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This has been my pet peeve with Linux since I started using Linux back in 2009. Getting printers to work properly and consistently can often be a major pain in the rear. I have a Lexmark CS417 color...

Whilst looking on Distrowatch I came across a review for *EndeavourOS*, an Arch-based rolling release distribution: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200511#endeavour The reader reviews...

Published at LXer: In my career conducting international business, I traveled to more than 80 countries worldwide. I was always struck by how strongly regions of the world are connected, and I...

Where is admin? It is about advertisement on your website. Thanks.

Published at LXer: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that can help you to draw the plan of a house, arrange furniture, items, and see the result in 3D. It is a Java-based...

I am using the following widget so that I do not have to write git clone to clone a repo. Code: --------- function _accept-line-with-url { if [[ $BUFFER =~ ^https.*git ]] then ...

I need to capture a window with xwd: $ xwd -out /home/me/dump I run it, I get a crosshair pointer, click on the target window and the screenshot is dumped. I can view it with xwud. Now, I...

Published at LXer: In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, Power BI releases a new React*component, GitHub completes its Arctic Code Vault project, and more open source news.read...

Hi all, hope you can guiding me and assist me on my issues. 1. Touch-pad can't use on centOS 7 for my pixel chromebook 2013, i try to find the touchpad setting to enable it but it's not there. ...

Hello all -- I am currently working through LFS - Version 9.1-systemd. My host system is Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. I have had no problems until chapter 6.15 (Readline 8.0) After executing...

I decided to load up OpenSUSE in VirtualBox because I haven't looked at it for a while. After I installed it, it defaulted to 800x600 resolution. When I tried to change the resolution, I was...

Using HP Streambook created w/ https://thepurdman.com/install-galliumos-linux-on-hp-stream-11/ . >Goal> Zettlr fully functional offline . >Currently> Trying to install yarn using apt-get or...

Published at LXer: REMnux, the go-to Linux toolkit for malware analysis and reverse-engineering of malicious software, celebrates 10th anniversary with new major release, REMnux 7.0. Read...

Nothing is wrong with my AMD Gigabyte GPU but I noticed that it's fans are not spinning (three fan GPU) although they do start spinning when I power on my tower. I pretty certain that this is because...

I didn't find the option in the program, nor do I know which script in rc.d is starting it, if it has one. But always after login it starts.

I heard something about this long ago and I just can't find it again. Supposedly there's a directory you can put files if you want those files to be copied to a new user's home directory. This would...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WordPress on your Ubuntu 20.04 VPS. We will also show you how to install and configure a fully functional LAMP stack, including...

Here is how I Installed bbswitch for turning my dGPU off...and it used to work flawlessly: Code: --------- (0) blacklist - uninstall nouveau (1) xbps-install -S bbswitch (2) nano -w...

Hi I want to reduce the file "sa" (/var/log/sa00). I don't use sar file so I remarked sa2 line in sysstat. ```code # Run system activity accounting tool every 5 seconds * * * * * root...

I tried to install Droidcam in my computer, but the same error message is poping up always when I run the app "droidcam video device not found (/dev/video[0-9]). I also tried to uninstall but for some...

I attempted to connect to Sony WH-XB900N Bluetooth Headphones, and in both Plasma's bluetooth settings and Blueman, I was unable to connect, in both cases the device would appear in the selection, but...

using Firefox 78.0.2 on Xubuntu 18.04 (last upgraded 4 days ago) logged to twitter.com i am looking at a promoted video among the tweets. i did right-click with the mouse. the video pauses and a...

Published at LXer: Before you head out to the weekend, here's a Linux Weekly Roundup for you catering to applications, distros and news for this week. Read More......

Published at LXer: SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) is a secure file protocol for transferring files between two hosts over an encrypted connection. It also allows you to perform various file...

Hi everybody. Newbie's here. I'm a bit tired of what I see in ubuntu, fedora, arch, etc. I mean there so much ppls effort in making these distros... overcomplicated. I feel myself sitting on a black...

I am working on a program which includes a query to search for a partial name in a SQlite3 database. I need to get partial name input from the user to search for. Therefore I am trying to create a...

