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Published at LXer: It's common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to everyone, and above all a time for lists. So there's no better time to compile a list for the year. Once...

Here I am again proving that I have zero understanding of typedef. It should be easy to understand, right? I used to use aliases the same way that typedefs work, so I SHOULD be able to understand,...

Hii, I was trying to install linux endea lxqt along side with win7 hdd. My hardware is legacy bios boot capable only. no efi 1 hdd preinstalled with win7. Partitioning scheme is MBR 1st...

I need help with my WM/DE-setup so I get better workflow. Currently I use KDE, but I have used many different WM/DE, all are ok. The problem is that I can't seem to find right tools for my workflow. ...

Published at LXer: The LVM is a powerful storage management module which is included in all the distributions of Linux now. It provides users with a variety of valuable features to fit different...

Hi all, topic of this post does not exactly align it is about file system (ext2) question but looking through all other sub-threads, i think "Linux - Enterprise" may be best fit since it is more of an...

There is nothing on my site yet. I don't even have a web server working. While trying to get my web server working, I did a Code: --------- journal -xe --------- . I was surprised to find...

Published at LXer: SAR or System Activity Report is used for monitoring Linux system resources . It can be used to generate reports relating to performance of a system i.e CPU reports, Memory...

hello, how would i install i3 window manager on slackware current?

Hello everyone, my name is Victor. I am a writer writing a blog about mobile apps, one of them is: peer pressure for kids (https://blog.mspy.com/helping-your-kid-overcome-peer-pressure/)! I used...

Using a chromebook laptop my niece got for me. I have much experience using the unix shell and prefer that to the windows interface. However, when I start up crosh, even basic commands like cd or ls...

Published at LXer: This beginner's guide helps you remotely connect to Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10. We show you the easy steps with an example. Read More......

A python Merry Christmas card to all at LQ. You'll have to run it, to see the greeting card. Code: --------- #!/usr/bin/python #Merry Christmas to LQ from turtle import *

I'm thinking about trying it out--I have no real reason other than just for shits and grins, but I was wondering if anyone had it going and if there were any hangups I should be aware of going in.

As soon as my computer boots up, before it launches the gui, the screen is getting filled with messages saying Code: --------- usb usb1-port7: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad? ---------...

Published at LXer: Fighting the good fight for better security is a never-ending battle. See how some sysadmin warriors have approached it. Read More......

Got it into a Docker, mostly. One problem is remaining though. When the container starts and runs my entrypoint.sh it does everything except start the myth backend itself. All configuration, and...

Published at LXer: Fedora CoreOS is a lightweight, secure operating system optimized for running containerized workloads. A YAML document is all you need to describe the workload you’d like to run...

Merry Christmas to You and Yours! (qt4 & kde-4 on -current).

Published at LXer: The lightweight desktop environment Xfce releases its latest installment Xfce 4.16 with many exciting features. Here in this post, we summarize the Xfce 4.16 release covering the...

Published at LXer: Eclipse is an IDE (integrated development environment). It’s definitely not a text editor. Then again, an IDE is really just a text editor with a lot of extra features for...

Published at LXer: CloudLinux offers extended support until 2024 to keep your CentOS 6 servers secure from a new OpenSSL Vulnerability. Read More......

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to install and uninstall list of packages from a file in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: The Raspberry Pi is the small, low-cost, single-board PC that took the world by storm when it was released in 2012. Since then, educators, students, makers, and tinkerers have...

Published at LXer: In 2020, as every year, new open source projects launched as alternatives to proprietary solutions. Here is a roundup of the top nine articles about open source alternatives that...

Published at LXer: This step by step guide explains how to upgrade Alpine Linux to latest available stable version or rolling release version. Read More......

Published at LXer: The Xfce 4.16 desktop environment has been officially released today as a major update that brings numerous new features and improvements over the previous release, Xfce 4.14. ...

Hi, I am using Debian 10 as a desktop operating system. Currently I am interested to install " kdenlive ". Geting help from https://snapcraft.io/install/kdenlive/debian I am getting an error...

Hello LQ, Really happy to join here finally. From couple weeks i have been trying to fetch content from below file which is per-compiled installer but all my tries failed so came here for some...

I have a light meter which has Python3 libraries which seem to require root access. I don't want the whole script to run as root, just the part which reads the light intensity. I wonder what are the...

I have tried several of the suggested remedies on searching but no luck as yet!!!!

I am using Linux Mint 20. I was working on my machine. Suddenly vscode could not save the file. Then when I restarted my machine it showed the following on the boot screen. Attachment 34998...

How do I go about installing Thunderbird 78.6.0 for Slackware 14.2, and making it the default e-mail program?

When building xgmrace-5.1.25 on updated Debian 10: ./configure gives ---Quote--- checking for a Motif >= 1002 compatible API... no configure: error: M*tif has not been found

I am looking not only to list sshfs connections but where there coming from. The command to list is # ps aux | grep -i sftp | grep -v grep which just list the connections. What I want is where is...

Hello. Ubuntu 20.04 Trying to troubleshoot this issue. My Ethernet connection keeps dropping out but not when using wifi. I've tested cables and USB Ethernet adapter and they are fine. Here is...

Why does tracepath never get to it's destination but trace route does - Mint 20 64bit traceroute Code: --------- jonke@charlie:~$ traceroute google.com traceroute to google.com (216.58.211.174),...

I am installing endea linux onto existing hdd with separate partition, win7 is the original os on this hdd. Got this error msg Attachment 34995...

I use a forti VPN via a network manager plugin. It works, however it hijacks 0.0.0.0 route and then the internet stops working for me. ``` ozbolt@meta ~/Downloads> netstat -rn Kernel IP routing...

I'm looking to clarify some email questions. I've been looking for some tutorials but everything I have found only addresses the transmission. My understanding is using SSL/TLS with an email client...

Ubuntu 20.04 lts user Need help installing Leisure Suit Larry on Linux. This video is suppose to show how, but I can't follow it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSKaW_IaZs Addendum: ...

I've had Virtual box running here for years on Windows 2012R2 with a couple of Ubunto Guests. I just made 2 new 20.4.x guests in preparation to upgrade mail servers. Neither system can ping past the...

Hi! I wonder if I should put this in a "newbie" subforum or in this "hardware" forum. I left linux ten years ago, when ubuntu started dominating the scene. And here I am, returning to linux. I...

It works fine, but the notify-send is put "backwards" before other notifications, here's: an image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/nuNxV.png It feels like my notification is in a different "group" or...

This is somewhat awkward. In the very next listing, I get the error listed in the title box. Here's my code: Code: --------- michael@caitlyn 14 $ cat listing14.10.cpp //Listing 14.10 -...

How do you setup the a52 plugin in your distro?

I just want to say I hope anyone who is a pagan/heathen (like me) had a Happy Yule, and to those who aren't will have a very Merry Christmas. I want to especially wish the best to all the folks who...

Did anybody else encounter this oddity? I was up to date in Slackware64-Current as of Tue Dec 22 20:45:03 UTC 2020 & running 5.10.2 kernel I did a clean install of VirtualBox testbuild...

Has anyone worked with the new postfix+dovecot in latest -current? AFAIK there isn't a guide to getting it running yet. I'm wondering if it just works out of the box or some config is needed...

Published at LXer: Created for version 7 of AT[he]amp[/he]T’s original Unix operating system, the*sed*command has been included with probably every Unix and Linux OS since. The*sed application is...