Yeah, I heard, Wayland is the future, but for remote access to your desktop, screenshot utilities and more, Wayland just sucks. I prefer to use Xorg for now and don’t care what the general consensus is. If you want to know how to stop Wayland from being used on your machine (If using the Gnome… Read More »
Nala is an improved front-end for the apt package manager in Ubuntu/Debian Linux. It adds many features and a better visual representation to the activity of the command. A really good article about Nala can be found here at ItsFoss. There are many more features and arguments to nala than the normal apt command offers.… Read More »
Typically, when a flash drive is formatted from an ISO image, the flash drive will be formatted as an ISO9660 type and not want to be re-formatted or erased easily. Take a look at Gparted showing a flash drive below with the Linux Mint ISO on it. When I attempt to delete the Partition in… Read More »
There are times when you need to run your own DHCP server. For me, this was needed to add to my laptop so I can program IP security cameras with my USB Ethernet adapter attached. The software that typically comes with security cameras is total crap with a bad Chinese translation layered on top and… Read More »
Here is a very short list of a few of my favorite applications and utilities that I seem to install on almost all Linux workstations I use (And some servers). I could really grow and evolve this article into its own section one day. One note, I typically will always look for a flatpak version… Read More »
I’ve been using Cisco’s AnyConnect client to connect my Pop!_OS workstation to my work VPN. The AnyConnect client is ok, but I want to use the network manager built into my workstation. To do this, I needed to install OpenConnect. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt install openconnect… Read More »
Several months ago, I switched companies that I work for. This morning, I am working from home and wanted to start Microsoft Teams flatpak on my Pop-Os! desktop and found it would not let me sign in with my new email address. The application is set for a single user and I could not find… Read More »
When using Firefox on a touchscreen enabled laptop, I noticed that scrolling only worked using the scroll bar and I could not zoom or scroll like is done with mobile devices. I discovered a fix for this by editing the /etc/security/pam_env.conf file and adding a new environment variable. MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 DEFAULT=1 Save, then reboot. Zoom and… Read More »
I have been wanting to stand up a FOG Imaging server for quite some time on my home network. I have an Asus RT-AC86U router at home with the AsusWRT-Merlin firmware installed. If you have an Asus router, the Merlin firmware is a must regardless since an improved version of the default firmware the Asus… Read More »
Usually when I need to install my HP color laser printer onto one of my desktops, I have to go the HP Linux Imaging and Printing website and download and install HPLIP. But downloading the files and making the installer work has been a royal pain for Pop OS. Luckily, the System 76 Pop OS… Read More »