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This works..

xdotool search  "Mozilla Firefox" windowminimize

but this does not minimize my Terminal.

xdotool search  "Terminal" windowminimize
Defaulting to search window name, class, and classname

wmctrl -l
0x01400003 -1 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Top Panel
0x01400017 -1 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Bottom Panel
0x01400025 -1 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Top Panel
0x01600006 -1 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Desktop
0x02800007  0 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Downloads - Thunar
0x0360003e  0 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M How to minimize an application window from command line - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange — Mozilla Firefox
0x03800006  0 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Terminal
0x03c00007  0 andy-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M *untitled - Geany

Why isn't my Terminal being minimized?

I am running Ubuntu-Mate 22.04.

I play Amazon videos and often the light level is low.

I did a search but could not find any thing helpful.

Is there a way that I can make those light levels higher?

Could someone help me. I need a bash script to play a short sound file, wait for 30 seconds, play another sound file, wait for another 30 seconds.

(I will use it as a reminder to spend 30 seconds on each quadrant of my teeth when using a electric toothbrush.)

mpg123 /usr/share/sounds/My_Sounds/Alarm_Clock_Sound.mp3
sleep 30
mpg123 /usr/share/sounds/My_Sounds/Alarm-sound-buzzer.mp3
sleep 30
mpg123 /usr/share/sounds/My_Sounds/facility-alarm.mp3
sleep 30

But it only plays the first sound file. ??

Is there a way to hide the mouse cursor while viewing an Amazon movie?

Without disabling it when I stop viewing the movie.

I also frequently have to adjust my volume which does require my mouse.

A quandry indeed. :-)

Thanks.

It has been a long time, so I am rusty with my commands.

I use a script to have reminders. One I have running will display "Meteor shower occurs after midnight." after 3 hours.

Is there a way to prevent me from accidentally closing a terminal which has my timer script running?

Update:

Here is my script.

#!/bin/bash
#
#  Sound alarm after specifying time and message 
# Must input time delay AND message in double quotes !!
#
#       
# ** sleep can also accept intergers ex. sleep 7.63
# Made alias for it type al 

    # Print a trace of simple commands, for commands, case commands, select commands, 
    # and arithmetic for commands and their # arguments or associated word lists after they are expanded 
    # and before they are executed. The value of the PS4 variable is # expanded and the resultant value is printed before the # command and its expanded arguments.

Red='\e[0;31m'     
BRed='\e[1;31m' 
BIRed='\e[1;91m' # ${BIRed} this works
Gre='\e[0;32m'     
BGre='\e[1;32m'
BBlu='\e[1;34m' # ${BBlu}
BWhi='\e[1;37m'
Black='\e[0;30' 
BWhite='\e[0m 1;37'
# This defines a variable containing the ANSI escape sequence to clear
# the effect of all previous ANSI escape sequences that define formatting (colors, underlining, etc).
RCol='\e[0m'; 

            

soundfile="/usr/share/sounds/My_Sounds/Alarm_Clock_Sound.mp3"

clear
amixer -D pulse sset Master 40% > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ -f "$soundfile" ];
then
     echo -e "${BGre}Soundfile is present."
else
      
  echo "File $soundfile does NOT exist."
  echo
  echo "Program will now exit."
  exit
fi

[ -z "$2" ] && {
echo 
echo -e " ${BIRed}Error!! No time value given and/or message specified !!"
echo
echo -e "   ${BBlu}Alarm Program 2018 ${RCol}"
echo
echo -e "   alarm.sh [time value in seconds] Message in double Quotes"; 
echo -e "   alarm 5m   = 5 minute alarm"
echo -e "   alarm 5h   = 5 hour alarm"
echo -e "   alarm 5d   = 5 day alarm"
echo -e "   alarm 1.5m = 1 minute 30 seconds alarm"
echo 
echo -e "   alarm.sh 1m "\"Take bread out of oven."\""  

echo 
exit 1; }
echo  -e "\033[32;5mTIMER COUNTING DOWN to $1 \033[0m"
sleep $1
{
    for ((volume = 15; volume <= 35; volume += 2)); do
        # 2> /dev/null suppresses messages for amixer AND (c)vlc
        amixer -D pulse sset Master ${volume}% > /dev/null
        sleep .5
    done
} &

mpg123 $soundfile > /dev/null 2>&1
#set back to original volume
amixer -D pulse sset Master %30

gxmessage -fg blue -font  'sans 20' -timeout 2 ' Tea is ready. !!'






 

I would like to convert some .jpgs to a 640x480 size.

I looked through my Ubuntu_Tips.odt file and found this.

Convert png to a 640x480 png.
 convert Screenshot_1360x768.png -resize 640x480! 640smaller.png

I have 8 of those files in /home/andy/Downloads/.

Is there a way to do a batch convert of those .jpgs files to the smaller file size?

Thanks.

