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Aren't you using LXDE or LXQT? There should be a keyboard and mouse settings menu, which includes "Keyboard Layout" settings for multiple layouts and a "Keys to change layout" drop-down menu...

JS processing is a disaster lately... It needs a total source cleanup but that would actually open it so not going to happen.

I do remember when I was into scuba diving and read all sorts of diving books. One had a section on dangers with columns of effects, treatment, etc. The section for orcas, then more commonly known as killer whales, was "Unlikely to survive" I...

This isn't about my personal preferences or capabilities. I’ve been using FreeBSD since 4.9 and various Linux distributions since kernel 2.2, so I'm perfectly fine in a shell. The issue is usability for the everyone. I need a solution that...

Handbook, chapter 5.5.4.2. Using X.org Configuration Files , Example 8. Setting a Keyboard Layout. Like: /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "All Keyboards" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" Option...

One thing I like about Windows is that I can easily change the keyboard layout be simply selecting which language I want to type in. I have no idea how to do this in FreeBSD. Can anyone point me at some howto? I only want to use some Polish...

On a fresh installation with xorg + twm or fvwm3 musescore works. With xfce4 it crashes, I presume that there is a mismatch in libraries somewhere. I currently try to do a reinstallation based source compilation using /usr/ports (using HEAD)...

Is it just me, or is the current (well, for "quarterly" values of current) version of firefox exceptionally brittle? For me, it crashes for nothing - click too quickly on a window, quick to many times (because gthe respones is slow sometimes) and...

It might also be deduced that if an attack occurs, it very rarely leaves evidence or witnesses, thus increasing the list of "lost at sea" and not "eaten by sea panda". Just a thought.

Good try kinda warm. it's Hajduk Split

How telling truth is harsh, if you are spreading misinformation, people need to know. You didn't do the proper research, I did discussed new wow64 on this very forums, see right here...

Okay, mystery solved, and the answer was in Bug 297548: My /tmp is using a tmpfs of 75MB, and the download was more than this. Setting TMPDIR to another location fixes the issue. The reason the issue "picks on" arm64 users is because we use...

You’re totally right that vanilla FreeBSD can handle all of that. Honestly, maintaining a custom setup like this is a hassle. The source is available, and it only took me a week or two to port over a working version, but I'd still prefer not to...

Okay, mystery solved, and the answer was in Bug 297548: My /tmp is using a tmpfs of 75MB, and the download was more than this. Setting TMPDIR to another location fixes the issue. The reason the issue "picks on" arm64 users is because we use...

And you can get support right here on the forums if you run into any issues.

pkg bootstrap -f this runs pkg, not pkg (there is a difference).

Point your browser to https://pkg.freebsd.org There's a list of mirrors at the bottom of the page. NOOO. This also deletes /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite which is the database that has the registrations of all your installed packages.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure how to do that. I tried changing all references to pkg.FreeBSD.org in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf to pkg0.ovh.freebsd.org, but I just got a lot of errors when I ran pkg upgrade. # pkg upgrade...

See, we have a volunteer. ;) smartctl is simple enough to check a drive once in a while and to start short/long self tests. What we don't know yet is what kind of disk we are talking about. Spinning Rust, f.e., is alergic to strong magnetic...

Good to know! Thanks a lot (I need to rewrite that old tinker junk anyway) saves me some lines! :cool: THANKS! (It all comes back to C 😁)

Videos can often be condensed to half the time by eliminating all the side chatter and startup waiting. And if you miss something or don't grasp an idea, having to rewind to get to the point is a pain. For me, a video has to be less than 15...

That's what we're here for.

I personally avoid white spaces, they are replaced by underscores mostly or dots sometimes. Don't know if it's part of the convention but that's what I do.

The problem with smartmontools is that it can produce so many reports and it is like searching for a needle in a haystack if you are not familiar with the program and don't know specifically what to look for.

My instincts would probably lean towards power supply, but overheating is quite possible, as is faulty cabling. You can't manage what you don't measure. Your very first step should be to install and configure sysutils/smartmontools. Then keep...

Then you need to check it

Yep, anything else forces a requirement for great care when using the shell to process file names... which is what you are likely to be doing very often... P.S. I forget who coined the phrase, but shell users who ignore cracauer@'s advice...

I like to keep filenames compatible with plain backtick substitution, aka grep foo `find . -type f` That means no spaces or funny business. (I know that this particular example can be changed easily to deal with spaces, but there are many...

My guess: I also see no benefit neither way here at the moment. Apart from it's off-topic for over 4 pages growing fast not coming back to topic at all, no matter of one likes the topic or not, I don't see this is of any constructive value at...

That is awesome, and i applaud that. But he should continue to do similar things without employing AI so much and just blindly relying on it. Been there, done that. Being oblivious is the growing trend of 2026 and its going to be even worse in...

I like to keep filenames compatible with plain backtick substitution, aka grep foo `find . -type f` That means no spaces or funny business. (I know that this particular example can be changed easily to deal with spaces, but there are many...

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Yes. Passionate non-engineers should use LLM to learn how to program, and not avoid programming. And it is completely braindead to claim LLM can replace devs or devs should not have problems working with 'mixed' code while not being one...

I would argue that any usage of LLM is only encouraging companies to invest more and more in this technology without any regards on the ecological impact on the planet, the ethical aspect on how the data was sourced, the respect of copyright...

You didnt insulted anyone directly. But, to have audacity to "start a project" and "develop" something extremly complex and to think you are somehow different than other "developers" that use AI just because you have some Unix/Linux knowledge, is...

To be fair Zio is not just a vibe coder. He is someone that put a lot of effort in a lot of corners of FreeBSD in last few years. I've followed the work he started together with a kernel dev on VM/bhyve nvidia passthrough stuff. I had tons of...

It is tough because AI interaction is low effort. You did not have to invest much in order to produce these plans for a hypothetical project. In perspective, you prompt it, and it throws back wall of text. You can ponder on it a bit, and then...

Don't need to check, format string can deal with it. I personally like the consistency, even if the total number would be less than 10. sh $ a=1 $ printf "%03d\n" $a 001

Exciting development : https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59749 (D59756). Integration of https://github.com/CSMWrap/CSMWrap in bhyve opens the door. That means legacy OS-es and experimental ones will be a reality on bhyve.

Another aspect for stubborn old fools like me trying to run AI models on hardware that has parts from 2011 ... Here' s a neat tool to catch-and-compress the context window before it's being sent to the model. In effect you can use a context...

This problem kept bothering me. After some investigation with network inspection tools, it turns out, the Void xbps-install(1) utility (and other "xbps-*" utilities, operating on remote repositories) tries to contact the predefined remote Void...

Btw we do have ntsync landed in CURRENT, and in 15-STABLE, and finally available in wine-devel. As for 32bit support it is solved by new wow64, and I have yet to get any report of it not working.

How old is the PSU in the PC? If its old, try replacing it with a new one.

I'd suspect power (PSU if all used same one, or whole-building)

How telling truth is harsh, if you are spreading misinformation, people need to know. You didn't do the proper research, I did discussed new wow64 on this very forums, see right here...

Will have a present for all the Raspberry Pi fans in the coming weeks/month rpi_fkms and v3d made specifically for freebsd no linuxisms

The system is showing 4 logical cores, but he's right. A 4th-gen i5-4300U only has 2 physical cores. It's just each core presents itself to the operating system as 2 logical cores through Intel Hyper Threading technology, but they're not real...

Then you need to check it

great! that did it; I reinstalled from scratch setting the boot partition to 512 KB and it now works; thanks to everyone!

Is this a FreeBSD machine or Windows?