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    Linux The vi command doesn't need to be your primary text edit utility, but you should understand the basics because it is EVERYWHERE.

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    Linux The vi command doesn't need to be your primary text edit utility, but you should understand the basics because it is EVERYWHERE.

    The vi command doesn't need to be your primary text edit utility, but you should understand the basics because it is EVERYWHERE.

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 10:35 AM PDT

    Problems with installing Linux as a 2nd OS ...

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 12:50 AM PDT

    Hey,

    I've wanted to install Linux as a 2nd OS because of a school project.

    I'm using an Acer Aspire 5 A515-52G with Windows 10 64 Bit.

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    I've shrunk some of my disk space in windows to get some unassigned space for linux.

    I already disabled Secure Boot in the BIOS and I'm on UEFI (Legacy is somehow not available with this laptop...).

    I Installed Rufus and downloaded the Linux Mint ISO.

    I started Linux Live from the USB and it works fine.

    When I click on "Install Linux" on the Linux Desktop it takes me trough the Setup, but at some point i get an error (I'll add an Imgur Pic). It just doesn't show me any partitions and I also don't get the "how do you wanna install it" (next to windows, erase, ... this stuff) dialog.

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    Imgur Pic:

    https://imgur.com/a/iSp6d3e

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    Strange thing is that on another Laptop (Thinkpad T460) the installation would work in theory (didnt get the error and could click on install if i wanted to. i can't do it cause it's my work laptop tho). I just checked this to make sure the ISO or Stick isn't faulty.

    Based on that i believe it has something to do with the laptop (already bothered me that i somehow cant switch to legacy and use stuff like YUMI or so...). Maybe it has something to do with that?

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    Anyone who can tell me what to do?

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    Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

    submitted by /u/maxz-Reddit
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    Moving from Windows to Linux

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:11 AM PDT

    Today i decided to install linux over windows but i've found out that i don't really know which distro i'd want to use so i'd like to hear which distro should i use, i mainly use windows for studying, programming , video editing and every now and then gaming.

    I mainly considered using Manjaro, Deepin, elementaryOS or Linux Mint

    submitted by /u/Zera0x1
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    (Voidlinux) I updated my system after a month of not using the laptop, and now it doesn't connect to internet or charge battery

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 12:13 PM PDT

    First problem:

    When trying to connect to a network, networkmanager says: "(1) Not authorized to control networking". I already tried re-adding me to the network group, but no luck.

    Second problem:

    My T450 has two batteries, one is internal, the other is external. The internal battery is at 25% and refuses to charge at all, while the external battery charges very, very slowly. Doing tlp fullcharge doesn't seem to help.

    submitted by /u/BeardedBearserker
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    I need some help with dwm

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:33 PM PDT

    Hi,

    Just started using dwm, but I have a lot of problem, hopefully I will be able to receive some help here, here are some of the problems/questions I have:

    -why is the command to patch what it is, what exactly does it mean?

    -what do patches exactly do? do they modify some of the already existing configuration files? if yes, what exactly files do they modify? (bc I was unable to spot any modifications in my config.h file)

    -how do I revert a patch?

    -can I delete a patch file after I've patched it? (this sort of will be answered if question 2 will be answered)

    -where can I find the default keybindings and shortcuts?

    -how can I create keybindings and shortcuts?

    -how can I achieve the "i3wm" layout, i.e. all windows just turn into columns, no master/slave stuff (I find it a lot more convenient that way) what patch to I need to patch to get that?

