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Published at LXer: Krita in 2024: Prioritizing Qt6 porting, enhanced comic book frameworks, and exploring AI in art without compromising ethics. Here's more on that! Read More......

Published at LXer: Learn how to find which package provides a specific command in various Linux distributions with examples. Read More......

I updated today with a few updates from the past several days. Shadow is at 4.15.0. Sometimes, I check the files with pwck to make sure everything is prim & proper. Now I'm getting this: Code:...

The videos have 1.5gb to 10gb, length 0.20h to 10h, and the target size should not exceed about 1gb. Similar to the example (https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#twopass) but with the best...

Published at LXer: New Proton Mail desktop app brings distraction-free, secure email to Windows, macOS, and Linux (beta). Free trial available. Read More......

I have just installed Slackware64-15.0 on a Fujitsu Lifebook, intel i-7, updated, installed latest kernel, installed slackpkgplus with the enclosed config file, downloaded daw.template...

Hello all, I am setting up a new dual boot system with Linux mint 21 as primary OS and OpenBSD as secondary OS. The latter OS is installed first and Linux last. When the computer boots, there is no...

Published at LXer: System76 announced the availability of a new version of their Adder WS Linux-powered notebook that features an HX-Class 14th Gen Intel CPU and higher storage. Read More......

Published at LXer: Szyszka is billed as a fast and powerful file renamer. Itis built with GTK and is cross-platform software. Read More......

Guys, if I delete a file on my USB HDD, is there any way to recover it? Praying now...

I'm trying to teach myself basic cairo programming but I have got stuck on arcs. The official cairo manual says: ---Quote--- Angles are measured in radians. An angle of 0.0 is in the direction of...

Published at LXer: Discover a step-by-step guide to install the Firefox as a DEB package on an Ubuntu-based distribution without needing the Snap package. Read More......

I have an HP printer* with multiple paper trays. *How do I enable automatic selection of the tray where I have a specific type of paper installed?* (I'll defer doing this from LibreOfficei for now.)...

Published at LXer: Dedicated computer history enthusiasts from the ITS Reconstruction Project have undertaken the remarkable task of recreating the PDP-10 mainframe, a computing icon from MITis AI...

Published at LXer: Many people who regularly use computers suffer from eye strain and fatigue. Looking at a monitor for a long time can strain your eyes or can make any other problems you are...

I am running an Ubuntu server 22.04 VM on an esxi host. I have connected my logitech webcam and passed it through to the VM. I have tried multiple programs to capture an image or audio from it but...

Published at LXer: A new data leakage attack called GhostRace ( CVE-2024-2193 ) was recently discovered. It affects major CPU manufacturers and widely used software. This critical analysis will...

Published at LXer: CachyOS's streamlined March 2024 release introduces Plasma 6 with Wayland, new CDNs, and refined filesystems. Read More......

I'm getting a whole lot of these messages (Dovecot 2.3.20): ---Quote--- Mar 12 20:37:01 MYSERVER auth[6883]: pam_unix(imap:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot...

Published at LXer: nap Backup is billed as the one-click backup utility for safeguarding your important computer files. This is cross-platform software and published under an open source license. ...

Published at LXer: Don't worry, you can still put it back, but it's an accessibility snag. The Fedora development team is discussing dropping the GNOME on X11 session in Fedora 41, meaning that...

Hello I can not find javaws, to run some jlnp files, on my system. I have installed the openjdk, and the zulu-openjdk. Non of these seem to have javaws. Regards

Published at LXer: Linux clothes specialist HELLOTUX, from Europe, has been making Fedora shirts and hoodies since 2020. They are happy to announce the new Fedora laptop backpacks with an...

As I was installing Slackware 15.0 I noticed in the "terse" descriptions a package called expat which was described as an xml parser. As I have a need to parse/view XML files, I thought I'd try it....

Published at LXer: A compiler is software that transforms source code written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary...

Published at LXer: Discover two favorite sysadmin commands, known as acct and psacct, that allow them to track the activity of users on the system. Read More......

