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Does anyone knows what this means and how to fix it?

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Looking for continued help with Linux Cinnamon Mint.

I have a program I need to run in wine in the terminal window.

I'd love to create a macro/hot key that can open the terminal and then run the following in the terminal:
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-dotnet48
cd /home/lj/Desktop/ywriter
wine yWriter7.exe

I tried to add a custom shortcut under the keyboard settings and it didn't work. Neither did creating a launcher on the desktop.

I am not a programmer, though I'm comfortable with the basics. There should be an easy way to automate this.

Any ideas?

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How to make Conky indicate upcoming/recent Daylight Saving Time changes?

https://piefed.social/c/linux4noobs@programming.dev/p/2528600/how-to-make-conky-indicate-upcoming-recent-daylight-saving-time-changes

Is there someone smarter than me in the ways of linux who can explain why wine would work perfectly fine and let me run yWriter on the Linux Mint laptop until I reboot at which point it errors out and won't run.

Until I uninstall wine and reinstall it. This has happened twice.

Aargh.

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I copied over all my folders with all my settings for all my apps when I recently switched from one Linux to another. But for some reason Sigil went from light mode before to dark mode now. Both times installed via Flatpak, so I don't understand why it doesn't have the settings I copied over. My other apps does.

Even if I switch Gnome to light mode, Sigil is still in dark!

I really don't like the dark mode, and I can't find a way to change it anywhere in the settings. Help?

#LinuxHelp #sigil

I've been dealing with spotty wifi on this laptop for a while now regardless of linux kernel version and I'm wondering if it's a driver bug or an issue with this particular card in the silicon lottery or if it's just a shit model? it's an intel AX211. Here's what i found in the dmesg

[15796.288279] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
[15796.288336] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[15796.288395] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
[15796.288405] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0
[15796.290024] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4

I am having an issue that has affected me since maybe February or March involving intermittent display corruption on Debian Testing/Forky it is now September, and I am on GNOME 50.4 and this issue is still not resolved and has possibly gotten worse.

It usually happens (inconsistently, maybe 1 in 5–10 times) when watching a video on my main monitor and something happens like going into the overview, app grid, receiving a notification, or just things changing on my second monitor, but sometimes I just randomly get a flash on my second monitor for seemingly no reason lately (possibly this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/work_items/4698). The corruption is a brief flash (typically on my primary) of what was there before in a rainbow-y sort of manner where all the colors are shifted on one or both monitors. This doesn't get any worse or better when playing demanding games, and it does not show up in screen recordings. I just dealt with it for a while thinking GNOME 50 would fix it, but it hasn't and it's getting a bit distracting.

Specs:
# System Details Report
---

## Report details
- **Date generated:** 2026-09-06 00:10:23

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:** MSI MS-7845
- **Memory:** 32.0 GiB
- **Processor:** Intel® Core™ i5-4570 × 4
- **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ RX 580 2048SP
- **Disk Capacity:** 1.3 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:** V1.12
- **OS Name:** Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid
- **OS Build:** (null)
- **OS Type:** 64-bit
- **GNOME Shell Version:** 50.4
- **Kernel Version:** Linux 7.1.12+deb14-amd64

Mesa 26.1.6-1

Displays:
Primary - DELL 2407WFP: 1920x1200 at 59.95 Hz
Secondary - HP 2310: 1920x1080 at 60 Hz
Both are connected via Display Port to DVI as they are old monitors.

What I've tried over the past couple months:
Disabling GNOME Extensions and restarting - still present
Disabling overclocking and undervolting in LACT and restarting - still present
Setting GPU Clocks to highest or lowest - still present
amdgpu.aspm=0 amdgpu.runpm=0 in GRUB - still present
amdgpu.dcfeaturemask=0x2 in GRUB - still present
amdgpu.sg_display=0 in GRUB - still present
MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_EXPL_SYNC=1 in environment - still present
Trying only one of both monitors - still present
Turning on reduce motion - still present
Booting a Debian 13 GNOME Live environment - not present but hesitant on downgrading. (and what if backported kernel reintroduces it?)
Changing display scaling to 125% and back to 100% - still present
Disabling night light - fixes flashes on second display but still present
MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1 (in ~/.config/environment.d) - seemingly makes the corruption rarer? But still present on primary even combined with above
Booting an Ubuntu 26.04.1 Live Environment (with GNOME 50.1-0ubuntu1.2 and Linux 7.0) - still present
Booting a Kubuntu 26.04.1 Live Environment (With Plasma 6.6.6 and Linux 7.0) - Seemingly not present but unwilling to switch to Plasma.
Both MUTTER_DEBUG_DISABLE_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1 and MUTTER_DEBUG_FORCE_KMS_MODE=shadow in environment - still present
Booting a Fedora Workstation 44 Live Environment (With gnome-shell 50.4 and Linux 6.19.10) - present, especially with night light.
MUTTER_DEBUG_ENABLE_ATOMIC_KMS=0 (in ~/.config/environment.d) - still present (probably wrong spot to put it??)

I have seen nothing obvious (to me) in dmesg or journalctl about what could be going on.

Might be a kernel regression affecting Mutter, my specific GPU, or my strange monitor setup since I have seen almost no discussion related to my exact issue but I have no clue.

Do not suggest "just switch to Plasma or xyz distro/OS" it is **NOT** helpful.

