Hello, I am trying to setup a smooth/seamless transition from grub to plymouth. I have set the same background image for GRUB theme (during Grub menu) + GRUB (just after selecting boot entry when it says loading linux & initramfs) and Plymouth. However there is a slight delay between GRUB and Plymouth when the screen goes black for about 3 seconds - that is what I am trying to get rid of ideally. Here are my current configs:

/etc/default/grub

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=3 vga=current rd.systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log-priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/themes/custom/theme.txt"
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub/background.jpg"
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

/etc/grub.d/10_linux

quiet_boot="1"
quick_boot="0"
gfxpayload_dynamic="0"
vt_handoff="7"

Is there a way to preload plymouth or someway to shrink/remove the gap between grub and plymouth?

how to decode this shell script and make some changes in it

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| r";HxJ="s";Hc2="";f="as";kcE="pas";cEf="ae";d="o";V9z="6";P8c="if";U=" -d";Jc="ef";N0q="";v="b";w="e";b="v |";Tx="Eds";xZp="" x=$(eval "$Hc2$w$c$rQW$d$s$w$b$Hc2$v$xZp$f$w$V9z$rQW$L$U$xZp") eval "$N0q$x$Hc2$rQW"

Ok, so I sometimes visit oldschool BBSes over telnet. Existing terminal emulators are more or less fine, but I want to have a setup that more closely approximates how it looked on era appropriate hardware.

So, I'd like it to scale fonts as I change window size, to maintain a consistent 40x25 or 80x25 text display like I used back in the day. Color settings obviously, that override whatever the shell is configured to do. Sometimes I'm in the mood for old school monochrome. But having color support is good too. CRT scanline emulation would be amazing.

Any suggestions? I use XFCE, and I'm happy with that terminal for everyday use so if it can be configured like this(or it's relevant to configuring another), that works.

Any suggestions?

Hello guys, I'm fairly new to the Linux world. When I sleep my pc it turns blank, and I have to force shut down my computer to use it again. It was working fine when I had first installed Ubuntu, then after a week, it showed this "waking after a sleep mode" problem. Now then, I've shifted to mint distro still the problem is there. Have you also faced the same problem?? Help me guys if you know the solution!!!

I have been on this for hours now. I have figured out how to get the ubuntu.iso in the VM but whenever I load it, it shows the interactive shell. I used

fs0:
cd EFI

but ubuntu is not a directory on there just boot

but when ever I go to the boot directory it shows me three .efi files that I can't access.

Whenever I watch tutorials Ubuntu loads automatically when starting the VM

I've read forums from others with this issue and applied similar methods but it didn't work.

I tried ChatGPT and nothing.

I asked reddit for a similar problem and was able to get it resolved but now I am stuck on a new problem.

I updated my computer to mac os sequoia and i've also reinstalled the VM and Ubuntu.iso along with the extension pack.

I am at a lost if someone can assist me that would be great.

anyone willing to message me in private would be a plus cause then I can screenshot the problem.

i finally managed to dual-boot Bazzite. everything ran fine except i was unable to mount drives. Some people told me it's either a Bitlocker or Anaconda issue. So I'll bite the bullet and disable bitlocker. I have the keys but I'm wondering if anyone has had issues disabling bitlocker (i.e if it corrupts data, the keys might not work or somehow prohibits logging in) and once i do disable it, when will it prompt me to input the keys again - when i go to the UEFI to boot linux or when i boot back to windows 11? will i be able to re-enable bitlocker after fully installing bazzite? can i encrypt the bazzite partition and still be able to share data between each OS?

And I don't mean just by clicking on "sort by date modified" or whatever in the menu thingy. Because when I do that, it does not list files by date modified. For example, I modified a folder inside a folder (inside a folder etc...)... and it does not seem to recognize that I modified a folder inside a folder inside a folder... it will recognize the modification inside the more immediate folder, but when I go back to the main folder, to which the others are inside, the modification is not recognized and reflected in the "sort by date modified" list.

