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Published at LXer: With the upcoming Freeze stage knocking at the door of the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” operating system, it’s time for the community to vote for the default desktop...

By default, pulseaudio will shift to alternate-sample-rate if the first audio playback stream does not match default-sample-rate. With the "show volume meters" option enabled in pavucontrol, it will...

Published at LXer: Despite this feeling like the longest year ever, time continues moving on and there's been a number of great games released with Linux support in the last few months. Read...

Hi, I am executing the following command in a bash script: Code: --------- #!/bin/bash rclone move "${backupdir}/${fileNameBackupDbGPG}" onedrive:backup

Published at LXer: TYPO3 is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install TYPO3 CMS with Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 20.04. ...

I copied some files from one system to another system and forgot to keep the file modification time. So I used stat and touch to change the modified date to math the original file. The new file is...

Published at LXer: The UBports Foundation announced today a call for testing for the upcoming OTA-14 software update for their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for Linux smartphones and...

root# dd if=/*dev*/sdb1 of=/*dev*/sdb3/archive.img dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdb3/archive.img’: Not a directory The partitions are mounted, but the file system doesn't open from the /dev folder so...

Published at LXer: Linux 5.10 rc1 released as Long Term Support (LTS) Kernel. Linux Kernel 5.10 will be LTS after the earlier LTS Kernel 5.4. Read More......

Published at LXer: Plus: 'Intel is not doing well with disclosures. I’m not happy. It’s not getting better'. Open Source Summit Europe Speaking in an "Ask the Experts" session at the online Open...

My computer, an old Toshiba Satellite, starts with NumLock on. The kernel seems to pick up on this and sets NumLock on in every virtual terminal, even though I've used setleds to turn it off as soon...

I notice after my last two upgrades to current 64 that I'm getting a bunch of md5sum errors. Occasionally I would get a few of these in the past and I would just reinstall the offending packages. On...

Published at LXer: At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar...

i notice that when running something with sudo, the sudo process remains waiting. maybe sudo needs to do something after the process it started gets finished. does anyone know what this is? i can't...

Code: --------- # netplan apply /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml:1:1: Error in network definition: unknown key 'nameservers' nameservers: ^ root@raylap:/etc/netplan# cat 01-netcfg.yaml nameservers:...

Published at LXer: colorls is a command-line utility that aims to improve on ls. color is written in Ruby. Read More... (https://www.linuxlinks.com/colorls-turbocharged-alternative-ls/)

Hi, I installed Debian 10 on my laptop. I did that by downloading DVD1 which is the 1st part of the complete 3-DVD distro, copied it to a usb stick, booted it, and did the install. Now I would like...

Published at LXer: Compressed files with the .zip extension are commonplace throughout Windows systems, as it's been the native file compression method for the operating system since many years...

I have a laptop with Mint and Fedora; a PC with Mint, Fedora and Windows 10. I've gone through a lot of reviews on suncing software and haven't come up with anything. I'm not against paying for the...

Published at LXer: Memory-handling oddity from the age of the 286 has been around since ‘pretty much the original release of Linux’. Linus Torvalds has given the world the first release candidate...

Hi, After updating my Slackware64-current installations a few weeks back on two older Lenovo ThinkPads, I noticed that the battery gauge on the KDE desktop stopped working on both. They only...

Dear Community I am looking for two small shell scripts to manage folders with fotos and pictures. As I dont have a lot of experience with scripting, I hope to find help here. Script 1: ...

Published at LXer: Ansible is a complete automation solution for your IT environment. You can use Ansible to automate Linux and Windows server configuration, orchestrate service provisioning,...

Hello there, I have a computer lab at my disposal with many PCs powered with Windows 7 making a workgroup environment through a hub. The task in hand is to replace Windows 7 with Linux (probably...

I am not an active Current user, but I keep a VirtualBox Current VM that I occasionally update and tinker. With the nfs-utils 2.5.2 package there is a stdout spew when launching rc.nfsd. Anybody...

