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in reply to Bunny

Shoo, it’s been a rough week for sddm over here…
in reply to Bunny

When I upgraded to Plasma 6, I needed to select default theme, upgrade, then re choose my theme. Also upgraded from command line rather than a terminal window.


Can I get LMDE with xfce instead of cinnamon? And more LMDE questions


For those who don’t know what I mean:

target hardware for LMDE is an 8 year old nuked mac notebook with an intel chip.

I’ve always used xfce because it’s easy on the hardware and I don’t care that much about looks, but functionality.

I’ve never used cinnamon and I don’t know if it’s going to slow the notebook much.

Neither do I know if I can install LMDE and then change the DE to xfce.

Is LMDE being updated like the other mints? LMDE is version 6, whereas the other DE are version 21.3

in reply to merompetehla

If the Mac has a Retina display then I actually found XFCE runs worst of the various DEs at native resolution. Not in terms of resources but very choppy scrolling, video playback etc. Gnome and KDE Plasma actually ran better than XFCE for me on my 15” 2012 retina.

Presume it’s some kind of graphics acceleration thing, not 100% sure.

in reply to HexagonSun

If the Mac has a Retina display


yes, model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"

Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that's why this notebook is so slow? I didn't do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.

in reply to merompetehla

Contrary to most advice, if you find something that’s compatible with a Wayland session (basically Gnome or Plasma) you might be pleasantly surprised.

I found that to be by far the closest I got to a macOS-like experience with Linux on a retina Mac, in terms of fluidity, trackpad scrolling and responsiveness.

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in reply to merompetehla

Yes you can run xfce on lmde. I installed the xfce from repos and it works great with lmde.


Solved: Problems viewing files with JPEG extension on Linux


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in reply to wolf

So looks like according the stack overflow link from @hades@lemm.ee above, your files are individually encrypted. Based on the solution comment, there should be a .MetaEcfsFile with the Samsung file encryption metadata in the SD card root directory if this is true. If so, you would likely need to plug the SD card into a Samsung phone (unclear if it needs to be original phone, same model, or just Samsung in general) and use the “Biometrics and security” menu to hopefully decrypt the SD card. If you still have a newer Samsung galaxy, I’d try with that one first before attempting to locate an older model. And if that doesn’t work, it might require the original phone. Backup SD before doing any of this.
in reply to Langehund

Looking a bit further, it seems your only luck would be with your original device since the encryption probably relies on some hardware specific keys. Samsung’s guide says even factory resetting the original phone prior to decrypting would be enough to make the SD card unreadable.


[Solved] Hidamari is not loading on Linux Mint


I recently downloaded linux mint and I wanted use a live wallpaper so I found out I can do that with hidamari.

I've downloaded from the software package manager but it doesn't launch when I click launch.

What am I doing wrong?

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in reply to Danterious

Do you mean a flatpak? Flatpaks are notorious for not integrating. Try to see if hidamari is available first as a .deb file in the official repos (uninstall the flatpak first). If that's not it, then it seems that it doesn't work with the Cinnamon desktop, which has control over the wallpaper functions.
in reply to Eugenia

I was able to solve the problem. Instead of downloading it from the Software Manager I installed it from the terminal instead.

When I installed it from the software manager it didn't download one of the packages (org.gnome.platform/44) but when I did it from the terminal it did.

Thx though.

Edit: Yeah it was a flatpak.

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in reply to Eugenia

False information. Flatpaks integrate normally and are downloaded normally
in reply to boredsquirrel

It's not false information. There are a lot of system-oriented things that don't work through appimages or snaps or flatpaks, exactly because they're sandboxed.
in reply to Eugenia

Love it when people speak with authority and are confidently incorrect. Eugenia is right.

You could potentially use flatseal to grant the flatpak the necessary permissions, and you might find out what those permissions are by looking for other users experiences with the flatpak version.

Or, you find the .deb file and it installs natively without being sandboxed. OR, you can find a PPA repository for it, load said repository and install your software.

But those things require learning a little. Linux rewards self starters who can use a search engine and forums. Hope this maybe points you in the right direction.

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in reply to Eugenia

Yes the wallpaper stuff could be problematic.

But desktop integration works without issues. App stores also use flatpak install directly instead of packagekit, at least on cross-distro desktops like KDE and GNOME. Which works way better.

Regarding "they dont work well for system related stuff", on Unix stuff everything is a file, and especially dedicated apps like a wallpaper switcher can have very specific static filesystem permissions, allowing them to do exactly what they need.

