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Q&A Calculate the SHA1 checksum of a file

RHash is a popular all-in-one hashing and checksum tool available in most Linux repositories (or can be downloaded from SourceForge). Usage example for sha1 sum: $ rhash --sha1 file

posted 1y ago by amarok‭

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Q&A Why are most distros so laggy on my Intel+NVIDIA laptop? [closed]

I've been distro hopping for years now. I love Fedora and Tumbleweed, but everything I've tried beyond Ubuntu is slow and jumpy, and even Ubuntu lags behind Windows 7, 10, and 11. Are the NVIDIA dr...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Upgrade6082‭  ·  closed 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Unpopular opinion?: make it look more like SO. dark theme up/down vote without opening the question comment without opening the comment thread These kinda stuck out to me as first impressio...

posted 1y ago by JohnRando‭

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Q&A Show GPU usage in System Monitor

It's definitely possible, however PopOS might not have added that functionality yet. For example, here is KDE Plasma's System Monitor with a page from the community that shows data:

posted 1y ago by Justin‭

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Q&A Keep OpenRGB profiles active after hibernation and shutdown

It appears to be a known issue from the OpenRGB Gitlab Issues: https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=opened&search=hibernate&first_page_size=20

posted 1y ago by Justin‭

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Q&A What is Kmail running in the background?

That's likely Akonadi running in the background. It's the backend that KMail uses to store and manipulate mail.

posted 1y ago by Justin‭

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Q&A How to run offlineimap with Python 3.11 on Arch?

Arch switched to Python 3.12 which broke offlineimap. I want to use Python 3.12 as the default on my system, but just offlineimap should run with an alternative Python 3.11 environment. Is it possi...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Kmail creates files outside mail directory

When I create a new Maildir account in Kmail, pointing to /foo/bar, I expect it to create directories like: /foo/bar/cur /foo/bar/new /foo/bar/tmp /foo/bar/some-folder/cur /foo/bar/some-folder...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Command to show GPU model

Looking for a command to show the model(s) of the system's GPU(s). It doesn't matter if it shows other related info too, as long as the model doesn't get buried.

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Command to show GPU model

With lshw: # lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT] vendor: Advanced Micro Devi...

posted 9mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Duplicated instance of VSCodium in Awesome WM with Tyrannical

I'm using Awesome WM (v4.3) with Tyrannical plugin on Debian 12 and I observe an unexpected behavior of VSCodium. Using the following configuration (in rc.lua config file of Awesome WM), when I st...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by zetyty‭

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Q&A Download a TLS certificate from the command line

You can use openssl for that. openssl s_client -connect codidact.com:443 -showcerts </dev/null | openssl x509 > codidact.pem

posted 10mo ago by GeraldS‭

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Q&A How to use several keyboard layouts with Awesome WM?

I can't set two keyboard layouts with Awesome WM (v4.3) on Debian 12. Using the following configuration (in rc.lua config file of Awesome WM), only the french layout seems to be usable. The us lay...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by zetyty‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by tantan‭

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Q&A Vulkan errors from headless chromium

Headless chromium gives me many errors: $ chromium codidact.com --headless [0914/093555.796025:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1086 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 0: ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Install and run Windows applications

Installation At least in KDE Plasma all you really need is to have the .exe files associated with wine. Right click > Open with in Dolphin will do the trick. Once you got that covered, the ins...

posted 12mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Enable multiplayer for Titanfall 2 from EA Games with Lutris

My guess is that this is an anti-cheat problem. The symptom of those is often everything working on Linux except the multiplayer, with no explanation. I don't play Titanfall 2, but apparently it u...

posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How do you rotate webcam feed by 90 degrees?

mpv --video-rotate=90 --profile=low-latency --untimed av://v4l2:/dev/video0 Press s to take the picture. /dev/video0 is usually the right file, but if the command fails with "inappropriate ioct...

posted 12mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Enable multiplayer for Titanfall 2 from EA Games with Lutris

This sounds like an anticheat issue. You may or may not be completely at the mercy of the developers. Titanfall 2 does use EAC, though, and Steam does have a Proton runtime for it (which should alr...

posted 12mo ago by tf2scout‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Michael‭

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

I want /home to be on a different partition than the rest of my files. How can I do this?

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

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Q&A HTTPie give SSLError for normal sites

HTTPie complains about TLS certificates ever for sites I know are fine: $ https wikipedia.org https: error: SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wikipedia.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded w...

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

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Q&A HTTPie give SSLError for normal sites

Sometimes Python packages fail to use your system's CA certificates (what your browser uses). For HTTPie, this is actually tracked in https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1581 One solution is to p...

posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to perform a zuluCrypt "Create Encrypted Container in Hard Drive" but as a Linux command line?

I have long been in the process of converting my manual steps to create a new backup disks into an automated script. The only part I have left is the initial "creation" of the disk, meaning whateve...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by [email protected]

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Q&A Initramfs: "triggering uevents" suddenly takes a really long time

Early in boot, after triggering uevents but before the encrypt hook (decrypting drives) my system takes a very long time, over a minute. Actually, I bet it takes 90 seconds which is the typical def...

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

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

Yes, bind mounts or possibly rbind mounts is most likely what you want here. You need a rbind mount if you want the contents of file systems mounted below the specified mount point to be accessibl...

posted 12mo ago by Canina‭

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

Install Qt Assistant (either 5 or 6 works): apt install qt5-assistant This might be already installed, the package in the question does depend on it but for some reason qt5-doc does not, i...

posted 12mo ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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