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Published at LXer: There[he]#039[/he]s something special about maps. I remember opening the front book cover of JRR Tolkien[he]#039[/he]s The Hobbit*when I was younger, staring at the hand-drawn...

Hello, I have a laptop with Linux Mint 19 with Cinnamon. Financial manager "Grisbi" is in version 1.0.2, but I need in version 1.2.2. How can I upgrade exactly this one apllication to a higher...

I am running Slackware64-current (updated as of today) with slackpkg+-1.7.9-noarch-1mt It's my understanding that slackpkg+ should be able to search SBo repositories for existing slackbuilds...

Hello good people of the Linux world. Pardon the long-winded first post, but I'm trying to provide as much useful info as possible in hopes that those willing to help can respond accordingly. I...

Hi there, I'm mostly a Windows PC user looking to transition over to Linux. I'm about to drop a lengthy post over in the Newbie section looking for some advice. Thanks everyone.

I have an M2 disk in my PC with UEFI dual boot WIN10 and Linux installed. There is also a "normal" data HDD in the computer, which has a "dos" partition table. In addition, I have a HDD connected to...

Published at LXer: Want to give your Terminal a retro look? This guide contains instructions to help you to install Cool Retro Terminal application in all Linux distributions. Read More......

I think this issue i'm experiencing is connected to the firefox freeze when opening folders of downloaded files. Basically firefox tries to call thunar to open the folder, but thunar takes 25...

Hi All, I am unable to find a suitable Wifi USB adapter that can work out of the box for Kubuntu 20.04 LTS LInux Kernel 5.11.0-40-generic. I have installed Kubuntu on Dell Inspiron N5110 (2012...

Hello How to recover a computer access password. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Update cannot be performed. Thank you.

I am going through bash regular expressions. Specifically the difference between Code: --------- (regex)? --------- Match an optional regex

Published at LXer: GNOME’s Text Editor simple and lightweight text editor app is getting some new features and improvements as part of the upcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment series, due out in...

Published at LXer: In today’s article we’ll be seeing the top 7 reasons to switch to Linux from Windows, and why it could be a viable option for you in the future. Read More......

Good morning all, my first post here after a long time lurking and solving problems via searching, I am however a bit stuck now. Device: Lenovo X230 BIOS: coreboot OS: Fedora 35 fresh...

I have Ubuntu 20.04.3 in a portable drive. I installed Apache using Install and Configure Apache | Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-apache#3-creating-your-own-website). I was...

Slackware64 Current15RC1 Xfce on Desktop Code: --------- $ lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet...

Published at LXer: Container-diff is an open source product from Google that helps you to analyze and compare container images hosted in Google cloud platform. Read More......

Published at LXer: SoundConverter is a useful application not just because it does exactly what its name says it does, but because it does it in batches and in parallel. Read More......

Hi there! I've recently (within the last year or so) noticed that my mouse, a Logitech M705 wireless "marathon mouse", has picked up support for trackpad-style "high resolution" scrolling for the...

Published at LXer: GNOME’s Gedit lightweight text editor is getting some new features and improvements as part of the upcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment series, due out in Spring 2022. Read...

Published at LXer: The release of CentOS Stream 9 has been carried out before CentOS Linux 8 expires at the end of this year. The distro is based on Fedora 34, the same code base that RHEL 9 uses....

Published at LXer: The fifteenth International Day Against DRM (IDAD) is next week, and we here at the Defective by Design campaign are calling on you to help us send a message to purveyors of...

Hello, I'd like to assemble a CO2 monitor with the following features: *

This post is the result of https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/not-secure-4175704419/#post6306403 ---Quote--- All the security config stuff needs to be done on the server by...

Published at LXer: In 2021, after six years of community building and expanding from two projects to 18 projects, to over 50 labs, 16 Special Interest and Working Groups, and over 200 members,...