I'm guessing this isn't a very unsual problem sysadmins have had to deal with: a client wants to have access to an internal network and also to its internal resources making use of DNS domains which...

So I inherited a Dell laptop (inspiron 15 7559). It had Windows 10 on it, then Ubuntu (18.04, I believe.) I was going to put slackware (current) on it. I made a USB stick from Alien Bob's liveslak...

Hi all, I have experienced a bizarre error, which I didn't know was possible. I'm running ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop, and I used vlc to take a screenshot of a video file. Now I must have messed...

Published at LXer: Project ACRN has released v2.0 of its open source IoT and automotive hypervisor with a new hybrid-mode architecture for simultaneous deployment of safety critical and resourcing...

I need advice. I recently installed Ubuntu 17.04 on an old desktop computer as an alternate server. The specs are 740 MB memory, 2.40 GHz, and a 10 gig disk. It's 32 bit setup. The problem is that I...

Published at LXer: Since 2007, game publishers and game stores have teamed up to provide free samples of RPG gameplay to the uninitiated. Last year, Free RPG Day was an official, multi-publisher,...

Hello everyone, I downloaded slackware64 current multilib JULY252020 and installed it. I compiled m64py and mupen64plus. They compiled fine but when i try and run m64py i get this error Code:...

I have been using Linux in various forms for about a year. Mostly Mint/Cinnamon, but I've tested other variants (Zorin, MXLinux, etc.). Was using a Ryzen 5 3600 om MSI B450M Pro M2 wit 16gb ram. ...

Published at LXer: GeckoLinux, the openSUSE-based GNU/Linux distribution for detail oriented geckos, has a new release after more than two years of absence from the Linux scene. Read More......

Hello All I want to dig deep into RedHat based Linux servers. My basic priority now is to prepare/get a job in the IT dept as a Linux administrator. I'm split between RHEL7 or RHEL8. Which version...

Installing one of these (screenshot attached) updates causes my system to go to the login loop. It doesn't happen right away everything seems to work after the update but if I restart I have the login...

hi , my fedora have problem with Persian & Arabic fonts in browsers (google chrome & chromium in tabs and site title , somewhere in firefox ) after updating my fedora 31 using dnf update it shows...

Wanted to see if the new Digikam would build so gave it a try using Eric's Plasma 5 infrastructure. The only change I had to make was to comment out the two lines in the SlackBuild where it checks to...

How to know the current filename sed is processing and to inform it to shell environment variable Find in all *.txt* files line with NA end if any. If any then remove the line and quit with exit 0...

lenovo x1 carbon i7 10th gen Linux lenovox1.zzz.com 5.4.52 #1 SMP Thu Jul 16 04:30:19 CDT 2020 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux touchpad not working. i've...

Hello everyone, another one here, a greeting.

Published at LXer: This is mostly a story of failure, though with a sort of hopeful note at the end. The ironic thing here is that we’ve known for decades how to build authentication technologies...

Hi, I like to open a simple discussion. The user has data in /data directory.What files can i delete as system admin in housekeeping process from /data? I can delete core files and what else?...

When I enter a git repo url in terminal it says: Code: --------- % https://github.com/chmln/sd.git zsh: no such file or directory: https://github.com/chmln/sd.git --------- I want...

Could also have been 1960s or 1940s. Not much happens, I recall they spend some time on the porch of the southern USA mansion. In black and white probably. Does anyone know which movie or movies...

Hello, everyone. At the moment I'm trying to bodge some scripts in order to make updating easier. I just wonder whether it would make sense for `slackpkg upgrade-all` to return some false value...

Published at LXer: The latest IPFire Linux firewall release is now available with support for more hardware, security updates, and updated core components. Read More......

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LhM9gJ Above is a build I figured out though I wondered if using the Ryzen3 3200G 3.6 GHz or the Ryzen5 3400G 3.7 GHz how much of a difference in speed? Than,...

Hello, I have Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. Does it have a Virtual Keyboard? When I am at the login screen, at the bottom left, it is possible to click on Virtual Keyboard. Then, I can click on the...