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<p>Dolphin File Manager: Enable Administrator or Root Access</p><p>Attain the necessary steps on how to activate the administrator or root mode access using KDE Plasma’s default file manager application Dolphin.</p><p><a href="https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/dolphin-enable-administrator-root-access/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.adamsdesk.com/posts/dolphin-enable-administrator-root-access/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.adamsdesk.com/posts/dolphi</span><span class="invisible">n-enable-administrator-root-access/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://floss.social/@kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kde</span></a></span></p>

After seeing <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@ly2en" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ly2en</span></a></span> bsddialog installer UI, I got curious and tried it on my own Slackware ThinkPad.<br><br>Built bsddialog from git (thanks to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@alfonsosiciliano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alfonsosiciliano</span></a></span> for the project) and wired it into my tty1 session menu — this is what my login screen looks like now.<br><br>Clean fonts, proper spacing, no GUI toolkit… it really feels like a real BSD-style installer, not just “dialog in a box”.<br><br><a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/tui/" rel="tag">#TUI</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a><br><br>

I am running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> RELEASE 15.0 with <a href="/tags/pkg/" rel="tag">#pkg</a> for package management, no <a href="/tags/ports/" rel="tag">#ports</a> at all. It appeared to me that the Joe&#x27;s Window Manager port, x11-wm/jwm, was built without <a href="/tags/svg/" rel="tag">#SVG</a> image support by default. However svg files are actually widely used by multiple icon themes, meaning that many of them will not work under <a href="/tags/jwm/" rel="tag">#JWM</a> . Should I simply compile it manually out of ports tree? I mean getting the ports tree is not difficult but setting up <a href="/tags/poudriere/" rel="tag">#poudriere</a> and all just for one package seems tedious. Are there any other simpler waysnto achieve this?<br><br><br><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/wm/" rel="tag">#WM</a><br>

<a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from <a href="/tags/yahoo/" rel="tag">#Yahoo</a> email? I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have <a href="/tags/alpine/" rel="tag">#Alpine</a> set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while. I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.<br><a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a><br>

<p><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#bsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> people, what shell do you use, and if you have a specific reason, then why?</p>

Spent a few hours today testing and tweaking pekwm vs evilwm on my Slackware system (same st + tmux + Firefox, same X setup). evilwm is beautifully minimal and will stay as my backup — and I’ll probably use it more whenever I feel like switching things up — but pekwm feels smoother, with less flicker and cleaner redraws.<br><br>I even found and reported a small -snap bug in evilwm while testing 🙂<br><br><a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/evilwm/" rel="tag">#evilwm</a><br>

<a href="/tags/tinkertuesday/" rel="tag">#TinkerTuesday</a><br><br>I spent the last days building and testing a few minimalist X11 window managers on Slackware: evilwm, shod and Notion — even patching Notion to build with GCC 15.<br><br>evilwm is still my lightweight, workspace-oriented backup WM, but for a tab-based, rule-driven stacking workflow, nothing I tried comes close to pekwm.<br><br>Firefox, terminal and mail living in one frame, out of the way — that’s still the sweet spot for me.<br><br><a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a><br>

<p>Marooned / Verschollen im Weltall</p><p><a href="/tags/moodoftheday/" rel="tag">#moodoftheday</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#Desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#Screenshot</a></p>

Having been using <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> as daily desktop operating system but I never thought about this. Remotely remind me of the <a href="/tags/pkgbase/" rel="tag">#pkgbase</a> arguement in <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a><br><br><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1019898/" rel="nofollow">Debian&#x27;s AWKward essential set</a><br><br><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/awk/" rel="tag">#AWK</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a><br>

<p>While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#UNIX</a> v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973</p><p>Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: <a href="https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_E</span><span class="invisible">dition</span></a></p><p>We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum </p><p><a href="/tags/retrocomputing/" rel="tag">#retrocomputing</a></p>

<p>Main: &quot;Tionisla&quot; - DELL Latitude e6540 <br>FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p5 amd64<br>KDE/Plasma 6.5.0</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c6</span><span class="invisible">64559</span></a></p><p>Kudos to the FreeBSD/KDE folks!</p><p> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/kde_plasma/" rel="tag">#kde_plasma</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a></p>

