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How to check if Wayland or X11 is used?

Posted by Alex On February 9, 2024

Table of contents 1. What is Wayland and X11 2. How to find out if you are using Wayland or X11 on the command line 2.1 Using the session ID 2.2 Checking the $XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable 2.3 Checking the WAYLAND_DISPLAY and DISPLAY variables 2.4 Finding Display Server environment variables 3. How to detect whether X11 or Wayland is being used in a GUI 3.1 How to see if GNOME is...

How to fix Linux booting to black screen (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On August 27, 2023

Pretty harmless video card settings (for example, installing drivers, choosing a video card for video output on a laptop, enabling 10-bit color depth) can lead to a serious problem for beginners: the Linux operating system boots into a black screen. Since this problem cannot be solved by the usual methods in the graphical interface, novice Linux users often come to...

Xfce boots without Taskbar and Start button (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On July 1, 2022

From time to time my Kali Linux with Xfce desktop environment boots up without the taskbar and start button. Only desktop shortcuts and the desktop itself are visible, that is, the system looks like this (this is a full, uncropped screen). It is almost impossible to work in such a system, although Linux works, it allows you to open a...

GUI program to view and delete metadata in Linux

Posted by Alex On October 14, 2021

What is metadata Metadata is additional information embedded in a file, for a photo, metadata is GPS coordinates, information about the camera, shooting settings, etc., for office documents, metadata is the author's name, the time the document was edited, the name of the organization, the editor program, etc. As it is said, metadata is information that describes other information. Many...

How to install John the Ripper and Johnny on Windows with GPU support

Posted by Alex On May 25, 2021

John the Ripper is a password cracking program that can brute-force passwords for many types of files: archives, office documents, can crack network protocol hashes, and much more. John the Ripper is a command line utility, so using it requires command line skills and knowledge of John the Ripper options. Johnny is a graphical interface for John the Ripper that...