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I use Kubuntu 24.04. My keyboard has working media playback keys. When I listen to music and a video starts playing, I want to pause the music. It usually pauses the video which i could also pause easily in other ways. Is it possible to write a script that toggles through the other media playing processes in terms of coupling...

Running EndeavourOS and found a few games that have had some issues on linux, that I have found to be pretty much unfixable....

Couldn’t find the project in my browser history or Lemmy saves. I’m pretty sure it was Lemmy though that led me to find a GitHub project similar to OSTree. It sounded like it was maintained by one person and it hasn’t been updated in a long time because the author thought it was “done” and they used it frequently....

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Gimp in IT@school Ubuntu fork 14...

I recently an install of Nobara Linux and there seems to be an issue during boot. Sometimes it fails to boot correctly and the screen looks glitchy with random noise and colors with no obvious way to move past it, forcing a manual shutdown via the power button (a couple times it seems to have failed complete and the system...

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This is bothering me for years now, my backup script always takes everything with it, taking forever to finish....

Having some trouble getting the drop down list to show any details....

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Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....

I don’t know if I didn’t install non free firmware. Pavucontrol is installed. If I type alsa on a terminal it returns: bash: alsa: command not found....

sometimes, if I want to install a program from the terminal, I get 2 options: apt and snap....

broken upgrade to xubuntu 24.04 from xubuntu 23.10, can access initramfs as root in recovery mode:...

I have a raspberry Pi 4B that is connected to a CRT TV via Composite and controlled with a PS4 controller. I’d like to use the Pi for Netflix, Plex client, and playing DVDs from an ext drive. What distro would be best for this?...

hi so i recently switched my GPU to an AMD card from an Nvidia one. Im wondering if there is an easy way to remove all the nvidia packages on arch....

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Hi ! I want to demo the backdoor usage and would like to install a unstable/test version of a distribution (possibly Debian or Fedora) that had the backdoor (v5.6.0 or 5.6.1 of xz/liblzma and patched openssh for systemd notification)...

ThSince last Sunday, I’ve been trying to install Debian 12 as a server OS on a Dell XPS 8900. I’ve seemingly been so close and yet so far. I’ve gotten 2 errors repeatly. One is one I can’t avoid, the other one I can....

I’ve installed Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6 on it, but the widget system tray is not working as intended… Does someone have a solution? THX https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83a1f69f-5670-4261-b04e-0884ba732cab.png

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Edit: Solved according to this: redditObviously Void has no systemd service but I just created a script service containing a single line isdv4-serial-inputattach /dev/ttyS0 --baudrate 19200. The serial communication often crashes but runit automatically restarts it so that’s fine. Also 6.6 kernel is kinda buggy but 6.10(custom...

Following is very subjective and probably varies from distro to distro, de to de, app to app, user to user....