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Published at LXer: I use GNOME Terminal, mostly because it is my distribution's default. But what happens inside my terminal is far from "default." Before I get into how I customize it, here is...

I am in the process of rebuilding my router originally built via gentoo - and now into LFS. Whenever I reboot I have to bring down my WAN to get internet to the outside world. I am a bit stumped as to...

Published at LXer: 'If diversity is not important to you, then at least you might care about the bottom line'Open Source Summit Diversity and open source can help fix the software developer skills...

Published at LXer: This guide provides all possible ways to find best Ubuntu APT repository mirror based on download speed and update status. Read More......

Published at LXer: The openSUSE Project released today openSUSE Leap 15.2, the second major installment in the latest openSUSE Leap 15 operating system series, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15...

Published at LXer: Shopware CE is a free and open-source eCommerce platform written in Symfony and Vue.js. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Shopware CE with Nginx and Let's Encrypt...

Hi all been a while, just wondering if any one has done, used the CLI for sending text Messages can point me the right way, were wanting to offer this to our customers once there PC's are fixed to...

Published at LXer: NetMarketshare reports that the Linux Desktop market share jumped to an all-time high in June 2020. Read More......

Published at LXer: Linux hardware manufacturer Purism unveiled today the Librem 14 Linux laptop, the successor to its popular Librem 13 laptop line. Read More......

I know how to use getopts to get input to my bash script, and I know how to write a loop. What I want to do is to prompt for a start and end points to cut from a video file, and then to build up...

Published at LXer: These tips and tricks will make your Linux command line experience easier and more efficient. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/more-stupid-bash-tricks)

Published at LXer: Having access to source code makes it possible to analyze the security and safety of applications. But if nobody actually looks at the code, the issues won’t get caught, and even...

Just installed leap 15.1 and deleted libreoffice at install as my main book with many charts done using openoffice and best to keep the same. Downloaded OO 4.1.7 and installed and yast listing...

Recently a thread came up on the first page where users shared their preferred applications for daily desktop usage, and i scraped it a bit with the help of python to grab some statistics. Now i...

I was wondering if anyone has recently tried to build Trinity's newest official release on an Arch-based system, and if so would you be willing to walk me through your procedure? Building from source...

I was wondering if it would help help to upgrade to Linux Mint 20 (Cinnamon) and run the .iso from the beginning, (like it was a fresh install?) Would that help to make /dev/sba2 "visible" in the...

So my system information: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Also: Xfce So me being a moderate careless beginner, I clicked...

I think I've discovered a bug in the recent upgrade of rsync in -current. The bug only seems to show its head when you use the 'transfer logging' option in your rsyncd.conf. To identify the...

garyh@HPLap:~$ cups-config --version 2.2.7 garyh@HPLap:~$ lpinfo -v lpinfo: Bad file descriptor garyh@HPLap:~$ lpstat -t scheduler is not running no system default destination lpstat: Bad...

12 years after, one new gftp-2.6.0b (beta) version is available: https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/releases I'm happy because, he's an old companion ;)

1. We need to patch the source ppp from Slackware https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/source/ppp/ *with* https://www.nikhef.nl/~janjust/ppp/ install after compile...

I can find plenty of disk encryption tools, but all I am looking is a simple single file encryption app like Axcrypt. And I'd prefer NOT to have to run the old version of Axcrypt in WINE. Can...

I need help with mounting a partition and making a directory on it Running lsblk reveals sda 8:0 0 558.4G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot └─sda2 ...

Hello, I have Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. When I have multiple apps open, sometimes I would like to move the square things that appear on the taskbar. For example, if I have Kate, LibreOffice, Firefox,...

My goal was to get LFS 9.1 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/LFS-BOOK-9.1.pdf ) running with multi boot option in my personal laptop along with current ubuntu setup. Finally I...

Aspire One Cloudbook 14 (A01-431-C8G8) Debian 10 Hi: This machine has an eMMC chip instead of a hard disk. I have two partitions on it. One with debian 10 64-bit and on the other I have just...

Hi, There are three disks on my PC one for data and one for win10 and one for Linux. The system duel boots between LM19.3 and win10. I was in the process of installing LM20 onto the disk with LM19.3...

Published at LXer: A replica set makes sure the specified replicas of pods are always running. It can be considered as a replacement for the replication controller. In this article, we will see...

Hi My home directory contains following bash related files: Code: --------- .bash_aliases .bash_functions .bash_logout .bashrc .bash_eternal_history .bash_history .bash_profile ...

Published at LXer: Believe it or not, ex-Solus leader Ikey Doherty is making a new operating system called Serpent Linux, which aims to be a truly modern Linux distro. Read More......

Hello all, I need to monitor HP servers with SNMP using Nagios On this models * HP DL380 G8 * HP DL380 G9

Does anyone have info on Slackbuilds.org? Appears to be down.

Published at LXer: The *nix commands curl and wget are useful for accessing URLs without resorting to a browser. Both commands allow you to transfer data from a network server, with curl being the...

Hi everyone, I've had an account for quite some time, but forgot the username and last year I've deleted the gmail account that was related to it. My main distro is Debian and every once in a while...

I was using Linux (Mint) on my old laptop for a while, and two things were annoying me a bit: * when I was using dual screen mode (connected an external screen to my laptop), I couldn't turn off...

Published at LXer: All operating systems come with a large set of fonts already installed in them. However, sometimes, you may need a new font that is not available in the preinstalled fonts. In...

Published at LXer: New Regular Expression evaluator borrowed from Chromium V8 - a sign of more collaboration to come? Mozilla has released Firefox 78 with a new Protections Dashboard and a bunch...

Published at LXer: Configuration files, which include other files, are not new. Placing those included files in sub-directories has also been an option since the beginning. Let's review use cases...

What are some of the best Linux mp3 players with good a-b time range repetition control ?

Whenever I try to install an app from the snap store, I have to run it from the terminal. It also gives an error when I try to install it from terminal. Here is the error I got when trying to install...

I'm just curious, what are Linux users thoughts on this new "Brave" web browser?

Published at LXer: They may have a point with some of them, though. India has banned the use of 59 smartphone apps it says violate its citizens’ privacy and threaten national security. In a...

Hi all, I am trying to setup my dual monitors on my desktop (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). I have 2 video cards on my computer an Nvidia and an Intel (built-in), one monitor is plugged into the Nvidia (via...

Published at LXer: Bash's environment is designed to be highly customizable in order to suit the needs of many different users with many different tastes. Read on to learn a few quick tips to...

Had a new new computer for about a week, absolutely no sound. Managed to solve alot of other oddities. Sound is the only existing problem and have no clue. Few details: - OS (see below my...

I know its a basic issue hence. I am new to Linux but I did work with Solaris 2.6 &10 for many years. I am dumb but not hopeless. I have an ASUS ROG laptop that I installed Kali Linux. I did all the...

You see this? http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1593655751.png Yeah! That's BS! It irks me far more than it should! As you see, the icon on the left is properly themed. It's the...

Published at LXer: Oh Snap: Based on Ubuntu but without package manager. Warpinator anyone? The Linux Mint team has released Mint 20 Cinnamon, a long-term support (LTS) release. It is based on...

Published at LXer: One of the great failings of mobile devices is how difficult it can be to transfer data from your device to your computer. Mobile devices have a long history of this. Good...

I have not used linix for a while since the days of KDE 3.5. I never quite found the newer plasma themes 100% quite right for me. There used to be a bunch of themes shipped with KDE 3.5 on a fresh...