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Linux Qt QSystemTrayIcon in console application

I have a working qt application. It is not a MainWindow application and has no GUI elements at all so far. It runs on startup of the linux box (as a background service). However, it has to wait for ~40-60 seconds until it can start while the IP/DHCP sorts its self out. So I wanted to give the user some

/usr/bin/ld cannot find -l

I have written a few programs and while trying to compile them using g++,as thus, I keep getting the following error: fwlib32.h is the library I am trying to include. The shared object file libfwlib32.so is present in /usr/local/lib as well as /usr/lib. But I am unable link to it. I have tried all the solutio…

Making a virtual file in Linux

I’m working with some existing software that I cannot change, and it loads its config data from a bunch of config files, all following the same naming scheme – let’s say, file_param1.conf, file_param2.conf, file_param3.conf etc. The difference between the content of the files is just param1 …