Category Archives: Tips and tricks

Finding files/folders via cli on Linux

When doing admin tasks there will come a time that you will need to search something via command line. Here is how you do it.

#Install tree

You could also use locate or find commands but at least for me, tree command works a lot better. Tree command will display files and folders in a nicely structured view. We can then easily grep from treeĀ“s output and find our files or folders.

#Let’s install it.
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User not in netdev group

The issue of the user not being  in netdev group appeared in PostX Gnu/Linux 0.5. The user that gets created during the installation ends up not having the rights to use wicd after the  installation. Luckily, this is very easy to fix: Open terminal and execute:

sudo gpasswd -a username netdev

Replace username with your actual username. After this you should be able to run wicd without an issue.

PyQt5 issue with GLX and EGL

During PostX Gnu/Linux RC2, I hit the following issue with RunIT-QT Browser.

QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
QXcbIntegration: Cannot create platform OpenGL context, neither GLX nor EGL are enabled
QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
composeAndFlush: makeCurrent() failed Continue reading