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Published at LXer: Have you ever had the opportunity to resize an active root partition in Linux? If not, don’t worry, today, we will be discussing it. Disk partitioning is one of the best topics...

Is there way to turn off Wifi LED indicator on endea plasma linux ? This is an old issue , but i never have time to care about it. My wifi is turned of (software wise), but the LED is always...

issue with libre office impression on ppt file 1. my wife computer, libre office impression missed out the first character on every single slide. However when i used my computer to open the same...

Published at LXer: The Mesa 21.0 open-source graphics stack for Linux-based operating systems is now available for download as a major update that includes numerous new features and improvements...

Published at LXer: Libvirt is a free and open source software which provides API to manage various aspects of virtual machines. On Linux it is commonly used in conjunction with KVM and Qemu. Among...

Published at LXer: How do you get firmware updates in Linux? Where do you get the drivers for your hardware? The answer lies in LVFS. Learn what LVFS is and how to use it. Read More......

dear lq admins, in the top bar, the search forums redirects to an error page that says database error. ---Quote--- Database Error Database error The LinuxQuestions.org database has...

Has anyone found documention, blog posts, or white papers discussing zram on Slackware ARM? Specifically, using /tmp mounted in zram? The only reliable information I found is here:...

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 7.0.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the LibreOffice 7.0 office suite series for all supported platforms, including...

Published at LXer: Python provides a lot of libraries to create cross-platform GUIs such as Tkinter, Pymsgbox, Pyqt, and much more. In this series of articles, we will study the Tkinter package. ...

Hello Forum, I am a relativ beginner in the Linux world and I have since the beginning of the use of linux issues with the wireless Wifi connection with my laptop. I also didn't find anything...

I am using KDE Neon Plasma 5.21 and Chrome I have a website that I want to have a desktop icon for it. But, Chrome creates a shortcut that is wrong, the URL is wrong and I can't see a way to...

Hello everyone. I am using slackware 14.2 stable for last three years now and it works amazing. My application domain is scientific computing. Recently i am planning to switch to slackware...

When I open Veracrypt I get this warning message "veracrypt lock file ********* has incorrect permissions - it seems others have this problem yet there seems to be no solution. As re-installing...

Published at LXer: Remember when the Raspberry Pi was just a really tiny hobbyist Linux computer? Well, to the surprise of no one, the Pi[he]#039[/he]s power and scope has escalated quickly. Have...

I want to built an OS which has basic utilities such as volume,drivers for mouse, keyboard, printer etc. So I need to boot a browser as soon as user has logged in. And only the browser should display...

I have fedora server installed on thinkpad laptop which is connected to my home wireless network. I installed ftp server and i am able to connect over ftp connection with Kodi and stream media files...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of KDE Frameworks 5.80 as a monthly update for March 2021 to their open-source and free software suite. ...

I have been in contact with this Forum before - on a previous computer which recently had to be replaced (an amazing Lenovo ThinkCentre). While he was about it the vendor downloaded Linux Mint 20.1...

Published at LXer: Podcast Guru is truly a sublime podcast player offering a good range of features and a standout interface. Read More......

Hi, One of the DIMMs in my system had an ECC error: Code: --------- [ 5015.808246] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [ 5015.808250] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no...

Published at LXer: OpenVPN is a free and open-source VPN protocol that implements techniques to create secure point-to-point in routed configurations. It is cross-platform and compatible with all...

So, mralk... I spent the past few days working on some little project called "Slackware ARM local mirror repository ...

Published at LXer: Linux distro hoppers rejoice, there’s a new Debian-based distribution in town called TeLOS, which wants to offer you a different, modern approach on the Linux desktop on top of...

With Google dropping support for webapps next year and removing sync from Chromium it is time to come back to Firefox. Trying to find out how to create webapps with Firefox I cam across Mint's...

My original list is horribly outdated so I am starting to work on a new list. Keep in mind I have no idea what most of this software does or whether it is safe to use. It is up to you to decide what...

