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Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today the KDE Gear 21.12 software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other projects, adding many new features and improvements to your...

Published at LXer: Who remembers the Sol-20? Us neither, but it was an important milestone on the path to where we, and our computers, are today. Without the Sol-20 the home computer world would be...

I have searched the web, but find nothing regarding this issue: let me use clipgrab for example: Since Clipgrab is using youtube-dl to download video. while newer version of clipgrab is using...

I successfully (mostly) system-updated my 18.04 Kubuntu system to 20.04 for the first time after multiple attempts with the last several LTS versions. I say "mostly" because as my system runs, the...

Published at LXer: All this year, we’ve been experimenting with features to help you discover articles and voices that are relevant to your interests, and better organize your lists so you can...

Is there an easy way to invert an ssh connection between an client X to a server Y, so that server Y has a shell inside X? I tried installing ssh-server on machine X but it is actually a windows 10...

Hi, I am looking for help with a OpenVPN setup where I have problems to reach targets on a second network interface of the OpenVPN server. Please see attached picture which shows the IP addresses...

Published at LXer: Knowing how to transfer files securely between Linux hosts is a useful skill to have if you are regularly working with Linux servers. You may just need to transfer a handful of...

Is this how I can set `ctp` if no default has been used Code: --------- local ctp="" local -r wht=$(tput setaf 7) : ${ctp:="$wht"} ---------

Hello, i'm trying to open a .pyw file in ubuntu 20.04 but it won't open. Now it's just open with a standard text editior instead of running the code. So I went on the internet and i found that i need...

Published at LXer: The GNOME Project released today GNOME 41.2 as the second point release to the latest and greatest GNOME 41 desktop environment series to fix more bugs, update translations, and...

Hi All Have a small site running on my RaspPI at home - apache2/php. Have created .htpasswd file in /etc/apache2/ and set it to be used in my main ssl config in apache2/sites-available/ Looks a...

Published at LXer: Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. If you want to switch to Linux but don’t know which distro to choose for your aging PC,...

I know the Baloo developers know this bug! I saw it filed there. As we are talking open source, maybe someone can contribute sorting this bug out if the developer is so busy. The bug is with...

Published at LXer: We review the Zorin OS 16 Lite with Xfce desktop in this post and summarize the features, performance with our exclusive deep dive. Read More......

I was wondering if anyone has actually gotten Rootless Xorg working in Slackware-current, now that it uses elogind? I've been trying to get it working, but so far i've been stumped. I've tried: -...

Are there equivalent `tput` settings for bold, dim, italic, underline, blinking, reverse, invisible. Have not found enough information except for bold.

Published at LXer: CNCF Security TAG recently conducted a micro-survey to better understand cloud-native security. We sat down with Brandon Lum, CNCF Security TAG Co-Chair, and IBM Research...

it's resetting my settings back to default when I reboot It also has forced me to add a primary password cuz passwords are bare-naked in the application menu (top right corner burger thingy). ...

Hi. I have a 2TB SSD (full LUKS automatic partitioning) on my Desktop PC. I also have a 2TB HDD. What would be a good setup regarding backups? Should I clone the SSD to the HDD ever so often? Of...

hello again :P i have few questions regarding old kde 4.x 1. is it possible to put it on new distros ? if yes, how ? if no, why ? 2. why is it not so representable ? i see gnome 2 and 3...

Published at LXer: If ever you've been curious about making music, you'll be pleased to know that the open source digital audio workstation Ardour makes it easy and fun, regardless of your level of...

Why do all of the Ubuntu and their forks not use proper DNS process? https://www.ricmedia.com/set-permanent-dns-nameservers-ubuntu-debian-resolv-conf/ Why should the user be force to jump...

Hello, I am working with a raspberry pi 3 B (raspberry Pi OS) and the SIM7070G LTE-M modem with a LTE-M SIM card. Configuring the modem via at commands I can get an internet connection and ping e.g....

Title sums things up rather well. I want to ssh into my TrueNAS server (yes that is BSD sorry, but close enough), after I am successfully logged in I want to execute Code: --------- source...

