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I have always understood that it is your window manager that determines how windows are decorated. I use fluxbox, and applications normally appear within a typical fluxbox window frame. But evince...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ruby on Rails on the Debian Buster 10. This guide will cover the RVM (Ruby Version Manager) installation, PostgreSQL database...

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Hello guys. I noticed that the default gnome login screen is just plain grey. How can I add a background to make it look better ? Thank you in advance for the attention. :)

Published at LXer: So no one told you life was gonna be this wayGoogle's Go programming language, all but disallowed by the web giant's own Fuchsia team for its excessive memory consumption, tops...

I have a Plantronics Headset which is seen when Fedora starts up. This is what dmesg reports. Code: --------- [ 1.629901] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0605,...

Published at LXer: If you've ever wondered how hacking began and who the first hackers were, wonder no more. Take a look at The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage....

I have installed DVDStyler. When I try to close it I get an error Code: --------- 11:16:27: Failed to create a temporary file name (error 2: No such file or directory) 11:16:27: can't open user...

Hello, I've run into a peculiar issue with a rsyslog server. I've configured it to accept messages coming in from remote hosts: /etc/rsyslog.d/remote.conf Code: --------- $template...

Published at LXer: In this article, you will learn how to install Yarn and manage NodeJS dependencies on CentOS 8 using the command line. Read More......

*AOL mail (https://getemailservices.com/aol-mail-login/)* is considered as one of the best mail services until now. They are used for sending and receiving mails on large parameters, either it is up...

I have just installed Fedora 32. I want to install DVDStyler which (I believe) I can get from the RPM Fusion Free repository. How do I add that repository to those which are checked?

Published at LXer: In a previous article, you explored how to control the firewall at the command line in Fedora. Now you are going to see how to see how add, remove, and list services, protocols...

Hi, I have some problem in installing grub and wants your help.. My ultimate goal is to install linux based OS on MBR disk which windows 10 is already installed. I made two additional...

I have a fairly standard while loop that reads strings from a file like this: Code: --------- while read -r line; do read -r -p "Give me some input " answer if [[ "$answer" ... etc....

Hi, Been busy installing 32-bit Slackware on my ageing Compaq laptop. Thought the Book might be useful, so tried to get to the shop (http://store.slackware.com) but the page comes up in Chinese....

Published at LXer: Not just announced for Linux, it's being built with the open source Godot Engine! Cassette Beasts looks like a fun new RPG coming to Linux. Read More......

How can i see other wifi password using terminal emulator

Published at LXer: Node.js is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s JavaScript, designed to execute JavaScript code on the server-side. It is generally used to build...

Hi all, I'm a total beginner with linux distros and I booted Zenwalk from a flash drive today and have tried downloading and installing the latest version of firefox. I managed to download the .txz...

Published at LXer: Find out how to leverage systemd to increase the security of your services through sandboxing. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/systemd-secure-services)

Hello, all. I have a question around a piece of software I would like to install, dependencies it requires, and how to get to the latest versions of libraries. I am an amateur radio operator. I...

Hi, I just finished setting up wake on lan on a couple other computers with different OS's but this is my first time trying with linux and I'm stuck. I've read through tons of posts and articles...

I'm having a lot of trouble getting this installed. I've run hp printers for years with no issue. Using 14.2 64 bit. I can't find a way to install it and use anything but greyscale printing. Did I...

Published at LXer: An important step towards optimizing energy consumption is knowing your actual consumption. My house was built during the oil crisis in the 1970s, and due to the lack of a...

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Is there a way to cast my kodi video to my chromecast device? I've searched online and cannot find anything that addresses casting kodi to the tv. Just chrome tabs and specific files.

I am new to Linux so clear basic responses would be great. I am trying to complete these tasks: git clone -b v0.15.0 https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk cd operator-sdk make...

Hi! I have an external hard drive that I took from an old Acer Laptop. I didn't format it because I wanted only to save my data before installing in my pc a new SSD. The problem begin an year ago...

Hello, I have made a backup copy of my centos 7 using: Code: --------- rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} / /mnt/...

I'm very stuck in solving this problem (from more that one year!). I started accidentally the hard reset of my Huawei P8 lite. Luckily I've saved all my photos and document on my SD. The problem is...

Published at LXer: Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. The program also lets you generate reports to provide to clients as and when needed. ...

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Libreoffice 6.4.3 (Slackware -current 64) from AlienBOB's repository. Everything was working fine, until system has been upgraded to May 11st changes. Slackware 64-current almost out-of-the-box. ...

I added a Galway/Wavlink WiFi Outdoor Range Extender to my network to get wireless access in my shop building. The Range Extender has an Ethernet connection to my Linksys MR8300 Router. The CAT5...

Published at LXer: Building a homelab can be a fun way to entertain yourself while learning new concepts and experimenting with new technologies. Thanks to the popularity of single-board computers...

I just wanted to announce the existence of slackware.uk's new bittorrent seedbox service, which is now available at: https://seedbox.slackware.uk/. Thanks to the hosting sponsor, I've been provided...

Greetz It may not be likely I'll gt feedback before I pull the trigger but I'll have 30 dqys to return if the problem is devastating so here goes. In about 10 hours from this posting the Newegg...

Published at LXer: This guide lists various methods to find Hard disk drive details in Linux operating systems. Using the below methods, you can able to find the hard disk make, hard disk type,...

Hi, I have a laptop with dual boot: Win 10 and Linux Mint 19 CPU i7 RAM: 16GB SSD: 512GB I use 90% of the time Linux, but sometime I need to use specific Software in Windows; in that case...

I use my laptop most of the time behind a pfSense firewall; but quite often in more public places connected by wifi or ethernet. The laptop firewall must of course have different sets of...

Published at LXer: Canonical announced that their latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series is now officially certified for all supported Raspberry Pi single-board computers. ...

Good evening, Laptop with Dual Boot: Win 10 + Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) CPU: i7 Graphic Card Nvidia since yesterday, on my laptop, at the end of Grub procedure, I've got a black screen and the...

Hi, I'm trying to restrict the resources of a docker container through a systemd slice, as follows: I've created the systemd slice (/etc/systemd/system/my_limits.slice) Code: --------- [Unit]...

My boot drive is a SSD and I have a mdadm raid 6 array mounted to /mnt/md0. This is a fresh install of Debian 10.3 that is maybe a week or so old and has been working perfectly. Debian released 10.4...

Hi there ! Code: --------- localhost:/home/miguel # btrfs subvolume list -t /var ID gen top level path -- --- --------- ---- 256 1993 5 @...

Running Ubuntu 19.10 have a question about Bash How does bash process user input such as a command like "ls -a" ? How is this actually done in detail as possible ?

Published at LXer: No one would really consider systemd to be*a troubleshooting tool, but when I encountered a problem on my webserver, my growing knowledge of systemd and some of its features...

I was Trying to install Cisco's Packet Tracer for the official Website Packet Tracer Version: 7.3.0 Os : parrot4.9 (Fully updated) Command used Code: ---------

Published at LXer: On May 15, 2009, I entered the world of social networks. After a short analysis, I realized that Twitter could offer me the best proximity to different interests, especially...