Hello I've been educating myself all day, trying to figure out how to prevent some local users from using Postfix. These are regular users but I placed some heavy restricitons on what they can do...

Published at LXer: Discover multiple solutions to fix the unexpected error message on the Gnome Extensions site while installing a new extension. Read More......

I rebuilt all the system and all seems good, but I started to have lot of compilation issues, so I start to investigate trying to understand. checking GCC profile Code: --------- gcc-config...

This is Tor 13.0.11 / Firefox 115.8 ESR in Xubuntu: Attachment 42632 (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?attachmentid=42632) similar question on StackExchange:...

I know, "it's not a good idea". It is my computer and I get to do with it what I want. After all, Linux is about user freedom. I am sick of the OOM killer taking down firefox-bin because some other...

Can the Slackware release of the kernel include a patch so those of us with Gigabyte motherboards can have working Ethernet. The patch is just to add a PHY recognition code to the RealTek driver. ...

Published at LXer: The emergence of the KrustyLoader backdoor, with its variants targeting both Windows and Linux systems, has caught the attention of cybersecurity experts. This critical analysis...

Published at LXer: The OBS Studio 30.1 open-source screencasting and streaming app was released today as the first major update to the OBS Studio 30 series adding new features and improvements. ...

Published at LXer: At Mozilla, we know* we canit create a better future alone, that is why each year we will be highlighting the work of 25 digital leaders using technology to amplify voices,...

Hey gang, I'd really like to upgrade my krita that comes stock on 15.0 (5.0.2) to 5.2.0 or greater. Is it possible to do or is this another of those apps that's tied to KDE, like Konqueror...

A set of instructions for fetching mail with getmail from an office365 server says I must register the app at portal.azure.com. I log in, try to do that, get told that my domain restricts users from...

Hello every one, while awaiting for a new motherboard for my desktop i am working on an old laptop (although running an i7 with 32Gb RAM) and I tried to launch google-earth-pro... how: attempt...

I am glad they did, given that exFAT is widely used and pre-formatted on SD XC cards and the only cross-platform file system without the 4 GB filesize limit, but what did Microsoft gain from...

Published at LXer: The venerable DVD is a removable media format that was conceived almost 20 years ago. However, it still remains a useful medium, although online streaming has massively reduced...

Daniel Stenberg, curl's lead developer, will be having a discussion next week with packagers and distro maintainers in order to get to know what they need or want from curl. This is the official...

I haven't used Debian in donkey's years and am doing my due diligence before installing Debian 12. How does one get multimedia codecs such as Gstreamer and other usual suspects installed? I see that...

Hello all, I know that there are many choices in the world of programming ... In my case, I have some code that I had written in Intel style for Microsoft VC++ 6. It uses 32 bit addresses. It uses...

I created a restricted user with rbash, for sftp file sharing between desktop(client) and laptop(server) but whenever i entered password it would return "Connection closed" in progress of connection....

Hi all, I came across something that I haven't ever needed, it's a file named: /etc/machine-id. I see why it might be needed. So a couple of questions: Firstly, I'm curious as to why it's not...

I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon edition. I had a problem with being unable to read text in the settings in an app called Cool Retro Term, it seemed like the fonts were white on a white...

Hello. I was wondering if someone could help with a question about cloning a USB drive with Linux on it. We have a drive that is 4GB and has 3 partitions on it with ext2 file systems in them. The...

I've been using fetchmail for 25 years, wish I could keep using it, but they refuse to get along with oauth2 and one of my accounts uses it. What's the easiest alternative to get to get my mail...

When I replaced Windows 11 with Kubuntu 23.10 in an ASUS X553M laptop, the installation finished with a "fatal error". I had to use yannubuntu's boot-repair to fix it, which I downloaded through a...

Hi, Weive attached a USB 3.0 hub from VIA Labs (VLI ) to an NVIDIA Jetson Orin. Whenever we connect a peripheral directly to the hub, it is detected but doesnit establish a connection. We...