Frantumn's questions

I'm looking for someone to help me create a bash script using the mediainfo tool to loop through my entire audio library and output a list of .flac files that do not have a Sampling rate of "44.1 kHz" or a Bit depth of "16 bits".

I gave it a shot, but it doesn't run. Here's where my head was at.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
mediainfo /media/Media/Music/ 
if grep ["Bit depth" != "16"] || ["Sampling rate" != "44.1 kHz"]
then
    echo "$flacfile"
    echo mediainfo /media/Media/Music/ | grep 'Bit depth'
    echo mediainfo /media/Media/Music/ | grep 'Sampling rate'
else
    # do nothing...
fi

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 running on a server using VMware. I installed xrdp on it, and I can RDP to the OS without issue. However, the desktop environment I get is pure Gnome and not the customized Ubuntu windows and menu bar.

Why can't I see the default Ubuntu environment? Is it because it's not supported with RDP?

I am wondering what the difference is between the Documents option and Files option for a Nextcloud Ubuntu online account.

• The Files one seem to add a dav shortcut to my file explorer. If I disable Files, the dav shortcut goes away.
• When I enable / disable Documents, I see no obvious changes.

Neither one seems to actually sync files - I had to install a desktop client for that.

UPDATED: I found that this happenes whenever I run the sudo -i nautilus command.

The Unity bar is changing colour without my request. I am not changing the background (I know it automatically adjusts to your wallpaper).

It is normally set to a dark orange which it gets from my wallpaper. But sometimes, it bugs out and switches to the default purple. This also messes up my conky configuration and creates a red background around the conky window (which is set to dock mode).

I was messing around and installed Gnome over top of Unity... and I've recently removed Gnome (not all of it though, login screen is still there for some reason) and I am wondering if the Gnome desktop change might have messed something up...

Here you'll see the way it should look.

Here is what happens.
Note that the conky goes red, and the Unity bar goes purple... What can I do to troubleshoot this?

I can't boot since installing Ubuntu 12.10 When I try to run Ubuntu My computer never gets to the Ubuntu screen with the loading dots. I tried to run in recovery mode with safe graphics (failsafex) When I do this a message pops up saying "the system is running in low graphics mode", If I click okay I am asked what would I like to do and am given four options. I tried running low graphics for one session and then a message appears with a progress bar and says standby one minute while the display restarts. The progress bar never moves and if I click okay the whole process just restarts. I Don't know what to do from here I can't get into the OS.

I'm not sure whether the problem is related to compatibility with my laptop monitor or my graphic card nvidia360m

I had to install using a safe graphics mode. To learn about how I installed see this link. This link also has information on my computer hardware.

Can't install Ubuntu since 10.10

----UPDATE---
I was able to get into a desktop environment By installing Nvidia-current however it is messy. I have a screen and I am able to see my desktop however there is no unity bar and none of the keyboard controls work. I can right click and create a folder on the desktop and then I can see inside that folder in a traditional browser window. There is still no top menu or unity bar.

When I boot normally I don't get into the desktop environment and I get this message in tty 'GPU lockup switching to software FBCON'

Okay, I've played around with tips the pages from comments. I've been able to consistantly get into a safemode desktop environment using the xorg & nouveau drivers.

I've tried switching between the 5 different options in the Additional Drivers tab in Software Sources. The nVidia (proprietary, tested) driver gets beyond the GPU lockup on a normal boot and actually gets into a Desktop. The issue is then that there is no Unity bar, or top screen menu bar and the resolution is very low. I've tried switching to the (prop, tested) driver and then reinstalling Unity and Ubuntu-Desktop but that didn't work either.

Is there a way to add a folder to the computer list on my menu? I would like to add workbench.

I don't want to add it as a bookmark. I want it to appear in the same list as everything else.

I've been using Conky a long time, and one thing I just can't seem to get looking nice is the network graph.

The graphs start on the right hand side, and scroll to the left. I want the starting point for the graphs to match up. You can see that the Down graph starts a little more to the right than the Up graph. They are the same legnth they just don't line up. Can anyone help me accomplish this? I've tried a few ways like making "Down" and "Up" alignL, then having the graphs alignC, then the kb info alignR but that didn't work.

Here's my current network config, paired with a screenshot:

${font Arial:bold:size=10}${color #342826}NETWORK ${color #747170}${hr 2} $font${color #E8E8E8}IP on eth1 ${alignr} ${addr eth1}

Down ${downspeedgraph eth1 12,120 000000} $alignr ${downspeed eth1} Up ${upspeedgraph eth1 12,120 000000} $alignr ${upspeed eth1}

Downloaded: $alignr ${totaldown eth1} Uploaded: $alignr ${totalup eth1}

I've read that it's bad to run gui applications from a terminal using sudo.

In order to administer some eclipse updates, I need elevated privileges (view screenshot). How do I do this correctly?

Where are unauthorized sudo attempts reported to?

When you attempt to use sudo, and are not allowed, a message says that the attempt will be reported.

Is this only reported in /var/log/auth.log? Is there another place? The reason I ask, is because the log contains so much that it's not a very good way of viewing often.

