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muhyb , in Helper script to remove packages.

Why the LTT logo though? Use something original maybe?

MsFlammkuchen , in What happened to glibc-widevine ?

There was a deletion request for that package, because it is not intended for x86 and mirrors a package in the official repos. It seems like it was deleted. I remember it getting an update not to long ago.

You can still clone the aur repo and get the PKGBUILD from there: https://aur.archlinux.org/glibc-widevine.git
But be aware, that it doesn't get updates anymore.

zelifcam , in What happened to glibc-widevine ?
@zelifcam@lemmy.world avatar

Paramount+ won’t play on Linux and Netflix plays at a lower bitrate.

DRM video on Linux will vary service to service. This is because each service sets their own rules for DRM using widevine. One service may require different levels of security than others. Resulting in different results depending on this service.

Unfortunately Linux is not a priority for these services and you’re likely out of luck.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

Does edge still provide the best streaming experience on Linux? I haven't streamed anything from my Linux machines in a while but that used to work well for most streaming providers. It coaxed 1080p out of a couple that would only serve 720p to Chrome IIRC.

progandy , in What happened to glibc-widevine ?

Glibc-widevine is only needed on arm and the aur comments have a link.

mub OP ,

Yeah that's what it said but it is required by the widevine aur package. I guess I could fork that package to remove the glibc-widevine package?

progandy ,

The pkgbuild should not depend on it if you build in x64, that is only a display Problem in the web i think. Firefox should be avle to download its own copy of widevine though.

Strit ,
@Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show avatar

Yeah. The PKGBUILD says glibc-widevine is only required for armv7h and aarch64 builds. SO it's just aurweb that's displaying it wrong.

theit8514 , in Is it possible to add a disk to a LVM on LUKS setup?

Check the note below that section. It will attempt to unlock all root partitions with the same passphrase entered, so if you setup the second drive with encryption it will unlock alongside your primary drive. With LVM on top you should then be able to expand the VG to the second drive to add space or redundancy to your LVs.

If the second drive has subpartitions (LVM on bottom, encryption on top) it looks like you'll need additional setup (section 7.2.2) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Modifying_the_encrypt_hook_for_multiple_partitions

CtrlAltOoops OP ,

Hey, thanks for taking the time to help. I appreciate it.

I've read the text you suggested and I'll create a couple of vms in order to test if it works for me.

kenopsik , in Laptop won't shut down on any kernel version above 6.7

I had something similar happen to me with Debian 12. I believe pressing ALT + F7 after it reached that "power off" message forced the computer to power off. Something caused it to get stuck, but I'm not 100% sure. It may have been some bug with my Samba file share setup, but I have no way of confirming that.

Not sure if this will work for you, but it's worth a try. Good luck and hope you solve the issue!

Infernal_pizza OP ,
@Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world avatar

I ended up solving it by installing kde plasma. I’d previously tried with as minimal an install as possible to narrow down the problem, but it seems all I had to do was carry on setting things up as I’d originally wanted!

kenopsik ,

I realized shortly after posting my reply that your post was created 30 days ago. Not 30 minutes lol. Glad you got it fixed!

lemmyreader ,

Well, actually ... As the Internet gets older (and more filled with ads and pop up windows and cookie banners and "Do not forget to subscribe!") we'll see the day that some people will answer Linux questions from 30 years ago, especially when the OP did forget a [Solved!] in the post title :-)

eruchitanda , in newbie needs help installing things SOLVED
@eruchitanda@lemmy.world avatar

I would do:

pacman -S --needed firefox

Instead.

You can replace pacman with AUR helper (I'd suggest installing Paru or YAY) if you're using one.

eruchitanda ,
@eruchitanda@lemmy.world avatar

BTW, for AUR helpers, you don't use sudo.

teolan , in Can't invoke file picker in riverwm?
@teolan@lemmy.world avatar

The thing you're missing is the xdg-desktop-portal .

I'm not sure how to actually configure. On sway I got it working at some point and stopped touching anything.

Veraxis , in Cannot run Wayland on nVidia at all

I do not think your issues are in any way unique. I am also using Plasma 6 on Arch with a 3080 Ti. Initially, it simply booted to a black screen with nothing but a cursor, and no ability to do anything.

Adding the changes to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf per @markus 's reply as well as adding those kernel params to my /boot/refind_linux.conf, and now it boots into a desktop, but I am seeing large amounts of flickering, windows going black, or visual elements flickering in and out. Looking at my installed packages, I already had both xorg-xwayland and wayland-protocols (per @Varen 's reply) installed.

It seems like there are still more steps before what I would consider a usable result. Personally, it was not "obvious" to me when Plasma 6 rolled out that I needed to do any of this.

pragmakist ,
@pragmakist@kbin.social avatar

Some of the flickering can be gotten rid of by disabling hardware-acceleration for qtwebengine.

I've got
`export QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_GPU_THREAD=1

export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu-compositing --num-raster-threads=1 --enable-viewport --main-frame-resizes-are-orientation-changes --disable-composited-antialiasing"`
in .bashrc.

Note that there is still enough flickering left to annoy, and some (appimage?) apps dont seem to register the setting.

ABeeinSpace , in mkinitcpio failing on Btrfs

Make sure the btrfs-progs package is installed. I got the same error from mkinitcpio when I redid my computer using btrfs and forgot that package

Hekel , in Arch Linux One Of The Easiest Distros To Install

Hyperbolic title + stupid face = no watch.

This trend has to die, not everyone is a moron with the brain maturity of a 8y old.

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