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Xsane not working in Mint 20
Hello I try to scan the same way I did with my former Linux Mint 19.3, but now I get this: "Could not open unit 'hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_series?serial=CN39T2DR7F0604': Defect in I/O of unit." (forgive...
Postfix issue
Hi, I am using Postfix 3.1.12 (official Debian package). Today I noticed an unexpected large queue (> 2000 messages), while normally I have about 30. I tried to send a message, and it has been...
qtconfig requires a full restart to correctly display preview of custom theme
Slackware64-14.2 I am ricing my system to achieve consistent looks for all GUI apps and for this I'm setting Qt4 to use GTK themes. This is the default look of qtconfig: ...
LXer: Parrot 4.10 Ethical Hacking OS Released with an Xfce Edition, AnonSurf 3.0 and Metasploit 6.0
Published at LXer: ParrotSecurity announced the general availability of the Parrot 4.10 distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing tasks, based on the latest stable Debian GNU/Linux...
Libinput warning message
With -current, libinput has been issuing warnings that the keyboard "event processing lagging behind by %dms, your system is too slow". A new message appears every 10 minutes or so. From the...
Properly installing nvidia driver files fron SlackBuilds.org?
What is the correct method for installing the nvidia 340.108 driver files from SlackBuilds so that they function properly? When I try to do a direct install of the driver from the nvidia website, it...
LXer: Best Graphic Design Software for Linux in 2020
Published at LXer: Are you looking for a best graphic design software for Linux? Here is 8 free graphic design software to create professional graphic designs. Read More......
programs not compiling
lately I have been trying to compile some programs from slackbuilds.org, I'm running slackware current and I get this error. 'ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'giscanner._giscanner'. I think it's...
Deadbeef manual/documentation?
Just installed the deadbeef audio player off SBo and I've noticed it doesn't have a man page. Wondering if there actually are any local docs/mans for it of any kind that tell the user what commands do...
LXer: Use GNU on Windows with MinGW
Published at LXer: If you're a hacker running Windows, you don't need a proprietary application to compile code. With the Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) project, you can download and install...
LXer: MX Linux 19.2 KDE Edition Officially Released, Available for Download Now
Published at LXer: The MX Linux project published today the final release of the highly-anticipated MX Linux 19.2 KDE Edition, the first officially supported MX Linux flavor using the KDE Plasma...
LXer: How To Install Ghost On Centos
Published at LXer: Check out how to install Ghost CMS on Centos Read More... (https://www.ultralinux.org/post/how-to-install-ghost-on-centos/)
LXer: Debian Turns 27 Years Old, Happy Birthday!
Published at LXer: Today is Debian Day and the day when the Debian Project, the maker of the Debian GNU/Linux universal operating system, turns 27 years old. Read More......
BrosTrend™ AC600 WiFi USB Adapter WNA016 Linux MINT Sarah 18
I have the above listed wifi adapter and I have looked at some of the other posts on this device, however none are working. When I run lsusb Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc. Bus 002...
use of "free" command in ubuntu gives a strange result.
Trying to learn command line in ubuntu I used the free command to check memory usage on my system.Unfortunately I can't insert an image at this time so I will explain what I see in terminal. Under...
SSH X11 forwarding seems to have stopped working
Hi, Here is something puzzling me: I have a pretty simple setup w a Linux Mint 19 laptop upstairs and a Raspberry pi in the basement. I used to use SSH X11 forwarding to remotely run graphic...
Restoring a single folder from an Evolution backup in Ubuntu 20.04
Comming here from 30 years of using Windows and Outlook... In Outlook, there is a choice of restoring if need be, an entire backup, or a single folder only. Dd we have such a facility in Linux? ...
wifi
I have recently installed linux Mint 20 and hooked up ATT internet service worked fine for a time them I believe update knocked out all wireless support in the OS in the networking CP wireless is...
Looking for suggestions..
Hey all! :) I've ran into a snag that's outside of the scope of this forum (It has nothing to do with Linux or anything else GNU), but the folks I've ran into on here have an incredibly diverse...
Advice for non-destructive install of Windows 10
I'm considering installing Windows 10 (for games) in a small partition, but I've not installed Windows on bare metal for years, I almost always use a VM but performance is not the best for gaming. My...
LXer: Linux vs. Windows: It's a matter of perspective
Published at LXer: From my perspective, Linux is the operating system that doesn't get in your way of doing the work you need to do. It's there, ready to help you get things done, instead of being...
I've forgotten the password to login to Linux mint 19.3 cinnamon.
I am unable to unlock disk sda3_crypt as I have forgotten the password. Is there a way that I can unlock the Acer Gateway ZX4451 64-bit desktop that I was using before. Thank you.
Ansible - Update multipath.conf file
Hello There! I have lot of servers that use multipath. e.g. Code: --------- multipath { wwid 369834349802938746554637382920111 alias asm_disk1 }
Any suggestion on a good latex editor on CentOS 8
I recently migrated to CentOS-8, and found that my usual latex workflow is disrupted! I usually use *kile+texlive+okular*. But the kile and okular on CentOS-8 wants to _downgrade_ the installed...
