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Published at LXer: I see this question popping up quite often in different conversations. Recently, we had a good discussion about it within my team. The main question was about how to communicate...

Hi, my issue is, as the subject line states: I switch users, i.e. without logging out, and the greeter screen glitches and becomes all but unusable. Parts of the screen will flicker, and user...

Published at LXer: Speakers from Shopify and LinkedIn outline open source database cloud and security challenges and best practices at the Percona Live Online conference. Read More......

I am on SlackWare -current 5.4.42 OSS slackbuild fails with the following message: Code: --------- ossdetect.c:555:31: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘makedev’...

Published at LXer: Most of us will probably need to use a translation tool at some point in our lives. Here are some of the best language translators for Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: Need to share files between your mobile phone and PC? Here you'll learn how to share files between Android and Ubuntu on your local network. Read More......

Hi. I am having difficulties with the mouse not responding after executing startx. Ironically the mouse works fine in the console. But when I startx the mouse does not respond -- ie just sits...

I truly appreciate that now HTML is used in posts, but really, since the '00s I mostly use BBCode on such forums. Don't get me wrong: only HTML works for some things I'd like to post (Internet links...

Published at LXer: GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, didn[he]#039[/he]t just avoid paying a patent troll, it won the right for any product under an Open Source Initiative license to use code...

I just cannot seem to find this documented anywhere. The lilo menu has a “U” in the left hand column by my Linux entry. As seen here: https://imgur.com/M8G2tjM What does this mean? When I run...

I'm running a stable branch of Slackware 14.2 and trying to install qt5 from SlackBuilds (I need it as a dependence for another package), got the following output: Code: ---------...

On some distros there's so much junk to sift through when you do mount -l to see what is mounted. I just want to see actual disk devices, not 50+ system devices. Is there a way to streamline that? ...

Is there an open-source alternative to Android for use on a Samsung Tablet (GT N-8013)?

Hey! I'm a truck driver! In a previous life I was a data guy in the Marine Corps. Never learned much about Linux. I mainly worked with Microsoft and Cisco products from 2004-2012. Far removed from...

I have downloaded the latest version of the Horizon View Client and used the following command on the terminal: sudo ./VMware-Horizon-Client-5.4.1-15988340.x64.bundle, which I copied from VMware. The...

Published at LXer: Xrdp is an open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that allows you to graphically control a remote system. With RDP, you can log in to the...

In next version of the Slint installer I want to provide a mode that needs as less user interaction as possible, at the price of more post-installation configuration. Some distributions' installers...

Published at LXer: Open source is doing great, but some open-source groups are getting knocked around by the pandemic. That[he]#039[/he]s where the newly formed FOSS Responders come in. Read...

Hi, I am not an artist, so please assume nothing about artistic skill. Also, I am not a gimp user, so please walk me through the steps. Famous last words: "How hard could it possibly be?" ...

Hi all, since the latest upgrades in -current, I am no longer able to mount smb shares using Thunar. gvfs is installed and worked before using smb://servername/Sharename Any idea what is missing...

Hello I would like to share a project that I have been working on it's called SlackVirt, that includes some custom tools for managing QEMU virtual machines at Slackware. The project aims to deliver...

Published at LXer: Instaclustr co-founder and CTO Ben Bromhead explains why open source databases like Cassandra are increasingly enterprise grade and how the expanding market of...

The lumina SlackBuild on SBo was updated to version 1.6.0. The Lumina Desktop Environment (Lumina for short) is a lightweight, XDG-compliant, BSD-licensed desktop environment that focuses...

Hi, Since some weeks I have perls errors on all my debian 10 systems (Including some ubuntu systems): In a sudo apt upgrade: Fetched 772 kB in 0s (4902 kB/s) apt-listchanges: Can't set...

I'm on 16.04...if I suspect I've got a bug, wouldn't a fresh install from a disc correct the problem? Doesn't that erase everything old as it goes in?

