What's with 'Pending Update of Snap Store?'
I'd like to map a keyboard shortcut (Alt + Space) to a series of actions and I'd love some help writing the script for it.
I have three monitors. The built-in laptop monitor, and two external monitors. When I'm coding I like to have code in one monitor, the browser in another, and a third item (Photoshop, or a file navigator) in the third monitor.
But, I find myself with a neck cramp looking to the left writing code, or looking right making changes in the browser.
The keyboard shortcut I'd like should shuffle windows across monitors. I the three monitors have code editor, browser, and nautilus in each of them in that order, then pressing Alt + Space once would change that to Nautilus, Code Editor, Browser. Pressing it again would change it to Browser, Nautilus, Code Editor, and pressing it a third time would restore the first setup.
How might I do this for any number of things that might be displayed on each monitor? Like if I happen to have three windows open in the first monitor, two terminal windows in the second, and five browser windows in the third, shuffling what's on each screen? Maybe using workspaces and reordering them?
Some help would rock : )
Update: On Gnome by the way.
Update: Live screenshot of when it happens
So... When I'm using Zoom, most often during screen sharing, or when someone else is screensharing, all of my cores zip up to 100%, as in the screenshot above, and everything turns really sluggish. I can make out people telling me there's an echo, and Zoom gives me that "high CPU usage is slowing down Zoom" error, but then Zoom is what's chewing through my CPUs. Even if I kill zoom, and my browser, I still have some strange sluggish behavior. I can't open apps, nothing is as responsive. It's like something goes permanently wrong.
The only way to restore normal function is to restart the machine.
Screenshots:
Should I just throw out my computer, fly to a Caribbean island and retire?
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad T480, and two finger scrolling wasn't working at seemingly random times, and now it doesn't work at all.
Could use some help troubleshooting.
I use Firefox windows to lump together different projects I'm working on, and I use separate workspaces so that alt-tabbing doesn't cycle through all those separate projects, but just my editor, browser, and file system.
What can I do to get Firefox, on reopen, to restore the let's say 7 windows in the 7 different workspaces?
Thanks!
Ubuntu 18.04 by the way. Gnome shell.
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad T480.
I turned on my Bluetooth, in order to turn in back on to pair a new device, and it won't turn back on. I click the on button in the top right drop down menu in gnome, and on the keyboard via the bluetooth button, but neither affects the state.
The bluetooth Gnome settings don't work either.
I've tried restarting from the terminal, and that doesn't seem to do anything either.
What's might be wrong?
There's a little grey area in the corner of my Firefox browser. I believe it's meant for dragging, but I have a key combo for that, and would like to reclaimed that little grey space.
How could I get rid of that little grey area? I remember finding a solution to this in the past, but upgrading to Firefox 65 seems to have resurfaced this nuisance : (
So, found my user browser chrome settings:
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
.titlebar-placeholder[type="pre-tabs"],
.titlebar-placeholder[type="post-tabs"] {
display:none !important;
}
For some reason this isn't working after upgrading to Firefox 65.
Also, I disabled an extension that manages tab groups, restarted the browser and all that, but it wasn't the culprit.
Trying to swap PgUp and PgDn to Home and End.
xmodmap doesn't seem to work for anything other than xev output. Doesn't work in other cases.
I'm on 14.04 about to move up to 18.04. In that version of Ubuntu can I have a folder and a file in the same location with the same name?
My use case is that I have html files without the .html extension, that I push up to AWS S3, where I serve a few websites. Leaving off the .html extension enables me to have clean urls for the websites. And S3 is perfectly happy to have directories and files with the same name, and thankfully they serve the html file rather than a folder if you navigate to the URL that is a file and a folder.
This would be a nice to have in Ubuntu. I could have an html file called 'articles' and a folder called articles, and then my URLs would be "RESTful."
example.com/articles/title would give you the article with that title, and example.com/articles would serve up a list of articles.
Anyhow, AWS already does this, I was just hoping Nautilus, or Ubuntu could handle this so I don't have to go through an awkward coding nightmare where my local directories have different names from my server directories.