Hi all I am still looking forward for a good set of power management scripts. I use i3wm on current with laptop and very unhappy with the replacement of pm-* commands : loginctl doesn't seem...

Published at LXer: Dictionaries are the Python programming language's way of implementing data structures. A Python dictionary consists of several key-value pairs; each pair maps the key to its...

Hi you all. I recently installed Lubuntu 12.10 on my old Emachine desktop and man is it fast now! And most everything works out of the box too. I want to connect to my Seagate Personal Cloud NAS so...

Code: --------- bash-5.1$ uname -srvmpi Linux 5.10.23 #1 SMP Thu Mar 11 17:00:08 CST 2021 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel --------- rc.cpufreq: Code:

Published at LXer: Three examples of using while loops to manage conditions that do not have a known limit Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-scripting-while-loops)

Allo, I run Kubuntu 20.10 as the host. I have VirtualBox 6.1.16 r140961 (Qt 5.14.2) I install Windows 7 64 bit. For the NIC, I setup bridged mode. Internet Explorer can access the Internet. When...

Published at LXer: General tips, pointers, and a lot more advice on how to be more productive on Linux Read More... (https://thishosting.rocks/setting-up-your-linux-os-for-productive-work/)

Hi all, 10.1 BLFS Anyone doing it yet?

Published at LXer: I have lived in 100-plus-year-old brick houses for most of my life. They look nice, they are comfortable, and usually, they are not too expensive. However, humidity is high in...

Long-time Ubuntu user finally making an account here to ask about this: Family member was dual-booting Ubuntu 18.04 (ssd with MBR) + Win 10 (slow hdd with UEFI) for years on a ~5-year old desktop...

I've been going crazy looking on the net but I'm still not sure if it's possible or not. My intentions are to debug a program without having to stop its execution. I have found a lot of...

Published at LXer: Elapsed time is the amount of wall-clock time that has passed between the beginning and the end of a particular event. This tutorial describes how to measure elapsed time with...

Hello, I'm using CentOS 8 with Apache Web Server and I want to block Tor IP addresses. I downloaded a list of Tor IP addresses and put it as a "tor-ip.conf" file under the "/etc/httpd/conf.d/"...

Published at LXer: In this guide, we will see how to copy files and create target directories at the same time, with a single command, in Linux. Read More......

Hi everyone! I recently installed Garuda linux (arch distro) on my computer, and I've been trying to install the drivers of the Netgear WNA3100 using ndiwrapper but I wasn't able to. Also I've seen...

I am trying to execute a simple pipeline which should gunzip a file and send the result to stdout. This is ten piped into a tar command which to my knowledge should append the file I specify. I use a...

Hello. I wrote here to start a new ptoject around the arallel computing in linux. I am learning onto a cluster made by single board computer to have my house as less buisy as possible. The project is...

Published at LXer: Automation is not just for technology organizations anymore. You can use it anywhere, even at home. Read More......

Hi there, (first topic here) I've crated a share using samba on Debian 10. I see the share listed on my Mac and can list the folder which is leading to a drive. However if I smash in my Debian...

After endea os major upgrade, when ever i reboot my computer, this annoying KDE splash screen appears before it finish load the whole GUI desktop What is this splash screen ? Any idea where to...

Hello all, trying to fix a problem with wifi not working on my RPi4, as access point, on 21 February this year I've upgraded the two packages: Code: ---------...

I think I've been here before with other hardware and a different distro. However, I still don't understand sound installation and it seems that multiple distros fail to set up sound at all on...

Published at LXer: There are a few ways to get Telegram installed on your Linux desktop. Here we'll go through all the different ways to install the Telegram Desktop app in Linux. Read More......

Hi, I'm fairly new to OS encryption. I'd like to achieve a full blown-up FDE. Apart from some googling, I looked at: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/README_CRYPT.TXT...