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I resize the active window by the following simple script:
window_id=$(xdotool getactivewindow)
new_width=100
new_height=100
xdotool windowsize...

dmidecode and lshw commands are not displaying the correct SMBIOS data on my Linux machine. Most of the fields are showing up as NONE .

System...

This one took me several days - but then ...

Under Firefox (both = ESR from the Debian repository and Flatpak) and Chrome (Flatpak), I observed...

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Updated Debian 12: 12.9 released press@debian.org
January...

Hi,

A few weeks ago I had to do a complete reinstall of Debian Bookworm from a Debian Bookworm 12.5 Live ISO/DVD. Since then the laptop has not been...

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ukify build --linux=/vmlinuz --initrd=/initrd.img --cmdline='root=/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDS250G3X0C-00SJG0_185250422455-part1...

Fresh chroot installation. List of packages installed from apt command directly with no flags for avoiding some dependencies.

asunder
bc...

Hi all,

I really tried to get it working and I'm stuck, so maybe someone can help me or give me a hint where to proceed.

I'm on a 11th gen...

I want to create indexed and searchable offline SATA disk archives of all my data accumulated over 20-30 years of work. I have neither the time nor...

I'm trying to confirm that I have the Intel HD 4600 working on my server. It's headless and getting a display connected to it is trouble because it's...

I have Bookworm installed with Samba Version 4.17.12-Debian configured as a domain controller with internal dns.

Windows 11 clients can join and log...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Openbox 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Cinnamon 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian LXQt 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Xfce 125.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Talking Mate 125.
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I have noticed something (since installing Trixie) I have never seen before on any of the Debian based distro I have used in the past. If I miss...

i've always found it funny how much more stable debian's unstable distribution compared to the stabler rolling release distros.

unstable is far from...

I'm wanting to run waydroid however, the laptop that I'm writing this post on is a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon ^th generation. It's currently...

Hello, today I booted up my computer and found my background has been switched to xfce's default background. I tried to change it by following these...

Hi,

In the moment I don't want to update from plasma 5 to plasma 6. Which packages should I set to hold to avoid the update for now?

Upgrading from 6.11.10-amd64 to 6.12.3 and now 6.12.5 is throwing the following error in SDDM and refusing to start a graphical interface. Virtual...

Although I'm not convinced System and Network Config is the correct forum for this, the historical posts related to Apache HTTP tend to cluster...

Follow the directions you get to add the repository and its key when you click the Download Package link. This update has roughly ten dependent...

If so, you can prevent the kvm module's new selfish load at boot and not let other virtualization run behaviour with a kvm.conf setting:

echo...

Hi All,

We at Waverian decided to rewrite the ancient Livermore Loops for modern OSes, write both a CLI , a lib, and a GUI for it + publish the...

The feedbot is broken, not sure how I forgot this one. :)

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OpenStreetMap migrates to Debian 12

On Wed 27 November 2024 with tags...

Happy 20th anniversary with love to Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox suites, 20 years of strength and security in the world of FLOSS! #mozilla...

Since the last X11 security update (not sure if related), my Battery and Brightness menu in KDE becomes completely out of sync with the current...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Cinnamon 12/24.
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I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian LXQt 12/24.
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The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not present in the...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Xfce-Compiz 12/24.
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The SpinsbyKilz.com watermark is not present...

I am happy to announce the release of SbK Debian Talking Mate 12/24.
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Hello,

Trying to install latest Debian netinstall on an old Apple Xserve. I see there is now a boot32 on the 64 bit so grub boots. After this I can...

After installing a pdf-tools package inside emacs and writing (pdf-tools-install) in init.el, emacs offered me at launch to recompile some epdfinfo...

I've got a Thinkpad T430 (11-12 years old), with Core i7 and 16 GB RAM -- still a very serviceable machine -- and I've got an extended internal...

Please how to discover why Debian 12 bug reporting (KDE Crash Handler) says: Submitting bug report... for a hour+ ?

Package: reportbug
Version:...

I cannot get OpenVPN to tunnel traffic using the connection. The traffic ends up outside the tunnel. The tunnel gets established but no traffic is...

Well, sort of working - you have to launch it from a terminal but I plagiarized and modified a short script - it looks like this: #!/bin/bash

xhost...

I have a Dell Precision laptop and use a Logitech M705 with a Unifying receiver. I'm running Bookworm with Cinnamon manually installed (for the sake...

so on sid, it has recently happened that the boot process stops on usb initialisation

i see this when i boot in recovery mode. and it halts with usb...

in Bookworm, though it's there for both Bullseye and Trixie.

It seems to be a bug in Bookworm's default LLVM-14 compiler toolchain, as Trixie's is...

The newly installed debian12 cannot start the houdini20.5 version and keeps crashing on the startup interface. Both houdini20.0 and houdini19.5 can...

The Debian Project mourns the loss of Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar)
November 19th, 2024

The Debian Project sadly shares the news of the passing of Jérémy...

Debian 12 LXDE on 2013 Dell Latitude E6420 i7

Everything works fine if a bet heavy on resources compared to other debian based distros.
616MiB RAM...

I've tried in a virtual machine and a simple apt install distrobox ca-certificates allows distrobox enter to download the default fedora image and...

Hi everyone,

I'm encountering an issue when trying to rename a custom shortcut in the settings. After renaming the shortcut, the new name doesn't...

I've switched all working applications over to flatpaks, and managed to get them all working after a bit of fiddling. There is one thing left to...

Hi,

I have a system with an unencrypted \boot partition and encrypted \root. I tried using cryptsetup-suspend but it doesn't work.
After installing...

Hello out there, I have a brand new Debian Testing installation which is quite labor-intensive.
It's a Core I7-14700 on a MSI Z690-A WIFI DDR4 and a...