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I've encountered this issue on other platforms like Termux on Android or when connected over ssh, but never on Ubuntu using nano.

• I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and GNU nano, version 4.8.
• using the dialog menu or CTRL+SHIFT+C and CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste
• I need to see the entire line of text at once, so if the line is too long for the terminal, I've always had nano set for line wrapping.

But now, when I copy a line that is wrapped, nano is pasting an extra line break where every line wrap exists instead of pasting as a single line. No matter how many times it's wrapped on my screen, it should copy as a single line and paste as a single line with no line breaks.

I'm at a loss because I didn't change anything and I don't remember having this problem with nano in the past on Ubuntu.

Here is an example of a long line with the letter j:

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

As you can see, three lines are pasted instead of one.

However if I echo or cat the same line and then copy the wrapped output from my terminal, it pastes as a single line.

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 

Tried on both xfce4-terminal and guake. Same problem. Also, I've tried softwrap with and without the following options:

• nowrap
• atblanks
• hardwrap
• and even nonewlines for good measure

and I checked /etc/nanorc, ~/.nanorc, and /usr/share/nano/*.nanorc for any conflicting configurations.

The hotkeys on the Google Chrome right-click menu are not underlined.

For example, from the right-click menu, we can press T to open a link in a new tab and we can press V to "save image as"

On Windows, there is an option to "underline access keys when available" in the accessibility options that will underline the corresponding letters for these keys on the Google Chrome right-click menu.

It would be nice to know these keys so we could use them and Google does not have them listed anywhere that I can find.

Really basic simple stuff. I would like to be able to assign "a", "b", and "c" values to do basic math on Gnome Calculator but I get a "malformed expression" error when trying to assign "b" or "c".

I tried using uppercase and I get the same result. I already looked up the instructions and it says nothing about b or c, only Euler's number and pi and others.

Other letters work fine: a, q, w, etc . . .

Why can't I assign a value to b or c?

I am trying to run:

for i in *; do sudo rm $i; done

The problem is that there is something wrong with glob expansion and I get the error:

rm: cannot remove '*': No such file or directory

I get this error for each time that the loop runs. The files are deleted (even though I used CTRL+C to stop the errors) but I am getting this error that I should not get as I did not escape the glob symbol and I did not use any single quotation marks.

This has always worked in the past without the error.

Also, if I run:

sudo rm 1*

for example, it will run use the glob properly. However, if I run:

for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do sudo rm $i*; done

I get the following:

rm: cannot remove '1*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '2*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '3*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '4*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '5*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '6*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '7*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '8*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '9*': No such file or directory

What is wrong with my globs in loops now?

I am not interested in different methods of deleting the files. I am only interested in what is wrong with glob expansion. Glob expansion seems to work (all the files are deleted) but then it wants to loop again like I escaped the glob character instead of being done.

EDIT:

It seems this is only a problem when there is an excessively large number of files. I ran the command: for i in *; do sudo rm $i; done on the same directory with only 800 files and I could not reproduce the error.

I also tested the command: for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do sudo rm $i*; done and I did not get an error when only deleting ~800 files and some numbered dummy files.

I have this python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
def getPermutation(s, prefix=''):
        if len(s) == 0:
                print prefix
        for i in range(len(s)):
                getPermutation(s[0:i]+s[i+1:len(s)],prefix+s[i] )



getPermutation('abcd','')

However, I want to be able to call this script using a variable for "abcd" so I can insert any combination of letters instead of "abcd" like "efgh" for example.

Normally, I can use a $@ or $1 instead of abcd on the last line in a bash script like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
def getPermutation(s, prefix=''):
        if len(s) == 0:
                print prefix
        for i in range(len(s)):
                getPermutation(s[0:i]+s[i+1:len(s)],prefix+s[i] )



getPermutation("$1",'')

But when I run the script using something like ./scriptname.py efgh I get:

$1
1$

instead of the permutations for "efgh".

I would like to be able to find a word in a web page using w3m.

On most browsers I can use ctrl+f to find a word.

I know this can be done on w3m but Google has decided to not provide any results today, and I don't see anything on the manpage.

When I use the following command:

inxi -w

I get the following error:

Error: weather info downloaded but no data detected.

I have tried using the -W Location option but I still get the same error.

I have also tried using a different location and I have tried using the location zip code and also the location City,State format and I still get the same error.

Does anyone know how to fix this error?

I have two mouse cursors in Gnome Boxes running Android and the mouse cursor does not "grab" like I think it should.

