I'd like to backup my keyboard shortcuts but I couldn't find where Xfce stores them.
My home directory got pretty messy recently.
Can I just move all the dotfiles and dotdirectories into ~/.config? (without creating symlinks)
Can I force newly installed software to put their configs into ~/.config?
In my xfce4-session-settings there are some autostart entries to which I couldn't find the corresponding .desktop files neither in ~/.config/autostart/ nor in /etc/xdg/autostart
I wonder where else are autostart entries stored?
In /usr/share/xsessions I got two .desktop files. One is xubuntu.desktop the othe is xfce.desktop. Despite the fact that some Comment= and Name= tags differ, they are identical. both run Exec=startxfce4. Yet, when I log in to the two different sessions they look quite different from each other. For example does the Xubuntu session have much more entries in the xfce settings window.
That brings me to the conclusion that the actual session configs must be somewhere else, but where?
I know, that I can create a custom xsession.desktop that follows the ~/.xsession but I couldn't find the files that control the sessions that are pre-installed on my system.
I run Xubuntu 16.04
I run Xubuntu Xenial, did a manual sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. After that the Software Updater still pops up and ask me to install 68 MB of Ubuntu base updates. Why did the manual upgrade missed it?
I'd like to view logfiles with colored output, scrollable and searchable. How do I do that?
I tried less /var/log/syslog | ccze | grep error, but it is not scrollable.
I know how to change file permissions, ownership etc. But sometimes I feel I don't know what would be the best approach security wise. I just change permissions or ownership to make things work, but I really don't know whether my decisions are wisely chosen.
Example:
I have an external HDD that I back up to. Should root or the user who makes the backup be the owner of that partition and why? Which group should it belong to? Why does ubuntu have so many groups by default, why are they necessary?
I'd like to understand the underlying concept of that, so that I can make better decisions in the future on my own.
Does someone have an explanation for me? I am also thankful for further reading recommendations.
Thank you for your time.
In KeepassX (v0.4.3 on xubuntu 15.10) preferences you can specify whether the copied passwords should get deleted after a few seconds. However this doesn't work since I use clipman clipboard manager. Does anyone have a solution for this?
I tried out Gnome-shell on Xubuntu 15.10 by installing the meta-package "gnome". I didn't like it much, so I want to remove it again.
I tried apt-get purge gnome && apt-get autoremove, but unfortunately I got an error on boot, so I decided to reinstall gnome. Everything works fine, but I'd like to get rid of gnome again.
A few days ago, I upgraded from Xubuntu 14.04 to 15.04
As far as I can see everything works quite smoothly. However the upgrade deleted my jitsi client (no big deal,configurations weren't touched so I reinstalled it), but what surprised me is that some applications look really ugly now, specifically the Skype client and the Keepassx-Manager look like Win95.
Any idea how to fix this?