I'm running ubuntu 18.04 on an asus laptop. When I close the lid of the laptop, the laptop drops off my home network.
How can I keep its connection to network open?
I recently updated from 17.10 to 18.04.
After the upgrade I've noticed that desktop applications constantly, randomly lock up. This happens about once every minute. The constant random freezes last from about 1 second to 20 seconds.
This issue makes my computer unusable as a work desktop.
I've got a relatively powerful computer: it has an i7 and 16Gb of RAM. So the issue can't be from lack of resources.
lspci | grep VGA
Returns VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] (rev a1)
I understand that this is a relatively good video processor, so I don't expect issues there either.
What could be causing the freezes? How do I prevent them?
I use Chrome for most everything.
Sometimes in external applications I click links to web resources. The operating system responds by firing up firefox, which then opens a tab for displaying the link.
I'd prefer that the link opens in Chrome.
I've set my default browser to Chrome. This doesn't change the behaviour of the operating systems behaviour.
I'm using ubuntu 12.04 and I have a first generation iphone,16Gb. The iphone is jailbroken.
Under 10.04, I was able to transfer music onto the phone. I used banshee. Under 12.04, ubuntu can see the iphone and it's file system. But can't transfer music.
If I just plug the iphone in, rhythymbox can't see the iphone. Banshee can see it sometimes, but can't see it's music, and can't transfer music onto it. Attempts to copy over tracks fail with the error "mp3 format is not supported by the device and no converter was found to convert it"
If I plug in the iphone and start nautilus, nautilus can see the iphone, and gives me options for opening it: rhythymbox or a photo management application.
If I then open the phone in rhythymbox, I can see the music collection. But when I attempt to copy files over, the syncing process seems to take forever. The only way to end it is to cancel the sync. Afterwards, no new tracks have been added.
So, how do I transfer file over to my iphone from ubuntu 12.04?
I've installed adobe's pdf reader.
However, now when I download a pdf using firefox, often adobe's reader loads the pdf in a firefox reader.
How do I set the default behaviour to storing the pdf, rather then loading it within firefox?
I've started using zsh for my login shell.
I've create an a ~/.zprofile, but in order for it to be put into effect, I have to manually source it.
How can I have my settings load automatically?
It seems that I can use my mic under gnome, but not under kde.
There must be a setting somewhere under KDE that will allow me to use the mic that is built into my web cam, but I can't find it anywhere.
How can I make use of my microphone under KDE?
My gnome-panel settings have gone crazy. I now have three bars at the top and three bars at the bottom, leaving limited space for working with.
Is there a way to remove all gnome-panels settings?
I just want to nuke everything and start over.
This is what it looks like at the moment:
I'm running an nvidia card on a machine running a fresh install of 12.04. I'm using the drivers available from the main repos. I have the program 'nvidia-settings' available.
I have an x display on each monitor. However, when I switch desktops on one monitor, the desktop on the second monitor also changes.
This is a departure from the behaviour that I had on 10.10, where I could control each monitors desktop display independently.
Is there any way to get this behaviour back on 12.04?