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Edit Post #292994 Post edited:
switched the link to the release notes to the codename, which shouldn't change in the future.
1 day ago
Edit Post #292994 Initial revision 1 day ago
Answer A: Vanishing menus in KDE core components
Turns out this is a known bug in QT 5 that has been fixed in QT 6. It only happens in the following constellation, which I hit exactly: - Wayland - Two or more screens - different scaling per screen Sadly, Debian 13 will supposedly still ship with KDE Plasma 5.27, and there are no plans to...
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1 day ago
Comment Post #292984 Oh, great, now I'm finding more details about this as a known bug. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432264
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5 days ago
Edit Post #292984 Post edited:
added another affected menu
5 days ago
Edit Post #292984 Post edited:
changed title to something more fitting
5 days ago
Edit Post #292984 Initial revision 5 days ago
Question Vanishing menus in KDE core components
Some context menus in my KDE installation show the following problem: When the menu is opened it shows normally. the context menu of an audio device in KDE, showing various profiles to select from But as soon as I move the cursor over the menu, it becomes transparent and whatever is behind i...
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5 days ago
Comment Post #292965 Exactly. You could parse the output of `docker inspect` and evaluate it in more detail, but you'd need an extra tool like `jq` which is not granted to be installed, and in the end it's only relevant if the string exists in the output or not. Hence a simple `grep` suffices.
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7 days ago
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8 days ago
Edit Post #292965 Initial revision 8 days ago
Answer A: How to identify which Docker container an overlay is for?
You can find that when you run `docker inspect $CONTAINER`. You can automate this with a simple loop like this: ```bash for CONTAINER in $(docker ps -qa); do docker inspect $CONTAINER |grep -q $DIRNAME && docker ps -a |grep $CONTAINER; done ``` where `$DIRNAME` is the overlay directory ...
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8 days ago
Edit Post #292964 Initial revision 8 days ago
Answer A: If I have /home on a separate partition, how can I move it back to the root partition?
A general overview: 1. Log in as root directly, no `sudo` or `su` (you may need to activate it temporarily, depending on your distribution) or boot from a live system 2. unmount `/home` and mount it somewhere else ( e.g. `/mnt/`) 3. move your data from your temporary mountpoint to `/home` 4. un...
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8 days ago
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22 days ago
Edit Post #292907 Initial revision 22 days ago
Answer A: Disable ability of users to enable lingering in systemd
I managed to disable the feature via polkit. To do this I created two policy files: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-disable-linger-self.pkla ```ini [disable loginctl linger self] Identity=unix-user: Action=org.freedesktop.login1.set-self-linger ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no Re...
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22 days ago
Comment Post #292860 The argument `--one-top-level` will do what you describe.
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24 days ago
Comment Post #292860 The short form for the given command would be `tar xzf archive.tar.gz`. It's a good habit to have the `f` argument at the end, because older versions of tar expect the archive name immediately after it, so `tar xfz archive.tar.gz` would fail. For modern versions of tar the order of the argument...
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24 days ago
Comment Post #292860 `That will result in a directory named according to the archive` - this is wrong. It will only create a directory if it already exists inside the tarball, and with the name stored within. The name of the archive file is irrelevant. Without a directory inside the tarball the files/directories will be ...
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24 days ago
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fixed a typo
24 days ago
Edit Post #292897 Initial revision 24 days ago
Question Disable ability of users to enable lingering in systemd
Can I disable the ability of regular users to enable lingering in loginctl? By default every user on a systemd enabled Linux can run `loginctl --enable-linger` and have a personal systemd instance started that starts services in userspace after reboots. I have the need to disable this capability. ...
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24 days ago
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added borders between the thumbnails
about 1 month ago
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corrected image position
about 1 month ago
Edit Post #292758 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Answer A: How can I efficiently create a collage of video thumbnails on Linux?
Of course, being a swiss army knife `ffmpeg` already has this capability builtin: ```shell ffmpeg -i Example.mp4 -vf "select=not(mod(n\,20)),scale=200:-1,tile=5x4:padding=2:color=white" -vsync 0 -frames:v 1 output.jpg ``` The result is about the same: Output image of ffmpeg, a 5x4 grid of ...
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #292757 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Answer A: Getting a Module Error When Running Pytest Even Though the Module is Installed in the Current Virtual Environment
> As a workaround, I had to uninstall pytest from the package manager and install it in the virtual environment. However, I would prefer to use the pytest from the package manager since it makes sense to me to install a package I use often globally instead of installing it in each virtual environment...
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Edit Post #292755 Initial revision about 1 month ago
Answer A: How can I efficiently create a collage of video thumbnails on Linux?
bash does not support floating point operations, so at least for a short video `$interval` will always be `0`. That way you always get the same frame, which by chance probably was black for your video. You notice that if you place an `echo` in front of your `ffmpeg` call to check the actual comman...
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about 1 month ago
Comment Post #292749 Yep, it worked now. Thank you very much :)
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #292706 Post edited:
added example
about 2 months ago
Edit Post #292749 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Question Cloudflare blocks the edit of my answer
For a couple of days now I've been trying to edit this answer to include an example that was requested in the comments. Every time I try to edit it I'm presented with this: Sorry, you have been blocked - This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The expa...
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about 2 months ago
Comment Post #292746 If you can't reach it until you logged in it doesn't sound like sleep or hibernate, it rather sounds like the RDP service is only started at login time. What happens if you log in and leave the machine es it is? Does the RDP connection stop working after some time, or only after a reboot or logout?
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about 2 months ago
Comment Post #292706 I'll add a concrete example as soon as codidact stops blocking me when I edit my answer. Until then, examples for custom jails can be found all over the internet. You don't need any scripting, just a regex that matches the lines in the logs.
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #292706 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Answer A: How to automatically block IPs that try exploit URLs?
If these requests are logged into a log file you can install `fail2ban` and configure it to act on these log entries. You can configure it to block the requests via the local firewall for a duration of your choosing. This would be a very basic (and untested) example: You create a service defini...
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #292705 Initial revision about 2 months ago
Answer A: How to find big files and directories?
If you don't mind installing something I recommend `ncdu`. It sorts the directories and files by size, you can exclude other mounts, navigate the tree directly and even delete files and folders as you go. ``` ncdu 1.19 Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help / ------------------------...
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about 2 months ago
Comment Post #292330 `which` also gives me information about aliases and such (at least in zsh)
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3 months ago
Comment Post #292296 No idea. I did not dive deeper into it, I don't use Pop!OS on a daily basis. I only installed it out of curiosity in a VM to check out this issue.
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3 months ago
Comment Post #292296 I did not try it, but my guess is that if you leave it empty it will be mounted in the same default location as it is mounted now. If you are fine with the location currently shown to you just leave it as it is.
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3 months ago
Comment Post #292296 > Is there a way I can continue listing it as a disk in the file manager, in the same location as before making these changes, but in a way that removes the unmounting button and context menu action? I don't see any.
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3 months ago
Comment Post #292296 The boot disk is not visible. The root disk is visible. Why are additional disks shown separately? To make it easy for non power users to use them I guess.
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3 months ago
Comment Post #292297 True, yet some DEs allow you to choose between them upon login. Hence the mention.
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3 months ago
Edit Post #292297 Post edited:
added an afterthought
3 months ago