You log onto your linux system and you get the message “Could not apply the sotred configuration to monitors” Start a bash prompt cd ~/.config mv monitors.xml monitors.xml.zzz Log off and log back on again
Continue reading →su – dnf copr enable luminoso/Signal-Desktop yum -y install signal-desktop Tested on Fedora 31 and 32 Reference: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/luminoso/Signal-Desktop/
Continue reading →I installed Fedora Mate Compiz on my desktop machine – but I wanted to also be able to access the desktop remotely using RDP To do so – yum -y install xrdp firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –add-port=3389/tcp firewall-cmd –reload systemctl start … Continue reading →
If you need email delivered to a specific server for selected domains you do the following: As root, edit the /etc/postfix/main.cf. Find (or add) the line that starts with transport_maps= If it does not exist, add the line “transport_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/transport. If … Continue reading →
Pandoc Everyone I know who works with markup languages says Pandoc is the go-to utility for converting between those languages. And for good reason: Pandoc not only does some pretty nifty conversions, it’s fast, too. Have a file formatted with … Continue reading →
In linux, hard drive dev assignments can get changed between reboots – especially with external/removable drives. This means using /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX is not the best way to mount a drive that needs to be mounted every time at boot. … Continue reading →
first – determine the dev of the hard drive – as in /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc Then excute shred -vz -n 3 /dev/XXX where XXX is the identifier of the hard drive Increase 3 to a larger value for higher security … Continue reading →
This is a new feature in bash that it “helps” you by trying to install software you dont have. To disable this, edit /etc/PackageKit/CommandNotFound.conf and change the line SoftwareSourceSearch=true to be SoftwareSourceSearch=false
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