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Published at LXer: The libguestfs is a C library and a collection of tools on this library to create, view, access and modify virtual machine disk images in Linux. Read More......

Hi. Is there a way to speedup the touchpad cursor? The mouse cursor movement is fine but I'd also like to use the touchpad now and then. Also, whenever I bootup, I must manually set the correct...

Published at LXer: With people doing video conferencing all day, good audio has recently become much more important. The best option is obviously a proper audio studio. Unfortunately, this is not...

Hi, I have Slackware current on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga 5th gen and the touchpad is not working. It is listed by lsusb: Code: --------- Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root...

Hi All, This problem should be an easy fix, but I have no idea how to start to research this question. I had, for some time, been running my dell laptop (Xubuntu 19) with an external lenovo...

Published at LXer: I love new projects, and today I would like to introduce you guys to Karmbian, a very promising ARM Linux distro for ethical hacking and penetration testing based on Kali Linux...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to integrate ONLYOFFICE online editors with Nuxeo Platform to edit and collaborate on docs stored there with no need to leave the application.To...

I am attempting to write a script to batch rename image files in a directory. ie change the image name from STA_1234.JPG to 1234-STA.jpg. The "STA" may be STB, STC, etc. The part that I'm having...

why not have a simple and straight forward way to record from pulseaudio digitally as opposed to the analog method that is used now?

Published at LXer: Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software. Read More... (https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-buoh-online-strips-comics-reader/)

I was trying to get a HylaFax+ 7.0.2 install going on Slackware64 Current with a pair of MultiTech MT5634ZPX-PCI-U 1.32o modems. The modems seemed to never respond after editing the inittab and...

I need to know on GITHUB, how to add new files, but also have them for another version that's published. And remove other files for that new version, but keep the old version and files. If this is...

Published at LXer: If you’re into open-source computing and would like to buy a Raspberry Pi-based laptop that also doubles as a STEM education platform, you might want to take a look at CrowPi2...

Hi all, I have an important video call in a few days, and I want to test the best combination of Wi-Fi card and device location to ensure my video doesn't freeze as it randomly does most days....

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Hello, how do i change the "*-class*" in the GRUB2 boot loader? The "--class" shows wrong pictures, operating systems are not correctly recognized by the GRUB2. I would also like to insert a...

For example, I want to get after srcproxy1, the content between '{}' which would be some IP's. Only then comes srcproxy2, srcproxy3, etc.

Published at LXer: Those who are not aware, Qalculate is a versatile desktop calculator that is cross-platform and used by educational institutions, research labs, students due to its power to aid...

Published at LXer: Check out this post to learn about a Python utility Pandashells to run Pandas data manipulation commands on Bash command line. Read More......

Can one migrate to another flavor without wiping out the drive? Thanks!

Hi everybody. I recently got an new laptop (Asus X555UB).. Slackware works smoothly... but Im having issues with the Nvidia driver. When I do startx, without any xorg.conf, xorg is working with...

Where can I find a copy of jdk-8u251 (I need it as one of the sub-dependencies for portmidi, and the Oracle Website apparently no longer has it)?

Published at LXer: NodeBB is a modern forum software powered by Node.js which uses MongoDB/Redis as database platforms. It uses web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. In...

Hi there, I have a very very old mouse that uses a USB adapter & I won't give up the mouse b/c it's saved my wrists, arms & hands from years of pain & allows me to work very fast. I want to move...

Published at LXer: The team at Anvil recently open sourced the Anvil App Server, a runtime engine for hosting web apps built entirely in Python.The community reaction has been overwhelmingly...

trying to do some automation but when running the command its asking for password . [non-root-user@XXXXXXXX ~]$ su - oracle -c "uptime" Password: or [non-root-user@XXXXXXXX ~]$ sudo su -...

I continue to hear praises about Ryzen 7 I do not play games I do a plenty of web development / smartphone application development I run virtual computers

I'm currently using Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 3.8.9. The command "/dev/sda1" results in a "Bash /dev/sda1-permission denied" How do I get permission to delete unwanted files? I'm new at this stuff....

Published at LXer: Fancy playing Android games on your desktop? If you want to play Android games on Linux, here is one method to help you do that. Read More......

I downloaded Zotero, an app for document management. I downloaded the standalone version for linux. The download supplies a folder and the folder has shell script, zotero, and an executable,...

Hi All, I have done some googles here example https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-open-source/#sources. This site talks on both how to install via...

In Gnumeric, if I have a block of cells of unknown length, all of which contain values, and I want to select all cells from the current cell (somewhere in that block) to the last cell. I just hold...

While I was trying to compile Firefox, because the provided one is outdated, I discovered that Rust is not properly configured in Slackware ARM. You can try it yourself but basically rustc believes...

Good morning everyone. I have used Arch Linux and Slackware (current) in dual boot for about a year. I like these two distributions very much, for several reasons. Until a few days ago I...

Published at LXer: In the first two articles of this series on Mycroft, an open source, privacy-focused digital voice assistant, I covered the background behind voice assistants and some of...

I am an avid VirtualBox user -- my use case being running/testing liveCDs such as my (private) Current64-based fork of PartedMagic. Kernel 5.8 seems to be a problem for Virtualbox...

Published at LXer: (Circuit Cellar article)The intricacies of maintaining today’s Linux-based platforms make it very challenging for developers to cover every potential entry point. In 2019 there...

Published at LXer: The developer of the GeckoLinux distribution released today new GeckoLinux Rolling editions based on the latest openSUSE Tumbleweed repositories and shipping with cutting-edge...

Published at LXer: Red Hat[he]#039[/he]s fix for the Boothole security hole has stopped some users[he]#039[/he] systems from booting. Read More......

Published at LXer: While working on*Kubernetes it is very important that you know at least the basic commands. In this article, you will find the commands which are needed most of the time...

Published at LXer: The Opera desktop web browser released its latest version 70 with usability improvements to its existing feature set. Coming up after a month of previous release Opera 69, this...

Published at LXer: Mozilla Thunderbird 78.1 is now rolling out today to all supported platforms as the first point release to the latest major Mozilla Thunderbird 78 release with a bunch of...

Pat and all Slackers using GRUB, Wednesday a GRUB boot loader security flaw was announced around the web. Thursday many major distro maintainers hastily released a patch. Hastily releasing a patch...

Hello Experts, I am in the process of enabling stronger encryption method (Blowfish) on SLES 15 Server. I have tried to enable blowfish in /etc/login.defs under ---Quote--- ENCRYPT_METHOD...

I have an entry level Intel NUC running Ubuntu Mate 20.04 which I use as a headless BitTorrent/Usenet download box. The OS is installed on a Samsung 32 GB flash drive. The internal SSD is used for...

Trying to compare two jinja variables, but not getting it correct. Get back: Code: --------- Jinja syntax error: expected token ':', got '}' --------- The code is: Code: --------- {% set...

I am unable to remove dependencies installed from .deb files. For example, I downloaded the .deb files for vlc and its dependencies with the command 'sudo apt --download-only install vlc'. I can...

I am using NetBSD not linux here but I'm pretty sure my problem is in not understanding networking, so the OS should be irrelevant. I have read the other threads on this, but they didn't help. ...

I am new to this, just installed Ubuntu on a seprate partition on my Surface Pro-3 (Windows 10) after clearing enough space on the SSD. Found out in the proccess those many application programs that...

Hi, I am using Debian. When I plug in a USB, it auto mounts as a media. How do I make it mount as a device cause I need to format it. Thanks.