user308393's questions

I have the system default set to en_US.UTF-8. But (among other nonsensical things) this makes Sunday (a weekend day) the first day of the week in calendars.

I want to use the LC_TIME variable from en_DK.UTF-8 while keeping the en_US.UTF-8 variables for everything else.

I have generated both en_US.UTF-8 and en_DK.UTF-8 and I used to be able to simply edit /etc/default/locale by adding the line LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8".

But this is no longer working and I have no idea why. So how can I get this working again?

Before people start telling me to hack on the en_US.UTF-8 text file (at /usr/share/i18n/locales), this doesn't work either because updates periodically reset this. I want to know what the "proper" way of configuring for this is.

I want to get rid of the Location indicator that appears in the notification area of the GNOME Panel. I have disabled location services in the Settings menu, yet the indicator is still shown.

There are no options to disable 'tap-to-click' in Mouse and Touch-pad settings, but there have always been in previous Ubuntu releases.

I'd like to write a Bash script that essentially automates the following process:

1. Open the filename.pdf file with vi:

   vi filename.pdf
   

2. In vi command mode, delete lines 4-7:

   :4,7d
   

3. In vi command mode, tap Shift+O (capital oh) to create a new line:

   O
   

4. In vi insert mode, type two lesser-thans and two greater-thans:

   <<>>
   

5. Switch vi to command mode:

   ESC
   

6. In vi command mode, save file and quit vi:

   :wq
   

7. Run:

   echo "Complete."
   

I was using the excellent app MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) to delete PDF metadata but recently MAT stopped working for some reason and whenever I try to use it on .pdf files it reports:

[-] Unable to process .pdf

Also, on the MAT webpage, it says maintenance and development is currently on hold. So I guess this is why it stopped working.

I have looked at some other options like exiftool but this states outright that "original metadata is never actually removed."

Apps like exiv2 do not work on .pdf files.

I need to remove .pdf file metadata as a requirement for work. I prefer using linux, but I must have this capability for work so I'm trying to avoid having to use Windows.

Now that MAT is no longer supported, are there any other options?

I'm wondering what openjdk-7-jre is used for. Is there some app that requires it? If it's not being used by anything, I'd like to uninstall it.

Is there some commands I can run to learn how it is used (if it is used) on my system?

I see the picture wallpapers are stored in /usr/share/backgrounds but I want to know where the files are being stored when I select System Settings > Appearance > Colors & Gradients.

Where can I get the .jpg or .png of just the color?

I know there are a ton of "help guides," and I have spent hours trying them all. Nothing works.

Here is my situation. I have Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 12.04. Both are connected to the same router and have static 192.168. addresses. I would like to create a folder in the 15.04 home directory and put files to be shared there. Then, using the 12.04 computer, I would like to manipulate those files.

How exactly do I set this up?

• what do I need to install?
• what do I need to do to the ufw enabled firewalls?
• what exactly am I typing into "Connect to Server?"
• when I try nautilus-share and "share this folder" and go to Browse Network, all I ever see is "Windows Network". But I don't have any Windows computers in my network.
• I have tried installing openssh-server on 15.04 and "share this folder" etc, but nothing ever works.

My original thinking was that this would work

grep -w '\*.*\*' /path/file-name

This produces some good hits but it doesn't respect the word option. I get whole lines. For example, like this

[bold]*way* to the store to buy some groceries and *then*[bold]

and I want to get this

[bold]*way*[bold] to the store to buy some groceries and [bold]*then*[bold]

Another one I get is this, which I thought wouldn't appear because it has spaces (which should disqualify it because I want only words or stuff separated by spaces)

* * *

Using ubuntu 15.04.

This only occurs in gedit. And it only occurs when there are unsaved changed in gedit. When there are unsaved changes, the mouse starts flickering. Here is a video of what it looks like. In the video I am moving the mouse around and it flickers in and out of view.

Is this a bug? Or is this something I can fix on my end? Gedit in 14.04 never did this.

I really like the "overlay-scrollbars" that were introduced in Unity. Here is a screenshot:

In 14.04, the gnome-terminal had overlay-scrollbars. But I installed 15.04 (full install, not update) and now gnome-terminal has the old-style scrollbars. The old-style looks like this:

Is there anything I can do to get the overlay-scrollbar in gnome-terminal on 15.04? Did Ubuntu remove this style scrollbar from gnome-terminal or is there something wrong with my installation?

See that big black box? It's a popup. Is there any way to stop these from appearing? Perhaps with a dconf-editor setting or something?

These popups appear frequently in Unity, like if you rest the mouse cursor on a Launcher icon. In the screenshot above the black box is appearing because the mouse cursor happened to come to rest on top of the "Font colour" button. You can experience it yourself at askubuntu.com by resting your mouse cursor over the large "B" (for making text bold) when posting a question like this. These popups drive me nuts and I really, really hate them. I would love to learn of a way to disable them.