    -why could my autostart patch now work? (I patched it, created the .dwm folder, created a autostart.sh file in it, in which I just placed "feh --bg-fill /path/to/wallpaper" to basically get wallpaper, but it doesn't work for some reason...)

    thanks in advance

    submitted by /u/lyadavy
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    What does the depmod command do?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:49 PM PDT

    Virtualbox wasn't working due to lost kernel modules, so I installed the modules. Apparently the root cause was something about "System.map" not being found in the /usr/src/linux directory (I checked /boot and it was there), and to fix it, you needed to do something with depmod. I found the full command on a forum (I think it was an Arch forum, I use Gentoo), sudo depmod -a. I ran that and then ran the module probe (modprobe) command to load the vboxdrv module. However, I am wondering what that command was doing when it fixed the problem.

    submitted by /u/WonderedLamb256
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    How about install a Linux distro in my External HDD USB 3.0?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:24 PM PDT

    Hey everyone.

    I've been thinking about to install a linux distro in my external HDD, so I'll be able to run my Linux Distro on any PC only by running from USB, but the main idea is run it from my main Desktop without the dependency of create any VM.

    Is an interesting way to have a Linux machine as an alternative machine? Currently I'm running Windows (buuu you can blame me if you want, I'll understand) for a few specific projects, but I don't want to create any partition, GRUB, etc. etc... (I did it a few years ago... but at the end when I want to format Windows... I get rid of the Linux partition, for some reason)

    Instead of run a Live USB distro, just to keep some backup things, some average use case (webpages... code practice, run little projects, learn new tools like docker without make a mess in my desktop) and those things, only running it from USB

    HDD Specs:

    Toshiba 1TB Canvio Basics 5400rpm USB 3.0 (3.1 following the new naming convention, is weird) .

    Do you think it should be enough in terms of speed to read/write? Or it would kill my HDD in matter of weeks.

    No distro preference, at the beginning the use probably will be for running some light text editor (VS Code, Atom, VIM. ...) with git + store some personal info or even test different distros til decide the winner.

    Any recommendations?

    Thanks in advance!!

    submitted by /u/raspikabek
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    How to move music (mp3) from iPod to linux (KDE)?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:16 PM PDT

    I was wondering if there is a painless and simple way to take all my music from an iPod and transfer it to my linux (KDE distro)?

    thanks

    submitted by /u/lingben
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    TCP Wrappers and china

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 12:59 PM PDT

    I want to create a twist in my hosts.deny that will send a message that will not make china's censors happy.

    My current message is ": twist /bin/echo REMEMBER TIENANMEN SQUARE 1989 REMEMBER THE MURDERED"

    Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for ssh. I've tried putting a message in the ssh_config but so far I have not been able to get it working. My VM is running Ubuntu 18.04.

    Any suggestions?

    submitted by /u/Itdidnt_trickle_down
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    Steam doesn't start on Bionicpup

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 05:48 AM PDT

    I'm running 64-bit Bionicpup 8.0 off a USB 3.0 pendrive, with 2GB persistence (1GB free), savefile is LUKS-encrypted. 32bit_compatibility_bionicpup64.sfs is loaded.

    My PC is fairly modern, 16GB RAM, no issues running modern games on Windows or Ubuntu full installation.

    I installed Steam from Quickpet and ran it from Fun>Steam, it asked me to confirm Steam terms and conditions but the update window never appeared. Now Fun>Steam does nothing at all.

    How can I check what's wrong?

    submitted by /u/Volodya_Ulyanov
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    Dual Booting On Razer Blade Stealth?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:31 AM PDT

    I was wondering if there is any issues with installing Linux and dual booting it on the Razer Blade Stealth 2019 as i would like to buy one for college.

    submitted by /u/Mr_Forkupine
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    What topic do you need to know for learn linux??

