I had a weird thing happen today: all folder icons had changed themselves, after I tried to apply a different icon to a single folder only using Dolphin in KDE. Probably a bug that’s long been fixed. The trouble was I had no idea how to alleviate this problem, so I did some digging and … Read more
Most if not all Windows games have an install option on my Steam Deck, but when trying to install the same games on my Fedora workstation, Steam says the game is only available for Windows and cannot be installed. What gives? Turns out there’s a setting that will make this option available, but it’s disabled … Read more
After updating Fedora from 41 to 42, I’ve noticed that the Steam version from the Fedora repo no longer wanted to start. I could launch the Flatpak version, but it doesn’t have native Proton support so wouldn’t launch my games. Thankfully there’s an easy fix to make Fedora Steam work again with this simple fix: … Read more
I’ve had this on numerous occasions: I’m asking Fedora to shut down, and it either takes a while for it to obey my command, or it outright refuses. Most UIs aren’t exactly forthcoming about the reasons, by the command line interface has today told me that there’s a way to find out what might be … Read more
I had an issue with a brand new Plesk server on IONOS that apparently didn’t have the “apsc” database. Must have corrupted after the first update, but thankfully Plesk had made a backup just before it did this. It was a full server backup, part of which is this database backup. Here’s where we’ll find … Read more
Here’s another personal favourite topic my brain likes to forget: how to create and format disk partitions from the Command Line in Linux. No matter how many times I do it, I always forget the details when I don’t have a GUI to hand. For the record, both KDE and GNOME as well as the … Read more
It’s relatively easy to create a Windows-like “Start Menu” shortcut for applications you want to launch in KDE. It’s just that… I keep forgetting how to do that, so here’s a quick how-to on that subject. KDE has a Menu Editor app that lets us do this. Find it, then create a new item in … Read more
By default the KDE Plasma Workspace uses the newer Wayland protocol, however not all applications and use cases are compatible with it. GNOME still uses X11 by default, although it has a Wayland option too. NoMachine is such an example that’s not currently compatible with Wayland, and as such I couldn’t use it properly with … Read more
