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by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 5:19 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: Make MX Linux charge your phone
Replies: 8
Views: 205

Re: Make MX Linux charge your phone




Fresh MXLinux install would not charge the phone from either USB-2 or USB-3 ports. Front or rear did not matter. Made these tweaks, and now my phone charges. It has been a fairly recent change to the Linux kernel from what I find. The bug does not exist in Debian 12, but it does in MX Linux ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 4:04 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: personal bin directory fix
Replies: 7
Views: 130

Re: personal bin directory fix



Hmmm, you missed the first line?

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.

"The file is just shell commands. It is typically used to change prompts, set environment variables, and define shell procedures." *

I'd say nothing a non-interactive type job needs, but...



The first ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:19 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: personal bin directory fix
Replies: 7
Views: 130

Re: personal bin directory fix



It's usually better to add it to the end of the file so it doesn't disrupt expected behaviors and your changes don't get overwritten. Or add something like this:

if [ -f /home/michael/bin/.bashrc ]; then
. /home/michael/bin/.bashrc
fi

to the end of .bashrc for better portability and ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:50 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: personal bin directory fix
Replies: 7
Views: 130

personal bin directory fix

You need to add

echo ".bashrc executed"
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ]; then
export PATH="$HOME/bin":$PATH
echo "added to PATH"
fi


with or without the echo statements to the top of .bashrc if you want your personal bin directory to be in your path. This code in .profile

# if running bash
if [ -n ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:25 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: Make MX Linux charge your phone
Replies: 8
Views: 205

Re: Make MX Linux charge your phone


I have had my phone on my usb port of this system and it charging and doing the data thing just fine, nothing special was needed to make it do that. Other than plug a cable in between the two.


Just to round this out, most/many/possibly-all newer motherboards have a BIOS setting under either ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 12:48 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: Make MX Linux charge your phone
Replies: 8
Views: 205

Re: Make MX Linux charge your phone


I can only imagine the OP wanted to use a USB port for charging that stays alive when the computer is in standby.

The machines I have with that capability work as expected, but not all do on Linux.

Chris


No. This is in a desktop where I turn off (as best I can) power management because I run ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 11:16 am
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: Make MX Linux charge your phone
Replies: 8
Views: 205

Make MX Linux charge your phone

I was shocked when, after installing MX Linux on my HP Z2G4 desktop that my phone would no longer charge from any USB port. Tried different cable, nothing worked. Plugged into a different machine and all was well. There are two things you need to do, though the first should have worked by itself ...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Aug 05, 2025 10:13 am
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: flatpaks for default applications
Replies: 35
Views: 1498

Re: flatpaks for default applications


To sum up the numbers above, the majority of browsers counted as Chrome are still Chrome. And the claim was that the vast majority is something else.


I don't know how you can draw that conclusion, but believe what you will. INTEL (the chip maker) certainly says otherwise. I guess you don't know ...
by seasoned_geek
Sun Aug 03, 2025 6:35 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks by users (not for help)
Topic: How to use Betterbird flatpak as default email client
Replies: 4
Views: 162

How to use Betterbird flatpak as default email client

After you install the flatpak, open a terminal

sudo nano /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/betterbird.desktop

paste in

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Icon=betterbird
Type=X-XFCE-Helper
Name[am]=Betterbird
Name=Betterbird
Keywords=email;mail;inbox;message;communication;
StartupNotify=false
X-XFCE-Binaries ...
by seasoned_geek
Sun Aug 03, 2025 5:20 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: flatpaks for default applications
Replies: 35
Views: 1498

Re: flatpaks for default applications


That means more than every human (by current estimates) has a browser.

I have multiple browsers on my desktop, phone, and tablet, so I account for a lot of those browsers.


Ditto.
There are 5 running machines in this office along with others not turned on. Every Linux machine I set up for use ...

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