How to set up automatic login in Linux with LightDM
Posted by Alex On April 9, 2023
First, make sure you are using the LightDM display manager: systemctl status display-manager Line lightdm.service - Light Display Manager confirms that this OS uses LightDM. Logging into Linux with LightDM (style and background images may vary on other Linux distributions): To automatically login to LightDM, open the configuration text file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Find […]
How to enable automatic login in Linux (GDM, LightDM, SDDM)
Posted by Alex On April 9, 2023
Table of contents 1. How to find out which display manager is being used 2. Automatic login to GDM 3. Automatic login to LightDM 4. How to set up automatic login in Linux with SDDM When booting into Linux, it first starts the Display Manager, which asks us to enter a username and password, and if […]
How to set up automatic login in Linux with SDDM
Posted by Alex On April 9, 2023
SDDM is an X11 and Wayland display manager based on QML. In my Linux installations, the SDDM display manager performed better than GDM, LightDM. So if you're having trouble with other display managers, try SDDM. Make sure that the OS uses SDDM: systemctl status display-manager The line sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager confirms that […]
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: imap: Unable to initialize module (SOLVED). How to install the imap module for PHP on Arch Linux
Posted by Alex On April 8, 2023
When running a PHP script in Arch Linux or derivative distributions (Manjaro, BlackArch) on the command line: php 8.php You may see the following warning from PHP: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: imap: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with module API=20210902 PHP compiled with module API=20220829 These options need to match in Unknown on line […]
How to increase the size of the partition and file system after increasing the physical size of the disk
Posted by Alex On March 23, 2023
Disk partition size and file system size In Linux, a disk can be used entirely by one partition or be divided into several partitions (similar to volumes in Windows). Usually, at the stage of installing the operating system, disk partitioning is done: disk partitions are created, and then these partitions are formatted into one or […]
How to prevent money loss in international roaming. Setting up your phone for international roaming
Posted by Alex On March 5, 2023
Table of contents 1. How to disable mobile Internet in roaming 2. Setting up the phone to work with SIM cards in international roaming 3. Consider purchasing mobile data roaming packages If you are traveling abroad, then you need to be prepared for the fact that mobile communications in roaming are quite expensive. Mobile Internet […]
How to update the GRUB bootloader on Debian and derivative distributions (Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Linux Mint)
Posted by Alex On February 17, 2023
The GRUB operating system loader is installed and updated on Linux like any other software package. But the peculiarity of the bootloader is that even after updating the package, the actual working files of the bootloader, which are located on the partition mounted along the /boot/grub/ path, are not automatically updated. That is, when new […]
Updating packages: whether to update the config file
Posted by Alex On February 8, 2023
Consider a situation when the package manager of your Linux distribution (Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Kali Linux) asks about updating the configuration file – what to do and how to get the latest version of the configuration file? Let’s figure it out. With some updates of some packages, the structure of the configuration file changes. […]
How to update the GRUB bootloader in Arch Linux and derivatives (Manjaro, BlackArch)
Posted by Alex On February 6, 2023
The GRUB operating system loader is installed and updated on Linux like any other software package. But the peculiarity of the bootloader is that even after updating the package, the actual working files of the bootloader, which are located on the partition mounted along the /boot/grub/ path, are not automatically updated. That is, when new […]
Error “No such file or directory: AH02454: FCGI: attempt to connect to Unix domain socket /run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock (*:80) failed” (SOLVED)
Posted by Alex On January 29, 2023
Debian and derivative distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, and many others) may experience a “FCGI: attempt to connect to Unix domain socket /run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock (*:80) failed” error when migrating from PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.2. Apache web server log sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log contains the following error messages: [Sun Jan 29 03:05:45.213609 2023] [proxy:error] [pid 1313500] […]