<p>Secondary: &quot;Tianve&quot; - HP 250 G3 <br>GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p4<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p4 amd64<br>KDE/Plasma 6.4.5/wayland</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa</span><span class="invisible">9b597</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#GhostBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/kde_plasma/" rel="tag">#kde_plasma</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#wayland</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a></p>

<p>Why are so many people using sudo su instead of sudo -i ?</p><p><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/root/" rel="tag">#root</a></p>

<p>Main: &quot;Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540<br>Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64<br>Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2<br>Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0 <br>Windowmanager: XFWM4<br>Qt Version: 6.10.1<br>Graphics Platform: X11</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c6</span><span class="invisible">64559</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/lxqt/" rel="tag">#lxqt</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a></p>

A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux<br>expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how<br>system design choices age over time.<br><br>Instead of replying inline, I wrote a short,<br>standalone note to capture the trade-offs around<br>scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.<br><br>Original thread:<br><a href="https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115</span><span class="invisible">973122695310819</span></a><br><br>Document:<br><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/b</span><span class="invisible">lob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt</span></a><br><br>Blog:<br><a href="https://4c6e.xyz/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>4c6e.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/systemdesign/" rel="tag">#SystemDesign</a> <a href="/tags/minimalism/" rel="tag">#Minimalism</a><br>

A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux<br>expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how<br>system design choices age over time.<br><br>I already had notes on dwm, st, and X11 usage, and<br>this thread was the motivation to turn them into a<br>short, standalone document about the trade-offs<br>around scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.<br><br>Original thread:<br><a href="https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115</span><span class="invisible">973122695310819</span></a><br><br>Document:<br><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/b</span><span class="invisible">lob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt</span></a><br><br>Blog:<br><a href="https://4c6e.xyz/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>4c6e.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/systemdesign/" rel="tag">#SystemDesign</a> <a href="/tags/minimalism/" rel="tag">#Minimalism</a><br>

Today I learned <a href="/tags/cmw/" rel="tag">#CMW</a> actually has built-in shortcuts for opening terminals, moving and resizing windows and many more. I admit I should have <a href="/tags/rtfm/" rel="tag">#RTFM</a> earlier.<br><br><a href="/tags/til/" rel="tag">#TIL</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/wm/" rel="tag">#WM</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a><br>

<p>Secondary: &quot;Tianve&quot; - HP-250 G3<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p8 amd64<br>Operating System: GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p8<br>Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0 <br>Windowmanager: XFWM4<br>Qt Version: 6.10.1<br>Graphics Platform: X11</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494</span><span class="invisible">a1526</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#ghostbsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/lxqt/" rel="tag">#lxqt</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a></p>

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<p>The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button. </p><p>What would you like?</p><p>The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.</p><p>The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.</p><p>Three screenshots: </p><p>1. an overview of &lt;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&amp;t=day" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&amp;t=day"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?</span><span class="invisible">sort=top&amp;t=day</span></a>&gt; before removal of the TrueNAS button</p><p>2. the entire sidebar as represented at &lt;<a href="https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/</a>&gt;</p><p>3. focus on the other sub shortlist, and the other shortlist, within the sidebar.</p><p>Thanks.</p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/californialaw/" rel="tag">#CaliforniaLaw</a> is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.</p><p><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac</span><span class="invisible">es/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043</span></a></p><p>They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client &#x27;apps&#x27;, from &#x27;stores&#x27;, which use &#x27;accounts&#x27; that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.</p><p>But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> and <a href="/tags/ubuntu/" rel="tag">#Ubuntu</a> through <a href="/tags/arch/" rel="tag">#Arch</a> Linux and <a href="/tags/mobaxterm/" rel="tag">#MobaXTerm</a> to <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from &#x27;publicly available internet website&#x27; repositories.</p><p>There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.</p><p><a href="/tags/midnightbsd/" rel="tag">#MidnightBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a> <a href="/tags/uslaw/" rel="tag">#USLaw</a> <a href="/tags/ageverification/" rel="tag">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="/tags/gdpr/" rel="tag">#GDPR</a></p>

<p>Old: &quot;Zaonce&quot; - Dell Inspiron 1525<br>Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p8 amd64<br>Operating System: GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p8<br>Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0 <br>Windowmanager: XFWM4<br>Qt Version: 6.10.1<br>Graphics Platform: X11</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=2904d8ae09" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=2904d8ae09"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=2904d</span><span class="invisible">8ae09</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#ghostbsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/lxqt/" rel="tag">#lxqt</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a></p>