I'm using arch and I saw that arch wiki had a page for OpenRC and I want to test it BUT my home partion is encrypted using LUKS Will I be able to use my home partion in OpenRC or will I need to make a new one?

Hey all, I've run into a new problem that I haven't experienced across any of my other devices. I've tried both Zorin OS and Linux Mint on my Lenovo X220 Type 4296, but have been unable to resolve an issue where my touchpad twitches while my finger is idle. Unless I use my fingernail and am just totally still, it will twitch left and right. None of the touchpad settings in the OS seem to help. It has nothing to do with palm detection or typing. I've tried modifying the config file for the libinput touchpad driver with various settings that have been suggested, but I'm still coming up with nothing. Any help is appreciated!

The title pretty much says it all. Audio was coming out of my primary display just fine until I connected a second one, now it's not even detected.

$ wpctl status
Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      47. Navi 10 HDMI Audio                  [alsa]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   55. Navi 10 HDMI Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI) [vol: 1.00]

I created 500 GB on a vm but only 60GB+ is available, I want to expand the root.
Here is the error -

GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print free

I notice this error when printing free space but I choose to ignore it.

Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/sdb appears to be used, you can
fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 929425096 blocks) or continue
with the current setting?
Fix/Ignore? Ignore
Model: Virtual Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GGB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End      Size    File system  Name  Flags
 14      1049KB  5243JB   4194JbGB 
 15     5243KB  524MB    519MGB  fat16        EFI
  1      525MB   1GB      524MB   xfs
  2      1050M   67GB      67GB                      lvm    

The partition works fine, it mounts and the data is accessible. My question is, do I allow parted to fix the GPT to use all of the space? Could that fix my problems or is there something else at play?

Question: Whats the easiest way to run Android apps in GNU/Linux?
____

I there are online guides for terminal applications and virtual machines but there are any clean and simple implementations for users lacking extensive experience.

Thank you so much for any help.

Can i use hyprland DE through vnc or any kind of remote desktop setup? If so can someone please point me towards some relevant resources. I use arch btw

I'm desperately in need of someone to help me render a large file in Flowblade. I've tried the graphical interface and the CLI melt option. I'm trying to edit 60 minutes of produced 4K footage. The render stalls out after 7-10 hours when trying it through the graphical interface. When trying w/ melt on CLI, it either a) creates an extremely large file (30+ GB) for only around 9 minutes of footage (which is bizarre), or b) stalls out after 7-10 hours, leaving the file un-rendered and unplayable. When I say "stall out," I mean to say that it doesn't appear that Flowblade crashes, it's just that the render stops rendering and "kills" the render automatically.

Can any Flowblade experts help me? I know my computer is slow (ThinkPad T70s, 20GB Ram), but even slow, I should at least be able to render a file, even if it takes a long time. I can render smaller files no problem, and I'd prefer to use Flowblade over other programs if possible, but this is just too frustrating.

I've wanted to try Linux on actual hardware for a little while, but I've been running into a problem. Each time I try booting the USB it lets me choose how I want to boot it, but after it loads for a bit, my pc just restarts and never boots into the setup.

CSM Support, Secure Boot, and Fast boot are all off. those are not the issues causing it.

I've tried mint, Manjaro, and fedora and none of them had worked, I even tried different USB's, different ways of writing on the USB's, different shells and nothing has worked. I was able to boot Linux once on an old laptop but never able to on my desktop. Here are my specs in case that means much.

CPU: Ry zen 5 5500

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 UD AC

Ram: 32 GB DDR4

GPU: GTX 1660 SUPER

PSU: 400W

I've been using Linux as my main os for a few months now (tuxedo os, on a 4 year old legion 5 laptop) and I wanted to know what software y'all recommend that wouldn't have come with the distro. Does not necessarily need to be a Linux or noob related recommendation, just curious. Edit: there seems to be a little confusion, so to clarify I mean apps and whatnot not every package on your system. Also, this post is deliberately very general as I'm asking this assuming that I don't yet know why the app is useful.

