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Hi LQ folks, Old guy here. Most folks as old as I am need to get their grandkids to log them in to FacePalm. I have been at it a while. Worked at GM, lucky enough to get training on computer...

Published at LXer: Cron is a scheduling daemon that allows you to schedule the execution of tasks at specified intervals. These tasks are called cron jobs and can be scheduled to run by a minute,...

When first setting up IPFire you assign interfaces color codes to determine how they should be treated. I want to use it on my home network but have multiple zones the same color e.g. WiFi and...

How can I utilize the "Here-document" within the same command line to print the words "I like reading week". Please refer to the question specifically below. Write a single Linux command to...

Greetings, I recently purchased a DL380 G7 server to use in home primarily as a build server (mostly C++ projects), though I will also use it for other general purpose things like NAS and such. It's...

I'm looking for a distro that gives you a Plasma 5 desktop right out of the box. I know about Kubuntu and the KDE version of Manjaro. What should I use? This will go in a VM and it's for a project...

Hello, I'm not really sure what is the best way to install an AUR package. What I usually do is clone de git repo, then "makepkg -sic" and that is it. I've also seen people doing "make clean...

Hi, Recently I have updated Lubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 on my Lenovo G505 laptop. Then I experienced a problem similar to this one...

Published at LXer: The Command Line Heroes podcast*is back, and this season it covers the machines that run all the programming languages I covered last season. As the podcast staff puts it:read...

When using virtio-9p or virtio-fs to share a directory between a host and a guest VM, are file operation done from host processes on that shared directory (e.g. mkdir) blocked until the guest receives...

This hot! PAM with the nice cheeks walks into the house. Known to bake pie like her momma. I bet one thing PAM's Slackware Mom and Dad will sit back and enjoy her work. For She bakes a fine pie...

Published at LXer: So you installed the latest version of a Linux distribution but want to switch to another variant of Linux or want to upgrade to the latest version of a Linux distribution and...

Not much to say here other than packaging the latest efl and python-efl for Bodhi was rather difficult this time around :( But anyway, efl 1.23 and the associated python bindings python-efl and...

Has anyone managed to use UKTV PLay on the computer? I started with Pale Moon and was told to disable my add-blocker and refresh the page. I did so and — was told to disable my add-blocker and...

I know a lot about sockets, but in the os class the professor never told us all the details and I can't find them by googling them. I believe it's because I don't know exactly what information does...

Hi all, great work you do all and I thank you all

I just failed to build on Salix compton. Here's part of log Code: --------- a2x --format manpage man/compton.1.asciidoc make: a2x: command not found --------- I found on network a2x is a part...

I case someone didn't notice, Slackware had a good showing at the latest LQ Members' Choice Awards: ...

Published at LXer: While Metro Exodus was exclusive to the Epic Games Store for a while, it later went live on Google Stadia (which is Debian Linux) and today it's finally available on Steam. It...

Hello there guys ! I'm Svoboda, long time Linux user and long time lurker of Linux questions, after almost 10 years of answers found thanks to this forum, I've finally decided to take the plunge...

Hi everyone, I'm totally new with Linux and I do have an issue with opening a web browser (firefox). In the moment I double click on the firefox' icon nothing is displayed. I didn't find some...

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to install and deploy Lighttpd on a Debian 9 VPS with FPM/FastCGI support. Lighttpd is a free, open-source and high-performance web...

I'm running Suse Leap 15.1. There are a couple of heritage programs I would dearly love to run here but 'wine' cant manage. Looking through I saw that 'Virtualbox' might be a contender, however,...

Hi! Installed Lazarus IDE in Bodhi, Lazarus windows have fixed size, editor window stretched to both monitors and I can't resize it. How to do it? All the other applications work fine.

Published at LXer: CoreOS Container Linux, the open-source operating system for deploying Linux container in large clusters, will be reaching end of life on May 26th, 2020, and will no longer be...

Hi; I saw this before but unable to find it via google basically I want to put in one line these sed sed -i 's|^Port .*|Port 55555|g' > /etc/ssh/sshd_config sed -i 's|#Port .*|Port 55555|g' >...

Hello, Speaking of a recent change in current, are we sure that having /run and now also /var/run, because it's a bind mount, as tmpfs is fine? I've already found issues with services that do...

I started using Dropbox and long time back then move to Spideroak. Now when I visited the Spideroak website I found that its no longer free so now I am using MEGAsync. Which cloud storage...

I had a 2 disk raid 1. While one of the disks was syncing, the other failed! The failed disk cannot be used, it is really dead (any attempt to access it blocks for 2 minutes and nothing can be read)....

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to zoom in Tmux panes to fit them into the full size of current Terminal window and zoom out them again to its normal position in Linux. Read More......

I am regularly intrigued by posts here or elsewhere that discuss ISPs, hosting providers and their respective service quality and prices. It looks like outside of France and Germany, associations...

Published at LXer: In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at new features for Raspbian, Wireguard and Linux kernel, free Python course from the NSA and more!read more ...

After the latest updates to _pam packages, Xscreensaver locks me out of the system when it kicks in - there is no place to enter my pw. Did I over look something?

Published at LXer: Productivity or performance? Hey, why not both? On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the...

So this isn't just a Minecraft problem, this happens to a lot of other softwares I use on my computer as well. The problem is, when I press a key in Minecraft, even if it is in Fulscreen Mode, it will...

First this is not a Pi, it's a different SBC (i.MX7). I've been assigned an interesting task, I need to do I2C Multi-Master where we're transferring a status request and commands between two I2C...

Published at LXer: Blender Foundation released today Blender 2.82, a new update to the popular free and open-source 3D computer graphics software that adds new features and numerous improvements. ...

Tried to boot from a Windows hard drive attached to a USB cable today- it didn't work, and coincidence or not Xubuntu (12.04) got crippled in the process. Couldn't log in at all, it just kept...

I cannot move a "container" window to another workspace above 10. it switches to that desktop,I can open an app on a desktop greater than 10, but it does not move anything above 10. it open blender...

i am running fc31 and firewalld keeps changing my zone back to public. i put my interface into external and then do that with the permanent option. when i run --reload, it is fine after but if i...

Nice picture (https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/f453y4/i_wonder_if_i_can_get_this_to_work_on_anything/)!

I lost all my knowledge about computer the day has gone right over my head i am lost if i was to start learning linux where do i start?

Hi all, I've got limited time and I don't want to write my own Xfce panel. Therefore I just want an Xfce panel that will display the one-line text output of running a BASH script, updating it a...

I don't know where to start. I don't want to sit by the computer all day and night and not have a curriculum or some goals. where can i get from here.

Hi, I keep getting the subject message while trying to open a file. I have changed all the permissions to 777 on the directory which will contain the new file . Don't know where to go from here to...

I was wondering - just for an example: i ws running another distro - if you install e22 say. what file manager does it have or use? does it install one with e or does it use whatever pre-existing...

Hello, New ryzen machine, nvme drive, installing slackware64-14.2 using the following link: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/build-box-step-1-install-slackware/ Install went well. Dropped...

Published at LXer: I frequently get questions from open source project creators or new founders of commercial open source software (COSS) companies*about the best way to market their product....

I didn't test in on ext4 yet, but on ntfs drive the performance of Dolphin is horrible, when compared to Explorer on Windows. For a test I dumped around 10000 image files in a folder, folder size...

Fresh off the heels of compiling Libreoffice (about 8 hours for me on my old dual-core Pentium) and Ungoogled-Chromium (about a day to compile), I want to take a stab at two more big ones: -...