Rinzwind's questions

The keys are supposed to respond to mouse events. Under windows the keys report the same as the keys to their right (so P1 -> ESC ... P6 -> Control)

These commands report nothing (used after a sudo -i:

cat /dev/input/mice | od -t x1 -w3 
xinput test-xi2 --root 
showkey --keycodes
acpi-listen

I also tried with mev (mouse version of xev) from gpm.

Is there a way to get these keys to react to a control-shift-something so I can attach an event?

This system also has a "omen key" (in between the delete and printscreen).

showkey --keycodes 

shows

ACPI Error: Field [D128] at bit offset/length 128/1024 exceeds size of target Buffer (160 bits) (20181213/dsopcode-201)
kernel: [ 1677.596693] No Local Variables are initialized for Method [HWMC]
kernel: [ 1677.596694] Initialized Arguments for Method [HWMC]:  (2 arguments defined for method invocation)
kernel: [ 1677.596694]   Arg0:   0000000059a10415 <Obj>           Integer 0000000000000002
kernel: [ 1677.596697]   Arg1:   0000000041b5acf7 <Obj>           Buffer(20) 53 45 43 55 01 00 00 00
kernel: [ 1677.596700] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \HWMC, AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20181213/psparse-531)
kernel: [ 1677.597104] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.WMID.WMAA, AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20181213/psparse-531)

and acpi_listen shows

95F24279-4D7B-43� 00000080 00000000

I have read a disturbing topic on Valve where a user lost his system when using the steam script. There is a discussion on reddit.linux and on reddit/steam.

This may not be a common problem because I change all sorts of configuration about my system. The script in question does something in a really, really stupid way, but it probably doesn't trigger the fail scenario for every system because...

Original Bug:

I am not sure what happened. I moved the folder in the title to a drive mounted under /media/user/BLAH and symlinked /home/user/.local/steam to the new location.

I launched steam. It did not launch, it offered to let me browse, and still could not find it when I pointed to the new location. Steam crashed. I restarted it.

It re-installed itself and everything looked great. Until I looked and saw that steam had apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under /media.

Everything important, for the most part, was in the cloud. It is a huge hassle, but it is not a disaster. If there is the chance that moving your steam folder can result in recursively deleting everything in the directory tree you should probably just throw up an error instead of trying to point to other stuff. Or you know, allow the user to pick an install directory initially like on windows.

My system is ubuntu 14.04, and the drive I moved it to was ntfs if its worth anything.

I would like to use Bugzilla on my own computer to track and trace bugs in our own software. How do I set this up?

After talking about this with some people I found out they had newer versions of the software I had but, at that time, I had no updates for my system. A day later those updates did show up and I was able to get the fix that I needed to solve a problem.

So I was wondering if I could find out with a command or at a website if the repositories I use are indeed up to date and/or how long it will take for it to be up to date.

Go to tty1 with Ctrl+Alt+F1.

Go back to desktop with Ctrl+Alt+F7

Screens stays blank. Cursor changes from an arrow to a hand.

When I then close and re-open the lid the screen comes back up but is seriously garbled. I need to minimize all applications to make them proper. The desktop does not refresh though and requires logging out and in.

nvidia version 173 is active.

What is the best way of triaging this?

I have several hidden files in a folder that are private and need to remain private. I do not mind people seeing what I do on my system but after I open one of these files I can find them through dash and I can even open them.

Am I misunderstanding the usage of hidden files? Can I tell dash to exclude hidden files?