Hi, I just installed windows 7 x64 and thought that I would get the best of both worlds. Computer intense stuff that can not be run in wine and my scanner run on windows 7. The rest on kde-neon...

Published at LXer: Git is one of the most common version control systems available, and it[he]#039[/he]s used on private systems and publicly hosted websites for all kinds of development work....

Hi, Just to understand. D-bus is IPC on systemd.right? I can access an systemd unit throught d-bus.right? so a process started by an systemd service will communicate with other process started by...

Hi , I checked my boot files and fstab and they looked ok. Was wondering if anyone else has ran into this. First time this has happened Thanks CK # file system mount-point type options ...

Published at LXer: Pulp is an open source repository management tool that helps you fetch, mirror, upload, and publish content within your organization. It can be used to manage various types of...

Hi all, OS - Ubuntu 18.04 desktop I'm prepared to install Windows10 Home on an USB 64G drive. I already have Wine installed. $ wine --version wine-3.0.4 $ lsblk

How difficult is it to patch or program in mwm with virtual desktops? I want to use native motif with virtual desktops rather than motif emulation of fvwm and the like.

Published at LXer: If you’re looking for something that can provide documentation not only of Arch Linux but also of Gentoo, FreeBSD, and others to read in an offline mode, meet Wikiman. Read...

I'm having issues with a custom desktop and the technician is no longer available..... *_This post is about the WiFi card._* I'll admit this upfront: I'm afraid to touch the hardware. This is...

A USB memory stick has been plugged into a USB 3 port for quite a few days. The stick was left there after it was discovered that the kernel does not recognise it (e.g. fdisk - l does not show the...

Published at LXer: MySQL is an open-source relational database management software package to store, organize or retrieve data. It has an extensible varieties of management options like user...

I have used Wine for a few years but in full DEs. I am using Debian and Fluxbox now and despite some recent triumphs and lesson-learning cannot work out how to set up a hotkey to start a wine/ Windows...

I have x2gserver installed from the Ubuntu repos on an Ubuntu Mate 20.04 machine. Very simple, it is up and running. I installed the x2goclient on my CentOS 7 with Mate workstation. Again, very...

Published at LXer: Open Hardware Month is organized by the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) every October, and this year, we[he]#039[/he]re putting the spotlight on ways to tell the world...

Why can't find work on having space within string variable for -path or -iregex find's option. This input Code: --------- '/home/demo.*/\.config/File System/.*t$' --------- is fed on: ...

Hi all, I'm dealing with a recurring problem and I just thought someone might be able to tell me what sensible next steps would be to figure out what's causing it. A few weeks ago I got a Lenovo...

Published at LXer: If you have enjoyed using Unity on Ubuntu in the past, check out this Unity desktop review and see how much has changed. Read More......

Greetings all, I'm new to the world of Nagios. I used Big Brother forever and rather than restart it after some system rebuilds, I thought I'd catch up to the modern world. My configurations won't...

I accidentaly changed my .bashrc on /root folder now i cannot access root folder then i dont know what to do i just installed kali linux last night, i need this help. https://i.imgur.com/uDmemGG.png...

Hello, Can someone guide me how to test the mail software? I can send emails but can't receive. I have Dovecot - telnet to 143 port says Dovecot OK. Same with port 25. I get back mail delivery...

Published at LXer: If you are reading Opensource.com, you might be able to code, and you are probably reading this on an open source browser on some elusive*Linux distro. You probably have not seen...

When I use XReader Document Viewer (the default PDF viewer on Fedora) to print an A4 page onto A4 paper, the page is always shrunk. It is as though, for some reason, it shrinks the page to Letter...

What is a goal to create a separate group for each system user? This is a default behaviour of the interactive user creation procedures in most Linux distributions.

I'm installing BLFS 8.4 After configuring JAVA Environment (binary), when I reboot the system a message is being displayed: -su: ${AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR}: invalid variable name. -su:...

Published at LXer: The seven official flavors of Ubuntu 20.10 are now available with the latest builds and .iso images and ready for you - Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin,...