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(-current) Well I don't understand why running gtk-update-icon-cache with help pf pkgtool command does not resolve the issue.

Published at LXer: As a sysadmin, every day*I am faced with problems I need to solve quickly because there are users and managers who expect things to run smoothly. In a large environment like the...

What are folks using instead of the now ancient (2010) *namebench* utility? I have v1.3.1 that hails from 2010... Download Namebench...

Hi All, I'm looking for non-technical people to help me out with updating and expanding on documentation in Bodhi. If you're interested, shoot me a private message. Thanks!

Is it possible to have an HTML page as desktop background? My idea is that an HTML page, with clickable links, dynamic content etc would provide much more than Conky does. Is there any web browser...

On 14.2 mariadb is at version 10.0.38. Searching the mariadb web site finds the following EOL dates: 10.0 *Mar 2019* 10.1​ Oct 2020 10.2​ May 2022 10.3​ May 2023 10.4​ July 2024

Hi, Do I have to do a a2ensite mysite.com every time I make a change in it's .conf file in sites-enabled ? Do I always have to follow it with 'systemctl reload apache2' ? Can I do.. ...

Published at LXer: In this guide, you will learn how to setup an Nginx reverse proxy with step by step instructions. We will also explain how a reverse proxy server works and what its advantages...

hi all, i have added all these lines to my squid config as it wasnt allowing office activation https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate but now its allowing office activation and...

Hello guys Rinning "Linux Mint 18.1" on dell laptop. Yesterday load chrome browser. Today after login screen goes black. Nothing loading. Cannot open anything. What to do?

What Linux Distros did you use up until now? I used Mandrake Linux, then Redhat 8, Redhat 9 and now still using Debian for over two decades. So I like to know what Distros did you use in your...

I have somehow changed the network settings for my vortexbox software and am unable to find it on my network. The vortexbox site recommends using "fix_network rebuild" command, but when I attempt...

Hello, I failed to build Linux kernel for powerpc-405 with this error. Can anyone help: ---Quote--- make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'debian/certs/debian-uefi-certs.pem', needed by...

Published at LXer: Canonical announced today that the Ubuntu 19.04 operating system will reach end of life later this month on January 23rd, urging all users to upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10. Read...

In the index.md file, you open a file with ordinary markdown [filename](filename.md) But what if filename.md is in other directory? For example: ...

Code: --------- #uname -a Linux fir.nuclix 5.3.0-3parrot3-amd64 #1 SMP Parrot 5.3.9-3parrot3 (2019-11-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux --------- Code: --------- #webfsd -h

I have a 5g wifi card, it will work great for an hour or so (its random when it stops transmitting) I have to ifdown and ifup the card to get a connection again. dmesg has no errors.....any...

Greetings I currently use Vonage for voice calls and have a very simple flip-phone mobile/emergencies/text. I'm quite happy with Vonage but although I've been pretty happy with the flip=phone,...

I'm basically still a newbie. Converting from Win 7 to Slackware 14.1 .2? I will be setting this printer up on multiple computers running the Slackware 14.? with the KDE GUI. The house gunnia pig...

While playing with -Current, I noticed that after the install and when given the option to reboot, the system pretty much almost instantly reboots, which begs the question - does the newly formatted...

Published at LXer: Beefy Firefox release despite new 4-weekly release cycle, but users stick stubbornly to Google ChromeUpdated Mozilla has aired a bunch of new features aimed at making web 2020 a...

Hello Everyone, I am in learning stage of linux. i recently installed ubuntu,there is only single user on my system,but whenever i install any of the software, it always ask me,for root access.how...

A brand new Lubuntu 18.04 installation with the Canonical built-in Linux 5.0.0 kernel: Code: --------- Linux ThinkPad-S3 5.3.0-24-generic #26~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP --------- One out of the three...