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Edit: added video with issue. I built a desktop and put 2 SSD's in it. One with Windows and one with arch. I have not used Windows on this computer in over a year and a half, and decided to take out the SSD, because I really didn't need it. I turned off the computer, and took out the drive. I then discovered I had taken out the wrong drive when Windows booted up, and so swaped them out. When I went to boot up my desktop, arch simply would not boot. This following is what my screen said when attempting to boot. I am blind, and I had no speech, so I did use OCR. Some letters may not be correct. [ 0.575427] Imitramf's unpacking failed: 2STD-compressed data is corrupt mount: error while loading shared libraries: Illmount.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory mount: error while loading shared libraries: libmount.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory mount! error while loading shared libraries: libmount.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory mount: error while loading shared libraries: Ifbmount.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /lalt: Ilme 16: can't open /proc/cadline: no such file :: ruaning early hook [adou] knod: error while loading shared libraries: Ifhzstd.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory systemd-tapfiles! error while loading shared libraries: Ifksystend-shared-256.7-1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Malt: Ilne 11: /usr/11/systend/zystend-udeud: not found !! running hook [udev] :: Triggering wevents ... udevadn: error while loading shared libraries: Ilbrystend-shared-256.7-1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory adevadn: error while loading shared libraries: Il\systemd-shared-256.7-1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dovedn: error while loading shared libraries: Ilbrystend-shared-256.7-1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 11 running hook [keynap] :: Loading keymap ... donc. DUOK: device "" not found. Skipping fack. It mounting "" om real root mount: error while loading shared libraries: Illmount.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERROR: Failed to mount '' on real root Tou are now being dropped Into an emergency shell. th: can't access tty: Job control turned off [rootfs "]] _

I booted up a rescue system and have arch-chrooted into the drive. I have done a pacman -syu, reinstalled things such as Linux and systemd, and regenerated fstab. My friend told me to try running mkinitcpio but this gave an error about not a valid kernel path, and I think it was pulling the path from the Linux Mint rescue system some how? Out of chroot I have also tried fsck, with no luck. What do I do? Do I have to reinstall? What caused this?

So I want to get into Linux and already installed Ubuntu once on an external SSD as well as an older laptop I have. But I think I'd like to have it a bit more convennient and access it directly without booting out of my Windows and booting into my Ubuntu all the time.

Is Ubuntu the right Distro? Don't plan to do perform hardcore gaming on it or anyway, I mainly want to practice coding and software-related work on a Linux Desktop environment.

In theory, if it's just coding I could use the WSL instead and do coding in Vim/Neovim but not sure if I wanna go that route. I'm okay with VsCode for the time being. I just want to be used to a Linux Desktop setup, such that a possible switch to Linux in the future isn't too bothersome.

It has been suggested that I utilize a VM and it sounds reasonable but I've run into roadblocks. I currently use Windows 10 Home which I've come to understand does not feature depth of management the way its more expensive sibling Windows 10 Pro does. I've tried downloading those purportedly available packages but it hasn't worked. My Windows install has become corrupted and I'm at the precipice of either reinstalling, upgrading to Pro or ditching Windows in favor of linux. So, back to my VM observations and questions.

The suggestions I've received about VM have mentioned two: VMware Player and Oracle's VirtualBox. Further analysis revealed that the former is no longer available and the latter is a PITA. So, what do I do?

I'm running Linux Mint 22 on a Lenovo V15 G4 machine and every time i do a kernel update and reboot i nearly get a heart attack thinking of the worst that could happen but things do go well. I know this is very hardware-dependent but how likely is it that a kernel update might screw up the machine and make it unbootable or cause other issues?

Thanks, in advance, to all who read my question and emphatically to those who respond.

