Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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Add new tag "vdo"?
I do not have enough reputation to create a new tag on this site, therefore I propose to add the tag here. Hope this is the right (or at least not very wrong) approach.
The Virtual Data Optimizer (...
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Distro tags needs pruning, with special mention of the Ubuntu tag
When hanging out in the Ask Ubuntu General Chatroom, hbdgaf commented:
Wow... the Ubuntu tag blew up on UL today >.>
This piqued my curiosity and I went to witch hunt investigate his statement. ...
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remove "learning" tag
We have the "learning" tag which only has 5 questions at the time of writing. However, as I checked none of these questions are suitable to https://unix.stackexchange.com when knowing that ...
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Can [resolvconf] be made a synonym of the [resolv.conf] tag?
I think they should be made synonyms. They refer to the exact same thing even. Here's the tag wiki for resolv.conf:
The resolv.conf file contains information that is read by the resolver (a set of C ...
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should there be a getopt tag?
I just answered a question about getopt and then edited it to remove some irrelevant tags. I also wanted to add a getopt tag but it wouldn't let me because it's too similar to getopts.
getopt is not ...
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Re-tagging text-processing questions
This question is a follow-up to How to use the text-processing tag effectively?
Recently, a question on text processing was tagged as linuxshell-scriptawksedgrep. The question itself didn't mention ...
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Suggestion for new tag: toml (or structured-document-format)
I wonder if there is room for a new tag that could be applied to question relating to TOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language), a structured document format similar to YAML and JSON, mainly used for ...
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Is virtualization always a virtual machine?
Here in Unix and Linux Stack Exchange I used the virtualization tag and it was changed to virtual-machine automatically.
A virtual computing machine is a machine, a virtual operating system is a ...
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Should the tag for the Zoom video conferencing app be [zoom] or [zoom-meeting] or something else?
Over on Ask Ubuntu, we had a discussion somewhat recently due to the frequent mistagging of zoom (for the functionality of zooming in/out) vs zoom-meeting (our tag for the Zoom video conferencing app)...
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Exec tag being used for Find questions
Several users are associating the exec tag (244 questions) with Find's -exec option. Find && Exec tagged questions amounts to almost the half of that value (105 questions). The tag's ...
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Should there be a ubuntu-regolith or regolith tag?
I just asked a question: How to get stacking layout in Regolith Linux? I felt my tagging options were insufficient.
The ubuntu tag requests that you only use it if the question is about Ubuntu. Well, ...
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Should we have specific tags for individual machine-readable code types?
A new tag qr-code has recently been created.
I voted "reject" in the "suggested edit" review as I felt it was not a good idea to have a tag describing a specific machine-readable ...
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Is it possible to complete tags when searching questions?
When writing a question, tags can be completed just by starting to write a word.
However when searching for questions with specific tags, input like "[bla" does not complete.
I wonder how ...
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Overlap between "software-installation" and "package-management"
There has been recent effort by a new community member to tag (in particular old) questions related to software installation with the software-installation tag. Since this also includes questions ...
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Suggest tag deletion
How can I suggest a tag deletion? I guess this is some privilege after some rep points. But in general, is there a process for any user to suggest a new tag or the deletion of an existing tag?
For now,...
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Compton to Picom Retag
The most actively developed fork of Compton (used by most distros) has been renamed Picom.
https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/222
Should we adjust the tags (compton) accordingly or at least add a ...
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Can anyone add a 'remi' tag
Since I don't have enough reputation, someone else coud do it: add a tag for questions regarding the remi repository. I would name the tag 'remi'.
If I search for remi, I get 135 results. So IMO it ...
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Poorly defined tag, "mitigation"
I see a newly created tag, mitigation created just a short while ago. It seems to me that it's got far too narrow a scope (kernel exploits).
I couldn't see anywhere to flag the tag itself for (re)...
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Lets combine all the awk tags
UPDATE: all awk variant tags have now been defined to be synonyms for the one tag, awk, so the below discussion is now only retained by request for historical purposes.
Not really looking for an ...
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Should we have a tag for problems in old computers?
I think that there's a great distinction between the problem handling approach in new and old hardware. By old I mean those of the early 2000's, with 2GB of RAM or less, 32bit, etc. Shouldn't we have ...
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What is the Linux tag for?
When should the linux tag be used? Should it be added to any question when the OP is using Linux? Should it only be used when the question is about the Linux kernel or GNU/Linux operating systems?
I'...
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datascience-anaconda env isn't being loaded - a better name might be needed
After a Suggested change of tag definition for Anaconda, we got installer-anaconda and datascience-anaconda. Since that time, we have had 10 non-deleted questions in installer-anaconda, of which 6 are ...
