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My problem has continued for years on my laptop. I have installed Lubuntu (for years), Pop_OS (last year), and now for about a month generic Ubuntu 24.04, carrying always home-partition. Because I have a long history of sites in Chromium (cookies, passwords, etc), I have not tried to start Chromium from a clean slate, even cleaning all cookies seems to lead to too many complications, so I have avoided it at all cost.

It began one day when I had to log in to Chromium to my Google account and it failed when I used autofilled email and password. It was weird so I tried again and again until I let it show the saved password and it revealed like this (sorry for the Estonian screenshot, I hope it is still pretty much intelligible, the beginning of the email and password are scrambled for security):

The password is shown as some random bytes. My actual password is long (but shown password is still about twice as long) and contains alphanumeric characters, so it has no resemblance with the one on the screenshot (except the first character, that's why I scrambled the first characters on the picture).

When I enter the right password it logs me in, but some half-way, it still shows "Not signed in" and "Turn on sync"

But for a while it actually works: I can later access the results of my browsing (history, saved passwords, etc) on other devices. I can watch Youtube from my account and it all lasts for some time. I am not sure about the longevity, it seems that when I actively do something on my Google account (like watching Youtube, for example) I stay logged in, but after some inactive time I have to log in again. And it becomes very annoying.

So I have tried some times to solve my problem, Googled many times. I have tried:

• set "Allow third-party cookies"
• set "Allow Chromium sign-in" and disable and set
• set "Allow sites to save data on your device"
• removed saved user/password from saved passwords. Now I don't see this scrambled sequence anymore, but Chromium does not offer to save my password neither does not use one I added myself into the manager.

I have not:

• removed all cookies
• removed whole config-directory
• recreate your Google account in Ubuntu settings. Go to Settings ⇾ Online accounts ⇾ Google - delete it then set it up once again.

I have no other Google-profiles under my system user/account.

I'd like to not remove my conf/cookies unless it is absolutely necessary, I still hope someone has a solution for my situation. Besides "why" stated in the title I am certainly interested in fixing too.

Edit

Added chrome://signin-internals/ screen. Is here something wrong?

Situation: I have a lot of images, I'd like to view them like in some standard image viewer (fullscreen, for example gpicview) and scroll with <- and -> (prev/next), but I'd like to make some kind of selection/decision on some images, so I can make afterwards some bulk operation on this selection.

For example, I shoot 100 photos on some occasion and want to select about 20-30 decent to keep and rest to delete, but it is very tedious to make such selection in file manager with thumbnails.

I found a question like mine is there a basic photo viewer that lets you flag individual photos for batch processing?, and it has one answer, which has big effort in. But still, is there a more simple solution nowadays? It seems so useful application, I can't believe there is no such available.

As I have similar problem as had Vladymir, I wanted to use his solution to upgrade to 5.6 kernel. After little lookup I found that for 20.04 in official repos are 4 oem (?) (signed or unsigned) 5.6 kernel images:

linux-image-5.6.0-1007-oem - Signed kernel image oem
linux-image-5.6.0-1008-oem - Signed kernel image oem
linux-image-5.6.0-1010-oem - Signed kernel image oem
linux-image-5.6.0-1011-oem - Signed kernel image oem

I did not found any 5.6 generic images. I have no idea, how affects me oem and I have no idea what are meaning those numbers before -oem, but I just want to install 5.6 kernel for my desktop? Are those kernels meant to install for general use on desktop? Or what is the proper way to install generic 5.6 kernel?

I want to insert Estonian flag emoji ?? by it's unicode codepoint U+1F1EA, but when I press Ctr+Shift+Alt+U and insert the mentioned codepoint, I end up with REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER E: ?

When I investigated, it has indeed the same endpoint U+1F1EA. When I used What Unicode character is this?, both symbols (?? and ?) are detected as REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER E.

Why?

When I copy flag emoji from emojipedia I get ?? and when I just insert the codepoint (as defined in Emojipedia page too) I get ?. It is confusing, that same codepoint results with 2 different symbols, but when detected, they both refer to same codepoint.

I feel I miss something from the picture.