Appimages are totally different, a flawed concept by design and have no installer by default so they often have no integration at all. They are also not sandboxed at all and thus just as unrestricted as system apps, while they have no repo, no updating mechanism, no shared libs and are basically a security nightmare.

I dont know about snaps. Their sandboxing needs Apparmor so it is not cross platform.

in reply to Eugenia

Can you elaborate on that? I am a new Linux user and read a lot about flatpaks in the last week. My impression was, that while space demanding, flatpaks are super easy integrated and that's why they are so succcessful?
in reply to gigachad

It depends, since flatpaks are sandboxed, they don't have access to anything by default. The developer can set defaults for what their app is allowed to access and the user can also manually change that. There's also portals, so you can give them access for a file once (e.g. when opening in a file in an app) or allow them to see your screen and so on. There's still a lot of things that don't have portals tho, so flatpaks don't have access to that.
in reply to Danterious

Logs

*Can we get a requirement of logs to be posted somewhere for technical advice?

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Alternative to Playonlinux


Hello everybody,
I'm using an Asus S56C with Lubuntu 22.04.4 and for work I use Photoshop CS6 and Vector Magic with Playonlinux. I was wandering - just for curiosity - if there are any good alternatives to Playonlinux to use these Windows programs.
Thanks in advance!
in reply to LukeSky

Bottles is magic. I've used it for FL Studio for a year and it didn't break


Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!


Old style graphics (a la sim city) for a satirical game centered on a mechanic that was excluded by sim city because it would have been boring, as revealed by a developer

The developer mentioned it's being built on Linux, so it will of course have Native Linux support.

The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY.

So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption.

How? By building the greatest car parks ever!

Turn neighborhoods into car parks, create the need for car commuting and parking. Use propaganda to inform people on why they need it.

Learn to become a real tycoon… Asphalt means freedom, right?


Cross-post da: feddit.it/post/8640086

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Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons


in reply to urska

You can and should use whatever OS fits your use case. Right tool for the job and all that.

What you should not do is post a clickbait video to trigger the penguins into giving you views.

in reply to Quazatron

I don't click on these videos ever. I know all the reasons already. I can't change a mind that's already made up either.
in reply to urska

Every time I see him I can't believe Tek Syndicate is still around.


If I Use Windows, I Delete My Channel


in reply to urska

Can I go an hour without eating pickles? If I fail, I'm deleting my comment.
[EDIT: It was a close one, but I made it ! This comment is here to stay ! Celebratory pickle time.]
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in reply to urska

Make sure you count those windows backed kiosk things. Also, assuming you're the techie of the family, no tech support this month.


Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report


in reply to Οχάκ

checks version number

Every day is a good day to remember President Allende!

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in reply to Οχάκ

Oh well...

One day ReactOS will be able to run those just fine while Wine will still not deliver anything usable.

in reply to TCB13

Does ReactOS already support the newest office and Photoshop out of the box!?

MS Office 2021 is garbage but at least 2016 and O365 Home (32-bit) are both silver. The linked Photoshop CC 2023 is also silver. That already seems like an impressive feat by the wine team.

in reply to Possibly linux

It's probably easier to hack ReactOS/Windows XP to run Office 2021 than do the same in Wine.
in reply to Will

Yeah, it seems impressive until you actually try to use it and find out that their "silver" is not even close to something you can work with.

Adobe products even when they say Silver you'll get artifacts when moving objects, resizing the window sometimes ends up on a full screen black square and whatnot.

Office 2016 kind of works, poor rendering but works, the thing is that if I only needed Office 2016 features I would survive mostly fine with LibreOffice. I indeed need features from 2019 that wont run properly.

in reply to Possibly linux

You know that ReactOS development has been speeding up lately don't you? Either way it's kinda of stuck in NT5 because they threw out the most competent people of the project.

However... it still runs a ton of stuff better than Wine :)

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in reply to TCB13

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in reply to Possibly linux

I don't disagree with you, but at the same time:

  • They threw Alex Ionescu out: the guy that actually wrote the majority of they only kernel that actually worked;
  • Martin Fuchs fired: the guy that made the explorer and a ton of GUI components. His code was later on bastardized by everyone else causing the issues you were told about;
  • ... and many others.

They had competent people making the thing happen, then they decided to push them away and eventually replace their code with Wine backports and whatnot.

There are still a few pieces of software that require Windows and it would nice to have the kernel portion combined with Wine.


