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Posts by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Meta Do domain-specific how-to's fit well within Q&A?

I certainly think "how to do X" is perfectly good for a question on Codidact, so long as X is sufficiently focused. A well-explained overview of a system is also useful, given it contains enough in...

posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys

How can I auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys? F7-F12 on my keyboard are used for audio control, while, many games that I play, use the lower FN keys. Therefore, I'd like to relieve mys...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Michael‭

Question keyboard gnome PopOS
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Q&A What desktop environment am I running?

I'm a complete beginner, and just installed Linux for the first time. I chose a popular distribution, but I've run into some issues, or have a few questions. However, I don't know if I have Gnome, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Check which version of Debian a distribution is based on

If you are on Debian itself, you can simply check with lsb_release -a or one of the other methods of checking the OS version. If you are not on Debian, this will simply list the version of your d...

posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Secondary internal disk is mounted as an external disk

I just installed an SSD into my motherboard's third M.2 slot. After I booted up the computer, the secondary disk is now displayed like an externally connected one. There's an icon for it on the des...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Stop Lutris from changing the screen scaling

Every time I open EA Games from within Lutris, the desktop's UI/screen scaling is reset from 150% to 100%. This is in PopOS running with a 4K resolution on a 4K screen. The resolution is not change...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Check which version of Debian a distribution is based on

I want to download an application from the internet, but the website is listing versions for "bookworm", "bullseye" and "buster". I do not know which version of these to download, as I don't know w...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Control desktop fan speeds

How do I control my computer's fan speeds, including the case fans, and the CPU pump and fan speed? Moving from Windows on an Acer laptop, I am used to Acer's PredatorSense application which lets ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Monitor computer temperatures

How do I read computer temperatures from my desktop in PopOS? Is there a terminal command, DE extension or GUI application that I can use for the purpose? The UEFI reports CPU, CPU case and motherb...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Justin‭

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Q&A Keep OpenRGB profiles active after hibernation and shutdown

I have created a set of profiles in OpenRGB that set the RGB lights on the fans and LED strips inside my desktop case. This works as expected, however, the activation of a profile does not persist ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Justin‭

Question PopOS OpenRGB
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Q&A Stop Lutris from changing the screen scaling

It seems as if it may not have been Lutris causing issues, but the HiDPI daemon in PopOS. This daemon can be disabled in the PopOS settings under "screens". Disabling that process may lead to issue...

posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Show GPU usage in System Monitor

In PopOS's standard System Monitor application, how do I see the GPU usage? I can see the CPU, RAM, disk and network usage, and graphs for them, but GPU usage is listed nowhere. It's available in M...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Justin‭

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Q&A Install and run Windows applications

How do I install and run Windows applications downloaded from a website? Windows applications do not run natively on Linux, but can be run using Wine. When downloading these applications from a we...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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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 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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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 5mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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

I have installed the Flatpak version of Lutris from Pop_Shop in PopOS. From within Lutris, I have installed the EA App, which I have then used to download several games from my library. Unfortunate...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Run programs of normal OS from a live USB

I am experiencing hardware or software problems that I cannot explain, or find a solution for. As part of the troubleshooting process, I have now arrived at running an older version of the OS from ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Fix broken EGL installation

According to a post on the Nvidia forums, my EGL installation is broken, as eglinfo should say the vendor is Nvidia; on my system it returns: EGL API version: 1.5 EGL vendor string: Mesa Project ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

Question nvidia PopOS egl