I attach my Dell XPS 9350 to a Dell U2711 display using a USB-C to HDMI cable. The laptop detects the display and claims it is sending a signal to it, but the display shows no picture. The relevant output from xrandr --prop is: DP1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y...

I'm trying to format a USB disk which was used as a swap drive on another machine using gparted. It keeps getting stuck at the following screen iotop -o shows no IO activity. Anyone know how this can be fixed?

I have an Asus Xonar DG installed in my Pop OS (Ubuntu 19.04 flavor) machine. I was wondering if I am able to separate the different capture sources into discrete inputs for use in Jack and streaming stuff from my Aux/Front Mic to, say, Audacity while keeping my microphone working in Discord. ...

I'm on Ubuntu 19.04, and I would like to know a good way for inserting macrons, ā/ē/ī/ō/ū, without using the compose key. I'm currently dealing with a bunch of Latin, and these are essential to the spellings of vocabulary. Ideally, what I would like to do is press a and then - quickly together to...

I've been tinkering around with premake5.0.0-alpha13 for an rendering engine I want to start working on. I want the ended to be cross platform hence I use premake5. The problem kicked in after I wanted to use it on mac and linux (ubuntu). I do not understand how to install it. All the links and...

When trying to install python 3.7 on Ubuntu 18.04 I get error messages like: zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available or ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_ctypes' or ~/.pyenv/plugins/python-build/bin/python-build: line 775: make: command not found...

I am having an issue with kvm-qemu. Host: Ubuntu Guest OS is win2k12 R2. When the VM is booted, some times it get stuck at windows log or it pass the windows log & get stuck at a black screen. I had to do a force shutdown through virt-manager to come out of it. Once turned off, If I start it ba...

I'm not sure if there is a similar command/utility which comes along with Linux distro CentOs, Ubuntu and RedHat without installing Curl. Basically I'd like to do a command like below curl -H https://website.com/api?... ...but doesn't want to install any tool.

I stumbled about this question when it was eight hours old. A new user (not the question author) commented under the question. The reputation score of the new user is "one". Looking immediately at the user profile I see an (unregistered) beside the user name, also the user has not posted any que...