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What's the difference between KeePass / KeePassX / KeePassXC?
KeePass, KeePassX and KeePassXC look very close.
What's the difference between them?
Martin Monperrus
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How to execute a command in screen and detach?
How can I get screen to execute a command and then detach (That is, automatically in a single script without further input beyond initially starting the script)? e.g. I run myscript.sh and it automatically starts a screen session, executes a…
darkfeline
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How can I stop windows re-positioning after waking from sleep?
I put my multi-monitor system to sleep when it's not in use. After I wake it up, all windows are repositioned to a different screen. The closest pattern I can think of is that the windows there were on the main screen switch to a the second screen.…
Kingamoon
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How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?
What's the best way of placing a bootable ISO on a USB drive, such that the drive is bootable? ISOs such as a live Linux preview disk, Windows installation ISO, etc.
Justin White
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Why should I use exFAT over NTFS on removable media?
So, basically I always format my removable mass storage devices as NTFS by default, but someone told me I was better off using exFAT. Now I've been looking around google, but can't find any good reasons why I should.
Is there anything that exFAT…
Pylsa
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Why can't I find a USB-C hub with multiple USB-C ports?
My computer only has one USB-C port and I want to connect multiple USB-C devices to it.
I have trawled through Amazon but am amazed that I cannot find a single one. There are many hubs that have USB 3.1 USB-A ports but not USB-C ones.
Is there a…
NibblyPig
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Is it safe to delete AppData\Local\Temp?
I seem to have a lot of junk files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp (also accessible via environment variables %TEMP% and %TMP%).
Is it safe to delete these?
Also, is it safe to delete the Temp folder in the Windows directory, C:\Windows\Temp?
agz
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How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive?
I want to mount a USB drive, two of them and I need two different mount points. Unfortunately, the Linux kernel underwent a name change and I can't figure out which /dev location is the right one. Is there a way to look through dmesg or /proc or…
r_2009
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How can I determine file type without an extension on Windows?
I sometimes get files from my clients that have the wrong file extension. For example, the name is image.jpg but the file is actually a TIFF image. In many cases I can clarify it by opening the file in a text editor, looking at the first few bytes,…
Martin
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How to access linux/Ubuntu files from Windows 10 WSL?
This question answers how to access Windows files from Ubuntu Bash, but how can I do the opposite?
Specifically, I need to access my SSH key from Windows which is located at /home/mark/.ssh/id_rsa under Bash.
mpen
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
Our corporate BOFH imposes the screen lock setting with a ridiculously short delay. It's frustrating and counterproductive.
Is there a way to prevent the automatic screen lock? I would assume there is no way to override the policy-enforced setting,…
Gabriel R.
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How to check which timezone in Linux?
Is there a way to check which time zone I'm currently in on Linux?
Hussy Hussain
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How does the tmux color palette work?
I'm trying to set something to gray, but can't figure out how. The only bit of info in the man page about colors I can find is:
message-bg colour
Set status line message background colour, where colour is one of:
black, red, green, yellow, blue,…
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How do I use the Selection tool to move things in GIMP?
Using GIMP 2.6.11
My previous image-editing software of choice was Microsoft Paint, which was very intuitive: make a rectangle, click + drag to move the contents of the rectangle around.
How do I replicate this functionality in GIMP? I seem to only…
Raven Dreamer
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My keyboard has no "media" keys; can I control media without them?
My USB keyboard does not have "media" keys -- that is, dedicated keys for play, stop, next, prev, volume up/down, etcetera.
For the sake of this question, I would prefer not to install additional software if I can avoid it.
Is it possible to issue…
Jeff Atwood
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