betterlockscreen starts on login ? - Lemmy.World

using i3wm on fedora 43, decided to give beterlockscreen a try and it works great BUT, on inital login it shows the desktop then immediately locks the screen. effectively making me login twice. any suggestions?

Fedora Kurtis mount iso on game launch - sh.itjust.works

I need to mount ISO files on launch of some really old games. I see I can create a script and then have lutris launch the script to mount and launch another script to unmount when I run the game however it requires root privileges to mount. I’ve tried adding the specific ISO files to fstab And changing the mount location to something in the users’s home folder, but it’s just not working. What am I missing?

How do we connect to a server as the root user via Dolphin and SFTP? - Feddit UK

When I try to do this, the connection dialog hangs. I have PermitRootLogin yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and I can log in as the root user using the command line with sftp root@IP, but when I try it with Dolphin it does not work.

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KDE RDP Server randomly turns off - The TTRPG network

If I keep an RDP connection open to my other computer for awhile, eventually the connection will drop. When I check the RDP Server button under Remote Desktop in the Settings, it says it’s off. Turning it back on solves the problem, but I’ve had it randomly turn off several times. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

PC won't get past dell logo. - Lemmy.World

So, I tried searching for pc hardware help, but apperently that community doesn’t exist, or I’m too dumb to find it. In either event, I am posting this here to try to troubleshoot my pc. This is mostly a hardware post. Technically the hard drives do have linux, but the issue isn’t with that I don’t think. Ok, so here’s what happened. 12 year old computer, on all day every day for most of it’s life. Lets call it a 98% uptime. Well about 2 weeks ago I decided to turn it off, change hard drives, and turn it back on. I have like 10 small hard drives. Each with different a OS on them. So when I turn the PC back on, the fans sounded like the were struggling. The dell logo flickered on the screen, and then the whole PC powered off. Thats weird. Never saw it do that before. So I hit power again, this time, a loud audible POP noise from inside the PC. Like an explosion. I could smell burning. So I rushed in unplugging everything, pull the PC out of it’s place, check for damage, but found no evidence of a fire. So I removed the power supply. Then I started just removing the fans to clean them (been about a year), and then I removed the big heat sink fan over the processor. I don’t think I ever removed that before. So my PC sat like that, unused, no way to turn it on. I posted when it first happened, to get an idea of what happened, and I’ve been told a capacitor probably burst. I was also told that it’s possible the motherboard could have been blown out. I see no physical damage. So Sunday I was at a thrift shop. I just happened to see a $10 power supply. My power supply was 300 watts. This one at the thrift shop was 220 watts. According to a calculator I found online, I use roughly 176 watts. So I figure I’m probably fine. Just as a precaution I didn’t connect my dvd burner. Just using it as a band-aid fix until I can get a better one. So, first time powering up since my power supply died, with the temporary 220 watt power supply, and the dell logo shows up…and thats it. Never gets past that screen. I googled it, and I’ve tried the following. I took out the ram that was inside during the explosion. Luckily I still had my old ram in a drawer. So now instead of 16gb, I have 8gb. That did not solve the issue. I took out the hard drive with ZorinOS that was in during the explosion. I put in a hard drive with BazziteOS. This did not solve the issue. I took out all ram and all hard drives. I knew it wouldn’t boot, but I wanted to see what happened. No dell logo, totally blank screen. Power button was orange instead of white. Put just the ram back in, no hard drive. I knew it wouldn’t boot. I thought I might get past the dell logo, and get the screen that says something like “No boot drive” or whatever it says normally when it has no hard drive. It did NOT do that. It still just stayed on the dell logo. So from here, my thoughts are one of two issues. Either 220 watts really isn’t enough, even as a temporary bandaid fix. Or Somehow the power supply exploding fried the bios? Unrelated to all this, I don’t have internet at all at home right now. That’s a different unrelated issue that should be solved tomorrow, but in case it’s not, I might not reply fast. I’ll post the computer model later. It’s an inspirion 3XXX something. Is there anything else I should try to help gather more information? Any ideas to temporarily get this thing up and running?

Systemd Timer units - tchncs

I am trying to create some systemd units that are supposed to start scripts at certain intervals. With Cron, I used an expression like 0 3 */7 * * to start a job every 7 days at 3 a.m. That worked great. With OnCalendar, I have no idea how to implement “every 7 days”. Or can I use OnUnitActiveSec here? Additional problem: The computer is not always on at the specified time. The job should therefore be repeated as soon as the computer is available again. I have set Persistent=true for this purpose. However, I suspect that OnUnitActiveSec is reset every time I restart the computer. Or does OnUnitActiveSec refer to the time when the unit was activated with systemctl enabled test.timer?