I am using Ubuntu 19.04 server and I use startx [application] to run any graphical applications. When I use Opera browser or any other browser and play music, when I switch to another tty, the music will stop. Is there something I can do to keep the music playing when I switch to another tty? Eventually I want to use Nuvola player to stream music from Amazon while I'm working on other things in other tty consoles. What might be a solution?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.1 desktop edition on my lenovo ideapad z500 laptop and i'm facing graphical issues. After the grub menu during live USB boot, the image on the monitor shrinks vertically 1/3 of the screen height and the text isn't readable. I've read other posts about Ubuntu graphical issues and haven't found a solution to my problem.
I've tried using nomodeset kernel parameter alongside with other i915 and nouveau parameters variations and it didn't help. Also i've tried setting gfxpayload to text that gave no effect either.
Could anyone please help to resolve this issue? Or at least clarify if it is possible to boot live Ubuntu 18.04.1 kernel in pure text mode without gfx?
P.S. Using Ctrl+Alt+F2 i can see TTY changing but it doesn't do any changes to the graphics.
im using ubuntu 14.04 and i edited grub so that it boots into text mode
i want to display a message in the login screen like this:
_ _
| |_ ___ ___| |_
| __/ _ \/ __| __|
| || __/\__ \ |_
\__\___||___/\__|
login:
i also want to run this command so when user runs the os in VM it displays the ip address in the login screen :
ifconfig | perl -nle 's/dr:(\S+)/print $1/e'
is there a file should i edit ? i want to do it like ssh Banner and welcome message
I made the big mistake of upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 on my computer with NVidia card and the interface is now broken. I have to use Unity 2D and the games I used to play with my daughter are not working anymore (slow as hell). I'm trying to upgrade to the latest nvidia drivers, but I can't seem to stop the X server.
I tried to boot into console with "text" added as argument to kernel - it doesn't do anything, I still get a graphical login screen.
I tried killing Xserver with
sudo service lightdm stop
I get a
stop: Unknown instance:
If I do a lightdm restart first I can stop it, but I get a garbled console screen on which I can't read anything
I tried booting into single mode and that worked and then a telinit 3 brought me back to the graphical login screen.
What else can I do? Did I overlook something?
I tried to search in many places, but couldn't find an answer to my question (for everybody else the 'text' option seems to work)...
Is it possible to disable X at boot time? I'm setting up a server so it would be nice if it wouldn't load the graphical interface every time I boot.