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Group permissions for root not working in /tmp
The behavior you are showing seems to depend on the fs.protected_regular Linux kernel parameter, introduced along with fs.protected_fifos by this commit (converged in version 4.19, I believe), with ...
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pacman: <filename> exists in filesystem
Check what package includes the filename:
pacman -Qo filename
If it is another package, then file a bug report: packages which have conflicting files should mark themselves as CONFLICTS causing ...
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Manjaro OS shows wrong time
It seems as though Network time Protocol is either not installed or not working on your laptop. I suggest using the following commands to install it:
Step 1: Install NTP
sudo pacman -S ntp
Step 2: ...
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Set the default browser, system-wide, on Manjaro
For users of i3wm, in addition to editing ~/.config/mimeapps.list and ~/.i3/config, you also need to change $BROWSER from ~/.profile, set it to /usr/bin/chromium, to prevent browser sessions emerging ...
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Upgrading manjaro system fails when install lib32-libcanberra
You need to read the announcements
You might be blocked updating when using pacman due to some
libcanberra packages. Simply remove those packages: sudo pacman -Rdd
lib32-libcanberra-pulse lib32-...
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Manjaro guest on VirtualBox not able to get the full resolution
To get Auto-Resize Guest Display working you have to use 'VBoxSVGA'
Stop VM if installed and running
Choose in VM Setting: Display > Screen > Graphics Controller > 'VBoxSVGA'
Save
Start VM with ...
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Watch systemd service status with systemctl
You could use the watch command to watch the output of systemctl status tor:
watch systemctl status tor
You can also follow the systemd logs for the service, which may also be useful:
journalctl -u ...
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Can't change the xdg-open url-handler to Firefox
I had this issue since Chromium made itself the default browser each time I installed it.
Using xdg-mime fixed it:
xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https x-scheme-handler/http
On ...
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How do I move move to the next workspace using command line?
I had the same issue with going to the previous workspace. Eventually I found a solution. Try replacing:
xdotool set_desktop --relative -1
with:
xdotool set_desktop --relative -- -1
Answer was ...
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How to automatically force full composition pipeline for Nvidia GPU driver?
My laptop is equipped with a Quadro K2100M, running Ubuntu Bionic with KDE Plasma 5.17 (from the neon repo) and using the nvidia-driver-430.
Since I have a different set of configurations for the ...
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Set the default browser, system-wide, on Manjaro
This question is a bit old, but I would like to register my solution. After struggling with xdg-settings, what worked for me was xdg-mime.
So, check your default browser with:
xdg-mime query default ...
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How to add additional keyboard layouts in Manjaro?
Open System Settings, choose "Input Devices", click on "layouts", add any language you want, and see the "alternate shortcut" you can change as you want and when you click the shortcut keys you choose....
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not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0 0) means the kernel was unable to mount the root filesystem. There are two common causes for this:
The kernel doesn't support the filesystem on the ...
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not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Full diagnosis procedure based on kernel messages
By using this QEMU emulation setup I tried to produce minimal examples of every possible failure type to help you debug your problem.
In that simple ...
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Restrict graphic tablet to primary display
also check out bebop's answer here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/839161/limit-a-graphics-tablet-to-one-monitor
its a longer version with some extras. For the QUICK AND DIRTY VERSION:
Found this, ...
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What is /etc/timezone used for?
GNU libc (and thus any non-embedded Linux), reads /etc/localtime to determine the system's time zone (the default timezone if not overridden by the TZ environment variable or by an application-...
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Manjaro guest on VirtualBox not able to get the full resolution
I recently faced the same issue, and after some research I came up with the solution that doesn't require to use VBoxVGA adapter and reinstall Manjaro.
The TL;DR version is, you needed to install ...
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How to reset dmenu app launching preferences in i3
Inside ~/.config/dmenu-recent there are two text files called background and terminal. Edit the appropriate one in a text editor, and delete the line with your app's name. This will reset the dmenu ...
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Zsh icons broke in urxvt
First of all, there is a significant difference between the terminals types rxvt and unicode-rxvt (often abbreviated to urxvt). You have indicated that the terminal you are using is "URXVT Version 9....
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/var/lib/systemd/coredump/ — what is it, and can I delete it?
/var/lib/systemd/coredump is where systemd-coredump stores core dumps. You can list them with coredumpctl.
If you don’t plan on investigating your core dumps any further, you can delete the contents ...
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Have pacmatic wrap yay wrap powerpill wrap pacman
In your (non-root) user's ~/.bashrc, add:
alias pac=yay # For convenience
# pacmatic needs to be run as root: https://github.com/keenerd/pacmatic/issues/35
alias pacmatic='sudo --preserve-env=...
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"Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!" after partition resized
I’m assuming the question is “what do I do now?”
First of all, any data stored at the end of your Mint partition is gone. If any of the data on the file system is important, you should make a copy of ...
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How do I move move to the next workspace using command line?
You will need xdotool.
Installation
sudo pacman -S xdotool
Usage
Going to the next workspace
xdotool set_desktop --relative 1
Going to the previous workspace
xdotool set_desktop --relative -1
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Compare the first 20 lines of two files
Using a shell with process substitutions (<(...)), e.g. bash or zsh:
diff <( head -n 20 file1 ) <( head -n 20 file2 )
This run head -n 20 on each file to get the first 20 lines of each, in ...
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Write access to NTFS drives
For me this was a problem and as correctly identified by @Leopoldini this is a problem with Windows Disk Write Caching. I have tested this with Windows 10 and Fedora and it worked for me.
Steps I ...
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Manjaro Update fails: signature is unknown trust
Solution:
open /etc/pacman.conf
change all SigLevel entries to Never (comment the old ones out)
pacman -Syu
change /etc/pacman.conf back
rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --...
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not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0 0)_ _ _
long press on power button to shutdown your laptop.
select the “advanced” option.
select lowest version of generic (“recovery mode”)
click on “...
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How to change luks encryption difficulty on manjaro full disk encrypt
Too much passphrase hashing?
If it's only slow because you're waiting for a lot of passphrase hashing iterations, you could add a new passphrase with a quicker --iter-time, but that could reduce ...
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Set the default browser, system-wide, on Manjaro
Edit your ~/.config/mimeapps.list and replace references to firefox.desktop with google-chrome.desktop.
If you use google-chrome-stable to launch chrome, use that instead, followed by .desktop.
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VirtualBox is complaining that the kernel module is not loaded
You need to install
sudo pacman -S [kernel version]-virtualbox-host-modules
get kernel version: uname -r
Your user must be in the following groups
vboxusers for virtualbox to work
storage group (...
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