I have been writing images for Arm boards to sdcards, a usb disk and even a 2.5" disk with dd. This is a recommended method. Partition 1 is vfat, partition 2 is ext4. But they are overwriting the...

I will be replacing 2006 Dell Inspiron 1520. Considering 2015 MacBook Pro Retina. My neighbor gave me one that was in Bahama salt air too long. It was not too hard to get into. My concern is the SSD....

Is there a way I can schedule ping once an hour. I got a new isp but have not cancelled the old one yet. I would like to ping the new isp once an hour for several weeks to see if it will stay good. I...

Published at LXer: Linux fans rejoice: the smarts running behind Xiaomi's Not-Spot, CyberDog, emanate from none other than Ubuntu 18.04. The Register asked Canonical why not something a little...

Hello, i have installed NordVPN App from SlackBuilds (https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/nordvpn/) and have done the described instructions there - like adapting rc.local and...

how to mark post https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/debian-11-bullseye-on-optimus-laptop-not-detecting-external-screen-4175690446/ useful

Published at LXer: The Blender Foundation released today Blender 3.0 as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, open-source and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software for GNU/Linux,...

Published at LXer: eCommerce servers are being targeted with remote access malware that hides on Nginx servers in a way that makes it virtually invisible to security solutions. The threat received...

The follow sample code are doing the follow: * echo the pid of 1st terminal tab on 1st terminal tab * echo the pid of 2nd terminal tab on 2nd terminal tab Copy the follow to the terminal: ...

Published at LXer: Strapi, the company behind the most popular open-source headless content management system (CMS) of the same name, has launched the next stable release of Strapi v4. This...

LFS 11.0 8.77 Stripping On the final *for* loop I got a Segmentation fault, and the prompt is now *-bash-5.1#* I have not entered the last command. ---Quote--- unset BIN LIB save_usrlib...

I no longer need this repository. I didn't realize that I had spelled it incorrectly. I no longer need it but can't figure out how to delete it. I am including a snapshot of the error I am getting. ...

How do i copy a *file* in cmd?

Published at LXer: The EndeavourOS team released today a new ISO snapshot of their Arch Linux-based distribution built around the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, EndeavourOS Atlantis. ...

Alien Bob has been kind enough to make packages of VLC-3.0.16 available. Please see this link for everything you need to know. :)...

Hello, It looks like Freeswitch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSWITCH) and Asterisk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_(PBX)) are the two major open source applications to build a phone...

Published at LXer: Many distributions and desktop environments provide some sort of docking implementation. If your distribution does not have a Dock or if you want to experiment with some other...

Good morning Sometimes, when I want to attach a file to a post or blog-entry (not often), I must convert the current file into something less convenient but palatable to the LQ forum. There...

Hey I tried to extract a >100GB archive *on a different hard drive* over night by using pv file.tar.gz | tar xzf - sadly now, turning on my screen I can't move the mouse, the keyboard is dead and...

Tried the command on the wiki(Download the Slackware AArch64 tree): Code: --------- rsync \ --exclude '*/source/*' \ --delete -Prlvv \ $SLKSRV/slackwareaarch64-${SLKVER} . ---------...

*Envirement:* * Linux like Ubuntu, Cinnamon desktop, bash, terminal *How to get to get the pid of 2nd terminal tab in 1st terminal tab ?* Follow sample: Code: --------- echo pid $$;...

Hello -- I've been wondering whether or not to switch to Ubuntu from Elementary OS. I'm fooling around with it and find it a little bit...restrictive. What are your thoughts on Ubuntu? Is it...

Published at LXer: Fedora Linux provides several editions according to your needs. This article will introduce the different Fedora Linux editions. Read More......

Published at LXer: November 2021 was another excellent month for Enable Sysadmin. During the month, we published 23 new articles and received nearly 720,000 reads from more than 488,000 readers...

Good morning I could install the libjxl library, build from the sources, as described here (https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/). To get the Gimp plugin, I followed indications from here...