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Forcing monitor resolution in VirtualBox VM on Linux Guest

I am working in a VirtualBox 4 VM running Slackware-current. I have added an external monitor, and am attempting to set up both of them to run in their native resolutions, but am having no luck. I am following the instructions set out at on this…
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Is it possible to mount a disk image, created with dd, to a directory on a mounted external usb hdd?

I have an image of my home (/dev/sda3) partition, which I've created using the "dd" command. dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/path/to/disk.img I've deleted the home partition via gparted in order to enlarge my /dev/root partition. Then I've recreated the…
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Show current keyboard layout

One can use loadkeys command to set appropriate keyboard layout. My question is how can I check the currently selected layout (in the console mode)?
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flock: bad number: myfile.lock

I try to put a lock on a file like this: flock -e myfile.lock The result is: flock: bad number: myfile.lock Doesn't matter whether file exist or not, or whether I'm root. I even tried chmod a+rwx myfile. Still get the same error. I tried the same…
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Nextcloud client : No keychain service available

I have installed the nextcloud-client package from slackbuilds.org, with qtkeychain, libgnome-keyring and gnome-keyring. I run the daemon in my .xinitrc like explained on the ArchWiki: eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start) export SSH_AUTH_SOCK And…
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Shorewall - Allow Client to Ping Internet but Not Use the Browser or Port 80

My network address is 192.168.5.0. My host machine is 192.168.5.1 and my client machine is 192.168.5.2. How will I enable my client to ping the internet through the terminal but restrict it from accesing port 80 or the browser? Below is my…
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How do I check for dependencies before installing a Slackware package?

I have a question with regard to dependency checking. Before I download a package, I need to check to see if I have some of the dependencies already installed. How do I do that? I don't want to spend time downloading something I already have.
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Scripting an 'empty' password in /etc/shadow

I've written a script to add CVS and SVN users on a Linux server (Slackware 14.0). This script creates the user if necessary, and either copies the user's SSH key from an existing shell account or generates a new SSH key. Just to be clear, the…
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mounting a multi-drive USB enclosure in linux

I have a OWC Mercury Elite 2-bay USB drive enclosure (OWCMEPT934AL2C). I have it set on "individual" settings for the disks, so the 2 disks show up as two separate drives on my Mac (no raid, or spanning). I'm trying to mount them on my slackware…
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Making grub boot into chroot directory

I am trying to make grub boot into a chroot directory /slack containing a Slackware Linux installation. This directory was created by issuing the following command: installpkg --root /slack a/*.t?z where a/ directory contains the basic a/…
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Why are there special versions of GNOME maintained for Slackware?

Newbie here. I'm thinking about going from Ubuntu to Slackware and I just saw on Wikipedia that there is a number of projects that maintain GNOME binaries especially for Slack. So that made me wonder, why is that needed? What if I download a bare…
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Open .rar files on Slackware

How can I open .rar files in Slackware?
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How can I join a Slackware desktop to an AD network?

It's been a long time since I last used Slackware professionally and the opportunity arose once more. How can I join it to my company's network that's using Microsoft AD?
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slackware change dns permanently

I have done research and can change the DNS server by editing /etc/resolv.conf, but it seems like every time I reboot the setting is overwritten by something else... How can I stop whatever that edit the file?
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How can I get wine to support outputting to pulseaudio (through ALSA compatibility layer) with 32 bit Windows programs on Slackware64?

So, I have a working multilib setup as per the slackbook instructions. I have wine successfully working with 32 bit Windows programs (namely Skyrim and Deus Ex: Human Revolution). And I have pulseaudio successfully installed and configured for…
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