I'm running Kubuntu 21.10. Is there a way to check the battery level of my Bluetooth mouse--or must I just charge it and hope? This is a very generic mouse with no identifying information and an on-off switch --nothing more. (It works fine.)
I'm running Kubuntu 21.10. Can I run Google Authenticator without needing a cellphone?
I'm running Kubuntu 21.10 and I have a USB CD drive. I want to play an audio CD on that drive. I know it's pretty simple to do, but I can't quite get it all together. How can I do it?
I'm running Dropbox in Kubuntu 20.04 on a Dell laptop with a very high default resolution. When I click on the Dropbox icon on the taskbar, the menu comes up in an incredibly tiny font. How can I fix that?
I'm running Kubuntu 20.04. Someplace I've seen a setting to cause the system to log back in after logging out, but I can't find it. Where is it? This can be useful for resetting various programs without the cost of a full restart.
Dropbox doesn't quite work right under KDE because it relies on nautilus. There's a package called kdropbox available that's supposed to make Dropbox easier to use. I installed it, but calling kdropbox doesn't find anything. The package is about ten years old and doesn't seem to be maintained. Does anyone here know anything about it?
How can I set the font size during Kubuntu installation? The default size is much too small.
Note 1: I tried using "Try Kubuntu" rather than "Install Kubuntu". Indeed I did have the opportunity to run xrandr by going to Konsole via the Start icon in the lower left corner. But no joy -- xrandr listed just one resolution, which was the maximum (3072x1920). It rejected my attempt to set it to 900x600. Maximizing the screen just gave me a lot of whitespace. Perhaps my hardware (a Dell Inspiron 16) has something to do with this.
Note 2: I can see a way to solve the problem, but I don't have enough knowledge to implement it. Create a program that change the resolution and then does another boot. I know that grub supports multiple stages of booting, but I don't see how to utilize that.
Is there a way to force my system (Dell Inspiron) to boot from a USB stick (or any other bootable medium)? A restart brings it to Grub, which isn't supposed to be there. Ctl-Alt-Del used to be the ticket, but not any more.
I want to use the program KDE Iso Imagewriter, but it seems to only be available as a tar.xz file. How do I derive an executable file from the tar.xz file?
I'm running Kubuntu 20.04, and I'm trying to create a USB stick for installing Windows. I have the Windows image I need to put on the stick -- no problem there. But I've been thwarted at every turn.
My first thought was to use Startup Disk Creator, but that only works for Linux images. Next I tried Woeusb, but it's no longer maintained and I couldn't get it to run. So I turned to Unetbootin, but I couldn't get it to accept my USB drive. I tried it with a single FAT partition on the USB drive (what could be more vanilla?), both empty and nonempty. I also tried using gparted to fix the USB drive, but it wouldn't recognize the USB drive either. So I'm out of ideas.
I get the impression that the Clementine music player is really good -- except that I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to use it. I can glean a little of that by trial and error, but that's a painful and inadequate way to learn it because it assumes familiarity with the underlying concepts such as playlists and how they are organized.
Is there a good guide to it somewhere? man clementine lists Clementine's features and lists various command line options for it, but has nothing on the user interface.
Edit: Under Tools, the very last item is a checkbox for "Show sidebar". That still doesn't explain anything, but at least it makes it easier to explore what is possible.
Edit 2: None of those sources has anything to say about how playlists work. In particular, the wiki says nothing about how to use them or the GUI.
Does anyone have experience with Linux software that works for Bluetooth hearing aids? Lots of hearing aids do have such software. but it's usually only for Apple. And of course the software is usually for a particular brand of hearing aids,though it might work for some other brands also. Mine are TruHearing.
I don't know for certain they're being picked up, but they can communicate with each other, and Bluetooth Manager Manager is picking up several devices. Unfortunately only my headphones can't be identified through the info command in Bluetooth Manager.
When using kate to search for a file or a folder, how do you get it to show the path to each item it finds?
If I try to use sudo kate to edit a system file, I get the message:
Executing Kate as root is not possible.
So how can I edit a system file?
I put up this question so that I could answer it myself. As far as I can tell, none of the suggestions involving gksudo have any advantage over the solution I proposed: just edit the file as a non-root user, save it when you're done, and provide the root password at that time.
I'm using Kubuntu 18.04 and I want to run the kate editor with root privileges sudo kate produces the message running kate as root is not possible. I think that's utterly silly. How can I bypass it?
Answer: just edit the file, even if it's a system file, using plain oldkate. You don't need root privileges to edit it; you only need root privileges to save it. When you save a system file, you'll be asked for the root password. Supply it and the save takes place. Easy!!
Sometimes my system gets into a state where the K menu is unresponsive - clicking on the big K doesn't do anything. I'm running Kubuntu 18.04. How can I kick-start it? (I'm using the Application Menu interface, in case that maters.) The system doesn't seem to be hung generally, and top in a virtual consoledoesn't show anything obvious.
Addendum: I've discovered, though, that if I right-click the K, choose a different application interface, again right-click on the K, and choose "Application Menu", I can get it back.
I have a collection of files that were generated fifteen years ago (not by me) using MS Word 2003 and I want to recover their contents. I've already tried the obvious things, and they both produce garbage characters: Libre Office and MS Word Reader. I did a hex dump of one file and verified from the first eight bytes that it is indeed MS Word 2003. I can also find by scanning the hex dump a few words like "HYPERLINK" and "light". But that's as far as I've been able to get; most of the rest of the dump is just random characters or patterns like "0123456789".
In response to comments:
"file filename" returns "Composite Document File V2 Document, Cannot read section info", and abiword says it cannot read the document. "strings" produces some words such as "Lightworks", "camera", and "Raytrace", but I doubt if they have anything to do with the content of the original file.
Are there any Linux tools that would help me? I assume that since MS Word Reader doesn't help, that attempting the job under Windows would not do any better, and I much prefer working in Linux (Kubuntu 18.04, actually).
Any ideas?
I can set the default login that's used when I first start my system -- in fact, the installation procedure specifically allows for setting the startup to log in automatically. But is there a way to get that automatic login to be used after logout?
I'm running Kubuntu 14.10.
I'm running Kubuntu 14.10 and trying to make an MTP connection (over a USB cable) to an LGP705 Android phone. At one time I had the connection working, but no longer. The problem I now have is that the device icon in "Available Devices" appears twice, but neither of these appearances is usable. One of them has the label LG-P705; the other has no label. How can I get back to having a single device in the list?
I'm running Kubuntu 12.10. I am having three networking problems that I think might actually have a common cause, even though they are in apparently unrelated areas. I had them in 12.04 also:
When viewing a number of different videos -- but not YouTube -- I get the message
VE_FMS_CONNECT_FAILED, which says that the video is not currently available.The
launchpad-getkeysprogram isn't able to find the keys because it can't do the nslookup for the keyserver URL (and which URL it is doesn't matter). If I use the-koption with the IP address of the keyserver, however, it works.The program
youtube-dlgivesurl-openerrors with this command:youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGRROao5-M
However, if I precede the command with http_proxy like this:
http_proxy="72.64.146.135:8080" youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGRROao5-M
it works. (I know nothing about that IP address; I just copied it from a posted example.)
Two common elements of these examples are:
They only strike a few users, not all.
They all involve the failure of some network lookup.
Two causes that have been suggested are (a) firewall interception, or (b) proxy misconfiguration. However, ufw tells me that the firewall is inactive, and Network Settings / Proxy tells me that there's no proxy.
I was trying to come up with a more informative title for this thread, but wasn't able to.