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Rename [iproute] to [iproute2]?
iproute2 is the package name for the utility /sbin/ip and its peripherals. iproute OTOH leans strongly towards the ip route subcommand. While I admit that ip route is probably the most used subcommand ...
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The linux tag is not allowed
When retagging a question (either with the tag editor or with the question editor), I can't add the linux tag. This happens both with Chrome and Firefox.
Couldn't save tags because:
sorry, ...
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Do we need to git a new tag for Git Bash questions?
I'm seeing some questions lately pertaining to "git bash" or "gitbash" and had to go look to see if this was something different from windows-subsystem-for-linux, and it seems that it is different. I ...
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How should we use [fingerprint]s?
There's a suggested edit to the fingerprint wiki defining it as the biometric fingerprint. But the actual use is rather mixed: there are several questions talking about key fingerprints (~1/3rd of the ...
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We just need one [terminator] to change the past but we got two
So, we got two terminals emulator named "terminator":
jessies.org Terminator, and
Chris Jones's Terminator (also known as GNOME Terminator)
The issue lies that I know of questions using terminator ...
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What is the [history-expansion] tag for, and does it add any value?
While reviewing existing tags (I was looking for Incident Response/Investigation related subjects) I came across the history-expansion tag. Without a wiki definition I had to look at questions already ...
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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 "...
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Tag statistics - what does 'Score [NN] Posts [NN] Posts % [NN] mean?
I was wondering what the statistics stand for that are shown on my main profile page related to the "Top tags":
Score [NN] Posts [NN] Posts % [NN]
N = number
I am especially curious about ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Synonym for /synchronization and /sync?
Two tags exist for questions dealing with "synchronizing":
synchronization (9)
sync (17)
From the current questions asked, there are three uses for them:
File synchronization between machines (...
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Are /virtualization and /virtual-machine synonyms?
We have a tag virtual-machine and a tag virtualization. I can't see any difference in usage between them, nor can I think of a reason why there should be, so I think they should be synonyms. Any ...
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Are polkit and policykit tags not the same?
What is the difference between policykit and polkit tag?
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Do we need /efi or just /uefi?
Is there any point in having separate tags efi and uefi? EFI and UEFI are different versions of the same standard. Most if not all questions are about 2.x (“UEFI”) versions, not about the 1.x “EFI” ...
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Why shouldn't [sunos] be a synonym of [solaris]?
At least one person objects to making sunos a synonym of solaris. Why?
Solaris in everyday speech means SunOS versions 5.0 and above. (Officially, it means 4.0 and above as the last BSD major release,...
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What can the Kali-Linux tag excerpt say to help those askers?
Following on from Why are Kali questions hated so much? and Why I closed the "Why is Kali so hard" question, and in the spirit of making things better, let's do something about the tag ...
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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 (...
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Remove /duplicate tag
Questions with the tag duplicate cover duplicate files, duplicate packages, duplicate lines and many more. Even if restricted to a specific usage, I can't think of any advantage of this tag, so I ...
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Tip for Trogdor: please eat our homework
We have a couple of meta tags on this site. tips-and-tricks and homework are both meaningless tags: they don't indicate anything about the topic or audience of a question. Even conservative Stack ...
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Reconsider the "buffer" tag?
This tag is for questions about kernel buffer caches, including pipe buffers. These are used to store the recently accessed files and/or frequently accessed files.
Many questions use the cache tag ...
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Tag to use for `/usr/bin/install`
The install tag has the description:
DO NOT USE THIS TAG. Use /software-installation or /system-installation instead.
If this tag should not be used AT ALL, should its questions (63 of them) be ...
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Tag-merge syscalls -> system-calls
There are two tags that seem to be split with the same meaning,
syscalls
system-calls
Perhaps the top could become a tag-synonym of the bottom?
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Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag
When editing a question with tag that isn't allowed, the message below is shown which incorrectly uses 'Your answer' instead of 'Your edit':
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
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Make "historical-unix" history!
history has over 300 questions about “The history of Unix systems and their main components”. There's also historical-unix which has 24 questions but no usage guidance or tag wiki – which is also ...
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Redundancy between sub-tags: linux, kernel, linux-kernel?
The current consensus is that linux is a useful tag. If that's the case, then what's the policy on kernel (459 uses) vs linux-kernel (98 uses)?
If linux is here to stay, then linux-kernel appears to ...
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New tag for Clear Linux
There are tags for distro-specific questions like
arch-linux, manjaro, mandriva
linux-mint, - debian, ubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu, chrubuntu, ubuntu-mate, elementary-os, kali-linux
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Quality-based tag for novice questions
After cleaning up a few facepalm coding questions from novices, I failed to find an existing appropriate tag to distinguish such questions. Quality-based tags do exist however, (i.e. the "humor" tag),...
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