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Manjaro xfce: the time and date displayed on tray icon (bottom right) is : sunday 06 dec , 15:41 but the actual time and date right now is: friday 11 dec, 20:47 Code:

Hi guys. I am playing with a few VPS instances i got to learn and do experiments with, and one of the first things on the list is to manage backups. I followed this tutorial on how to backup a...

Hi - my name is Per and is not that young anymore.At work I must relate to several accounts, clouds and apps and depend on my phone and home computer to stay on top of a lot of information. On my...

In windows it's very easy. How come in linux there is no solution? I have already tried using hda-jack-retask, but it was updated in 2014 last time and now its 2020 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. A lot has...

I have installed all the RPM packages I need, I think but how do I know if the VMware Tools are running? Very new to Linux(RHEL 6.5) and in a very complicated and desperate situation. Thanks!

Published at LXer: The creator of CentOS started planning for a new Linux Distribution called Rocky Linux. It is going to be a true replacement for CentOS and will be enterprise-ready. Read...

I installed a Crucial MX500 250 GB CT250MX500SSD1(Z)-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Metallique in June this year, 6 months on it's failed. This disk had a good reviews on...

Hi, when slowly passing the mouse pointer over menus like Xfce menu, or libreoffice menus, submenus don't open from time to time. Tested with Blackbox too. It happens often. Can be redone after...

Good afternoon, After installing mpd and getting some basic configuration done the daemon seems to be running normally but a control client, specifically mpc still states { Volume: n/a}. ...

Published at LXer: Use both Cirrus CLI and Podman to better manage and secure container environments for rootless builds. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/cirrus-cli-podman)

See also thread XML/XSD Schemavalidation of an OOXML document (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/xml-xsd-schemavalidation-of-an-ooxml-document-4175650279/) and the step-by-step...

Hi I'm running ubuntu 20 on a gateway server with the internet via ppp on one NIC and the lan on a 2nd NIC. I want to use the wireless device on my mobo to create a wifi, which is compatible...

fdisk -l Code: --------- Disk /dev/sda: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size...

've installed Kali Linux using Oracle on my Windows Surface Computer. I also successfully installed Metasploit on Kali Linux. The next thing I've tried to do was installing Zipalign on Kali Linux....

Published at LXer: Symlinks are essential for linking files and directories but can easily break without notice. Here's how to find broken symlinks in Linux. Read More......

Am trying to learn vi but seem to have come up with an initial problem. I have been following a ryanstutorial about learning bash, and I also have a Linux in easy steps, by Mike McGrath at hand. ...

Hello all, Being rather low level in Linux, I'm using a recent Lenovo Thinkpad with Debian testing (bullseye/sid) and a fingerprint reader that I successfully managed only thanks to this forum (on...

Published at LXer: Subtitld is a new* PyQt5 subtitle editor for Linux and Microsoft Windows (macOS support might come in the future). The software can be used to create new subtitles from scratch,...

Hi all I have installed the current version of Slackware on my RPI 4. Following the advice of @Exaga https://sarpi.fatdog.eu/index.php?p=slackupdate I have set up my favorite Slackware...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project released today the KDE Applications 20.12 open-source software suite as a major update bringing numerous new features and improvements across most of the included...

Hi all, I am copying old floppy disks and some of the files have special characters (French... 'é', 'è', 'ê', etc. ... My GF knows nothing about computer technology). For the life of me, I cannot...

Published at LXer: Java is a powerful language. Maybe because it’s often seen as an "industrial-strength" tool, you might not expect it to be the foundation of a text editor. After all, text...

When I try to open yast2 from terminal, I am getting the following error. "> /usr/sbin/yast2 Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50302) with this library (version 0x50401)...

After deinstallion of unused desktops I get the below mentioned message Code: --------- The pin board has not yet been used ... set the default background. Start ROX-Filer with 'rox -p =...

Published at LXer: This article explains how to repeat a command every X seconds on Linux, in 2 ways: using watch, and using sleep in a while loop (with a way to avoid time drifting when using...

I'm on -current and would like to install new introduced packages. However, I don't want to install all of them. I only care about packages under a/, ap/, etc folders. How can I achieve that?...

Published at LXer: I've been using a QNAP NAS for a couple of years. For an appliance, it did a decent job. But after a long while, I realized that I actually don't want an appliance: I want a...

How do I go about installing Firefox 80.3 (which is the latest version) for Slackware 14.2?

Is it possible to create a web server using Slackware 14.2, and if so, how do I go about doing it?

Published at LXer: Rocking the Red Hat boat with an alternative distro designed for production use. Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project, has kicked off a new venture called Rocky...

hello, how would i access newly installed apps on fluxbox. I tried installing sublime but i couldnt find it in the text editor section of the left click menu. same thing for the terminator terminal...

Published at LXer: Managing a remote team is both challenging and rewarding. Glean best remote team management practices from someone who does it. Read More......

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This quick article shows you how to resize and convert images on Linux. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/resize-convert-images-from-linux-command-line/)

i am doing some development which involved hacking in MBR boot sector of HDD. For that I am repeatedly turning off the qemu guest VM, de-attach the virtual HDD with qcow image. After that I do the...

I'm happily running KDE5 on Slackware64-current on my T410 Thinkpad, and my Dell 980 desktops. I'm launching KDE5 at run level three. I was very pleased to see that KDE5 runs very lean compared to...

Published at LXer: Gaming world is abuzz with Cyberpunk 2077. The good news is that there is a way to play Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux. The not so good news (if you have NVIDIA) is that you’ll need AMD...

I am using Sabaayon, recently updated. I have several partitions with different distros, and 2 partitions with just Data. I have my root & my swap partitions on fstab, and when I need access to...

Greetings, while discussing a Steam-runtime issue on GitHub (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/318), it came to light that Slackware uses what is, for today distros "standard",...

Published at LXer: Loops in C Sharp allow us to repeat a single statement or a block of statements multiple times. When you know how many times the loop should repeat the statement, you mention it...

Hello linux world I'm having a issue with my Droidcam OBS I dont know if anyone of you guys are familiar with droidcam I figure someone should know a little something and its my first time ever using...

Published at LXer: Google has opened its forthcoming operating system, Fuchsia, to community contributions, but has not addressed the question hanging over it: how will it be used? Read More......

Hi, I have a problem with opening containing folder in Firefox Downloads section. I set Dolphin as default file manager with Plasma 5.20.4. If I go to Downloads section and then I click to the right...

Hello I use slackware-current with kde5. I run kde with 'startx' from console. When leaving I have now to wait (about 10 seconds) then end of the text on console: ---Quote---...

Published at LXer: Taiga is an open-source project management system that helps you to manage both simple and complex projects for startups. It is a simple, powerful, and customizable application...

"After the election is before the election" someone said. I thought it was a given that the senate will be mostly republican, but apparently not, and currently there's a run to win the senate...

Hello all,I'm elena from zaragoza, Spain.

below is the snapshot of the code in production , requirement was to change the user and owner for one of the directory "policy" i added $chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /opt/app/policy just below the...

When I try out Solaris 11.3 IPS package repo, it is not possible to download and install software. Why is that? Is the 11.3 repo closed? And another question: I have a Windows NAS and I can copy...

Hi, after the last round of updates (slackware-current) I see that xorg no longer starts at boot (runlevel 4 is initdefault). I can run startx as user successfully though. I saw a LOT of pkgs being...

Hello, Is there a procedure/process which explains how to upgrade a Redhat 8.2 server to Redhat 8.3? Is this upgrade possible, is other information need to answer this question? Can someone...