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how to allow only steam to not cause remote controll popup.

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:40:07 +0100

in steam i have it configured so that using a controller combination i can change the volume. however, whenever i do so for the first time and after not using that for a while, a popup asks for confirmation
the popup window title is "remote control"
the popup content is
"an application is as asking for special privileges
-remote control"
while it seems there are ways to disable the popup outright system wide, i do not wish to do so because there is probably a good reason it exists. what i would like to do is to make it so that only steam gets special permission and it doesnt ask if steam does it.

p.s.: i am still quite new to linux, so if i asked this in the wrong place, please kindly direct me to the correct one.
i am on Garuda Dr460nized Gaming with the default kde desktop environment that shipped withit

furthermore: i dont freking know if this is the right place. i have tried garudalinux reddit, but it doesnt allow support posts. i tried to sign up to garudalinux forum that it directed me to, but the veryfication email didnt send. i tried to post it on linux4noobs, but the it kept being banned by reddits filters. at this point please i beg you, if you know the answer to this problem, do answer, because i could not for the life of me find a better place to post this.

Wi-Fi works for a few minutes, then disappears

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:57:24 +0100

Currently using Ubuntu 25.1. I'm trying to get it to work on my laptop, but I've had this same issue on an HP desktop and a desktop I built myself. The issue is the same each time, no matter which distro I use and which PC I use:

I boot up, Wi-Fi works great. If I stop interacting with it for 5 minutes or so (like during a network transfer), the system stops recognizing my Wi-Fi and it doesn't work again until I reboot. Then the cycle just continues.

It makes torrenting impossible and I can't use network file transfers because they all take longer than this timeout bug. This happens on Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, and Debian. What am I missing here? How do I fix this?

How to install Archboot in UTM

Tue, 13 May 2025 15:41:16 +0200

Hi, I'm trying to install Arch Boot on UTM, but it's stuck in Live mode. What do I do to install it?

I cannot install RedHat 8.8

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:23:24 +0100

Hi I have downloaded rhel-8.8-x86_64-dvd.iso and checked the check-sum against RedHat it seems good but I cannot manage to install it, always end up on

then
dracut:/# see image
I have a MacBook Pro i7 with 16gb of RAM, my virtual machine has 6700 RAM and 4 Processors
I have successfully installed Redhat 6x without a problem or Ubuntu and so on, I have downloaded the ISO from the REDHAT portal as a developer to try out the new version but I can not manage to install it. please any help is welcome. Thanks
The same happens if I try to install CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-2009.iso.

How things are done, using bash to run simple command(s)?

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:03:15 +0200

Good morning fine people of the Linux world.

Please, forgive me if I have posted this in the wrong section. Was not sure where to post.
This is just query. After a bit of searching about, I found a solution to something I was looking to achieve, which was to switch my monitor off by clicking on a shortcut/icon, so that at 3am when Im done watching whatever and Im half asleep, I dont have to reach over and switch the monitor off as one would usually do.

My solution, a fairly simple one. A bash script consisting of the following two lines.

#!/bin/bash
sleep 1 && xset dpms force off

Well my primitive understanding is that bash is a simple programming language, which seems rather overkill simply to run a terminal command from a shortcut. So my question is just about the way in which things are done.......have I reached the typical solution for such a desired result, or are there easier, more basic methods, to run terminal commands on demand/from shortcut, than to use bash

In Win, the typical solution would be a batch file, that is simply a list of commands to be ran.......and whilst my bash script is essentially the same thing, you are STILL having to elicit the use of programming language to do so. I just cant imagine theres not a lower level way of getting such a simple job done?

Hope you dont mind me asking such a dumb question. Thank you
Ross

Using git + python

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:37:51 +0200

So here is my problem:

I wanted a window manager switcher and found this one: https://github.com/xircon/wm-switcher. So I proceeded to clone it, so I could use it...

... and then I realized that I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it!

I'm used to windows but I am willing (and wanting) to change. Problem is: I'm always expecting icons. If I needed to run a program I'd double-click it, even python scripts.

By the way, a little introduction:

I've been using windows for over 20 years, can fix the thing even if you try really hard to break it on purpose, I was very frustrated with win10 and a few days ago I finally had enough.

After doing some research I figured that Puppy Linux was ideal for me.

CentOS vs.?

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:29:41 +0200

Hello all. I have recently bought a new computer and plan to convert the OS of my old computer to Linux. I am in the capstone for my Bachelor's in IT so I have a pretty good understanding of computers. I may look into earning certificates with RedHat so I am thinking about using CentOS as my distro. My questions are:

1. Is it a good distro for beginners? (Again, I have programming and IT education)

2. Does anyone recommend any step-by-step (video or document) tutorials to completing the switch?

Thanks in advance for the responses.

Patrick

I displaced my linux partitions now boot takes a lot of time.

Wed, 20 May 2020 23:05:15 +0200

Hello everyone, i have a problem and i need help, first of all, i moved totally to Linux (Debian10) probably like 8 months ago, i used this tutorial for disk partitioning and everything went perfect, then after some time i noticed that my /(root) partition was running out of space, the size of it was 30 GB, as the tutorial of disk partitioning suggested, and what i did was shrink the home partition (which is the biggest) moved it, and expand the root, all this on a Ubuntu live GParted, i have a dual-boot (be cause of uni i had to reinstall Windows) so after doing that, just in case, i ran Boot-Repair. Since then when i select Debian on Grub, it takes like between 5 - 8 mins to boot up whereas before the partition adjustment it toked like a 4th of that time, and keeps showing lots of errors like:

ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve [^^^GFXO.AFN2] , AE_NOT_FOUND (20180810/psargs-330)

ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCIO.LPCB.H_EC._QC9, AE_NOT_FOUND (20180810/psparse-516)

A star job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/03648bf7-3c03-45ad-9d91-a90eea220b66 (45s / 1min 30s)

Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device

/dev/sda2: clean, 504438/3049648 files, 7270848/12206336 blocks

Does anyone know how to help me?

I would really appreciate your help, thank you for reading.

Im back.....

Sat, 09 May 2020 05:59:25 +0200

been along time.. but i found my way back. hello to all from the past that are still around...

<@lit> Hi!

Argument errors help please

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:02:05 +0100

What am i doing wrong here?

usage: ****** [-h] [-t USER_TARGETS [USER_TARGETS ...]]

[-u USER_URLS [USER_URLS ...]] [-q USER_QUERY] [--loose]

[-c CONFIG_FILE [CONFIG_FILE ...]] [-o OUTPUT_FILE]

[-bc BC_PATH] [-sk] [-k CLI_APIKEYS [CLI_APIKEYS ...]]

[-lb LOCAL_BREACH_SRC [LOCAL_BREACH_SRC ...]]

[-gz LOCAL_GZIP_SRC [LOCAL_GZIP_SRC ...]] [-sf]

[-ch [CHASE_LIMIT]] [--power-chase] [--hide] [--debug]

[--gen-config]

******: error: argument -o/--output: expected one argument

root@kali:~# ****** -o -t fakeuser@yahoo.com -bc /home/kali/Desktop/

root@kali:~# ****** -t fakeuser@yahoo.com -bc /home/kali/Desktop/ -o

I get the same error message with the -o in either spot. I was modeling this after some tutorials where they had other flags, although not the -o, and it worked from what I could tell so I just replaced theirs with the -o.

Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance!!!