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Q&A How to make changes to logind.conf take effect?

I added IdleAction=hibernate IdleActionSec=30min To my bat /etc/systemd/logind.conf. Then I waited 31 min, but nothing happened. It didn't hibernate. Presumably, the config changes are not loa...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A How to make changes to logind.conf take effect?

The unit does not support reloading, but restarting the service should do the trick. sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind

posted 12mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Lutris app or game renders incorrectly

If I have an application such as the EA App running from Lutris, after starting the computer from hibernation, it sometimes doesn't render correctly; the window renders some areas fine, while other...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A Lutris app or game renders incorrectly

It seems as if there's an issue with the DBus connection. It's likely a bug in the software, so the solution for now is a workaround. When the application is restarted in Lutris, it leaves a backgr...

posted 12mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Q&A How to set up a system with two hard drives?

I have multiple systems, each of which has two different hard drives: one fast SSD and my good old spinning rust. Originally, I had set up the drives to have my root directory / on the SSD and my ...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How can I put my home directory on a different partition?

Suppose you currently use the partition /dev/sda1 for everything, and you create a new partition /dev/sda2 to use for /home. It doesn't matter if the partition is on a different physical drive, sam...

posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Ubuntu system has lost DNS access

At the most embarrassing time, Firefox on my Ubuntu laptop wouldn't connect to any websites. I've narrowed it down to a DNS issue. I can ping IP addresses, sftp to the computer, etc. The problem af...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by gmcgath‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Adding mount points to an existing partition that already has one

I have / mounted on a relatively small partition and /home on a larger one taking up most of the rest of the drive (as seems to be common practice). I'd like to move certain other parts of the file...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How to open documentation in qch format in Debian based systems?

I wanted to download C++ documentation and found cppreference-doc-en-qch in Debian's archive: Description: C and C++ standard library reference (English, Qt Help variant) A version of online C ...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A What are the most active distros without systemd?

Ever since systemd was adopted by mainstream distros, there's been many reactive projects aiming to provide a distro without systemd. I've often had the impression that a lot of these were motivat...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Dual booting without rebooting

Suppose you have two Linux distributions installed in a dual boot situation. One issue that can happen is when you need to frequently switch. Rebooting is disruptive if you have a bunch of things ...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by bgstack15‭

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Q&A What are the most active distros without systemd?

Devuan GNU+Linux is still around. It's boring, just like the Debian it's based on, because it's without the added drama of systemd and whatever systemd has supplanted. That will become a bigger pro...

posted 12mo ago by bgstack15‭

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Q&A What are the most active distros without systemd?

I can't answer this question fully, but I'll try my best. A reasonably comprehensive list of non-systemd distros can be found at https://nosystemd.org/. There might be some which are not on that l...

posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Adding new entries to Grub with alternate kernel parameters

On Ubuntu and Debian (and their derivates) you can use the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom which is intended exactly for this: Content of /etc/grub.d/40_custom: #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This f...

posted 12mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Dual booting without rebooting

I don't see any way to implement this. XenDesktop would have been the closest thing I can think of, but it's been discontinued years ago, and it involved VMs, which you don't want. It mapped hardw...

posted 12mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A Can you reuse your home directory while distro hopping?

Permission wise you generally shouldn't have problems. Ownership in Linux/Unix uses numerical IDs, and on every major distribution the UIDs for regular users start at 1000, meaning the first user t...

posted 12mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A How can I fill out PDF forms?

LibreOffice Draw (MPL-2.0) does that. It's hardly ideal, because unless you have all the standard Windows fonts (not actually tested!), almost all PDFs will have their text get rendered oddly inclu...

posted 12mo ago by bgstack15‭

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Q&A Dual booting without rebooting

Wild idea (NOT TESTED): This would not be for booting a whole second kernel, so it might fail badly if the distros were on wildly different kernel levels. For a graphical environment for X11, try ...

posted 12mo ago by bgstack15‭

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Q&A Confused about what "Linux" means

The term "Linux" means the kernel but is often used as shorthand for "Unix-style operating system running on Linux (the kernel)". The reason this is significant is that the kernel is by far the m...

posted 11mo ago by Christa‭

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Q&A Basic GPU usage monitoring

This doesn't really answer the question as posed, but IMO it's a useful footnote: If the primary interest is to monitor GPU usage specifically during a 3D application that uses Vulkan, MangoHud ca...

posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Mute sound on boot

When I boot my computer, I want the sound to start out muted, even if it wasn't before. For bonus points: It should also reduce volume to 0% This should also happen when coming out of hibernat...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to clean up junk files in my home directory?

After many years of using Arch, and many applications, my home directory is completely cluttered with junk. Of course, much of this is useful and needed for the normal operation of programs. For ex...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Reliably set a wallpaper in i3

Currently I set my wallpaper by having a call to feh in my i3 config. This does set the wallpaper, but it seems buggy. Whenever my monitor configuration changes, the wallpaper gets moved partially ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Forbid concurrent runs of a process

Make a lock file or env variable and alias the CLI command to test for the lock before it starts the real command.

posted 11mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Journalctl - how to restrict search to only certain boot IDs?

It seems like systemd labels every boot with some ID. Suppose I have some sporadic issue that happens only on some boots. I want to search logs for only the boots that have the issue, not all boot...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by GeraldS‭

Question systemd journalctl