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Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Lemme know otherwise....

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....

Hello,...

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

Hi all, I don’t know if this is the right place to post this…let me know :)...

I cannot get sway to detect my tablet device on Void Linux installed on a Thinkpad X200 Tablet. Anyone knows how to fix it? I have both libwacom and xf86-input-wacom installed. It worked fine on Debian....

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

Are there any issues?

I installed ubuntu xfce 23.04 on a 2014 macbook pro 11.1....

I may have inadvertently deleted a boot partition

Question: Is there any auto-correct that works globally in all (or at least, many) applications? Particularly non-terminal. So for example firefox (like this text box I’m typing into), chat, text editors, word processors etc?...

Does anyone know if there are plans underway to allow user-level flatpak installations using GNOME Software?...

Does anyone know of a way to distribute donations to multiple open source projects at once? I would like to donate more frequently and broadly but because of the large number of different projects it would be laborious and inefficient to donate small fractions of what I can afford to each of them manually. What would be helpful...

Hello, I’m using a Windows 11 VM on Proxmox VE, and my audio keeps cutting out. I use GPU passthrough with my NVIDIA 2080 SUPER for gaming, but I don’t know where this issue is coming from. I’ve switched audio devices, but the issue persists. The audio cuts out for a few seconds, then comes back. I updated Windows to the...

I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same issue as I have. I know how I would approach this if Akregator was installed on the system rather than as a flatpak, I would just change the command run by the app when opening in an external browser to flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox about:reader?url=%u which just appends...

Is there a way to normalize system tray icon sizes? Currently they just look awful on my work machine and growing or shrinking the panel just makes the disparity worse.

Idea: Debian + Nix == stable and funky fresh...

Hi! I’m currently using XFCE on my laptop, I was previously using Compify as my compositor (XFWM is quite rough), but stopped when I noticed I could no longer get through the day on one charge. My battery life doubled when switching back to XFWM. So I was wondering if anyone knows of any X compositors that have a focus on...