LibreOffice Writer includes an "Export to PDF" option. When I use this, the PDF's background is always white. Yet in the LibreOffice Writer file I am exporting from, it has a dark-gray background. In LibreOffice Writer, I navigated to Tools > Options > LibreOffice Appearance > General: Document background and set it to the color dark-gray. I also set the Font Color to "gray 1" (a very light gray)

Is there any way to get these color changes to represent in the PDF that I create when using "Export to PDF"? I want to create a PDF that has a dark background and uses a white font for text.

This original question has NOT been answered and is NOT a duplicate question so I am reasking it: Way to remove unwanted/unused wifi networks from Network Indicator Menu?

There should be a way to stop the Network Indicator menu from displaying completely unused/unwanted Wifi network entries in the dropdown.

On my indicator menu, there are more than a dozen networks displayed but I only ever connect to one. Why do I have to do deal with selecting from so many networks when I only ever connect to one? I should be able to configure Network Indicator to only display the one wifi network I connect to (the one wifi network that shows up in Network-Indicator > Edit Connections > Wifi).

How can I hide/remove the networks that I never use?

If any of the moderators bothered to read the original question and the so-called duplicate, they would understand they are not the same question. I am not asking about networks I have connected to. I am asking about the display of networks I have NEVER connected to. Networks I will NEVER connect to. I want to hide these networks from showing in the Network Indicator dropdown. The question this is supposed to be a duplicate of does not ask about this and none of the answers from that question even attempt an answer of what I am asking.

The comments from my original post of this question clearly delineate on how my question is NOT a duplicate.

see askubuntu.com/questions/227297/… – Rinzwind 21 hours ago

That will not prevent Networkmanager from showing the networks in the list; it will only prevent reconnecting to them if there has ever been a connection. – Jos 21 hours ago

@Jos If they are within scan range, they will appear. If not, say, for example, a network he joined at the cyber cafe, they will be removed. – chili555 21 hours ago

As I understand it, there are more than a dozen networks within scan range, and OP doesn't want to see those. That is not the same as removing networks he has ever joined. – Jos 21 hours ago

Yes, Jos is correct. I have never connected to any of the shown networks. I will never connect to them. And yet they are always displayed. At a minimum it seems there should be a way to move them to the "More networks" folder/container. Most of the networks show up there. But why can't all unused networks show there? The dropdown menu should only display networks I can/want to connect to. – user308393 20 hours ago

ubuntu 14.04 desktop install. Have fully up to date security and regular updates.

syslog file gets spammed with thousands of this entry:

kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002285
kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002286
kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002287
kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002288
...

locks up computer and forces me to restart. Sometimes several restarts are needed before it stops. Anybody know what's going on and how I can fix this? Should I reinstall ubuntu from scratch. Originally I did a full install of 14.04 (did not upgrade from previous version).

Sometimes Ubuntu issues sounds for certain events. For example, when a user logs out, Ubuntu plays a short drum beat snippet.

These "sounds" are nice quality. But I need a "soundless" sound profile to prevent any noise when I operate in quiet environments. How can I prevent Ubuntu from issuing any sounds? With Microsoft Windows, I can just select a "No Sound" profile.

I tried Sound > Sound Effects > Alert Volume = Mute. but this does nothing.

I'd like to disable the pop-up that appears when I move my mouse over a Launcher-Icon. The popups always cover up stuff I'm trying to look at.

In this screenshot, I want to disable the popup that says "Firefox Web Browser":

When a LUKS encrypted partition pops up the unlock window it gives 3 options for how to remember the password. The "Remember password until you logout" is always ticked by default. Is there a way to make "Forget password immediately" the default?

Enter a passphrase to unlock the volume:

[ ] Forget password immediately
[x] Remember password until you logout
[ ] Remember forever

I encrypted a device using these directions

sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb1
sudo cryptsetup -y -v luksFormat /dev/sdb1
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 $name #change "$name" to any name you wish
#now format
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/$name
sudo mkdir /media/mount_point
sudo mount /dev/mapper/$name /media/mount_point

When I unlock and mount the setup, I can't write or copy anything to it because root is the owner and all permissions are only for root. Can I change this so that I have access to it?

I would like to setup Full Disk Encryption (FDE) for an external harddrive. My question is about the sequence of formatting. Will the following sequence work fine or do I need to run luksFormat on an unformatted partition?

1. use gparted to create an msdos partition-table
2. use gparted to create and format a partition with Ext4 (let's say partition name is "sdb1")
3. unmount partition /dev/sdb1
4. open Terminal and run command sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb1

Do I now have an FDE external harddrive? I've read in a few places that the luksFormat command is run on an unformatted partition. Is this a requirement? Have I done anything wrong by formatting with Ext4 and then running luksFormat? Any guidance on how to properly achieve FDE for external harddrive would be great. Thanks.

performing this task on Ubuntu 14.04.