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:15 AM PDT

    I'd like to know what topics are important, like know the commands...

    submitted by /u/Squ3re
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    How to make .flatpakref's install the flatpak when clicked on? [Manjaro KDE]

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:13 AM PDT

    I'm trying to set up a family computer to run Manjaro Linux, and I figured I would get flatpaks working as one way to install apps. However clicking on the .flatpakref from the browser just opens it in notepad, and I can't seem to get dolphin to run flatpak install <filename> (it just tells me error: Invalid id : Name can't be empty). Does anyone know how to do this? The answers on Stackoverflow don't seem to work.

    submitted by /u/OsrsNeedsF2P
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    Full capacity of internal laptop hard disk not displayed when used with a hard disk enclosure

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 07:16 AM PDT

    Hello, I am using Linux Mint 19.2 on my new laptop. My previous laptop's motherboard went haywire and I want to transfer the data in the hard disk of my previous laptop to that of my new laptop. Now, I have just bought a SATA external hard drive enclosure and fit my old internal laptop HDD, with a capacity of 500 GB, into the enclosure.

    However, when I now connect the enclosure to my new laptop, while the hard disk is detected it shows a capacity of mere 256 MB with a few files such as Grub, memtest86.elf etc. What is this all about? Where are my old files? I am new to Linux and have no idea on how to proceed.

    This is what lsblk says:

    NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi └─sda2 8:2 0 931G 0 part ├─mint--vg-root │ 253:0 0 923.1G 0 lvm / └─mint--vg-swap_1 253:1 0 7.9G 0 lvm [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 243M 0 part /media/perelman/a7c7a746-1c5f-4416-bc23-92dff ├─sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part └─sdb5 8:21 0 465.5G 0 part
    submitted by /u/BolyaiPerelman
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    Xubuntu install problems (might have messed because of partitions, any way to save my laptop?)

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:08 AM PDT

    Hello, total noob, and in well over my head. If anyone can help or point me the right way I'd be extremely grateful. Probably all of this is my fault for not doing things properly from the start, but too late now to do anything except try and fix this (and do better next time). Sorry for the long post but I am not sure what details are important.

    Got an Odys Winbook 13 from a relative who did not need it anymore, Windows was running slow and I already have a good laptop, decided to put Xubuntu on this to give it a new life and learn how to use Linux.

    I made the mistake of not checking what partitions were on it, if any, just made a bootable Xubuntu USB with Rufus following a tutorial, plugged it in, and went for it (not dual boot, I simply installed Xubuntu, there's no Windows on there any more).

    Everything seemed to work, Xubuntu runs, I installed a couple things, joy. Computer randomly freezes, sometimes without seeming cause, and always when the software updater is running. On launch, I get this message:

    /dev/mmcblk1p2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

    I found some advice about this, follow it, let it fix the problem, all seems fine but same problems persist over a month. After this happens a few times, yesterday I decide to clear it all, and reinstall Xubuntu from scratch, and see if this might solve it.

    I make a new USB just to be sure, and decide to follow a tutorial( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqL81w20KE). This tutorial explains how to set partitons, so I try that.

    I create a 1024MB /boot partition, a 4GB swap partition, and leave everything else for / (about 57MB).

    I press Continue, and on the timezone selection screen I get this error:

    Input/Output error during read on /dev/mmcblk1

    I chose quit, turned the machine off, and went to work, where I am now, weeping about my ineptitude. Does anyone have ELI5 advice on how to fix this? Google tells me that error could mean my disk is breaking/broken, or that I have messed partitions (which I guess I have).

    Incidentally, I notice the disk is called dev/sda in most tutorials I find, while on my machine it is called dev/mmcblk1 can anyone explain why?

    Thanks, it's hard to be a noob sometimes, the real problem is not knowing what you do not know, and just feeling super lost.

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    Logitech Mouse and Keyboard

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 07:00 AM PDT

    Hello Linux Gents and Ladies.

    I'm very new to this Linux world and just started using Ubuntu LTS 19.04.2 and so far I like it. Trying to get away from the Win10 platform (which is great in it's own right).

