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Published at LXer: Google staff who protested drone AI effort could be quite interested in thisAn assistant secretary of the United States Air Force appears to have revealed that its forthcoming...

i'm trying to compile the xfce dockbarx plugin in -current. xfce is the 4.12 version in the regular repo. Compilation went fine but the plugin is missing form the panel menu, so i checked the dockx...

My current config: https://pastebin.com/TkFcUwar I've read through the entire tlp.conf, looking up things I'm not sure about, I think I have everything optimized for max battery life but I'm no...

over a year ago I lost the contents of the two dozen or more folders I had on my wallpaper. Around the same time I lost my drop and drag of bookmarks. I find some reference to that concerning 18.04...

I haven't found much info on how to do a custom boot iso boot except for attempting to imitate other people's steps (like venum linux).....and have failed. I rsync'd my LFS distro via the command...

I have used Rufus a long time and it has all ways worked fine. Now lately i have got messages that rufus has to download files to make it work with several new distros i wanted to try....

I haven't found much info on how to do a custom boot iso boot except for attempting to imitate other people's steps (like venum linux).....and have failed. I rsync'd my LFS distro via the command...

Published at LXer: Regolith is a desktop environment which places emphasis on the keyboard input device over the mouse, compared with most other desktop environments. This is to improve...

Hello all. I have been having some trouble getting a container I have to log the correct time. The container in question is jellyfin from linuxserver.io. When I ran the docker-compose I had the ENV...

Published at LXer: A previous Fedora Magazine article covered tracking your time and tasks. Another introduced some mind mapping tools. There you learned that mind mapping is a visual technique for...

Hi, I am currently running on ubuntu 18.04 I have got to create a new partition. But I do not have any drives and sadly I can not afford it nowadays. Here is the screenshot. Attachment 33358...

Published at LXer: Arne Exton released today a new version of his Ubuntu-based LFA (Linux For All) distribution, a release that ships with some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies. Read More......

My name is Mike and I new to the world of linux. Recently attempted to install arch onto an old laptop. Everything seemed to be going according to the list of instructions I researched and I thought I...

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Can I merge the two partitions without losing any data and how would I do it, I am still not that comfortable with the fdisk command. Disk /dev/sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168...

Dear All, Is this the correct forum to discuss zsh on LQ? If I am in the wrong place please can you help redirect me. Regards Michael Fothergill

Complete debian newbie warning! Are there Any 'sid' (see warning above) releases of arm64, preferably binary Images. Binary images are the preferred way to go, as you're installing to micro sdcard....

My installation is about 4 days old, the only non standard driver used is one for my USB wifi adapter (https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au). Maybe like every 24+ hours or so the system freezes....

Published at LXer: Skype is one of the most popular communication applications in the world. It is cross-platform, available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. With Skype, you can make free online audio...

Published at LXer: I grew up in rural towns all over Ontario, Canada. We weren't particularly well off, although, as a kid in the middle of nowhere, I wasn't really aware of our socioeconomic...

I am seeking help in recovering the contents of a LUKS volume on a KDE Neon kept up to date on a 230GB SSD. The EVENT happened the evening of the 4th of June, when I was creating a different OS on...

[CODE]ssh root@192.168.1.1 -p ###### @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @...

Published at LXer: If you are one of those people who like the command line that much, then we've prepared a list of good open source password managers that can be launched and used, fully, from...

Hi Had some issues upgrading to 20.04 from 18.04 so I am installing from a Live USB key. Its been over 2 years since I did my original format and install so need a bit of coaching to make sure I...

hello, i'm using centos 7 and trying to create a directory but getting error even i tried creating directory with other name but still giving me same error. [root@localhost shri]# mkdir bb mkdir:...

Published at LXer: The objective of this tutorial is to provide the reader with a quick-start guide on how to test 3d acceleration by checking for FPS on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. Read More......