In Sublime Text 3 column selection shortcuts are Ctrl+ALT+Up and Ctrl+ALT+Down. Same shortcuts are defined In Lubuntu (/Openbox) as GoToDesktop Up or Down, respectively. I commented those shortcuts out in ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml and now they don't work anymore (they don't switch to related Desktop), but they still don't work in Sublime Text 3 too.

How could I determine, what is eating those shortcuts away, so they don't reach to Sublime?

In my config (~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml) are my multimedia keys set like:

<!-- Keybinding for Volume management -->
<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
  <action name="Execute">
    <command>amixer -q sset Master 3%+ unmute</command>
  </action>
</keybind>

With xev I checked, those are right keys.

But it does not work. AFAIU, problem is that my soundcard setup has no Master device.

Output of amixer scontrols:

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',3
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',4

I tried like:

amixer -q sset IEC958 3%+ unmute

but it does not affect volume level.

If I run alsamixer, it does not seem look good:

┌────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.1.3 ──────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA Intel HDMI                 F1:  Help               │
│ Chip: Intel Haswell HDMI             F2:  System information │
│ View: Playback                       F6:  Select sound card  │
│ Item: S/PDIF                         Esc: Exit               │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│           ┌──┐     ┌──┐     ┌──┐     ┌──┐     ┌──┐           │
│           │OO│     │OO│     │OO│     │OO│     │OO│           │
│           └──┘     └──┘     └──┘     └──┘     └──┘           │
│        < S/PDIF >S/PDIF 1 S/PDIF 2 S/PDIF 3 S/PDIF 4         │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
│                                                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 

As you may see, there is also no way no trim volume.

Volume app on start bar works fine, also pavucontrol.

But how to set keyboard shortcuts to work with my setup?

Lubuntu 18.04, Lenovo Thinkpad X240, lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI KT (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I218-LM (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev e4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83)

Installed Lubuntu 16.04 64bit freshly on my laptop and now some windows does not have their own icons, so it makes finding right window much more difficult.

On screenshot below you could see, that Brackets and Konsole miss their original icons, but Chromium is OK. Still, in start-menu they all are represented with their own icons

How to fix this?

On start Chromium freezes completly and does not respond afterwards.

lspci | grep -i vga says:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Using Chromium 55.0.2883.87 on (L)Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit).

How to fix it?

I use Iron as my default browser, but in Unity i did not found the place, where i could set it as default for my user. In System settings is Preferred Applications, but in list of web browsers is just Firefox (but my Iron is installed through te package manager). How to add Iron to this list?

So i searched a while, but did still not found the solution.

In this posting i saw good idea how to set default browser system-wide, but again, Iron wasn't in the list of available browsers.

So, how to make Iron default browser in Unity(2D)? Desirably user-based way, not system wide.

I migrated from KDE to Unity desktop. So all my passwords I used with Chromium and Iron-browsers are stucked in Kwallet.

How to access passwords from Kwallet inside Unity? Maybe there is way that browsers could use still Kwallet? Or some way for migration?

I use now Ubuntu 12.04, Kwallet was in Kubuntu 11.10.

Edit. Results so far:

I tried to use Kwallet under Unity2d, but if Chrome/Iron does not ask directly from Kwallet (and it does not, it uses Seahorse under Unity2d), the data saved to Kwallet from Chrome/Iron is useless.

I exported from Kwallet as XML and tried to load it to KeyPassX, but result is same, because Chrome/Iron data is unreachable. When i look data through the Kwallet, there is said: "This is binary entry. It cannot be edited as its format is unknown and application specific".

Only way i see, is to install KDE somewhere and try export data from Chrome/Iron directly, but i still hope to have better solution.

Until 11.10 I used Kubuntu. For some annoying reasons i migrated to Ubuntu from 12.04. Now i really miss some KDE features and i don't have found solution yet.

First big problem: i work with lot of windows ( >20 ) and i set them on different workplaces. I avoid restarting computer, but sometimes it is neccessary. And then is so tedious to set my workspace up again. Is there some cure for that?

I read already some sources: Save Unity Desktop Session and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/771896 and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-January/002734.html.

Is there some change in 12.04? What is the meaning of workplaces, when you need to set them up every time after login?