In the Task manager widget of the Panel, can i get it to not show the application titles, but only the icons? I don't see that option when i go to Task Manager Options. So, in this example, i would want only the logo of Firefox, without the "Ask a Question...".
It is possible that this happened because of the recent Firefox update (from 64.something, to 66.0.2) which claimed that it couldn't download the update by itself, so it asked me to do it manually.
I'll spare the details about the things i did and tried, but the current state of things is this. apt remove firefox claims there is nothing to remove, because package firefox is not installed. The latest installation of Firefox that i made was through snap.
The problem manifests itself in the way that the same Firefox shortcut (the main menu), or also the firefox command ran from terminal, sometimes runs the wrong/other Firefox. I can tell them apart because they have different plugins installed, and i'm signed into one of them. Basically different user configuration. And it's not that it just sometimes doesn't read my user configuration and gives me a default Firefox; both versions have been customised.
The are both reporting to be 66.0.2 64-bit.
The first time i noticed this, i simply removed the snap one, but then the firefox command did not work anymore, and neither did the main menu shortcut. So i don't know how i would run the other one, or even if i actually do have two installed, or just the one installation is sometimes reading two profiles.
How do i find out where these two different versions are coming from, and how do i get rid of one of them?
which firefox says: /snap/bin/firefox
locate firefox-bin says: /home/<username>/.themes/Zafiro-icons-0.7.4/apps/scalable/firefox-bin.svg
/snap/firefox/198/firefox-bin
/snap/firefox/198/firefox-bin.sig
dpkg -l | grep firefox says:
rc firefox 66.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
ii firefox-locale-en 66.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 English language pack for Firefox
ii unity-scope-firefoxbookmarks 0.1+13.10.20130809.1-0ubuntu1 all Firefox bookmarks scope for Unity
snap list reports, among other programs:firefox 66.0.2-1 198 stable mozilla✓
Every day my computer says it has updates that I have to click and install. Now, the updates have settings in which I can supposedly control what is being checked and how often, and what to do when updates are being found.
Yesterday I only left the Important security updates checked (and I unchecked Recommended and all that other stuff), and under Automatic updates section I set to check Every fortnight (which is the rarest possible option). Then I selected the option to Install security updates without confirmation. It asked me for password to make the changes, and then saved. Today I got on my PC, and again, I get the notification that updates are available, and it's waiting for me to click to install them.
For what difference it might make, I have the "regular" Ubuntu 18.04. installed with KDE desktop manually installed afterwards.
Can I get it to not ask me about updates, ideally ever? If this is not possible, how can I have it at least respect the Every fortnight option so I don't have to click it every day?
There is a (top-right) hot corner action set up by default, that shows previews of all open windows. I can find it under Settings > Desktop behaviour > Screen edges, and then the top-right edge is linked to an action, and it's called "Present windows - All desktops".
But that subcategory in settings doesn't have an option to assign a keyboard shortcut to it; And under the category for "Shortcuts", there is no option that has the words "windows" or "desktops"...
So would it be possible to assign a keyboard shortcut, such as Super+Tab, to do what the top-right hot corner does, which is show all my open windows? And if so, how?
I want to avoid my windows snapping to the edge of my screen when resizing and moving, but it doesn't seem to work.
I am running GNOME 3.28.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I see no options for snapping when I go through the native Settings app, I have gnome-tweaks in which I see no options for snapping, and I have Compiz config which does have options for snapping, but unchecking it has no effect. Which has me wondering if Compiz config is outdated for GNOME 3 or something? My apt says it's the latest version, 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1.
So, can I turn off window snapping in some alternative "hacky" way?
The suggested duplicate thread didn't solve it for me. I turned off the setting in Dconf editor as per the accepted answer, but they still snap. It seems quite inconsistent, and i can't figure out if it depends on the type of application or size of the window or what, however the title bar on top always snaps, whereas sides sometimes don't.
I'm having trouble getting Redshift to dim my screen when i want it to. One problem is that it sometimes complains that it cannot fetch my location due to a geoclue2 error, so it doesn't turn on as a result. And the other one is that according to the program's opinion, i never want to adjust the colour temperature at noon (which i do, when i draw my shades and make it dark).
So i'm wondering if there is a way to have it simply turn on, adjust the colour temperature, and nothing else; no questions asked?
I've seen some other recommendations about providing your own latitude and longitude to make it "think it's night" and therefore turn on properly, but that solution is then by design not something that can stay turned on indefinitely, and as such would also require me searching for where is it night at the moment, and what the longitude is for that place.
So instead, is there an option to have it "just turn on and nothing else"?