convenient and switch to it

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/slack-desktop
cd ~/.local/share/slack-desktop

Fetch the current Slack Desktop snap

	#!/bin/sh -eu
	# A script convert a Lagrange AppImage to a system installable package

	# Determine if a local package should be used or if one should be fetched
	if [ -n "${1:-}" ]; then
	APPIMAGE="$1"
	else
	case "$(uname -m)" in
	arm*) APPIMAGE_ARCH=armhf ;;
	*) APPIMAGE_ARCH="$(uname -m)" ;;

	#!/bin/sh -eu
	# Check for -s as an argument and if so convert decimal time to 'standard time'
	if [ "${1-}" = '-s' ]; then
	if [ -n "${2-}" ]; then
	TIME_IN_SECS="$(echo 864*$(echo "$2" \| tr -d :)/10 \| bc)"
	if [ "$(uname -s)" = Darwin ]; then
	date -j -f "%s" "$(expr $(date -j -f '%H:%M:%S' '00:00:00' '+%s') + $TIME_IN_SECS)" '+%H:%M'
	exit 0
	else
	date --date="0 today + $TIME_IN_SECS seconds" '+%H:%M'

	#!/bin/sh -eu

	# Minutes past the hour that could potentially be when a percentage lands, to be used as a
	# simple cron tab entry.
	#
	# 0,12,24,36,48 * * * * [path]/dailycountdown.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

	# Define account username
	PUBLISHER_USERNAME="[email protected]"

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# This is a short script to display TOTP codes using MinTOTP
	# <https://github.com/susam/mintotp>
	#
	# You will need to add your secret keys into an encrypted file (called
	# '~/.totp-seeds.dat') formatted like so:
	#
	# amazon:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
	# github:YYY YYY YYY YYY YYYY
	# paypal:ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