For example, there is a Unicode text file that contains: not for easy understanding, but for... I manually insert a glyph: not foâ–²r easy underâ–²standing, but for... It is required to be...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This tutorial will help you to discover high CPU consumption processes in Linux. Read More......

Published at LXer: Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor which has mostly the same features, look and workflow as the i3 X11 window manager. Because Sway uses Wayland instead of X11, the tools to...

Published at LXer: Managing a messy music library can be a serious pain. Even if you ripped all of your music yourself, there's still a pretty good chance that your ripping application got at least...

Published at LXer: When you're standing on a stage or doing a live demo in an online session, getting your project into a perfect-looking state may appear easy. But a lot of work goes on behind the...

I have a shared directory where 3 people work on files. It is owned by a group that all 3 belong to. However, whenever someone ssh into it and change a file, it is updated to "user":nogroup. This then...

Published at LXer: There are plenty of tools for handling text in Linux. Here are 13 powerful text manipulation tools every command-line user should know. Read More......

Hi, Up until now, I've been running different ubuntu/debian based distributions, but I'm changing to Opensuse because of a problem with my air mouse. Anyway, I have been running a split tunnel,...

Published at LXer: When you work with computers all day, it's fantastic to find repeatable commands and tag them for easy use later on. They all sit there, tucked away in ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc for...

How much overhead is there for leaving fail2ban to check for a lot of services that I do not have installed and web apps that I do not have in Apache? Is it best to leave all of those uncommented out...

am trying to get my Windows VM to access my USB pen drive, but I am having problems passing this USB over to the VM. On my Linux host machine, I ran lsusb where my device was identified as ...

Published at LXer: The basic concept involved with the use of the osquery application is the "tabular abstraction" of many aspects of the operating system, such as processes, users, etc. The data...

I'm a Dutch translator for various other projects, and I'm currently well under way with a complete revision of the Dutch translation for Moksha. Because the current Dutch translation is in bad shape....

Hello, everybody. I'm quite a newbie trying to decipher the new world of Linux and get rid of all the problems raised by Windows, which I have been using for so many years. I have installed Linux Mint...

Published at LXer: When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else. It's also open source and it's awesome. Read More......

Published at LXer: You've heard of the OSI model, but you've never had it presented as a tasty party dip. Get to know the OSI model in a whole new way. Read More......

Published at LXer: Opera Software kicked off 2020 with a new stable release of its cross-platform, Chromium-based Opera web browser for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. Read More......

Hi All, My Ask is to write data to a binary file in Kernel code.Is there any option in kernel to save data as binary file. In userspace we have functions like fwrite() and fread() to operate on...

Published at LXer: Why Rust? 'It works and usually does what you wanted it to do,' says dev. Interview Rust developer Denys Séguret, from Lyon, France, wanted a better way to view and search...

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I used to use nmh with fdm to get my mails, until gentoo booted the former from the portage tree. I'm looking to replace the mail viewing and searching functionality of nmh with notmuch, but I have a...

Published at LXer: The final steps are being made in the Google v. Oracle copyright case, which will put the fate of programming in the hands of the Supreme Court. Read More......

Published at LXer: The KDE Project has announced today the general availability of the first point for the latest KDE Applications 19.12 open-source software suite. Read More......

Published at LXer: In this tutorial, we show you how to install Nextcloud 17 with the Nginx web server, PHP 7.3 and MariaDB database on a CentOS 8 server. We will install Nextcloud and secure it...

I have an AMD Radeon 5700-XT with a fresh and complete install of slackware current (5.4.10) - Startx produces a black screen and a frozen computer (can't even ctl-alt-f* to get a terminal) -...

Published at LXer: Apache Cassandra is an open-source high-performance NoSQL database management system with no single point of failure. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache...

Published at LXer: Topics covered in this episode:Community FeedbackElitism in Linux aka “Linux Snobbery”Linux Mint vs Ubuntu Cinnamon Discussion from Episode 153KDE Plasma Settings Backup &...