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Hi everyone. My presence here is to ask a question about the file manager Caja. Is it possible to change the list of symbols/functions in the menubar? I would appreciate to see the search...

Code: --------- $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.53(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later...

Hello, I want to have the game xmahjong (solitaire) in my Debian. But one version I found is available only for Suse. And its source seems incomplete, I am not sure. Look here: ...

Thank you for the newbie thread I have used Linux Mint Mate for 3 years. And I am here to ask a question. So, I hope I get some more info on a new thread. Regards Roger

Hi there! I'm having quite a hard time trying to boot into a LUKS/LVM partition using a key file stored at MMC/SD card. It looks I have everything properly setup, but all I see is the passphrase...

I'm an habitual user of Adobe Reader. It's far superior to Okular in how it deals with copying from documents that contain columns. Adobe Reader (32bit) is one of the reasons why I install...

Published at LXer: The eleventh installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on December 13th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have...

After upgrading slackware-current with slackpkg into kernel 5.4.83, the boot process hangs with the 'Loading initial ramdisk' message which blanks after a few minutes and nothing more happens I've...

Published at LXer: Even though snaps show was created in VENV, everything works the same way on bare metal. After you created the new partition of desired size installer brings you to screen which...

Hello everyone Yesterday I passed the RHCSA exam (EX200 - scored 270/300)! I got full marks on all objectives but got a lousy 0% on the "Managing containers" objective. I thought I solved the...

When I boot -current64 (kernel-10.1.0) to run level 3, about 10 lines before the login prompt I see Code: --------- Parser.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake...

Published at LXer: My article about learning different programming languages lists five things you need to understand when starting a new language. An important part of learning a language, of...

Published at LXer: Choosing an operating system for your server or business is not an easy task, especially if you are looking to use a Linux distribution. This is because there are hundreds of...

Hello, I'm semi new to kali linux. I was using it a while back but gave it a break due to school. Now since the semester is over I decided to hop back on it but realized I wasn't able to start it up...

Just to say hi for my first post

Published at LXer: The Tails project announced today the release and general availability of Tails 4.14, a new monthly update to their Debian-based live GNU/Linux distribution for keeping your...

I have screensavers and power management disabled in XFCE, yet the screen still blanks (not locked) after about 5 minutes of inactivity. Anyone know whats causing this?

Published at LXer: What if you could have a tiny text editor with different modes to emulate your choice of*Emacs, Vi, Pico, NEdit, and even WordStar? Amazingly, such an editor already exists, and...

This afternoon, I received over a dozen phone calls from recorded woman telling me that my iCloud account had been compromised and to press 1 to be connected to Apple Support. If I refused the calls,...

I ran into several issues upgrading from 18.04, to 20.04, then to 20.10. 1) would not boot In the end I used grub interface to boot single user. The networking was not working. I found that...

Published at LXer: For newer Linux users or people looking to switch, it can be a minefield to try and find accurate and up to date info on what Linux distro to game with. Here to help. What is the...

Published at LXer: Ksnip, a feature-packed cross-platform screenshot tool, has been updated to version 1.8.0, receiving new image annotation / manipulation tools, the ability to pin screenshots in...

I have been using a Kali Linux with persistence for a couple of years on a USB drive, but still know very little about Linux. Today I installed OpenVAS/greenbone. Install seemed to go smoothly with...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how to install and use the Tweet tray utility to tweet directly from the Debian desktop. We will explain the installation of Tweet Tray via both...

Published at LXer: Perf is a simple but powerful performance monitoring tool for Linux based operating systems. It is used to trace or count both hardware and software events. In this tutorial, we...

On Ubuntu I know how to do this using update-alternatives, now on Slackware how would it be? Because I want Zabbix to execute a python script, but it gives an error because the httplib2 library seems...

I'm thinking of replacing a couple of HDD's with SSD's. Is it a good idea to continue to run Timeshift? AFAIK This Timeshift is writing lots (thousands) of hardlinks every hour (and deleting old...

Hi there, I connected my new WD Elements 4TB hard drive to my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server and eventually noticed that it never goes to sleep (normally happens after 30 min. idle time). I filled up...

I've been using urxvt (and rxvt before that) for many years. My only frustration with it is my inability to find how to wrap long lines rather than seeing only a '>' prompt. This is an issue when I...

Published at LXer: Big Red: This is not some gimmick so that you buy support from usIn the wake of Red Hat's decision to end support for CentOS Linux comes a raft of alternatives to fill the void,...

I have a Seagate FreeAgent drive that I used with Windows 7 before I switched over to Linux Zorin distribution. There's data on it that I'd like to be able to access in Zorin. But Zorin seems not...

Published at LXer: Once again, users of the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite distribution are the first to install and try the newest Linux kernel release, in this case Linux 5.10 LTS. Read More......

I get error while loading shared libraries libicui18n.so.65, that is not installed instead I have the multilib version libicui18n.so.68. This is after updates to current and updating multilib. ...

Published at LXer: When I test software on Linux (a regular part of my job), I need to use multiple servers with various architectures running Linux. I provision the machines, install the required...

Sorry if posted in the wrong place, but thought I'd rather make a new thread than post this in the "SBo scripts not building on current"... I noticed that I have an error in my log file regarding...

we want to join many txt files into one txt file by typing in command line without using cat

Published at LXer: As we wrap up 2020, I wanted to take a moment to look at where the industry is headed and what we’ve learned this year. Read More......

Published at LXer: Zeit is a graphical app that makes managing your cron jobs very easy. Let's see how it allows you to easily create cron jobs in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: Radicle is an open-source project that aims to facilitate peer-to-peer code collaboration without depending on a centralized server. In other words, it’s a P2P alternative to...

Published at LXer: File-system management is an important skill to have if you are working with Linux systems often. This how-to article shows you the various ways to rename directories on Linux,...

Published at LXer: Being able to build and tear down a public cloud environment is very useful, but most of us don’t have easy access to a public cloud. The next best thing would be to have a lab...

Published at LXer: Linus Torvalds officially released today the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series, which brings numerous new features, improvements, as well as new and updated drivers for better...

RECENTLY like in the last day. I'm getting this. jorton@host:/DLS$ sudo -i -bash: flatpak: command not found root@host:~# I'm on a very recent update of Deb 10. I haven't done much except remove...

WHO assures it will have an answer in the upcoming weeks.

Well, I did say I wanted to learn Linux the hard way... Ha! I installed Buster not knowing that an internet connection was needed to install the Gnome desktop. So I ended up with Xfce after the USB...

Hey everyone, joining to see if i can find the answer to a vlock question i had

I was asked for an exercise and I would ofcourse like to learn how can this be done?

Hi, I am fairly new to Linux. My only exposure is setting up and maintains a few RB PIs (plex server, pihole, sonarr). My understanding is Debian runs on those. I have a few older HP Elitebooks...

I just bought a Wifi adapter so i can have a wireless internett on my Kali Linux VM. The problem is that i cant find it. I have check't the settings and maked sure its there, and it is. But i cant use...

Hi: First time poster; not sure is the right group. I have a Hyper-V RHel 8.3 VM. I am trying to use RDP from a Windows 10 machine to connect to that VM (xrdp). I can ping the VM's ipaddress...