Does this work in 18.04 or can anyone think of a good work-around?
When I press Ctrl + Alt + L and my screen locks, after some time goes by my external monitor (Lenovo) seems to fall into a deep sleep, from which it doesn't wake, when I press Enter and type my password into my lock screen.
How can I figure out what's going on, and inspire my external monitor to awaken when summoned?
I like having a small terminal for small things (80 x 24), and a big terminal for editing code in vim and such (120 x 38), and sometimes even going full screen, browsing ascci art? I dunno.
Anywho, is there a terminal command that I can use to toggle window sizes for my terminal?
I'm trying to install Open Broadcaster: https://obsproject.com/download#linux
but I'm getting these errors:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
obs-studio : Depends: libavcodec-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libavdevice-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libavfilter-ffmpeg5 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libavformat-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libavutil-ffmpeg54 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libswresample-ffmpeg1 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libswscale-ffmpeg3 (>= 7:2.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Not sure how to solve them.
It seems like ctrl + W deletes backwards one word at a time. That's great, but I'd really really like that this works with ctrl + backspace like most other apps.
What's the best way to do this? I'd need the change to affect gnome-terminal commands, command line vim and GUI vim.
I'll be travelling and I hope to back up my laptop in case it gets stolen. I wonder if I can make my backup a bootable USB flash drive, that way I could just have my system as-is on stick and use it on any computer.
Is this possible? What are the limitations? (only 64-bit systems? No way to keep it up to date?, etc...)
Update: Thanks so much for the thoughtful responses! At this point, I'm wondering how I should go about keeping my system backed up to a bootable external drive.
I've got my hands on a projector (EPSON EX7220) and I've got it connected to my LAN over Wi-Fi. How might I connect my laptop to it? (Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Ubuntu Gnome 13.10)
Any help would rock!
I have used the xmodmap technique, I even made a file called .Xmodmap and put it in the start up commands in the gnome tweak tool, but there are still occasions where the buttons don't perform what I specified. I know because opening my terminal and doing "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" fixes the behavior to what I need.
Any ideas on what might not be working right here?
Ideally I'd like to expose a port, like 8080 or something, to the web, so that I can run a website on my desktop and inspect it on my smart phone or show it to a client and so on. How do I expose one of my ports to the web in Ubuntu? I am typically working on a home WiFi, I don't have to mess with my router do I?
Any help would rock!
Update:
I use node.js for a server, and when I navigate to 192.168.my.ip:8080, I get a typical error message:
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 173.52.xxx.xxx:8080.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
When I go to just my ip address, without a port, I'm prompted by my ISP to log in, which implies that there's some kind of firewall?
Update 2:
I figured it out : ) I needed to do some port forwarding and expose one port to TCP traffic. My Router was rejecting all inbound requests, so I needed to create a temporary exception to the rule. Ah, what a lonely productive Saturday night. Bittersweet, mostly bitter.
I'm trying to change my configuration so that the default ctrl+alt+shift+r also records audio. I've used this code:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.recorder pipeline "queue ! videorate ! vp8enc quality=10 speed=2 ! mux. pulsesrc ! audio/x-raw-int ! queue ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! mux. webmmux name=mux"
In my console, and it works ok, it just doesn't stop once I hit ctrl+alt+shift+r again.
Any help would rock!
I can do screencasts by pressing ctrl+alt+shift+r, but I get no sound when I view the videos, I've check my built in mic and headset, they both work on skype and such, I just can't record sound with the gnome built in screencasting. Also, when I open the videos in movieplayer they are in mute by default and there's nothing the the preferences I can find to change that.
Any help would be awesome!
I'm a web developer, but new to linux. I am currently running ubuntu 11.10 with a gnome shell and wine (I think 1.3). I've installed microsoft office 2007, and worked through a small issue with powerpoint not running. So one little issue left, I can't save files, and I can't open files.
I've checked all over the various forums, and haven't found a solution yet. I haven't yet tried to completely uninstall wine and start from scratch (I haven't done that because I've actually got photoshop working, whoo!)
Anyways, would truly appreciate some help.