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How to see what statement (memory address) my program is currently running: the program counter register, through Linux commands?
For a reason I need to find, a C++ application looks being stuck in a docker container.
I did a docker exec -it a_template_cpp bash and entered into it.
I know the top and pmap commands, and also that ...
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How to delete the app icon on the desktop
I am new to Linux and Fedora 40 used now. I just deleted the navicat-sqlite-en-xxx.AppImage from Downloads folder successfully since I want to uninstall it.
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Navicat 17 for Sqlite app icon still on ...
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How to Create Unofficial Linux Desktop Apps? [closed]
I am a new developer and I have recently noticed that several applications do not officially support Linux desktop apps. However, I've seen developers create their own open-source unofficial versions ...
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How to reliably determine the name of an application for use in Gnome: Favorite Applications?
I have ran the following command to setup my Favorite Applications menu:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "[ \
'docker-desktop.desktop', \
'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', \
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Open app in Terminal. How can I pin its icon to the doc?
I just installed Parsehub on a System 76 Lemur Pro running Pop!_OS 22.04. Question applies to other apps though When I run Parsehub via the command line, the app's icon appears on the dock. How can I ...
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Symbolic link to application - working directory
Lets say i have a bash script in a folder called Programming, which reads data from files in a subfolder named data.
The paths in the script to the files are all relative to this "Programming&...
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What is this email client and how did it get here?
Earlier today, I was emailing a PDF file, and when I hit the "Email" option in the right-click menu, of all things Wine started trying to run. Somehow, a program called "A Wine ...
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Trying to run a .AppImage on a remote server, keep getting Missing X server or $DISPLAY
I'm trying to install Nvidia's Omniverse on my remote server. However, whenever I install the .AppImage and then run it after chmodding it (as per the instrctions) I keep running into the following ...
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Cartesian application software recommendation in Debian [closed]
Is there a software recommendation for an application for the Cartesian field in Debian?
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Which applications are bundled with the Zorin OS 17 Pro distro?
Zorin OS 17 Pro was just released. After going through their website and reading numerous articles about it, I don't see the details of a prominent marketing point documented anywhere, namely a list ...
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No repos found in rhel 8 after installation
After installing rhel 8 it says I do not have any repos. What do I do as I am unable to install any applications? I tried using the subscription-manager as well to connect to the repository but still ...
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Can Flatpak's apps installed in external drive and used on different Linux distribution?
I was thinking to create a workstation drive that contain all development apps and file and use it (plug & run) across many device with different Linux distribution. Is that possible?
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How to use Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication with Linux?
My organization will require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in a few days and we use Microsoft accounts. On the internet I read there are authenticator apps for Linux. One of them is Authenticator.
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Additional DE without affecting applications and settings
The goal: Safely install KDE Plasma (and possibly Cinnamon) alongside Gnome on POP_OS 22.04.
Quick bit of background. With the release of Debian 12 I came to learn (from Explaining Computers dotcom yt ...
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How to package a Maven Java application for Debian?
I am trying to package a Java application that is built with Maven.
I created the debian/ folder with mh_make and I have been reading/watching the tutorials:
https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging/...
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I do not receive any response from flathub
When I run sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo, I do not get any responses, and command does not finish. I can open flathub.org in the browser, ...
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Can I install linux apps on external drive and use it on different machines with different linux distro?
I was thinking to upgrade my laptop with 500GB nvme drive and I want to multiboot different linux distros (also windows and macOS for software testing) in it.
So in order save space, can I install ...
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Is it possible to reverse the screen, like in a mirror, with only 1 monitor?
On Windows, there are a few apps that can switch the graphics onscreen left to right (and vice versa), but to my knowledge, they all require at least 2 monitors. It seems like, because of the way ...
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Looking for a simple database with graphical interface for personal use, under Linux
I am a former MacOS user, and I was using FileMaker, to organize one or two databases for my research work.
I am looking for something similar, to be used under Linux.
I would need something local, ...
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Don't set wm_class of "Navigator" when starting Firefox
I'm starting Firefox as follows:
/usr/bin/firefox --no-remote -P Fastmail --class "FastmailFF"
The ultimate goal is to figure out a command to put in a .desktop file which will have it's ...
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New ubuntu installation (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS) constantly causing apps to crash
After having a number of issues with applications crashing and worries about my hard drives being corrupt (I kept getting kernel panic signals at startup unless I started in recovery mode), I decided ...
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Can you assign a host user to an application within a virtual machine?
As I was reading the Android Developer Guides, I was confronted with the following statements:
The Android operating system is a multi-user Linux system in which each app is a different user.
Each ...
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geeqie: copy path to clipboard does nothing
geeqie 2.0.1-4
mate-desktop 1.26.0-1
Linux 6.1.5-arch2-1
The geeqie image viewer has a menu item 'copy path to clipboard'.
Is this 'clipboard' the global clipboard, so that I can, say, paste the path ...
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Is there any command line tool for purchasing anything online?
I continue to pursue ways to do everything from the command line and while it does not seem common whatsoever I am curious if there is one single example of a command line tool that allowed someone to ...
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How to set application installed via flatpak as default aplication for some type of files?
I have installed pycharm via flatpak on linux Mint 21.1. I want to open every .py file in the PyCharm application. But when I right click and choose "open with other application" PyCharm is ...
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Package that uses earphones as antenna to listen to fm radio?