Instead, I have to click and drag to move the mouse cursor which is awful behavior for a touch screen interface like android because half of the time the screen moves with the mouse.

Does anyone know how to set the mouse pointer behavior in Gnome Boxes or the "grab" behavior of the mouse?

Thanks!

First, I have a Nautilus progress bar.

However, it is really frustrating because the words keep getting truncated to where I can't see what it says because the little progress bar window is too small.

Is there any way I can possibly expand this little window so that I can actually read what it is supposed to say?

nautilus version 1:3.20.4-0ubuntu2

Before I start, I absolutely have to use wine and firefox to get access to my cable company video player unless I want to use windows so, no, I am not happy about this but it seems to be my only option right now.

Cannot resolve any addresses on wine firefox 32 bit version.

It just says connecting and there is a wheel turning on the middle of the screen.

Any help would be appreciated.

It is so much easier to drag and drop windows across virtual desktops using Compiz cube on any desktop compared to Gnome shell.

Will Ubuntu continue to develop or at least offer support for Compiz and CCSM in the future?

Firefox always starts at 0 vol as if that is supposed to be the default or something.

Any time I adjust the volume in firefox, I have to open pulse audio and turn the volume back up for firefox.

Any time a new video comes on Youtube, I have to open pulse audio and turn the volume back up for firefox.

Any time I skip forward or back in a playing video or track, I have to open pulse audio and turn the volume back up for firefox.

How can I set the default volume to FULL VOLUME?

I mean seriously, isn't that why there is a system volume?

Any help would be appreciated.

I used to use an application that would delete the unused locale and language files from apps that I install automatically when installing through apt-get.

I can't seem to find this now and I really need to free up some space.

Does anyone know the name of this application?

Now that /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png has changed, where is the solid purple background screen file stored?

/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png is the default background, however, before /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png loads, a purple background is displayed for a second or two.

Where is the solid background screen stored now that /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png has been changed?

I'm using Gimp2.8-2.9 on 13.10 and all of the drop-down options to modify a photo from the unity panel menu are greyed out unless gimp is run as sudo. I can only assume this is a permission issue. Gimp shouldn't have to be run with sudo.

UPDATE

Right-clicking on the photo has the same options available I just cannot use the drop-down menu items from the unity panel for some reason.

mchid@mchid:~$ ls -l .gimp-2.8 total 824 drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 brushes -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 739 May 23 08:29 colorrc -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 1863 May 23 08:29 controllerrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 curves -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 57 May 23 08:29 dockrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 dynamics drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 environ drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 fonts drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 fractalexplorer drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gfig drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gflare drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gimpressionist drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gradients -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 430 May 23 08:28 gtkrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 interpreters -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 2597 May 23 08:28 lastval_descriptions.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 levels -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 99367 May 23 08:29 menurc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 modules drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 palettes -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 102 May 23 08:29 parasiterc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 patterns -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 541388 May 23 08:28 pluginrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 plug-ins drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 scripts -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 2493 May 23 08:29 sessionrc -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 53885 May 23 08:29 tags.xml -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 4817 May 23 08:29 templaterc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 templates -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 306 May 23 08:28 themerc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 themes drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 tool-options drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 tool-presets -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 3996 May 23 08:29 toolrc -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 1178 May 23 08:29 unitrc

Thank you in advance.

I have no idea why but all of the options from the unity panel menu are greyed (unless sudo) out but the same options are available by right-clicking on the image.

I know how to use the -h option, I just don't see any commands to start video capture with file incrementation unless I press the video capture button.

What is the command line to start video capture guvcview using filename incrementation.

The option -n, --video=FILENAME Video File name (capture from start) will start video capture, however, the filename is overwritten unless the gui capture button is used.

I have a .deb file that needed to be altered. I have decompressed the .deb file and made the necessary changes.

How to I re-compress the file back into a .deb file.

I've installed zoneminder on 13.10, however, when I access the browser interface (localhost/zm) I cannot click on "add new monitor". It's like this feature is disabled or something. When I click on "add new monitor", nothing happens. Absolutely useless.

I ran rkhunter and found an open hidden port. How do I close a port that is not listed with the netstat or fuser command? It is hidden from these which is why it was flagged. Aside from blocking the port with ufw or iptables, how can I remove or close this port?

Starting TCP checking

Found Hidden port that not appears in netstat: 38598
Starting UDP checking