    Only thing I'm not able to sort out is my mouse and keyboard. Especially the Logitech MX S2 mouse. Is there any way to enable me to use the side buttons and adjust the speed? I use the side thumb buttons for zoom in and out (I'm visually impaired). Windows it's possible to use the Logitech Options download to adjust programmability of mouse and keyboard keys. I'm using the GNOME Tweaks but not finding any solved questions on this issue.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance 👍🏼

    submitted by /u/Dynamic_Nomad
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    I need a daily Popup Notification for Ubuntu

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 10:42 AM PDT

    I would like a persistent (won't go away until I dismiss it) ' standalone' simple desktop notification that will pop up at a specific time daily. I see a popup notification on my main menu but it will only allow me to move the position or color. Many apps trigger this type of notification (i.e; Thunderbird, printer, etc) . A simple calendar or reminder app? Anyone? I use UbuntuMATE 18.04LTS.

    submitted by /u/32deucecoop
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    Shift-Tab in Konsole not working as expected

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 10:18 AM PDT

    In my zshrc file I have shift-tab setup to do reverse-menu-complete like this: 

    typeset -g -A key key[ShiftTab]="${terminfo[kcbt]}" [[ -n "${key[ShiftTab]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[ShiftTab]}" reverse-menu-complete if (( ${+terminfo[smkx]} && ${+terminfo[rmkx]} )); then autoload -Uz add-zle-hook-widget function zle_application_mode_start { echoti smkx } function zle_application_mode_stop { echoti rmkx } add-zle-hook-widget -Uz zle-line-init zle_application_mode_start add-zle-hook-widget -Uz zle-line-finish zle_application_mode_stop fi

    As suggested in the archlinux wiki, yet it doesn't work in konsole, it works in xfce4-terminal alacritty and kitty perfectly yet does nothing on konsole.

    submitted by /u/Xmgplays
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    cronjob not working

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:40 AM PDT

    a few days ago i fucked up big time and lost a lot of data so now i need to make some backups. trying to get a cronjob working but cant understand what im doing wrong. using cronie. i ran EDITOR=vim crontab -e added @reboot rsync -aAXv /home/user/. --exclude={"/home/user/xxx/","/home/user/yyy/"} /home/user/xxx/b/h/

    (i did also try a seperate --exclude for both dirs ie --exclude=/home/user/xxx/ --exclude=/home/user/yyy/, but its the same result)

    first of all, this command is not running at all when i reboot the machine, so i though it may been something wrong with the command itself, but its working when cut & paste it into the terminal.

    one thing tho about that command is that even tho i excluded xxx and yyy, those directories is still synced, why is that?

    submitted by /u/fkdnlz
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    Run two different instances of Timeshift - one for root snapshot, one for home snapshot

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 06:16 AM PDT

    I'm on Arch Linux.

    Currently, I have Timeshift running to back up system files, and Back In Time running to back up my home directory. It's working alright, however I greatly prefer Timeshift, from a UI standpoint and a functionality standpoint (allows daily/weekly/monthly backups, backups don't run at a fixed time, etc).

    However, I would also like to keep my system and home backups separate. This would mean running two different instances of timeshift, each with their own Cronie timers, and each snapshotting different folders to different places on different schedules. Is this possible in any way?

    submitted by /u/Nestramutat-
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    Still skeptical about a good distro.

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 09:40 AM PDT

    First i used pop os, then i saw manjaro to be really popular so i migrated to manjaro thinking I'd be satisfied, still i am having doubts.

    Suggest!? please.

    submitted by /u/faizan_20
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    nftables-based OpenVPN killswitch

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 03:38 AM PDT

    I have a .ovpn file like so

    dev tun0 proto udp remote 1.2.3.4 5678 cipher AES-128-CBC auth SHA1 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun client verb 3 <ca> (...)

    I wrote the following nftables ruleset

    #!/usr/sbin/nft -f flush ruleset table inet filter { chain input { type filter hook input priority 0; policy drop; ct state established,related accept ct state invalid drop iif lo accept } chain forward { type filter hook forward priority 0; policy drop; } chain output { type filter hook output priority 0; policy drop; oif lo accept oifname "tun0" accept ip daddr 1.2.3.4 udp dport 5678 accept } }

    Then loaded it with sudo nft -f <filename>.