LXer: Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 5.9 Release Candidate
Published at LXer: Two weeks after the release of the Linux 5.8 kernel series, the merge window of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.9 is now officially closed and the first Release Candidate milestone...
Fluxbox SlackBuild and other question
Hi slakers! Can you suggest my URL to retrieve a fluxbox slackbuild? I want to recompile in order to enable .png icons, official version (slack 14.2 x86-64) accept only pixmap files; this format...
Firefox 78.0.1esr. Font sizes two small.
Slackware64-current (july 2020) Kernel 5.4.50 Xfce 4.12 Firefox 78.0.1esr Hi: This is about the Firefox web browser. There are two types of characters on the screen. Those whose size you can...
sftp setup on Centos 7
Centos 7.6 Having some difficulty figuring out the problem with an sftp setup. I was given a specific directory a user must be able to sftp files to. The test user can login and is locked into...
[SOLVED] Latest pango and terminus font
As noted in the ChangeLog support for freetype bitmap fonts has been removed from latest pango. This made me quite sad as nothing can really replace Terminus for my taste. After researching the issue...
LXer: How to Use Puppet Modules to Create a LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 20.04
Published at LXer: Puppet is a powerful open-source configuration management tool that can be used to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain a server while accessing it remotely. Puppet is written...
MSI PX60 2QD hangs at shutdown
Hello guys, I can't shutdown my laptop. It hangs at the very last step of shutdown I think. I have disabled "quite splash" so I see what's going on during shutdown. The last message is always...
LXer: Why I still love tcsh after all these years
Published at LXer: I consider myself a happy Bash user. However, when I started exploring Unix, it was on a proprietary Unix system that provided tcsh by default, so my earliest shell experiences...
Early Digital Linux Magazine?
Does anyone recall an early digital Linux magazine? It was a digital edition that frequently came bundled with early Linux distributions. Thank you, Jeff
Mount a partition filesystem when running on live MX linux usb failed
How do we mount a partition filesystem when running on live MX linux usb as it's being tried onto a HDD Linux Home partition, it'd stumble in: mount: /home/demo/hm: can't read superblock on...
leapp upgrade fail
leapp upgrade fail. I am trying to unload a module according to the status summary of leapp upgrade but failed to unload the module. attached snaps are for reference
LXer: GNOME 3.36.5 Desktop Update Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes
Published at LXer: The GNOME Project announced today the general availability of GNOME 3.36.5 as the fifth point release in the latest GNOME 3.36 desktop environment series, introducing more bug...
How do I achieve below results in single iteration?
Hi Folks, I have hash files comprises of MD5/SHA1/sha256 hashes. Now would like to segregate in single iteration and I am clueless here how to achive that. Probably running 3 iterations for...
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LXer: Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'
Published at LXer: 250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shutteredFirefox maker Mozilla has axed 250 employees, or a quarter of its workforce, claiming the COVID-19 coronavirus...
GNU Privacy Assistant
Hi everybody According to my Synaptic Package Manager I have the whole gnu suite of things installed. I don't know how to access them however. They don't show up my activities, nor in my main menu...
Fix xfs filesystem error on home part
How to fix xfs filesystem error on home directory/partition since unmounting it will get denied/prevented ?
How to use AV1 with ffmpeg/ssr?
I have seen at: https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt that ssr has been added: Code: --------- # ... xap/ssr-0.4.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added. --------- ... and I think...
LXer: Introduction to the Systemd journal
Published at LXer: Systemd is nowadays the init system adopted by almost all Linux distributions, from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian and Ubuntu. One of the things that made Systemd the target...
Which 32-bit microcontroller has the best Linux support?
I've started my first 32-bit MCU project and am evaluating the choices. I'm Lx-only - don't have a Windoze box - and have successfully worked with 8-bit AVRs and PICs without having to rely on the...
youtube-dl post conversion
I donwloaded a video with youtube-dl. After downloading an mp4, it began to convert it into .mkv. But I ran out of disk space and the conversion failed. Now I have an .mp4 file with no sound and a...
Move system directory
How would i move /usr/share to /home/share? /dev/sda1 is root but /dev/sdb4 is /home. /dev/sda has 16gb and is full. The best way i could figure to make space is to move share. so i mv...
error when compiling GLTron
Last few lines of the output before the error: Code: --------- make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/gltron-0.70/lua/src/lib' source='lauxlib.c' object='lauxlib.o' libtool=no \...
Howto Find and Replace with RegEx
Hi, Using Ubuntu 18.04. Typically in Bluefish Editor, LibreOffice, or Pluma: I am trying to replace a 10 digit number with a Telephone-Number-like format. (I have a LibreOffice Calc Sheet...
Ubuntu 20.04 very slow Internet
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with plain GNOME UI on a single pc - Intel-NUC. My Internet is down to 8MBs, but on my mobile phone, using the wifi of the same router I get 45MBs. I researched this and...
LXer: Install Odoo using Docker, Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 – AWS
Published at LXer: Install Odoo using Docker Compose, Nginx, SSL on Ubuntu 20.04. Odoo is a management self hosted software to run a business with a top notch user experience. In this tutorial you...
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