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I can't connect to the Internet through wifi. Doesn't detect the wifi card. How can I solve this problem?

I connect the monitor to my laptop via an hdmi cable. The screen is completely black, but I can see and move the mouse freely, but only the mouse pointer that appears on the external monitor. Laptop ...

I have no idea what changed to cause this, but just the day Videos started playing any file I gave it on mute. Other apps are totally unaffected (e.g. Epiphany works as an ugly work around, I can ...

today I decided to try Elementary OS (I used Pop OS before), but unfortunately while booting I get the Elementary OS logo and the console shows the following errors. This is the first time I have ...

My touchpad is too sensitive, so the cursor keeps jumping around while I'm trying to edit text which is rather annoying. xinput list tells me the device is # 11, but xinput list-props does not list ...

I have two installation running VMWare Fusion stuck at "Extraction Files (1%)" 30 minutes VirtualBox stuck at "Online account" - Installation does not start automatically, has to ...

After the last updates available by the system in the application center, I think he formatted it on my computer. When I accessed it again, he sent this message that follows in the image. However, ...

I am using pCloud and Dropbox for uploading my files. Both services are installed in my computer running elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera. Whenever I add files in any of the service provider folder, there are ...

Good Morning I have installed Elementary OS 5.1.7 I noticed Elementary 0S 6 Beta is out already, when the stable version will be ready do I have uninstall the current version to install the version 6 ...

I want to contribute to some elementaryOS apps, like Mail and Files. If I'm on 5.1, the versions of meson and valac are too old for those applications, as specified in their meson.build files. If I'm ...

I am currently using elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera and I had an idea to improve elementary/files. So I cloned the repo and I was trying to build it using the provided instructions in the README.md However,...

I've been trying to install Nvidia proprietary drivers in my new Elementary Odin installation, but not being able to do so. I tried to install both driver 465 and 450, but both drivers presents the ...

I've been using Elementary Odin (6) early access for a few days. I'm impressed with the quality of the system! IMHO it is extremely stable! Anyway, my workflow is pretty keyboard-centric, and my ...

I have installed eOS Hera 3 days ago on my Dell Inspiron with ryzen 3700u and the problem I am facing is that when I boot my laptop, the display just turn off after showing login screen but the system ...

When I try to connect to an encrypted wifi via the gui I get an error message that says "This wireless network could not be connected to." (see screenshot below). I'm not being asked for ...

I tried it on Brave browser, VS Code, Files etc. Ctrl + C/V seems to work fine but notCtrl + F. What could be causing this?

Whenever I would use Elem. OS my cursor would at random get stuck and not move until I would reset it by lifting my fingers. This did not happen on Windows 10, nor did it, or does on any other Linux ...

Today I installed Elementary OS 5.1.7 and tried to run the update. Unfortunately, updates cannot be performed. Each time, it hangs on the Waiting for package manager lock message and puts the update ...

Whenever I open to view a .txt file within my Documents folder, the contents of the file are hidden behind instead of being revealed in front of the Documents folder. I am using 'Leafpad' to open the ...

I am trying to install eOS 6 Odin beta on BTRFS with @ and @home subvolumes of / and /home as seen in ubuntu to be used with timeshift. So far I am able to install Odin on BTRFS, and I am able to ...

I have been attempting to open port on my laptop running eOS, I made sure the UFW was turned off. $ sudo ufw status Status: inactive Before when I was using different kind of Linux distributions, ...

I have some cogwheel sorta kinda icon for an executable in .wine, but I have the actual program icon from the company. Is there an easy way to change the icon? I have tried right click and properties ...

This problem has plagued me for the past couple days. I noticed that one day I updated everything from the AppCenter, and it still had 2 Operating System Updates left, so I tried to update them again, ...

The folders in 'Home' (e.g. Documents, Downloads, etc.) all have nice icons on their folders. I have a 'Google Drive' folder in my home area where I sync my files with Google Drive. I would like to ...