I have a new install of ~Current on a RazPi 4, and ran X as a new user. A very poor default config, firefox won't start, but it has wifi:) It reminded me of those with leprosy in Bible times that had...

On 15th May Pat updated current with these comments in the changelog ---Quote--- n/openldap-2.4.50-x86_64-1.txz: Added. This is a complete OpenLDAP package with both client and server...

Hi, I needed to upgrade the kernel in order to install my wireless drivers. However, the gcc that ships with 14.2 was seemingly too old due to retpoline support. I tried to update gcc by installing...

I know i can move /var to another partition and then mount the partition, but my question is can i move var directory to another partition and create symlink to it? For example, the second partition...

I work with remote directories using sshfs: Code: --------- $ sshfs server:/home/myuser ~/mnt/beta --------- This mounts my remote home directory to ~/mnt/beta locally. Here is the sshfs...

I have a *Radeon R5 M330* on my HP Notebook with 2 GB dedicated graphics. I am really confused as to what driver I should use. By default on Fedora 32 the *xorg-ati* open source driver is bundled....

Hello! I have been trying to complete a school assignement: ---Quote--- Build a Linux distro with pentesting tools ---End Quote--- I've done that. But the issue arises from one other caveat:

when trying to install programme to use onedrive. The following is the website address, https://www.fosslinux.com/8835/how-to-sync-microsoft-onedrive-with-linux.htm I keep getting an error 403 and no...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, the first point release of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series, was slated for release on July 23rd, 2020. Read More......

Hello, I'm having trouble logging in to the system (slackware-current). I have updated the system to the current version. After restart I receive a message: Code: --------- login incorrect...

Hi Folks I am using Lubuntu 20.04 on an Acer 3820TZ laptop, Pentium P6 100, 3GB ram, 320 GB HD, formerly Win 10 until BSD, but now removed. I also have a 32 GB Integral Micro SD card in an adapter...

Published at LXer: As a backend developer at the Railwaymen, a software house in Kraków, Poland, some of my tasks rely on models that manipulate and customize data retrieved from a database. When I...

What's up everybody? Been a linux user for awhile but still consider myself a noob. Let's learn together. Peace in the middle east and to the rest out west!

Hi All, I have a Lenovo W550s laptop with a combination headphone/microphone 3.5mm jack. One can use a headset to do gaming or videoconferencing with a headphone and attached microphone.....or, can...

I tried to solve an exercise I find in a website but I am wrong.. in every answer..I have wrote the commands using the egrep but I am wrong.What I am doing wrong ? In every question you must read...

Published at LXer: Ventoy is a free, open source and cross-platform program to easily and quickly create multiboot USB drives in Linux. Read More......

Hi! Using *Partclone* to save a part to an image file. As manpage shows only : Code: --------- ...

Hi I have upgraded from lmde3 to 4. I mostly used the instructions provided on the Mint site. However, the 'mintupgrade' was unavailable to mtself, so I adjusted the sources.list to have...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and compile Go, as well a run a basic Go program on a CentOS 7 VPS. Read More......

Hi all, I am using -current with the latest addition of PAM. I would like to know if there is a way to unlock the gnome-keyring during the login process with XDM? I have noticed that...

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My computer has INTEL fake RAID, but after many days of research it seems impossible to install Slackware with this configuration. Even discovered what is FAKE RAID... So now I have this...

Set sbopkg to use current. Installed electron from sbopkg. Then installed atom from sbopkg. Atom crashes with segfault. Using slackware64-current iso from 5/21/20(I think thats the right date, its not...

Published at LXer: There are plenty of great books to help you learn Python, but who actually reads these A to Z? (Spoiler: not me).Many people find instructional books useful, but I do not...

Hi I was a member of an Australian Linux Club that taught Mandrake. One night, the trainer was showing us various distros he wanted us to see. He had Fedora 2. I liked it. I started using...