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exu , 5 months ago in Joining Fedora Linux to an enterprise domain - Fedora Magazine

I’ve joined Linux clients to AD domains before, but I didn’t know about Fleet Commander. (admittedly, I didn’t really look) Might be something to play with for a bit

possiblylinux127 OP , 5 months ago

I’ve played with freeIPA and I still haven’t gotten it to work

Tlaloc_Temporal , 5 months ago in I suddenly have a massive cursor with some GNOME apps. Does anybody else have this?

I occasionally see a larger cursor on GNOME, but it’s always been alongside larger scaling for everything. Steam in particular sometimes decides to ignore it’s high DPI setting and looks like it’s running on a phone screen. Firefox occasionally as well.

This must be some issue with how DPI modes are recorded and how apps are launched. Restarting the app has fixed it every time for me, so I’ve never looked deeper into it.

ggnoredo , 5 months ago in Any good Linux Tablet recommendations?

I develop on emacs with same PC config, run sql servers locally, maintain servers, office and mail stuff, all kind of communications, file operations, casting screen to a TV or projector, very good stylus and note taking abilities on my samsung tab 9 ultra dex mode with 4 days of battery life. You may think as an alternative

autotldr Bot , 5 months ago in Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 was released this past week as the latest iteration of this user-space implementation that builds off the Linux kernel tracing functionality like BPF.

It’s been a decade now that Oracle has been working on DTrace for Linux albeit with time Linux’s native tracing abilities have improved and with DTrace 2.0 now confined to just a standalone user-space application leveraging the kernel’s native capabilities.

Bringing back the OpenSolaris memories from the Sun days… With the new DTrace 2.0.0-1.14, the functionality is close to being “feature complete” compared to the prior DTrace for Linux 1.2 kernel-based implementation.

This new version is based on BPF and other Linux kernel tracing features and is implemented entirely as a userspace application.

It can be used for tracing on any Linux kernel that provides BPF based tracing and BTF type data, although (as mentioned below) improved functionality depends on two (optional) kernel patches.

Development continues in an incremental fashion to make the full feature set of DTrace available using existing kernel features.

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delirious_owl , 5 months ago in Automatic Playlist Generator: A Thing?

NewPipe on autoplay just keeps going

PseudoSpock , 5 months ago in Explicit sync

Wayland finally seeing the light, that NVidia was right all along.

ardi60 , 5 months ago in How are nvidia gpus with wayland nowadays? I read a while ago it was terrible, has it improved?

Good. But, xorg only

Aatube , 5 months ago

that is very incorrect

ParetoOptimalDev , 5 months ago

Flickering makes it true for all xwayland games such as proton until nvidia driver with explicit sync.

qpsLCV5 , 5 months ago

most games have never had flicker issues for me on arch/sway with a rtx2070. Steam itself used to be unusable and last i checked was still a bit glitchy, Discord also sucked, but the games always worked fine.

apart from some issues with recognizing the mouse cursor in a few games.

LeFantome , 5 months ago

gamingonlinux.com/…/explicit-gpu-synchronization-…

some_guy , 5 months ago in eza (formerly exa, ls replacement) can now show the actual total size of directory contents

Off topic, but maybe someone will appreciate this. I wrote a function to get the size of contents of a dir a while back. It has a couple of dependencies (gc, gwc at a glance), but should be fairly portable (correct paths for your system). The results are sorted from greatest to least as shown in the screenshot. The purpose was to be able to see directory sizes, which is the topic of this post, so I figured I’d share.

Hope it’s useful to someone. Free to modify as desired.

