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Hello! Just updated my current today and now I cannot get DXVK to work with WOW Classic on Lutris. As soon as game starts it says "World of Warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration", it...

Published at LXer: We've heard of a code freeze but this is ridiculous: Microsoft finishes burying repos in Norwegian archipelago. Microsoft's GitHub on Thursday said that earlier this month it...

When you run command in a terminal if the program isn't installed you get this message: Code: --------- jonk@jonk-Len-usff:~$ abcde Command 'abcde' not found, but can be installed with: sudo...

In fact, I already installed LLVM 10, which filled my / partition, so I had to create another partition to play / usr for that one. I do not know if with this I generated another problem, everything...

Published at LXer: There is a tendency in the tech community to use the terms DevSecOps and agile development interchangeably. While there are some similarities, such as that both aim to detect...

I use DVD Styler to create DVDs. When I play the DVD on my DVD Player with my TV, the image is always too big for the screen - so I lose the edges of the picture. Is there some setting I should be...

Published at LXer: The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 as the thirteenth and last point release in the Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system...

Hi all I am looking to do some pen testing on our web servers. I have already ran the wpscan to enumerate users on our Wordpress site so I have now put mitigation's in place to prevent usernames...

Published at LXer: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is the new replacement for BIOS. This guide explains how to enable UEFI support for KVM virtual machines in Linux. Read More......

I've asked 2 times for Coreboot issues here, but it feels like no LQ ppl have clues on Coreboot. So where to file some Coreboot issues then the Coreboot teams can response by a week?

Published at LXer: Over the last six months, I have been working on GoDBLedger, an open source accounting system that I feel addresses some of the issues that plague current accounting software...

What is the rationale of using cloud-init when starting up recent Ubuntu versions? I think the first release with this behaviour is 18.04, Bionic. The remaining text is a rant, sorry. The reason...

How to get this list (table)? From turn on the computer until now. *Don't miss any [PID] (still running [PID], already ended [PID]). * List field: *PPID, PID, Threads, USER, Start-time,...

Published at LXer: Using the advisor functionality of Red Hat Insights, get recommendations for optimizing and securing your Linux system Read More......

Hello everyone, I followed the online directions to change my hostname (both /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts) in vim and after rebooting and logging in, I was unable to right click to get my menu...

Hi, I'm using debian 10 with Cinnamon and i can not keep the changes i do on the preferences: -Gedit and terminal keep changes in color backgroun only during the program is running, once i close...

How do we keep an environment variable value created in auto startup bash script on login existing and extant along its session

Published at LXer: Json is a very popular data format and is widely used for data exchange. In this post, I have explained Json data handling using Python. Read More......

Greetings, I'm having Internet connectivity issues with my Slackware 14.2 desktop machine. My ISP decided to do a system update yesterday. This caused problems for both my wifi and my connected...

Published at LXer: tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager. Read More......

My first half-a????d attempt. They seem to work, but are not well tested. I shamelessly stole from alienbob and the official slackware repos build scripts and kind of butchered them to make them work...

I did a backup of my Chrome profile but cannot see it after I moved to desktop with mv command. And it says, the desktop directory does not exist, but I can see it does. Please help.

I am facing some problem while trying to share memory between an application and driver using mmap(). Background: - I have an application and a corresponding driver for a device. - I call...

I did a quick search couldn't seem to find the answer so I will post. I finally bought a second raspi 4 have an SSD attached it boots up all is good my first raspi 4 has libreelec usingf it as my Kodi...

Published at LXer: The biggest name in computer vision, OpenCV project announced its Raspberry Pi like hardware kits for developing AI projects with OpenCV. Read More......

Published at LXer: Arch Linux-based EndeavourOS distribution celebrates first anniversary since the launch of the project with a new ISO release and news about upcoming ARM port. Read More......

Is it possible? I’d like to know.

Hi,I have just installed bodhi linux on a hdd next to Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS on a ssd. I am very happy with bodhi and wish to migrate to ssd and replace ubuntu. How can I make it with dd ? How can I...

Hi I have installed CentOS 8. After recent release of updates, I am trying to upgrade my CentOS by (yum upgrade), but it is giving following error: Code: --------- Error: Problem: The...

Hello LQ users. I am on a multi-boot pc with 6-HDD (legacy mode): - Default boot (sda1/sda3, double boot win10/Fedora 30); - FC32 installed on sdb (/boot on sdb1); - sdc has FC28 installed; sdd...

Saw the blog post from WillySR this morning that this had been released so decided to try to build it. As I first approximation I used the SlackBuild for T-bird-68.10.0. Found that two --enable...

Published at LXer: Microsoft[he]#039[/he]s growing appreciation for Linux and open source is no secret. The company has steadily increased its contributions to open source in the last several...

Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/ The Story Behind Bill Barr’s...

Hello, using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I have Win10 in a virtual machine. In Win10 I need a USB smartcard reader. Before I was using Virtualbox. Most of the time the USB passthrough worked, but after...

Hello All I just installed Kali Linux with XFCE as a guest in KVM. My host OS is Fedora Gnome. How to auto-resize the guest OS in KVM? Guest Linux OS with Gnome will auto-resize though, not XFCE. ...

Published at LXer: Content management system (CMS) is a prolific software category that covers all types of applications for the creation and modification of digital content. So it should come as...

I need to be able to drag / reposition items on my desktop but every time i try it slides back to it`s original position anybody know where this setting is located and what to change ?

Published at LXer: We are going to explore the new Linux Mint 20 release (Cinnamon version), and what features and enhancements does it provide. Read More......

Published at LXer: Kovid Goyal released today Calibre 4.21, a new maintenance update of the best e-book management software available for Linux-based operating systems. Read More......

hi, found an article online that use Trace to debug iptables. I try installing but it will give the error below. Wondering if anyone get this too and how do we solve them? Am using root on Ubuntu...

Published at LXer: When you can't reach your SSH server directly, a proxy server can be a way to get through. This article shows how to use Squid to set up an SSH proxy. Read More......

hi, nproc 12 and ps -eo pid,stat|grep -i r 52606 R 90626 R 90636 R 93332 R

A new WD Elements portable hard drive has been plugged into a USB 3 port on a Linux desktop. The hard drive does not appear on an fdisk -l listing. The small light on the drive is slowly flashing....

Hi Slackers! Actually I test Abiword (3.0.2 version), so when I launch it, for a few second the page when I want to write flickering. How to resolve it? Thanks!

Hi, i have build LFS and BLFS with XFCE4 successfully. but i don't know how to make package management tool for LFS and BLFS. so i have decided to build ubuntu or debian based own customized...

Published at LXer: If you have been looking for an open-source lightweight and web-based project management and issue tracking tools, then you found Redmine and now you want to host your own...

Hi everyone, I'm currently using a small mechanical keyboard (Ajazz K680t) without physical function keys, where the F1-F12 keys are accessed by pressing Fn + Numrow(1 to =). This functionality...

Published at LXer: As of today, July 17th, 2020, the Ubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine” operating system release reached end of life, which means that it will no longer receive software updates and...

The disk usage command provided by btrfs-progs reports sizes of zero bytes for some files, which seems strange because the files aren't empty. Other disk usage commands report non-zero values for the...

Published at LXer: With a modest string of commands, you can get a quick look at what commands you're using on your Linux system and how often. Read More......