Questions[automatic](ubuntu)

By following instructionf from here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/AutomatedServerInstalls#Running_a_truly_automatic_autoinstall When I use for storage:

storage:
  layout:
    name: lvm

It creates root parttition with 4GB and doesn't create swap. When I use direct layout

storage:
  layout:
    name: direct

It creates root partition with full space available on disk and also creates swap. Is there any way to see how it is configured layout direct and modify that configuration to adjust my needs? I mean with action based config like is documented here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/AutomatedServerInstalls/ConfigReference#storage

I mean something like following:

storage:
  grub:
    install_devices:
      - esp-partition   
  swap:
    filename: swap.img
    size: 4GB
  config:
    - type: disk
      id: disk0
      ptable: gpt
      wipe: superblock
      grub_device: true
      match:
        size: largest

    - id: esp-partition # create partitions on disk (like sda1)
      type: partition
      device: disk0
      size: 512MB
      flag: boot # EFI system partition needs boot flag
    - type: partition
      id: boot-partition
      device: disk0
      size: 1GB
    - type: partition
      device: disk0
      id: root-partition
      size: -1

    - id: esp-partition-fs # format partitions on disk
      type: format
      volume: esp-partition
      fstype: fat32
      label: ESP
    - id: boot-partition-fs
      type: format
      fstype: ext4
      volume: boot-partition
    - id: root-partition-fs
      type: format
      fstype: ext4
      volume: root-partition

    - id: esp-partition-fs-mount # mount partitions
      type: mount
      device: esp-partition-fs
      path: /boot/efi
    - id: root-partition-fs-mount
      type: mount
      path: /
      device: root-partition-fs
    - id: boot-partition-fs-mount
      type: mount
      path: /boot
      device: boot-partition-fs

Above configuration SUCCESS pass FileSystem step but FAIL on initramfs step of cloud-init configuration. Like on screenshot I would like to know storage configuration for direct layout so I can adjust my configuration above, or if someone know to help me how to fix above configuration so step initramfs pass?

I would like to disable automatic updates in kubuntu 20.04. I disabled it on Muon package manager, but Discover still getting updates and showing notifications. Thank you.

I'm trying to create a script which processes selected text from the gui (any number of apps, like browser, text editor, etc) and then replaces the selected text with the processed text automatically using one keyboard command.

I can get xsel to replace the clipboard or primary buffer, but I don't want to have to paste with another keyboard shortcut, if possible.

Workflow:

• Select text
• Hit key command
• Bash script processes text
• Bash script pastes text into gui editor, replacing selection (<-- This is what I can't figure out)
• Fin

I've read that xsel allows pasting, but as far as I can tell, it only allows outputting text to cli (not really pasting) or redirecting to something else. This may be what I need, but I don't understand how to do it (i.e., to what do I redirect the output to get it to automatically replace selected text in the gui?)

Thanks!

Further info:

• I'm using Xubuntu 19.10
• I just want to replace with simple text (e.g. change lowercase to upper case)
• Let's keep this simple - how do I (using a keycommand) take text from a bash script and paste it into a gui text editor/area where the cursor currently is, replacing selected text if there is any?

Ubuntu never shuts down or hibernates even after a long time in suspend mode. I always have to turn on and off my laptop. Is there a way to automatically turn it off after a certain amount of time like under Windows?

When my Xubuntu 18.04 laptop resumes from suspend, systemd-logind automatically logs out of the current session if the laptop has stayed suspended for more than a couple of hours. If the interval between suspend and resume is short, it doesn't log out. I still haven't discovered how long this interval has to be in order to cause the logout.

I enabled debug on the systemd-logind.service, creating file /etc/systemd/system/systemd-logind.service.d/10-debug.conf:

[Service]
Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug

which causes systemd-logind to log all D-Bus messages it handles, but couldn't spot anything that might have caused the logout.

I scanned all systemd journal messages (journalctl) before systemd-logind starts killing the current session, investigated all that looked suspicious but couldn't find anything that might influence an automatic logout. Here are some of the messages that striked me as suspicious (they are not sequential, but pulled from different occasions):

upowerd[1600]: unhandled action 'unbind' on /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0
polkitd(authority=local)[840]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c2 (system bus name :1.46, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
wpa_supplicant[811]: dbus: fill_dict_with_properties dbus_interface=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.Interface dbus_property=Stations getter failed
wpa_supplicant[811]: dbus: wpa_dbus_get_object_properties: failed to get object properties: (none) none
at-spi-bus-launcher[7031]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
at-spi-bus-launcher[7031]:       after 30333 requests (30333 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
systemd-logind[779]: Inhibitor xfce4-power-manager (xfce4-power-manager handles these events) pid=8611 uid=1000 mode=block stopped
systemd-logind[779]: Electing new display for user paulo
systemd-logind[779]: Ignoring session c8

logind config doesn't have anything that might cause this:

paulo:~$ loginctl show-session
EnableWallMessages=no
NAutoVTs=6
KillUserProcesses=no
RebootToFirmwareSetup=no
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
BlockInhibited=handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key
DelayInhibited=sleep
InhibitDelayMaxUSec=5s
HandlePowerKey=poweroff
HandleSuspendKey=suspend
HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
HandleLidSwitch=suspend
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
HoldoffTimeoutUSec=30s
IdleAction=ignore
IdleActionUSec=30min
PreparingForShutdown=no
PreparingForSleep=no
Docked=no
RemoveIPC=yes
RuntimeDirectorySize=615313408
InhibitorsMax=8192
NCurrentInhibitors=5
SessionsMax=8192
NCurrentSessions=1
UserTasksMax=10813

I can't find any anything that might cause an automatic logout after a time interval. I'm really stumped.