I remember plugging in earphones in my 3G flipphone to listen to fm radio years ago. Are there any packages in Linux that have the same functionality? I mean local fm not internet radio.
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Where to get IPA files for 32-bit iPad Mini
I have an old iPad Mini (2013 model)
that I thought to resurrect as a screen for a Raspberry Pi with VNC Viewer,
but when I try to download the app (or any app) via App Store
I get an error with "...
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Discord keeps crashing randomly
Discord on my computer crashes constantly at random intervals. Sometimes I can use it for hours without issues, other times it crashes just 10 minutes after starting. I thought that this had to do ...
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How to listen to local FM/AM radio broadcasts in Linux?
Is there any package/command that lets me listen to FM/AM radio broadcasts in my town? All the apps that I find are for streaming internet radio and not offline radio.
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Ubuntu - Run executable with customized name from anywhere
I have installed etcher and I can run it from its installation directory (.../balena-etcher-electron-1.7.9-linux-x64/squashfs-root) with the command ./balena-etcher-electron. Well wonderful !
But now ...
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fbpanel: disable mouse scroll action entirely
I am using fbpanel 7.0-4 on Debian 10.
I have applied patches from @Arkadiusz Drabczyk, to put fbpanel on one monitor, and to disable virtual desktop switching on mouse scroll:
fbpanel: only use one ...
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Recommended way to lock down internet to only specific applications within ubuntu-variant installation?
Trying to axe extra connections - ex: visualstudiocode wants to send some junk, and instead of going through the clunky settings there, I just wanna strip it of internet access except when I may want ...
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Apper and Discover says network is offline?
I installed Devuan Linux in VMWare workstation 16 bridged network. Network via the terminal works fine, using ping, using apt-get, ifconfig etc.. I then tried firefox in the GUI and that worked fine ...
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Are there any commands that automatically create .desktop files from .jar files?
I play a lot of Java-based games. I find the UX of typing java -jar name-of-game.jar to be cumbersome, and creating .desktop files by hand hacky. Are there any automatic .desktop generators?
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Qt applications settings
where's the path in which Qt application will save default settings for all users? Wanted to set out some default settings for an old clumsy person...
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Ubuntu closes all the applications when lid is closed or suspended
I have been facing this issue for a while now.
Every time I close my lid, my Ubuntu 21.10 closes all the applications that were open before I closed the lid.
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Accessing files on iPhone from Linux/CentOS (Where are the APP's)
https://libimobiledevice.org/
https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=78621
According to CentOS 8
libimobiledevice
# dnf install libimobiledevice
https://vault.centos.org/centos/8/...
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when did I give the application a root permissions?
I've installed azure storage explorer with "sudo snap install".
I don't remember giving it root permissions during the installation.
Now it's creating directories owned by root for ...
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How to launch application with rofi using i3wm's exec?
I had this issue and now I know how to solve it. I need to launch applications with i3wm's exec command.
ButI use rofi as launchmenu and I have no idea how to make it lauch applications with i3wm's ...
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Why isn't Pamac store showing any applications in Arch Linux?
Why isn't Pamac store showing any applications in Arch Linux?. This is what Pamac store is saying: No package found. I installed Pamac store in Arch Linux using this guide: https://www.fossmint.com/...
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Why isn't discover software manager able to load applications in Arch LInux?
Why isn't the discover software manager loading any applications in Arch Linux? This is what discover is saying:
Discover currently cannot be used to install any apps because none of its app backends ...
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logging data to the intermediate service
I've two applications. They log in to a locked log file (with reading permissions). I want to use an intermediate service where applications can push logs. Then this service push that log to the log ...
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How to install apps on separate HDD in Linux (Fedora)
I migrated from Windows to Linux.
I have a 96 GB SSD, where I have my Fedora installed,
and a 1 TB external HDD.
On MS-Windows I had my OS installed on SSD
and every app I was installing to HDD.
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How to run 2 lines in GUI command line shortcut
I've installed a new version of an app.
Currently it's GUI shortcut leads to /usr/bin/flameshot
But I've installed it in a different path and now I run it from the terminal like this:
cd ~/...
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Using kbuild to build user space applications
I am referring to the following link:
Linux Kernel Makefiles
Under section 5 Userspace Program support, explanation has been provided as to how to instruct kbuild to also build user space code. Based ...
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Adding pages to terminal applications
I can explain my problem with an example, let us take an example of
man command, when we run this command in the terminal it opens the page in a new window, you cannot see what you had done before, in ...
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Launch same application with different .desktop (and icons) task manager
Suppose I have a program myapp. It has two sub tasks, A and B. Launcjhing myapp --task A launches A and similar for B. Launching myapp only opens another intro window. I have three .desktop files in /...
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How to run GNUstep .app files?
I found Debian contains many .app files under the gnustep package and its dependencies. I tried installing them, but running apps from the command line, such as "terminal.app" doesn't seem ...
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How to completely remove files left by appimage and appimage launcher? Uninstalling / Removing did not work. Residue left
I removed the AppImage launcher using apt uninstall appimagelauncher and deleted the appimage files from ~/Applications as well but it didn't remove the two apps I had imstalled using appimage i.e. ...
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Application for tracking applications usage times
Does there exist a program which allows to automatically track "window focus" time in, for example, Gnome? For example, I would like to track how much time per day I spend using a certain ...
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