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Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to mark columns in nano like in this picture: https://i.stack.imgur.com/60oTI.png Thank you and best regards.

On lubuntu; I code c++ with the Sublime text editor. The editor support the compiling of a source by calling a make file. Off course, the make file is run in a terminal window like it should....

Published at LXer: As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source...

Published at LXer: 'Some of you will be happy at this, and some might be disappointed'Richard M Stallman, founder and former president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), announced at the...

Hello :) (https://boobsgifs.com) I am a bit confused with all the Linux distributions. There are a lot of them. Need: Stability Possibility and ease of organizing offline updates from a local...

How do I rsync sda7 (home) to sdb6 (home). sda7 is home on drive installed in laptop running mint 18.0. sda6 is home on USB hdd running mint 20.1 sda6 has part of home from sda7 on it already. ...

Is there an easy way to disable "F1" button, which acts as "sleep mode" on my laptop?

Published at LXer: If you hate performing repetitive tasks, then I have a proposition for you. Learn Ansible!Ansible is a tool that will help you do your daily tasks easier and faster, so you can...

I try to install MX Linux on an existing partition for Linux (ext4) in a dual boot box. The installation stops around 95% when installing GRUB. A message says "can't get GRUB installed" and to reboot...

Published at LXer: Bash for loops aren't life-changing for everyone, but they certainly can enhance your productivity. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-scripting-loops)

I have a rooted android 4.2.2 tablet. Some generic make up My /data block is only 0.98gib of space but my internal sdcard is 27gb I formatted my sdcard (flash memory) to ext4 and mounted the block...

How safe is Sourceforge to download distros from?

Published at LXer: We live in a busy world and can save time and effort by using*the ls command when we need to look for files and data. But without a lot of tweaking, the default ls*output isn't...

Published at LXer: If you want to disable any user to prevent that the user logs into his/her account on Ubuntu or lock the user’s account so he/she won’t be able to log in and access the...

Published at LXer: The Mozilla Firefox 87 web browser is now available to download for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows. Read More......

Good afternoon, I was wondering if I could get some assistance in understanding the full potential of Wireshark. I am analyzing a .pcap file where there is a EITest Evil Redirect Leading to EK. I...

Published at LXer: Journald provides a centralized way of handling the logs regardless of where the messages are originating from. Read More......

Good afternoon, I was wondering if I could get some assistance in understanding the full potential of Wireshark. I am analyzing a .pcap file where there is a EITest Evil Redirect Leading to EK. I...

Published at LXer: Application launchers are a category of productivity software that not everyone is familiar with, and yet most people use the basic concepts without realizing it. As the name...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will learn about an interesting Vim feature i.e. how to edit multiple files at the same time using Vim editor in Linux. Read More......

I'm trying to write a single line shell script to backup my browser profile using zip. I don't want to backup the whole thing (way too many cache files, and other non-essential stuff) - I just want...

People, Every morning, on boot-up for the first time, my machine runs rsnapshot as an anacron job which backs up the contents of /home/, /etc/ and /usr/local/ to a separate (EXT4) hard disk. We are...

Hello friends! I'm a beginner, and I was looking for more information about Slackware and saw this link from a 2015 reddit: "Is Slackware dead? Should I use Arch?" Is this still relevant to Red Hat...

Published at LXer: Gentoo-based Porteus Kiosk 5.2 was announced today by developer Tomasz Jokiel as the latest release of this GNU/Linux distribution optimized for web kiosks. Read More......

I'm trying to set high/low voltage, fan speed, and set alarms. I am brand new at linux, and do not know where to start. I am in ect/sensors.d folder. Please assist.

Hello: Trying to find a way to backup photos, text files from Samsung phone running android 5.0.1 to slackware 14.2 64-bit (no kernel upgrade). Desire a USB solution, phone will not recognize...

First, I am aware that MIDI is probably not of interest for most people. I have noticed, however, that the few people that still use it may have experienced problems with MIDI playback which seemed to...

Published at LXer: When you want to build a website or web applications, the first step is to buy a domain name, as it is an*easier way to remember than the IP of the server. A domain name is a...

I have struggled wit this for time time now. My goal is to do the following: Copy files that are newer than the indicated date in the CLI script from my aws bucket to my local linux server. aws...

Hi, I wanted to ask is it possible in linux to run two pppd daemons for two modems simultaneously in linux? For example "pon provider1" and "pon provider2"

I bought a Toshiba Chromebook (pre used) just to see what they were like, didn't like ChromeOS, & subsequently installed my regular Linux onto it, but never had any sound output. Well, I put the...

Published at LXer: For this week’s blog, we put the Lenovo M93 through its paces from a multimedia perspective. Read More... (https://www.linuxlinks.com/lenovo-m93-ultra-small-pc-video-audio/)

I trying to run the pppd daemon on my embedded board. When I connect the modem to USB and run "pon provider" the initialization is correct (I get the IP address and in "ifconfig" I have ppp0...

Recently I found this apache module for running server side js with spidermonkey's Javascript engine. https://github.com/mankyd/edjs I don't think I fully understand instructions though... ...

Hey y’all, I’m luke2m, an Arch user, student, runner, and web dev.

I just bought a new HP laptop, not the newest model, but with AMD R7 processors. Ubuntu cannot handle the Wifi. Below are the details. Can you please help me get the wifi going? (There is no...

Published at LXer: The twenty-fifth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is out, for the week ending on March 21st, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in...

Dear all, i want to write a shell script, i have a folder and in each month on 5th day there is file creating under this folder and then system is reading it and file is disappearing. what i...

Hi I'm setting a home server, using debian. (With a low powered ex-NAS, 2gb ram, quad-core 2ghz). I've been looking at backup solutions to cloud (backblaze), such as restic, borg and duplicati....

Greetings! I am running into an issue with running a cron that uses notify-send. This scripts works on Gnome and XFCE. For whatever reason, I cannot get it to work on KDE Plasma (-current 5.21.3)....

Any ideas on what it would cost to run a discussion forum for 100K+ members? Turn key operation. Could be run by one of the members for a fee. Thanks.

Published at LXer: Bash is a great coding language, which allows you to do complex things like Big Data Manipulation, or simply create sever or desktop management scripts. The entry level skill...

Hi everyone, I'm a MX-Linux user and wish an open source world! Thanks to the community for this invaluable forum. All the best Marco

I have just bought the Asrock B450-Pro4 (with R5 3600 cpu) and i'm struggling with ACPI. 'acpi -V' does not return anything useful: No support for device type: power_supply No support for...

Hi, Totally Free. I am doing the Range Force task: https://www.rangeforce.com/cyber-security-training-solutions#battle-skills Task: Linux Execution Context | User Permissions For some...

Hello I am running Debian Bullseye on a nvme drive on my laptop that is partitioned as follow (i shortened the names for convenience): /dev/nvme0 EFI /dev/nvme1 /boot /dev/nvme5 / /dev/nvme7...

Hi all, I have installed Zoom on my computer running Slackware 14.2 using this Slackbuild : https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/zoom-linux/ No problem and no error at...

Hi folks, I'm new to Ubuntu. I thank you in advance. Have a MEDION laptop with x64Bit hardware but conversion or this is a device that is part of the fact that the device behaves like an x86Bit. Am...

Published at LXer: PeaZip 7.8 open-source and cross-platform archive manager utility has been released today as a major update that introduces several new features and improvements, along with...

I run Debian on an ARM machine, partway between a desktop and an embedded system. It is networked with internet access, but has no GUI interface, all console access is via the terminal. I'm looking...