    Then I connected with sudo openvpn --config <configname>.

    It initializes correctly but strangely, Internet doesn't actually work - I can't even ping to any website (it says "Name or service not known").

    OpenVPN log:

    Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 OpenVPN 2.4.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Oct 14 2018 Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2s 28 May 2019, LZO 2.08 Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info. Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]5.137.124.28:32866 Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992] Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 UDP link local: (not bound) Tue Aug 20 13:10:41 2019 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]5.137.124.28:32866 Tue Aug 20 13:10:56 2019 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]5.137.124.28:32866, sid=d8c37aa1 bd33bc58 Tue Aug 20 13:10:56 2019 VERIFY OK: depth=2, C=GB, ST=Greater Manchester, L=Salford, O=COMODO CA Limited, CN=COMODO RSA Certification Authority Tue Aug 20 13:10:56 2019 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=GB, ST=Greater Manchester, L=Salford, O=COMODO CA Limited, CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA Tue Aug 20 13:10:56 2019 VERIFY OK: depth=0, OU=Domain Control Validated, OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard, CN=*.opengw.net Tue Aug 20 13:10:56 2019 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA Tue Aug 20 13:10:56 2019 [*.opengw.net] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]5.137.124.28:32866 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 SENT CONTROL [*.opengw.net]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1) Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,ping 3,ping-restart 10,ifconfig 10.211.1.5 10.211.1.6,dhcp-option DNS 10.211.254.254,dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8,route-gateway 10.211.1.6,redirect-gateway def1' Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: route-related options modified Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-128-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-128-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 ROUTE_GATEWAY 10.0.2.2/255.255.255.0 IFACE=eth0 HWADDR=08:00:27:f2:b9:6f Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 do_ifconfig, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local 10.211.1.5 peer 10.211.1.6 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 ROUTE remote_host is NOT LOCAL Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 /sbin/ip route add 5.137.124.28/32 via 10.0.2.2 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 /sbin/ip route add 0.0.0.0/1 via 10.211.1.6 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 /sbin/ip route add 128.0.0.0/1 via 10.211.1.6 Tue Aug 20 13:10:57 2019 Initialization Sequence Completed

    What am I doing wrong?

    submitted by /u/AlwaysGrape
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    Laptop Optimization for Linux

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 09:26 AM PDT

    I had bought a gaming laptop, Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5, months ago . Now I lost my interest in gaming. I want to dump windows and dual boot Linux Mint&Kali Linux. Can anyone help me with the optimization of my laptop to get the best out of Linux?

    submitted by /u/cyber333x
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    Fedora 30 Steam keyboard doesn't work in game

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 09:19 AM PDT

    Hi,

    I recently switched to Fedora 30 as my first Linux distro. When I downloaded Steam to play Crusader Kings 2 to my regret I found that my keyboard doesn't in game. What I mean that in game, no input seems to go anywhere. I can alt tab out of the game and even shift tab to bring up the Steam menu, but I can't, for example, go to an external browser in game (nor use game's hotkeys) because I can't give input to the search engine.

    Any tips?

    submitted by /u/wabhabin
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    [help!] Can't login in Plasma after dup - On TTY kstart plasmashell says "server can't connect to X" - This happens also if a try to boot from previous snapshots!

    Posted: 20 Aug 2019 08:29 AM PDT

    I use Opensuse TW. This is the first time something that I have a big problem

    After a zypper dup yesterday (I remember that it upgraded bumblebee and bbswitch) I can't login. I tried to boot from a snapshot that I did 3 days ago and this problem persists. Does someone knows what could be wrong?

    What I tried: Login on icewm, Wayland, uninstall bbswitch, bumblebee, etc...
    kstart plasmashell says Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyNo protocol specified kstart cannot connect to X server :0

    Even when I try to rollback to previous snapshots it wont work.

    submitted by /u/Grevillea_banksii
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