Photo below is a video capture (because it lasts maybe a frame or two) recorded on my phone of how it looks on my primary monitor for a brief flash. This was from entering and exiting the Overview.
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Since news of #1password's funding of #DHH's #Omacom foundation I am planning to move to #bitwarden. One of my laptops is Asahi Fedora Remix. #Flatpak seems like my best option for a desktop Bitwarden app. Has anyone had experience with the flatpak?

https://bitwarden.com/help/desktop-app-feature-support/

What Linux distributions are the least slop contaminated and techbro-fascism embracing?

And do any of them come with KDE?

#linux #linuxhelp #linuxdistros #enshittification #AI #slop #foss

My laptop won't start the 7.0 kernel (Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon). The boot process gets stuck every time at this point (see photo).

The 6,17 kernel starts, no problem.

LENOVO 81NE Lenovo IdeaPad, Intel© Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 4, Intel Corporation WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620], NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250],

Suggestions are appreciated, I'm quite a Linux noob...

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#LinuxHelp #BASH
I need a bit handholding to do something that i dont understand
I need to build a command that starting from one directory lists me recursively every file in that directory, when i have this running i will replace echo with cp for mass copying

Tutorials on the web all show something
for file in /usr/media/USBSTICK/* ; do echo "$file" ; done

But that is wrong, it lists me files and directories in that place, what i need instead is recursively listing all files with full path

Trying to choose which Linux distro to be my main going forward, but I know next to nothing about the ones listed here: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#alternative-linux-based-operating-systems

Can anyone recommend some basic (interactive) bash tutorials suited for people with next to no knowledge?
I'll have to teach a Newbie in about a month :p

Kennt hier jemand gute (interaktive) Tutorials für Bash Grundlagen, die man jemanden geben kann der kaum bis gar keine Erfahrung hat?
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A little Linux help please, Gnome specific.
So, for reasons, I'm ditching my Roku, and will be using one of my many computers instead. To that end, I've installed Fedora with Gnome, I'm not a fan of Gnome for the desktop, but that's because I think its like a tablet operating system, not a desktop, but that's great on a TV, no?

So, to what I need help on, I'd like some kind of 'app' menu. It'll prolly mostly be web links, you know like one for YouTube, one for Pluto, etc. I could maybe make web apps for each one, but really just links that'll bring up the default browser would work fine. ideally on the desktop, barring that, the next choice would be the apps drawer, third choice of course would be some kind of dedicated menu, maybe a Rofi or something.

Anyone got any recommendations, ideas, etc?

@junebug
YOU probably already know this, Perfect B Angel, but with the enshittification of online search, probably one of the best ways to get accurate Linux help on line is to post your question with appropriate hashtags on the Fediverse.
Wishing you well.
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I need help with my Linux Mint installation, if anyone can lend a hand. I posted more details on the Mint forums here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2802067
Long story short, I installed an update yesterday that has locked me out of my machine, at least in any usable form. All files are seemingly intact, but I can't even input anything properly now and I think my install is a loss. I just want to get my files back so I can reinstall Mint or another OS. I did choose to encrypt my drive on install, which isn't a problem so long as I have a place to input the password… Which I don't anymore.

I am currently running elementaryOS from a USB stick, trying to see if I can somehow access anything from THERE. Any help is greatly appreciated. <3

😢 ich hab meinen Computer kaputt gemacht... kann mir jemand weiter helfen, bitte.

Ich habe einen Desktop-Pc mit Linux Mint. Er lief im Standby, ich wollte Firefox öffnen und habe eine Fehlermeldung bekommen, das Firefox noch läuft und ich es erst beenden müsste. Da in der Statusleiste nix angezeigt wurde hab ich Linux neu gestartet und eine Fehlermeldung bekommen: "Fehler: schreiben des Sektors 0x22ae0800 nach hd0 ist fehlgeschlagen" und dann startet BusyBox. Ich hab nicht wirklich Ahnung und die Online-Suche hat mir leider nicht weitergeholfen - hat jemand einen Tipp für mich?

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Problem "resolved" (for some value of "resolved") but leaving this here for context and reference.

No further help needed, but thoughts and comments welcome ...

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Last night I was installing pandoc, which went well enough, but then I needed \( \LaTeX\) so I did this:

$ sudo apt install texlive-full

All went well, until it got to here:

"Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some time... "

I let that run overnight, but finally killed it. It advised me to run this:

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

So I did that, and once again it hung.

I killed the right sub-process and the remainder completed.

However ...

This morning I've been informed I have an update for vim. So I confirmed that, and now it's stuck again:

"Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some time... "

Help?

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Is it just me, or has Tidal's web player stopped responding to media keys (previous, next, pause)?

Related: Is there a streaming service that has a downloadable app for Linux (and isn't Spotify)?

Alternatively, is there some process that might be intercepting those keys? I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon.

#AskFedi #music #streaming #StreamingMusic #Tidal #Linux #LinuxHelp

How do I troubleshoot a black screen on #KDE #Plasma? I am able to launch apps just fine, but:
- the desktop is all black (no start menu, global menu etc, and the desktop background isn't getting rendered)
- the window decorations are HUGE.

Is there any easy way to debug this? I had initially suspected this was due to my using #Stylix on stock #archlinux, but no, disabling it didn't change a thing (apart from the theme).

I do have custom desktop effects and window decorations installed; so I suspect that might be the issue. How do I disable them if systemsettings does not launch (for some weird reason)?


It's definitely not a kernel issue (I've tried on the stock Arch kernel and the CachyOS kernel), and it certainly isn't a graphics issue (stock mesa etc, and I don't have a dGPU on this machine).


Will send screenshots in a while. Any and all help appreciated! Thanks in advance. Toots and boosts welcome.

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