Ever few releases my login screen seems to decide to default to Wayland rather than X11. Every time I use Wayland I have problems: My second monitor is blank and windows have a weird rectangular overlay/underlay especially when remoting in to anyother computer.
So, how can I lock X11 in as my preferred video API?
Anyone with experience with BOTH of these? If so, which do you prefer and why?
EDIT: Are there any substantive changes other than the DE? I'm currently using Zorin and like it. I just recently became aware of a version of Ubuntu that actually looks good (I HATE Ubuntu's appearance). So, my actual question is whether there is any reason to switch.
I have a 2 TB drive on my server PC (Zorin OS) and also have a personal PC (Zorin OS). I run Pika back up on both machines with both backing up to the 2TB drive on the server. Every so often (maybe once every 3 weeks) Pika fails for both machines saying the drive isn't available. If I open Files, I am able to see the drive and the backup directories. I then can run Pika successfully. In trying to figure out how to avoid the "drive isn't available" issue I looked at FSTAB to see if there were any options I could add (similar to the automount used for my NFS mounts). But, I don't see any of the drives mounting to /media in FSTAB. How are my drives getting mounted? And, how can I add something to automount (or fix otherwise)?
I'm running Zorin OS and yesterday I got an update that resulted in my network disappearing, my second monitor not being recognized, and my custom menu being hosed. Luckily I take a weekly TImeshift, so I was able to undo the update. My question is what happens when that same update is installed again? Won't I just be in a perpetual auto update/restore from Timeshift loop?
I get that you can only install security updates, but I have no way of knowing what update(s) caused my problem, so it isn't clear that only installing security updates would solve anything. And, even if it did, it seems like I'm not perpetually stuck not being able to update anything else.
Just a reminder, run Timeshift on a schedule basis. Today I got an update, and after rebooting, I no longer had access to either my network or my second monitor and my custom menu layout was removed. I've never needed Timeshift before today, so I was a bit concerned. But, I'm happy to say that it saved my bacon. I'm back to where I was before the bad update(s).
I do have a question, though... won't I just get those same updates again (I have auto updates turned on), possibly resulting in the same mess I just fixed?
The majority of times that I use FedEx it requires I sign for the package. I live within 2 miles of the facility, so I'm usually one of the first people on their delivery. Unfortunately, that puts delivery right in the middle of the time block I'm not home. Is there anyway to specify in my account the hours I'll be home for a delivery? I've checked everywhere I can think of in their web site/my account and the "Delivery Instructions" section only tells them where to leave the package and/or how to find the address. I've previously left a note on my door explaining my availability, but it had no affect on the next (failed) delivery at exactly the same time as the last attempt.
Having not played R6S for 4 years I reinstalled it yesterday on my new LINUX machine to see if it works on Linux. It does. But then I went looking for the single player training missions and can't find them. Am I blind? Where did they go? I vaguely remember them being somewhat difficult to find 4 years ago, but either I'm blind, they made them even more difficult to find, or they got rid of them. Can anyone help?
Back in the day you could buff out scratches with rubbing and/or polishing compound. What is the current day method to repair a scratch? Part appears to only have scratched the clear coat, but part also scratched the paint.
I recently had a kaboom on an M&P .45. It split the frame the entire height of the grip. I contacted Smith about a replacement and they could only say "send it in". Having no idea what that would cost for them to repair, I'm wondering if anyone has ever successfully (or unsuccessfully) plastic welded a frame. I've seen videos of a screen like material being melted into the plastic which seems like it would be sufficient, but am wondering if anyone has done this.
I'm running a virtual machines (Linux Lite within Gnome Boxes) from Zorin and am wondering which or both are effective at providing privacy: running a VPN from the guest or running the VPN in the host. I ran a test and it appears that running it in the guest works fine - WhatIsMyIP gives the IP of the VPN, but I watched a video yesterday and the speaker said to run the VPN from the host.
So, does it matter where I run the VPN (I only need it in the guest)?
I'm running Jellyfin in Docker and need to know what Jellyfin expects regarding volumes for tv shows, movies, and misc videos. Searching the net I've found at least 3 different answer. I tried (see the last three lines):
volumes:
- /home/server/docker/jellyfin/config:/config
- /home/server/docker/jellyfin/cache:/cache
- /mnt/synology/tv:/data/tvshows
- /mnt/synology/movies:/data/movies
- /mnt/synology/videos:/data/videos
And I think that option can be checked off as not the right answer. But, it is also possible that is the correct answer but there is something else preventing it from working.
So, bottom line: where does Jellyfin look for media files? And, how do you differentiate among the three types (tv, moves, videos)?
Recently I changed the storage on a Gnome Boxes VM from preferences and discovered that I also had to then expand the partition from within the running VM to use that additional space.
So, with that in mind, if the go into preferences and change the number of CPUs my VM should use, do I have to also do anything once running the VM?
I'm trying to create a Linux Lite VM on Gnome Boxes and get the error No KVM. I'm using the create from an ISO file option using an ISO I downloaded. AI is no help. Does anyone have a solution? I have two Linux Mint VMs that DO run just fine, so KVM obviously is present/working.
Using Gnome Boxes, I have show the following when I run df -h:
/dev/sdb1 458G 86G 349G 20% /home
I also show the following regarding the size of my 2 Mint VMs:
So, with 349G available, and 40G storage limit in the Mint VM I'm running, why am I getting an error when trying to download a 8GB file?
EDIT: Doing a lsblk as suggested below, here are the results
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 40G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 513M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda3 8:3 0 19.5G 0 part /
Using Gnome Boxes, I have show the following when I run df -h:
/dev/sdb1 458G 86G 349G 20% /home
I also show the following regarding the size of my 2 Mint VMs:
So, with 349G available, and 40G storage limit in the Mint VM I'm running, why am I getting an error when trying to download a 8GB file?
I'm coming from Windows where ShareX was the gold standard. OCR, Editing, and many other features. I keep seeing people suggest Spectacle, but a quick trial found nothing beyond screen shots. What is something like ShareX? (I did find someone trying to clone ShareX for Linux, but it was beta and I don't think I was even able to run it in Zorin - immediate abend when using it).
I have a server with some shared NFS folders. Recently I've gotten a number of stale handle errors resulting in the share not being available and a number of commands to rectify the problem.
So, I asked AI for ways to prevent stale handles and this one confuses me:
Avoid exports like:
/media/server/UUID/backups
Use:
/srv/backups
or:
/export/backups
Mount the disk there permanently via /etc/fstab.
My questions are:
Why do longer paths make NFS less stable?
How do you even change the path in /etc/fstab? I'm only aware of stating the actual drive path, not some shortened path. How to I change fstab from the /media mount to the /srv mount they recommend? Is there the ability to alias a mount?
Why do they recommend the highest directory in the path to be /srv or /export rather than /media?