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Unable to get shared clipboard using VNC server on Ubuntu and Mac client [closed]
I have a remote Oracle Cloud VM running Ubuntu, and I want to remote in via VNC via macos Screen Sharing. I can connect with Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.10 – but for the life of me cannot get shared ...
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Is it possible to set up a remote login session where a specific user only has access to certain folders, and can only run one executable?
I have a server where I'd like to grant a user the ability to log in remotely, but restrict the session in two specific ways:
They can only access a certain set of folders on the computer, and for ...
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Mac-to-Linux file conversion conundrum: convert MPW font resource to PCF and TTF files
This is more of a "conversion kata" than a real stumper, as in the worst case I can use my Mac to perform the conversion, but I really want to understand why the Linux tooling I used could ...
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exFAT for mechanical spinning external HD as cross-platform backup?
We have a mix of Linux (Debian) and MacOS laptops. I have a 4 TB external USB mechanical rotary drive I'd like to use for backups. I'd not want to partition the drive with different file systems for ...
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MacOs equivalent of adding a user to the linux dialout group on for permissions setup for UART communication
I'm working on a project where I'm interfacing with some hardware and want to monitor the data from some sensors using a specific tool. The tool doesn't have official support for MacOS but I've ...
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How to mount a Mac host folder on a QEMU guest Linux?
I recompiled the Debian kernel enabling the required options in QEMU/9psetup installed QEMU (8.2.1) with Homebrew and started it as follows:
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-M accel=hvf \
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How to share applications between multiple OSs? [closed]
My goal is to have a triple monitor setup, each running a different OS (Linux, Windows and MacOS) and have mouse/keyboard sharing using something like Synergy as well as moving app windows from one to ...
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Using ncdu, how to know the number of items in current dir, not total count in childtree
I love using ncdu to browse files in Debian (and also MacOS), yet I can't figure out a way to display the number of items in the current directory, rather than the total amount of files including all ...
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Validating Changes to pam.d (like visudo)
I'm working on an Ansible task for setting fingerprint sudo usage in MacOS. This is done through a custom rule in /etc/pam.d/sudo_local.
Is there a method to pre-validate edits to PAM for safer ...
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Switching from Mac to Linux DE: Strategies for globally swapping <ctrl> modifier with <meta>? [closed]
I'm switching from MacOs to Linux and exploring several popular Desktop Environments like KDE Plasma, Gnome & Pantheon, etc.
I find that the MacOS convention of using the meta key (aka the command ...
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switching window keyboard shortcut with screen window management on MacOS
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I used to be a linux user, now I am accessing a server from MacOS, Ventura. I have remapped my Mac Keyboard by switching the ctrol and command keys. However, I came across some problems with the ...
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Command Line decryption of aes-256-gcm no-longer working after OpenSSL updated
Late last year (2022) I encrypted a file using OpenSSL using terminal on my Mac with a very simple openssl enc command and was able to decrypt using this command:
openssl enc -d -aes-256-gcm -in ...
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VirtualBox Linux Guest Mac Host runs really slow
I have performance issues in VirtualBox, the quest operating system runs really slow and laggy.
The configuration:
Host: MBP 2019, 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16 GB RAM, MacOS Sonoma 14.2
Guest: ...
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running a multi-threaded script on a macPro to a smb-mount folder throws an error
We're trying to run a multi-threaded script from our macPro but we keep getting an error massage.
The xml script contains parameters to run a specific tool, the paths to the raw data and other ...
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Sharing folders across the internet
I have a software project me and a couple friends are working on, and I have all the files hosted on an Ubuntu server. On the server, everyone has their own user and their own home folder, and there's ...
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