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Thursday, July 30, 2026

open terminal in docker

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docker run --rm --network=host -v open-terminal:/home/user -e OPEN_TERMINAL_API_KEY=your-secret-key --name open-terminal ghcr.io/open-web...

open-webui: Account Activation Pending

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If you get the following error: Account Activation Pending Contact Admin for WebUI Access Your account status is currently pending ac...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

horizon-client: invalid locale and no font don't work well with xfce4 black theme

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env GTK_THEME=Adwaita LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 horizon-client
Monday, July 13, 2026

flameshot error: Screenshot portal timed out after 30 seconds

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On a linux (arch or gentoo) with xfce4 and X server, flameshot does not run and gives an error: flameshot: error: Screenshot portal timed ...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Gentoo and nvidia: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

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Gentoo upgrade broke Xorg? It's probably your NVIDIA module. After a Gentoo system upgrade that includes a new kernel, Xorg can fail to...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Distrobox: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: cannot stat /usr/lib64/libEGL_nvidia.so.580.159.03: No such file or directory failed to start containers: fbox

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I have distrobox container, fbox, which was created using the following command: distrobox create -i quay.io/fedora/fedora:44-n fbox -H ~/...
Monday, June 01, 2026

xpra on gentoo: cuda is required

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/etc/portage/package.use/xpra: x11-wm/xpra -video_cards_nvidia
Sunday, May 24, 2026

tigervnc: vncserver@:1.service: Deactivated successfully just after start on gentoo

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Tigervnc server starts and then stops immedietly. The solution was to go to /etc/X11/Sessions, and rename Xsession file: cd /etc/X11/Ses...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory

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You can specify different shell, e.g.: sudo chroot /mnt/nixos /bin/sh

xpra: More responsive remote connections

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xpra start ssh://server/ --exit-with-children --start-child=terminator --encoding=jpeg --min-speed=100 --min-quality=0 --compress=1 --ban...
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