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How to move/reinstall flatpak apps from user to system or viceversa?
I am using Pop!_OS 21.10. By default, the Pop!_Shop installs flatpak on user mode, which is annoying because I have multiple users on the system.
I have now added the Flathub repo system-wide, so now ...
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Why systemd doesn't try to stop (some) processes on session termination?
When I try to close a logind session (by logging out), some processes remain running under the session, preventing it from properly terminating, resulting in [email protected] not terminating either. I'...
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webdav davfs2 input/output error
I've got a box.com account configured in a Linux system so a user can mount it in a certain mountpoint and access its contents. It is declared in fstab as:
https://www.box.com/dav /media/box davfs rw,...
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btrfs online conversion from directory to subvolume
Is there a way to create a btrfs subvolume from a directory, without interrupting processes using files in that directory.
For instance, I want to create a subvolume for /tmp (to exclude it from ...
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jenkins:Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value
I have docker-image of jenkins.
Home directory of jenkins is: /var/jenkins_home wich mapped to /home/user
So, i install android-sdk wich mapped to:
/home/user/tools/android-sdk/
When i install ...
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How do I install Nix on a custom directory?
I have been trying to follow the Nix wiki to install Nix on a custom path /scratch/gopinath/nix. The /nix path is not accessible to me due to the restrictions on the system provided by my university. ...
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Docker: "failed to get console mode for stdout: The handle is invalid."
When running docker-compose up in Windows PowerShell using Docker Desktop on WSL2, I get
Creating network "test_default" with the default driver
Building master
failed to get console mode ...
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Key remapping using xmodmap does not work for some gtk applications
I tried to remap some keys using xmodmap. For example,
xmodmap -e "keycode 118 = Next"
maps Insert key of my laptop (XPS 13 9360) to PgDn. It works for some applications such as firefox and visual ...
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Simulate two root windows on single monitor with use of RANDR extension
This question might seen similar to Emulating extra displays but it's different in the important detail.
Suppose I'd like to test a feature for certain window manager with multi monitor support using ...
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Magic Trackpad 2 with Fedora 25
I'm trying to make my Magic Trackpad 2 work on Fedora with all it's features (or at least some basics). The current (default) state is moving the mouse and left-clicking works out of the box, but ...
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Linux and S3 sleep on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11
I got a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11, and it doesn't support S3 sleep mode. When in sleep the battery continues to drain, badly.
~ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle]
journactl |grep ...
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FUSE fs without root privileges (e.g. a LD_PRELOAD gateway or a proot plugin)
On a system where I don't have root access and FUSE isn't installed (or I don't have sufficient privileges to create new mounts), how can I start a fuse filesytem (like sshfs or some FUSE-based ...
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Disable Linux Page Cache for Reads
Is there a way to turn-off page caching for reads in Linux? More specifically, I would like my processes to read directly from the disk.
The setting of my problem: I am trying out new query ...
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netplan configuration not active -- ubuntu 18.04
trying to set up a fixed IP address on one of two NIC. I try using netplan. Not working at all.
Not an expert on this, I am out of my wits and ready to roll back to some other way (networkd). Maybe ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 "Web Content" & "WebExtension" high CPU usage
I'm here to talk about a strange phenomenon.
I'm on a Ubuntu 18.04 Xfce.
Firefox 68.0.1 (64-bit)
Chrome 76.0.3809.87 (64-bit)
VSCode 1.36.1 (64-bit)
To resume, I have some very high CPU usage with ...
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