When I type ll or ls to list the contents of a directory...

The ls command shows un-hidden files and folders in a horizontal view.
To show the hidden folders, I have to type ls -a. I like how this works.

The ll command shows all files and folders, including hidden ones without needing to add -a.

I would like ll to list only unhidden files and folders by default. And if I want to show the hidden ones, I'd like to have to type ll -a. How can I set this up?

I can't ping google.com with my virtual ubuntu 12.04 server.

I have set up a proxy URL in my /etc/apt/apt.conf file and it says
Aquire::http::proxy http://urlname.com:9999;

Now, I don't know a lot about how the proxy works, but I do know when we use it on windows VMachines it's a pac script that we place in internet explorer LAN settings and it automatically detects the script and gives internet access.

I tried including the 9999/proxy.pac in the apt.conf URL and it didn't seem to work any better.

Would ubuntu know how to handle a proxy.pac assuming it was created for windows? Should my URL include the .pac or just end after the port numbers? I've tried both without sucess, but I would like to know.

A quick test to ping a fellow co-workers' PC was sucessful. So I can see network computers, but not google. or other internet sources.

How do I set up GRUB to display on 2 monitors?

I have a laptop plugged in to a external monitor. Most of the time, I leave the laptop closed, and just use the monitor, but when I boot up, I have to open the lid to select GRUB boot option.

I don't want to set the config to be only the external monitor in case I am not plugged in to one. So I figure a mirrored config would be best.

I have an NVidia m360 card if info is required.

I want to display GPU speed, Memory, and Temperature on my conky configuration. On the conky site it says you can use ${nvidia temp}°C to show it. However, when this happens, it takes it as litteral text. I've read a bit, and it looks like I'm missing a plugin or something. Some sources say to install Nvidia-Settings which I've already had installed. (PS i have a gefore 360m)

I was able to get a temp reading as you can see in the top of this picture. I used a long line of code ${execi 60 nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | perl -ne 'print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;'} °C But the conky objects are much cleaner, and I'd like to just be able to use them instead.

Does anyone know how I can get this working? (See VIDEO section)

Here's the code for the Video section...

${font Arial:bold:size=10}${color White}VIDEO ${color DarkSlateGray}${hr 2}
$font${color DimGray}NVidia GeForce 360m GPU $alignr${nvidia gpufreq}Mhz
Memory $alignr${nvidia memfreq}Mhz Temperature $alignr${nvidia temp}Mhz

I'd like to have all of my windows open in the center of my screen instead of the top left corner. Is this possible? If so, where do I configure this?

I am wondering if there's a way to get Conky to show the RAM that is in use minus the buffers and cache.

When I close a program, the RAM usage goes down in HTOP, but in conky it stays the same. So I'd like to see it represented correctly on Conky.

Note in this picture, HTOP shows that there's 1300mb of RAM used, and Conky shows 2.15 because it includes cache and buffers.

Here's the chunk of Conky code that deals with RAM

${font Arial:bold:size=10}${color White}MEMORY ${color DarkSlateGray}${hr 2} $font${color DimGray}MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc% $membar

Updated I use a live/hotmail account for my google services including google chat. In previous versions of empathy, I would specify the domain on my google talk account to talk.google.com and then it would accept my user name of [email protected] and I'd be able to talk to my contacts. This new version doesn't seem to work the same. When I enter my connection info and try to connect, I get "Authentication failed for account ###@###" and it asks me to re-enter my password. I've no doubt in my mind that the password is wrong. What troubleshooting steps can I take to make this work correctly?

I've gone into the /.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg and made sure that the parameters for my live mail account looked right. And they did. the username, and server were what they should be. everything is the same as another actual Google account I used as a test to make sure it wasn't just all google accounts.

When I try to install ubuntu on my notebook from a disk, I get the screen that asks be what I want to do, (boot live, install etc)... no matter what I do, when I get to the point where I select an option, the disc will start to load, I will see the little man a circle with the keyboard under him, and then shortly after I get this screen:

I have been having this problem since version 10.10. 10.04 worked, and ever since the 10.10, i've tried the new versions and they all give me the same error.

I really love Ubuntu, and I want to use it as my main OS, but this issue prevents me from using it as something other than a virtual machine (which works).

I've tried the following things to resolve this problem.

• Tried 32bit and 64 bit OS'
• Tried multiple download ISO's
• Tried multiple installation versions
• Tried upgrading from version 10.04

With this, I get an error on the upgrade, my upgrade process freezes, and no key combination will undo the freeze.

• I have updated my BIOS to the newest version.
• Run hardware diagnostics on my machine.
• Looked for BIOS options to specify Video card / CPU video allocation (There's no options for anything like this on my BIOS)
• I have tried installing Fedora 15-16, and I get the same problem.
• Googled the world for a solution, and come up empty.

Here are the important specs of my notebook

• ASUS G51Jx
• Intel® Core™ i7 720QM
• 4gb DDR3 RAM
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 360M 1GB GDDR5 VRAM
• More here if you need

Thanks to anyone who can help. I really want to get using Ubuntu as my main OS again.