Debian User Projects - Software • SbK LXQt 1124 release
I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian LXQt 11/24. The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not present in the installed OS. SbK Debian spins are built with and follow the testing branch. They are...
View ArticleDebian User Projects - Software • SbK Talking Mate 1124 release
I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Talking Mate 11/24. The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not present in the installed OS. Talking Mate is one of the few SbK releases to use a panel. It is...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] Managing bash history
Have you ever looked for a command in Bash history when using arrow up and arrow down and not found it? Here are a few Bash history tips:1. Increase the number of recalled commandsIf you want your...
View ArticleHardware • Re: brother laser printer scanner stopped after upgrade
sudo cat error_logPrinter drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. See https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/103Statistics: Posted by carmima — 2024-11-01 13:09
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Re: Bookworm on a new laptop
I did a complete reinstall and also installed the mesa stack from backports and all my issues disappeared. No more sluggish behaviour and I hardly hear the fan. Not sure what the fix was now (the...
View ArticleDebian User Projects - Software • SbK Xfce-Compiz 1124 release
I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Xfce-Compiz 11/24. The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not present in the installed OS. Xfce-Compiz also has a minimal iso with a panel instead of a dock....
View ArticleDebian User Projects - Software • SbK Cinnamon 1124 release
I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Cinnamon 11/24. The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not in the installed OS. Cinnamon also has a minimal iso with a panel instead of a dock. SbK Debian...
View ArticleHardware • Re: How do you set the number of lines scrolled with the mouse wheel?
If you look at the picture I posted, you can see that it has the scroll speed but NOT how many lines scrolled at a time.It looks like you already use Wayland. It can be checked with Code: echo...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Re: Virtual Box - guest additions
If you post the command you use and the error, maybe someone can help. If your user has no rights to use sudo you have to become root in the terminal with "su -" and the root password and then run the...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Re: [Software] Installing an application
Would you mind sharing what software you are attempting to install? Like sunrat suggests, if it is in the Debian repository, it is best to install from there.ProtonMail beta for Linux.Statistics:...
View ArticleHardware • Re: megaRAID controller drive not detected
Actually it again stopped after a while now. The RAID encountered a HDD failure and the MegaRAID CLI now claims the controller doesn't exist.Probably the only route is to go back to an older version...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Re: Cannot access email on laptop
Not using google anymore is also a valid solution. Statistics: Posted by dilberts_left_nut — 2024-11-03 08:19
View ArticleInstallation • Re: packages (aptitude, nis, autofs, net-tools) can't be found...
Hello,I added "in-target apt-get update; \" before "in-target apt-get install nis autofs net-tools -y; \", and it gets my problem fixed immediately. Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you solved your...
View ArticleInstallation • Re: Installing on LUKS2 with AEAD or dm-integrity
Hello,Thanks, that’s really an interesting topic.From LUKS2 On-Disk Format Specification version 1.1.3, 2024-02-17 [1] at page 16:4.8 Algorithm Definition ExamplesThe LUKS2 specification supports all...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Re: [Testing - Trixie] Bad news after reinstalling
I have finally managed to get a working Qt Creator on my laptop! I have tried before the qt-creator-opensource-linux-x86_64-13.0.2.run package because that is the version that works on my desktop. But...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] pc firmware updates with fwupd
Just updated system firmware with fwupd in Linux for the first time. Was pretty neat, actually Note that this is not for updating network or video card firmware, this is for updating UEFI and other...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Re: [Software] Debian guest desktop not...
I have rebooted the guest system several timesRebooting the guest OS will not resize the window with Spice because of RAM and boot sequence. After you are logged into the running fully booted guest...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Off-Topic] Sign in with Google-ANNOYING
Launching Firefox a window opens in the upper right hand corner asking to "Sign in with Google". Click is needed to disappear which also stores that information. Perhaps it's in the registry? Browser?...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Debian 12 Wayland session:...
Due to issues with KDE Plasma X11 / kwin on Debian 12, I have tried to select Wayland instead of a X11 on a Debian 12 login GUI screen. Then some apps NOT launched. For example qbittorrent 5.0.0...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Re: Debian 12 Wayland session:...
Wayland...AppImage...qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""Most likely the appimage includes incompatible library versions and/or needs to be rebuilt to work properly...
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