<span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">function szup() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">description='
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:    Title: szup
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#: Synopsis: sort all items within a directory according to size
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:     Date: 2016-05-30
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:  Version: 0.0.5
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:  Options: -h | --help: print short usage info
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#:         : -v | --version: print version number
</span><span style="color:#323232;">'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">funcname=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:    Title: ' | sed 's/#:    Title: //g')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">version=$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:  Version: ' | sed 's/#:  Version: //g')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">updated="$(echo "$description" | grep '^#:     Date: ' | sed 's/#:     Date: //g')"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	function usage() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "n%sn" "$funcname : $version : $updated"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "%sn" ""
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	function sortdir() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Chars="$(printf "    %s" "inspecting " "$(pwd)" | wc -c)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		divider=====================
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		divider=$divider$divider$divider$divider
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		format="    %-${Chars}.${Chars}s %35sn"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		totalwidth="$(ls -1 | /usr/local/bin/gwc -L)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		totalwidth=$(echo $totalwidth | grep -o [0-9]\+)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Chars=$(echo $Chars | grep -o [0-9]\+)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		if [ "$totalwidth" -lt "$Chars" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			longestvar="$Chars"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			longestvar="$totalwidth"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		shortervar=$(/Users/*********/bin/qc "$longestvar"*.8)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		shortervar=$(printf "%1.0fn" "$shortervar")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		echo "$shortervar"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "n    %sn" "inspecting $(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "    %$shortervar.${longestvar}sn" "$divider"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		theOutput="$(du -hs "${theDir}"/* | gsort -hr)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Condensed="$(echo -n "$theOutput" | awk '{ print $1","$2 }')"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		unset arr
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		declare -a arr
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		arr=($(echo "$Condensed"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Count="$(echo "$(printf "%sn" "${arr[@]}")" | wc -l)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		Count=$((Count-1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		for i in $(seq 1 $Count); do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		read var1 var2 <<< "$(printf "%sn" "${arr[$i]}" | sed 's/,/ /g')"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		printf "   %5s    %-16sn" "$var1" "${var2///*//./}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		echo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	case "$1" in
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		-h|--help)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			usage
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			;;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		*)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			;;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	esac
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     if [ -z "$1" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             oldDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "${1}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             local theDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             sortdir
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "$oldDir"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     		:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             oldDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "${1}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             local theDir="$(pwd)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             sortdir
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             cd "$oldDir"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}```
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">![](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/2a0578ce-1fd3-4e81-b9e7-41a57eb4d62a.png)
</span>

linuxPIPEpower OP , 5 months ago

ooops you commented similar/same twice. I think this one was a draft. :)

some_guy , 5 months ago

Probably goofed up trying to edit multiple times. Cheers!

solrize , 5 months ago in fooyin's new features in v0.4.0 make it the most promising music player - LinuxLinks

Tbh I use mplayer from the command line and that’s always worked great for me.

bizdelnick , 5 months ago in Should I use QEMU/virt-manager or Virtualbox for a Windows virtualized instance?

Both work. But for desktop use I recommend VirtualBox.

Tick_Dracy , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) in What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)

Hijacking this topic, I use this software on Windows, which does incremental backups of the system (including the OS, alongside documents, downloads, etc). It can also be easily restored by booting a custom image from an USB and restore the image created.

Is there anything like this with Linux?

gigatexal , 5 months ago

@Tick_Dracy @WbrJr ZFS snapshots and boot environments could probably do this. Not sure about the usb thing though. @allanjude (tagging Allan so I don’t besmirch ZFS too much).

GolfNovemberUniform , 5 months ago in Ricing fans, what funny or useful things have you configured?

A very wide floating Plasma panel with a bunch of system monitor sensors as an alternative to Conky. I think it’s quite a unique idea and it’s more useful too imo because it can be easily accessed even if windows cover all the screen (I’m not a WM fan ok?)

GadgeteerZA , 5 months ago in What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)

@WbrJr I'm on Manjaro Linux but principles are the same. I have an SSD boot drive and a 4TB hard drive for /home data etc. I also have a second 4TB drive for backups:

1. Timeshift app - does snapshots of OS to backup drive. I have 4x hourly snapshots, 2 daily ones, and one weekly one. This allows easy roll back from any updates or upgrades that went wrong.
2. luckyBackup app - does a full rsync backup daily of /home data and configs. There are other rsync apps too, and you can opt for versions it you have space. But usually I've been fine with recovering anything I deleted or overwrote by mistake. I do this more for hard drive failure. I do also have one additional 1TB drive I keep in a safe. I connect this myself once a month or so for an offline backup.

eveninghere , 5 months ago in Longtime Debian user, looking to branch out.

Micro OSes are designed for this. IFedora has one atomic OS, SUSE have two immutable OSes.

rollingflower , 5 months ago in Is this zsh zinit fork misleading zshell users ?

Very interesting!