I had K3b burn some data to a rewrite-able DVD.

My file manager shows it as "K3b data project"

I want to rename it to a sensible name like DVD_Disk.

sudo mv '/media/andy/K3b data project' DVD
mv: cannot move '/media/andy/K3b data project' to 'DVD': Device or resource busy
andy@7 /media/andy> 

How can I do that?

I got a new keyboard(Lenovo) but it has no sleep key which I use very frequently.

I have a script to do the suspension.

Can I take a rarely used key, like the Pause/Break key and cause it's pressing to put my computer in suspend mode?

I have installed xbindkeys.

I had sensors working in 18.04 but having difficulties with 20.04

I installed sensors and ran sensors-detect selecting the default choices.

I would appreciate the opportunity to learn what I need to do next.

Thanks.

sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:         +2.1°C  (high = +70.0°C)
                       (crit = +80.0°C, hyst = +79.0°C)

radeon-pci-0008
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:         +2.0°C  (crit = +120.0°C, hyst = +90.0°C)

fam15h_power-pci-00c4
Adapter: PCI adapter
power1:           N/A  (crit =  65.19 W)

And my hardware info. Not sure if you need other info.

sudo dmidecode | more

Base Board Information (Mother board)
    Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    Product Name: F2A68HM-H

BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
        Version: FB
        Release Date: 04/22/2015

AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Computer Cores 4C+6G x 4

Trying some other things suggested by some members:

 E: Package 'hddtemp' has no installation candidate 

Psensors does not show fan speeds. 

I tried this to install hddtemp.

I tried this

sudo apt update wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/h/hddtemp/hddtemp_0.3-beta15-53_amd64.deb sudo apt install ./hddtemp_0.3-beta15-53_amd64.deb and got Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/andy/hddtemp_0.3-beta15-53_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

enter code hereI do not understand why I am getting the "No such file..." error.

fstab is in home/andy/Downloads/

Here is what is relevant in my backup script.

# Backup fstab
cat /etc/fstab > home/andy/Downloads/fstab
tar -cvf fstab.tar home/andy/Downloads/fstab
rsync --progress -r -u fstab.tar $Backup_Directory
rsync --progress -r -u fstab.tar $Local_Backup_Dir

And the output.

Thunar_Settings.tar
10,240 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) sending incremental file list
-rw-rw-r--         10,240 2022/12/01 22:27:27 Thunar_Settings.tar
/home/andy/bin/Backup_20_04.sh: line 79: home/andy/Downloads/fstab: No such file or directory
tar: home/andy/Downloads/fstab: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I added the / to the appropriate places.

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /home/andy/Downloads/fstab sending incremental file list fstab.tar

It creates the tar file and sends it to the 2 locations.

I am fairly new using tar having used zip files in the past.

I want to just create the tar file without the directories being included.

I went here, but found it a bit confusing.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/tar-archive-without-directory-structure

# Backup crontab
crontab -l > /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.txt
tar -cvf /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.tar /home/andy/bin/crontab_backup.txt

I have a microphone and camera on my desktop system.

I would like to be able to make phone calls using the computer.

I use zoom, so it seems like it should be doable.

Is it possible using Ubuntu Mate?

Something is really screwed up with my panels. When I add icons, the next day some of them have doubled. When I remove one of the two icons, they both are deleted.

Any clues as to what is wrong?

Thanks.

I would like to get a listing of the space used by programs, preferably with the largest listed first.

I am keeping 18.04 ONLY since 20.04 has "broken" my Canon TS9120 scanner.

I could then un-install those programs that are not needed.

I am using UM 20.04 on a persistent install on a pendrive.

When I use dconf-editor and change the custom time format, nothing changes.

Same thing happens on a HD installation.

Why did Ubuntu Mate make it so hard to accomplish?

How can I remedy that?

I am trying to install Seamonkey.

I am using the method shown here.

Why isn't Mozilla SeaMonkey available in the repositories? How can I install it?

When I try to do the key command, my connection times out.

andy@7:~$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.mMHsuyF3KI/gpg.1.sh --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Connection timed out

2/20/19 I just found out that

The repository 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all Release' is not signed.

How can I get it signed?

I know how to use sleep 5m for 5 minutes.

How would I use it for say 7 mins 30 seconds?

When running the --help switch, I got this.

$ /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/swriter
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Please ensure that a JVM and the package libreoffice-java-common
is installed.

I did a search for "jvm" and "java" but Package manager has many picks with "java" in the name. What do I need?

In most cases, shift insert works when you want to insert copied text.

But in a terminal, it uses Shift Ctrl v.

Any way to change that behaviour to Shift Insert?

I made a script to invoke inotifywait. It works fine, but I sometimes want to stop it.

How do I stop the last inotifywait instance?

I cannot understand how to use inotify_rm_watch which I understand is used to close it.

7341 ?        S      0:00 inotifywait -m /home/andy/Downloads/ --format %w