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I'm on Kubuntu 24.04.1 and I've managed to succesfully mount a smb share with cifs by adding it in /etc/fstab, with this line:

//192.168.10.122/Test /mnt/Test cifs user,noauto,user=test,password=test 0 0

The problem is that the password is in plain text which is not secure. So I've followed a new guide, by creating a credential file (.smb_cred) with chmod 600 (read and write) and put this line instead:

//192.168.10.122/Test /mnt/Test cifs uid=1000,credentials=/home/test/.smb_cred,iocharset=utf8 0 0

The problem is that it doesn't work. I see the mounted file but it's empty.

I like Ubuntu Studio (24.04.1) very much, but can't get on with the dark colors of the theme. I can hardly see anything!

I thought I had changed the theme to a light one, but some programs are still using a dark scheme.

For instance I installed FileZilla (dark!), and then gftp (also dark!).

There seem to be multiple different places to set themes, colors etc., it's all very confusing... I have used Windows for years and, although I'm not a great fan of it, it is very simple to change the color scheme reliably across all applications.

What's going on? Is it because some applications run (or were written) under a different window manager?

It would be great if someone could give me details on how to reliably change the screen colors across the board. Surely it should be straightforward to do this?

Many thanks, Peter

After upgrade to 24.04.01 LTS no audio device was available (neither speaker nor mic).

I tried some debug with:

sudo dmesg | grep -i alsa
sudo dmesg | grep -i snd
lspci | grep -i audio
aplay -l

And:

$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio
Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found

(It is ok, 24.04 uses pipewire)

systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse
systemctl --user status  wireplumber

Everything was ok.

There was a problem here:

$ systemctl --user status pipewire    
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2024-10-05 11:34:35 CEST; 37min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 2784 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 18964)
     Memory: 836.0K (peak: 1.9M)
        CPU: 27ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─2784 /usr/bin/pipewire

Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
 pipewire[2784]: pw.context: 0x59a5decefaf0: **no modules loaded from context.modules**

In Ubuntu 22.04 I used Super+Left and Super+Right to resize a window to half of the display and to move it to the left or the right.

With Ubuntu 24.04 (both on a machine upgraded from 22.04 and on a machine with a fresh 24.04 installation) these keybindings do this as expected, but instead of terminating immediately afterwards, the display hangs and shows the list of open applications as if I were still pressing Super. I have to press Esc to go back working.

Is there a way to return to the previous behaviour?

I am often connecting to a remote server via ssh, and having to transfer some files between this remote host and my local pc. I do not have the admin rights on that server, and I am not the only one using it. The full paths for the host files may vary significantly from file to file and are usually quite long. However, I usually transfer the files to the same local folder at first. I have a passwordless ssh connection setup from my local device to the remote host. My current "workflow" for this little operation uses scp and feels very inefficient:

• I am usually already ssh'ed in the location of the relevant file on the remote host: I use readlink -f to get the full path of the file
• I copy the path (leaving the keyboard to click)
• I switch to another terminal on my local computer and start typing scp hostname:
• I paste the filepath (another click)
• I finish the scp command with the local directory name and execute

When I have to do that multiple times for many files that are not necessarily easy to include all together in one single command, it really doesn't feel efficient. Too many steps, too much repetitive typing and clicking around.

Ideally, I would like a magic command scp2local filename that I can use from the remote host to directly do all of those steps in one and send it to a predefined localfolder. But I'm not sure how to set it up. Anything involving a full ssh passwordless connection setup from the remote to my local PC feels like a really bad idea since everyone else using the server could connect to my personal device. (But maybe there is a way to do that by exploiting the fact that I am just "sending back" files to the device I am specifically connecting from?)

In short: What is the most efficient way (in terms of human effort) to regularly transfer a few files from a remote host to a specific folder of the local computer I am connecting from ?

NB: I am using WSL on my local device, which might be relevant to the whole "clicking and copying" thing