To be fair, if Microsoft was able to create WSLv1 without a kernel and it run just fine, why would Wine not be able to do the same? :) No drivers yes, but the software (including GUI stuff) run just fine and that's not the case with Wine + the mainstream Windows' software.

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lemmy - Link to source
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there is this github.com/vosen/ZLUDA
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lemmy - Link to source
BlueÆther
Yeah it would be nice to have other platforms intel integrated graphics and Macs would be nice


Is there any way to brute delete stock firmware on a redmi 10c with debian? do you know of any compatible foss OS I could install on this device?


on my last post I wrote device is a redmi 9c. Turns out it's a redmi 10c and the custom ROM I wanted to install xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-unoffic… won't work.

Anyhow, to unlock the device the official way I have to identify to their services through a phone line, not internet, and purchase a sim card, which I'm not going to do to experiment with this device.

I have no use for the stock software in the device and I'd rather have anything foss that works or kinda works.

If you ever experimented with this particular model or know what could work, feel free to post an answer.

debian 12.5

in reply to vestmoria

Your phone has a snapdragon which is very popular chip to make ROM for but generally hard to unlock unofficially -not impossible though it's possible there is a workaround by now for your specific chip - on the flip side mediatek devices are less popular due to them refusing to provide the source code but to their partners. however they are well-known to be easy to unofficially unlock due to some vulnerability -in the bootloader- that they refuse to patch.

I did a leap of faith and I unlocked my phone unofficially (mediatek) but if you decide to flip that coin think hard about it and make sure you are well informed (like using your specific phone code name instead of brand name ex: instead of redmi 9 say "lancelot")



New OSS Android Card Wallet app


Noticed this on Fdroid recently, it has a really nice UI and auto generates real barcodes from images. Their document scanner app is pretty nice too. It seems like early development so I'm excited to see it improve from here!
in reply to trixter313

I might give this a try. I use Google Wallet for my various loyalty cards and whatnot, but it is actually a poor UI for it, mixing credit cards and loyalty cards in a single sideway sliding interface that takes forever to find what you want.
in reply to trixter313

I use Catima and I am happy with it but it doesn't have the feature to crop images and use it as a logo. It's easy enough to image search logos though.


This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2


in reply to MazonnaCara89

Was hoping to see a fix for the right click menu randomly deciding to open as a window.


I Tried Gaming on Linux...


in reply to urska

That thumbnail makes it look like you're about to lean forward and take a bite out of your microphone.
in reply to urska

Cool video, but sometimes... people should wait a bit before giving advice.

Really cool experience report, but advising stuff like hunting for .deb's on the Internet is just not good.



dstort - utility to "organize" randomly a directory


So this utility given a directory or path, will move randomly files in subdirectories and will move subdirectories randomly too. CAREFUL, if given system directory it will probably trash the system, equivalent of doing rm -rf /, except all the files are still there! :)

I don't know why I came up with this idea nor if its original but its mine.

You might ask, whats the use case, well that's an interesting question, you know why? Because... 🏃

(Of course, I'm open to feedback.)

in reply to 0x00cl

It won't do anything if a given directory contains only file then It won't do anything right?
in reply to whoareu

Yes, if it only contains files then it won't do anything.


can you link a guide to flash custom firmware (lineageos) on debian on a redmi 9c or help me flash it?


most guides I found online are for windows based computers and those that even name linux are outdated.

  • Linux distro I run: debian 12.5, adb and fastboot installed through apt
  • Phone I want to experiment with: redmi 9c
  • Firmware I'm installing: xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-unoffic…

fastboot devices recognizes the device and I can also boot the phone to fastboot: it shows a black (not blank) screen with the word FASTBOOT printed orange.

I tried following android.gadgethacks.com/how-to… but fastboot flashing unlock and fastboot oem unlock return FAILED (remote: 'Token Verify Failed, Reboot the device ')

developer options and OEM unlocking are both activated on the device

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in reply to vestmoria

With some phones you need to go through extra steps to be able to do OEM unlocking. Looks like it is the case here, see the steps in the FAQ linked here : en.miui.com/unlock/download_en…
in reply to vestmoria

I've never used miui devices but I think you need to make an account and use this en.miui.com/unlock/download_en… so you will probably need to have wine installed to run it, unless it has a native linux version in the zip file. Then you should have an unlocked bootloader

in reply to petsoi

Take note this is an informal blog post, I somehow thought this was “official”… but it’s just sort of a rambling update on various items. Still good insider info
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