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When I enter the login password incorrectly 3 times, my computer locks me out from attempting a login for 10 minutes. How can I change the timeout?
This appears to be set by the option unlock_time in /etc/security/faillock.conf.
I am running X on Arch Linux without a desktop environment, only i3. Sometimes I need to switch between typing in different languages. How do I switch my keyboard layout?
I was able to make this work with: bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id wpctl set-volume -l 1 @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@ 5%+ bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id wpctl set-vol...
I have a script that does git fetch for a repository. When I run this in my shell it works fine. I want to run it in a systemd user unit. However, I am using an SSH url, and the systemd unit fails...
I like how Guix sounds based on what I've read, and I want to try it. However, my partitioning scheme is a bit complicated. With Guix it appears like my biggest concern is hardware (I will regretta...
For some time pacman used to have a problem where: Occasionally Arch maintainers introduce new GPG keys They start signing packages with the keys Your local pacman doesn't receive these until ...
This won't be an exact answer. I think with the way it's described, there could be many reasons why the issue manifests. However, the good news is that the live ISO works, therefore the problem is ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I want /home to be on a different partition than the rest of my files. How can I do this?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A web search turned up the Qt online documentation, which suggests using Qt Assistant to organize and read help files packaged as *.qch files. That looks to be packaged by Debian as assistant-qt6....
I often need to fill out PDF forms, like government paperwork and stuff for banks. How can I do this on Linux? Best I could find was Foxit, but it has strange limitations in the Linux version, lik...
This varies because, being modular, Linux will have different components according to what it's used for. I'll write mainly for a mainstream desktop distro. Systemd manages most of the stack these...
Linux Mint comes with "System Monitor", a GNOME utility that - among other things - shows my CPU and RAM usage and network transfer rate. It seems intended as the system's alternative to the Task M...
Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer is a GUI program with similar purpose as du and ncdu. I haven't used it in a long time, but I believe caches scan results. Subsequent scans should become faster, barring ...
ncdu does that. from ncdu --help: -o FILE Export scanned directory to FILE -f FILE Import scanned directory from FILE You can start it with any direc...