Hi all, I wasn't sure where exactly to post this because it's not super clear what the underlying issue is. Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I recently purchased an old server box to use...

I'm asked to make a first post, so here it is. I'm not a computer expert by any means, but do use a computer. I have a good friend who is an expert. I was complaining about how my Windows 7 laptop was...

I've been trying to obtain the scanner plugin for my HP laserjet pro mfp m277dw printer. I've tried hp-plugin command in the terminal and it constantly fails. Is there any other way to obtain the...

Hello everyone. So I ran one of those "how secure is my email server" and it came back 85% and I failed for 2 reasons; 1 was apparently my Reverse DNS/MX records are not the same, though I have...

Published at LXer: We've all been there. "I'm going to get this Raspberry Pi to try out. They look kinda cool." And then, like tribbles on an Enterprise, suddenly you have Kubernetes clusters and...

Published at LXer: By default when you set up the server you will configure the primary network interface. This is part of the build work that everyone does. Sometimes you may need to configure an...

How Can I close ping if a string is found in the output: Code: --------- $ ping google.com PING google.com (74.125.130.138) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sb-in-f138.1e100.net...

Code: --------- amixer --------- returns: ---Quote--- amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory ---End Quote---

What I found puzzling when checking the file attributes for a specific folder on my laptop was that EVERY file had the A attribute, but no other attributes at all, just blank spaces before the...

1. Digitalocean cloud-based CentOS7 machine using (GnuPG) 2.0.22 encrypts a file: Code: --------- gpg -e --passphrase-file /home/abc/phrase.txt --batch -r john@johnsmith.com...

So I can not for the life of me get my 5200m graphics card to work. I'm heavily considering going back to windows which i dont want to, but i need the 5200m's power. This is a dual graphics card...

Published at LXer: KDE Plasma desktop environment version 5.20 is currently is in the development phase and some of the exciting feature highlights announced in the developer blog. Read More......

I have been given an old laptop at a recycling event. It is an Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi laptop with 512M memory, a 60GB HD, an AMD Turion 64 2Ghz CPU, a DVD and some usb pendrive sockets. Currently...

Hi, I installed Windows 10 and Linux Deepin 15.11 in dual boot on my computer. The Deepin 15.11 design and usability are really good! In particular, the simplicity and clarity of the SETTINGS of...

When I look at dnfdragora, looking to install some new piece of software, I will often see, what appear to be, duplicate entries (as shown in the attached screenshot. What is the difference between...

Published at LXer: May 2020 was a great month for the Enable Sysadmin community! We published 33 articles and received over 240,000 page views. Today, we are looking back at our top ten articles to...

I updated my PC from Ubuntu 18.04(Bionic Beaver) to Ubuntu 20.04(Focal Fossa) but the problem is that whenever I tried to connect to the CISCO router its failing saying the following: Unable to...

So I had a lovely Fedora 32 system running nicely on old hardware (Dell Dimension E520). For reasons I won't bore you with I wanted to try out Manjaro Linux, but didn't want to install it. I created a...

working iptables rules for chromecast. when i turn off firewall vlc is able to see chromecast and i can watch movies but when firewall i cant. the firewall was generated here...

Published at LXer: elementary OS 5.1.5 has been released as the fifth installment in the elementary OS 5.1 “Hera” series bringing more improvements and bug fixes, along with all the latest updates...

Is there a way to manually change your change time or modify time of a file as shown by find . -ctime/-mtime command ? For instance your current -mtime is 14:51 06 05 2020 but you want to set it to...

Published at LXer: Chown command is one of the most important commands in Linux that we should absolutely know about. Those who have some experience with Linux System administration must know that...

Published at LXer: This guide explains what is eCryptfs and how to encrypt directories with eCryptfs in Linux to store your personal and sensitive data. Read More......

Just installed Debian 8.11 PPC on my iMac G4 800MHz and having trouble getting video working right. This model has the GeForce2 MX, which apparently doesn't work well with the nouveau driver. I...