Complete n00b at linux. (and to be honest most things command line) trying desperately to figure out why I cannot change the displays backlight brightness. When I adjust it via the keyboard shortcuts ...

I am new to Elementary. As I can not find more stuff about Elementary, no wiki, no real forum, can I use all Ubuntu things or Elementary os ? Also is it ok to upgrade to latest kernel ? thanks

I have been using elementary OS for some time now(months). I have it dual-booted with Windows 10. What I did to open elementary OS was to press "esc" while booting, then choose boot options, ...

I would like to get permissions to save translations but this url https://translators-slack.elementary.io/ not reached.

I am trying to install Elementary OS 6 beta on a 2015 HP Pavillion 15" laptop alongside Windows and Manjaro. (The storage device is a 1tb WD hard drive) However, every time I get to selecting the ...

I'm using a laptop (Thinkpad E570) and it's worked great with elementary OS. I usually use 2 monitors with it but had to remove one, so I started using one external monitor and the integrated lcd on ...

Suspend does not go suspend/sleep, it wakes immediately, around 2 secs after the suspend. system: elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera Macbook Air 13" Mid 2013

Unfortunately (and quite stupidly), I had .txt files set to open with Libreoffice Writer by default, and when I clicked on my sources.list file to add something, it opened up there. I suspect this is ...

I'm using KMidimon to debug why my midi drums randomly stopped working. It appears that every other midi note isn't being transferred. I highly, highly doubt this is an issue with the drums because ...

Logitech web camera doesn't work ! I assume system doesn't have any driver ! how come ? I use to use it !what about now ? Is this some update ?

When I put my laptop into hibernate or suspend it resumes when I open my lid. I would like to disable this behavior and only resume from hibernation / suspension when pressing the power button. Is ...

Im looking for an easy and quick way to switch between my audio devices, since i swap them daily. Headphones are conected to laptop, and speakers to monitor/hdmi. Every time i need to open sound ...

I'm just wondering if I can run sudo apt autoremove with the following packages installed. I have run it a number of times before on ubuntu and I am on a laptop and sometimes the GUI fails, sound card ...

After changing out my gpu from a 960 to a 710 I can't get to the lock screen. The system boot like normal and I get the elementary logo. However it then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor. ...

On my elementary OS 5.1.7 laptop, somehow the Powerline fonts are broken, whereas on my desktop, they are not. Here are pictures from my laptop of tmux and nvim: I have reinstalled the fonts-...

Trying new Odin beta ask for an EFI partition, how should I set up it? I want to keep my Manjaro & Windows boot options alive, too.

The beta version includes non-curated apps so where are the curated apps located? Sorry if this question has been asked.

I recently used the USB live version of elementary os and loved it. My screen was detected properly with no problems. However, when I installed the OS to the hard drive my screen is being displayed ...

I tried installing Odin Beta today and it went smoothly. With the default nouveau drivers it works fine, albeit a tad slow during animations. Then I proceeded to install nvidia-drivers-460. The ...

I'm trying to contribute to Granite, but I'm still on elementary OS v5, which doesn't include the required vala computed version. Thanks to jeremypw I found the relevant ppa: https://launchpad.net/~...

I'm trying to build a fresh clone of Granite's master branch, on elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera, but I'm getting these errors: ../lib/Widgets/SwitchModelButton.vala:65.9-65.19: error: The type name `var' ...

I just installed eOS Hera on my PC, but the ethernet connection doesn't shown on network settings. I was update the OS, instal libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200, restart services network, ...

Can anyone tell me how to make the size of the color selector circle not be affected by the use of the Granite.ModeSwitch?

I recently came across elementary OS and thought it was perfect for my needs. Lovely looking distro. I used the live USB and worked like a charm. However, when I installed it on my hard drive I got a ...

The bluetooth is recognized and the icon is displayed on the wingpanel, but when I turn bluetooh on, it is not discovered by any device. Is this a driver issue?

I recently upgraded my EOS computer by installing EOS Hera 5.1. I did a normal install on the root directory "/" but kept everything else (other partitions like /home, /opt etc). I have a ...