I haven't yet transitioned to Linux (from Windows 10) but it's on the horizon. I need to do some more prep. There are two windows programs I use that I'm quite fond of: PhotoScape and ClipMate. While I imagine I'll find a picture editor to my liking, I'm most concerned about the clipboard manager. To that end, for those familiar with ClipMate specifically, which linux clipboard manager have you found that most closely resembles ClipMate?

Hi, and thanks for taking a look.

Ultimately, I'm trying to record fullscreen Wine. A switch to and from fullscreen is basically a video mode change. Ffmpeg and anything that depends on it (like OBS) instantly fail the moment this switching occurs.

Until recently, I used a convoluted workaround with this program called gamescope which stretched a window to occupy whole screen without formally switching to full screen. But of course a recent system update came with a bug which made gamescope formally functional but practically useless. Destructive updates are no longer restricted to Windows, yay for feature propagation to Linux!

Perhaps I'm missing something, and the whole gamescope thing isn't even necessary? Maybe there is a way to record screen that is not disrupted by a video mode change? Your insight will be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Title should be pylance, not pyright

It seems like support for pylance has been pulled. I love the python dev experience on windows, so I was sad to see that pylance silently doesn't work when you install the python extension on both VSCode and VSCodium. There is an alternative called basedpyright, but that gives type errors on functions imported from pip installed libraries like flask-socketio, so that's not really an option.

How do you program in python on Linux? Pycharm is way too heavy for me, and I haven't gotten my neovim config anywhere close to how convenient the python support was in windows VSCode.

Hello, I have SpiralLinux on a tablet and planning to dual-boot a desktop with Linux Mint (currently has Windows 11 Pro).

I have a couple of new external HDDs / SSDs that I plan on encrypting with VeraCrypt (instead of with BitLocker), encrypting the partition (instead of creating encrypted volume files).

What options / precautions should I choose/take so that the drives work fine on both Linux and Windows? Should I select NTFS as the file system, for instance?

Thanks in advance.

This has been going on for a while, I just haven't had much time to look into it so far. I think it may have started with a big Gnome update that came out a while ago.

I am unable to update my Manjaro (Gnome) system. I enter "sudo pacaur -Syu" or "sudo pacman -Syu" and get dozens of messages along the line of "Replace adw-gtk3 with extra/adw-gtk-theme? [Y/n]

After those messages there's a string of questions saying that things are in conflict (first adw-gtk-theme-5.3-3 and adw-gtk3-5.3-1, then a bunch of different ruby packages. These are similar to the conflicts it asks about before this).

I tried entering all Y's and all n's for each group of questions, but either way it ends with an error message. When I do all nos for both groups it's:

error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
adw-gtk-theme-5.3-3 and adw-gtk-5.3-1 are in conflict.

I got similar errors when trying to update through the GUI package manager. Does anyone know what I need to do to get the update to go through successfully?

Let me know if you need more specifics. Right now I'm not in a situation where it's easy to copy and paste the terminal output, so it's hard to list all the errors I'm getting and every input I put in. I'm hoping this was a common enough issue after the Gnome update that someone can point me in the right direction at least.

Thanks!

I'm currently learning bash scripting . While I went through bashrc shell file , I noticed started with $- variable contains the current options set for the shell (chatgpt definition). still now what it stored which options. i can't get through with my dumb brain . And HistControl variable is HISTCONTROL is an environment variable that controls how command history is recorded. It helps you manage the history of commands you've executed in the terminal.(chatgpt) . but I yet can't get why this variable exists . How it is accessed . bash is not like python or c# . I am unable to find how these variable works orcalls or gets accessed by somehow .

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I recently installed kali linux on my laptop after managing to save it from dual booting while trying to factory reset my windows 11 laptop (I know 💀) I would like to dual boot as i used to before but im having trouble partitioning. On windows it allowed me to just break it up and partition it. While on linux its not allowing me and when i tried to run the installer with a usb key it said: "Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a USB or IEEE 1394 port." So is there any way to get windows running?