Tutorials

Various user-submitted tutorials which have not been deemed necessary for permanent, maintained documentation on our Help Center.

[How To] Install and Enable OpenSSH Server (sshd)
- Off-TopicTutorials
- Solus does not come with the OpenSSH Server (sshd) installed or enabled for use. This is a very good thing, because it makes the system that much more secure. However, if you ...
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Game fixes
- Off-TopicTutorialsHelpful
- The gaming experience is pretty good on Solus but I've run into a few quirks with certain games. This is partly a reference for me as well as hopefully helping others out. Fee...
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Cloning 2 operating systems side by side with Gparted
- Off-TopicTutorials
- This was the first time I ever cloned and I was successful. I never counted on that happening. I thought this would take 8 times: Gparted is the sh**. Ingredients: *your hdd w...
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Roblox
- Off-TopicTutorials
- As you know Roblox is an online game that a lot of kids love it. Thanks to grapejuice which is a "simple GUI and wrapper to manage Roblox on Linux running under Wine", we can ...
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Time and Date Setup: For Your Reference
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- https://www.strfti.me/ Re-did the time and date font/appearance/style/etc in budgie settings for my panel bar. Instead of trial and error with a bunch %'s and M's I found this...
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[Howto] install Slingshot/App Menu in Solus
- Off-TopicTutorials
- Greetings, I want to share how I installed Slingshot in Solus. The reason why I need this (and others may as well) is my eyesight aren't as it use to be. The icons are bigger ...
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HDR on Plasma 6
- Off-TopicTutorials
- ...ope --fullscreen -w DISPLAY_WIDTH -h DISPLAY_HEIGHT -r REFRESH_RATE --hdr-enabled --hdr-debug-force-output -- env ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 DISABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%...
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Switching from Budgie Desktop View to Nemo Desktop
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- Including Nemo in the repository opens up the possibility to use Nemo's desktop view instead of Budgie Desktop View on Budgie. This offers a fuller experience that people have...
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Adding a Station to Radiotray-NG
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- I spent an obsessive journey wanting to add radio stations to my radiotray-ng. It took days. It took days because nobody is giving anything away, not even streams. Radio stati...
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Budgie Tutorial: Setting a New Panel Menu Icon
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- I did this once long ago and this was so convoluted I had to change some/paths in some /,conffiles and I never wanted to do it again. I've gotten a lot of mileage between the ...
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How to use Zswap instead of Zram
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- I figured I'd post this since I seem to keep mentioning enabling Zswap in topics and I don't believe there are any guides on Solus for enabling it. Zswap is a compressed memor...
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Using DeepFilterNet with Easy Effects
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- I figured I'd put together a quick image tutorial on using DeepFilterNet through Easy Effects. We tested this out in some of the Solus team calls and it seems to sound much be...
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Managing application outside of Solus repo
- Off-TopicTutorials
- While waiting for Solus to integrate GNOME Software and KDE Discover to manage all software source (including flatpak), I want to share a few apps I use to manage flatpaks and...
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How to enable touchpad gestures in Firefox
- Off-TopicTutorials
- I recently read an article about Gnome Web and just for fun i installed it to test it out. The first thing i found out was that gestures work so i could pinch to zoom with two...
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Fix system rollback with deprecated packages
- Off-TopicHow Do I...Tutorials
- A lot of people have been in a situation that they need to revert the updates because something was broken in the last update. But the reverting don't work if in the last upda...
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Installing and Configuring mbpfan on Solus
- Off-TopicTutorials
- The mbpfan package is no longer maintained or included with Solus. Here is a step-by-step guide to getting your Macbook Pro fans working. I'm pretty new to linux. If you see a...
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Create Virtual Machines using VirtualBox
- Off-TopicTutorials
- Create Virtual Machines using VirtualBox 7.0 INTRODUCTION A virtual machine (VM) is a real computer. It just shares certain resources with the physical computer it was created...
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pacman-static
- SupportQuestionOff-TopicTechnologyTutorials
- ... It required slackware's makepkg. Next, I tried using a pre-built executable, and tried debugging, except now it yields the following return : error: failed to initialize alpm...
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End distrohopping once and for all with Distrobox
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- Distrobox is a program that lets you run almost any Linux distro in a terminal. This means you can install apps from Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch without a dual boot or a VM, and ...
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Flatpak auto-updates? -Yes please
- Off-TopicTutorials
- Hello guys, I recently made a bash script to try out auto-updates in flatpak. Flatpak don't do auto updates and thinking about this post I thought, is it possible with flatpak...
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Tutorials

Various user-submitted tutorials which have not been deemed necessary for permanent, maintained documentation on our Help Center.

[How To] Install and Enable OpenSSH Server (sshd)

Game fixes

Cloning 2 operating systems side by side with Gparted

Roblox

Time and Date Setup: For Your Reference

[Howto] install Slingshot/App Menu in Solus

HDR on Plasma 6

Switching from Budgie Desktop View to Nemo Desktop

Adding a Station to Radiotray-NG

Budgie Tutorial: Setting a New Panel Menu Icon

How to use Zswap instead of Zram

Using DeepFilterNet with Easy Effects

Managing application outside of Solus repo

How to enable touchpad gestures in Firefox

Fix system rollback with deprecated packages

Installing and Configuring mbpfan on Solus

Create Virtual Machines using VirtualBox

pacman-static

End distrohopping once and for all with Distrobox

Flatpak auto-updates? -Yes please