I listen to music through my browser, it adds reverberation and other effects to it from the browser add-on. And now how to record other changed music to mp3 / ogg with my favorite settings. How...

Published at LXer: In 2021, The Linux Foundation continued to see organizations embrace open collaboration and open source principles, accelerating new innovations, approaches, and best practices....

I have created this script (https://gitlab.com/KoliaVasili/LockScreen/-/blob/main/LockScreen.py) and want to include a function, that once I unlocked it, after 3 seconds it would put me back into the...

Hello. I have an old HP 8440P laptop with a (groan) Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card. I can "see" non local (in other people's houses) wifi access points but neither of the two on my router a few...

Published at LXer: Codenotary signs on to become AlmaLinux’s first $100,000 a year top tier Platinum supporter less than a month before CentOS 8’s end of life. Read More......

Published at LXer: Open Source Software supply chain security has become a hot topic recently after an executive order by the Biden administration. We sat down with Chris Wright, Senior Vice...

Published at LXer: The PHP ini configuration file is a special file for PHP applications used to control PHP settings what users can or can not do with the website. Read More......

I need some help to understand how linux detect programs crash and to write a kernel module in order to catch a SIGSEGV. I have been working on OPTEE-OS (see the image at the bottom) and when a...

Published at LXer: I am pleased to share that Kristen Trubey has joined Mozilla as our Chief People Officer. Kristen initially came to Mozilla in August in an interim capacity but she quickly...

I want to capture packtes with Wireshark in monitor mode but when i check the monitor mode option in wiresharK it refreshes and becomes unchecked. Then i tried to turn on monitor with Code:...

Published at LXer: The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host the Cloud Hypervisor project, which delivers a Virtual...

Published at LXer: We are going to explore the 5 best terminal based monitoring tools that you can use on your Linux systems to keep you fully aware of their status. Read More......

Hi. It's got 2 antennas at the back of my PC. I installed the *firmware-iwlwifi* package. My home wireless network is detected. It tries to connect but eventually times out. Other info I have on...

I've been learning about Linux based OS for a while now, and even though I don't have a related career (electrical engineering) I would like to change careers to a software developer or systems...

Published at LXer: The Gentoo-based Calculate Linux distribution made in Russia has been updated today to version 22, a major release that brings several new features and updated components. ...

Published at LXer: It's hard to say how good photographs happen. You have to be in the right place at just the right moment. You have to have a camera at the ready and an eye for composition. And...

#!/bin/bash cd Music read -p "Enter the genre: " genre mkdir $genre read -p "Enter the first artist: " artist while [ $artist != "end" ] do # start of loop mkdir $genre/$artist...

Hello forum members. Registered a few hours ago. Been using various Linux distros for something like seven years and have had a thousand questions.... some of which I've even figured out! I...

Published at LXer: Has your Fedora Linux server been End of Life for months because you can’t seem to schedule the hours of downtime required to upgrade it? There are ways to shorten that downtime...

Debian 11 stable Intel NUC with i5 This computer has had plex running it for about 4 years with no issues until today. Plex is running fine, when I tried to update plex, via downloading .deb and...

Hello my teachers, this time I feel I can maybe contribute something instead of asking for help. I have just replaced my desktop (from Intel NUC, to a HP Elitedesk 800 G6). With my old pc, I used...

Hello, everyone. I have xfdesktop set a new desktop background every 5 minutes, and it complains with the following message in the xsession error log (~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log)" ...

I am using KSystemLog , it has various colours of lines. I can't find anywhere: 1) What is each colour - Red, Yello, Green... 2) Can I set it / change those? Where Thanks Alex

Recently used the Synaptic package manager to update Chromium on my Debian based system. Everything went well, except now my bookmark manager is a blank page. And I don't mean just "no bookmarks" I...

Published at LXer: JSLinux is a PC/x86 emulator written in JavaScript. JSLinux allows you to run Linux, FreeDOS, and Windows VMs in the web browser for free! Read More......