stason's questions

For some reason when enabling Restore manually saved session in Desktop Session Login and Logout settings, and hitting Save Session from the applications menu - all opened application windows get saved and restored upon login into the KDE session, except google chrome.

I located the session file ~/.config/ksmserverrc and indeed firefox and many other applications are there:

$ grep firefox ~/.config/ksmserverrc
program11=firefox
restartCommand11=/usr/bin/firefox,--sm-client-id,10686f70[...]
$ grep gkrellm ~/.config/ksmserverrc
program12=/usr/bin/gkrellm
restartCommand12=/usr/bin/gkrellm,--sm-client-id,10686f70[...]
$ grep chrome ~/.config/ksmserverrc

as you can see chrome is not there.

And no application has been configured to be excluded:

$ grep excludeApps ~/.config/ksmserverrc
excludeApps=

The only unusual thing about chrome, as compared to other applications, perhaps, is that it appears as many threads in the output of ps(1).

I have it installed as:

$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable is already the newest version (69.0.3497.100-1)

My setup: Kubuntu 18.04, Plasma 5.12.6, KDE Frameworks 5.44

My setup has multiple hard drives. The target drive was an SSD drive residing on /dev/sdc. Trying to perform a complete re-install of either 18.04 or 17.10 from a flash drive was failing with an error:

grub-install /dev/sda failed

I already had 16.04 installed there, and decided to install over it (letting the installer to wipe the disk). I chose "use the entire disk and create LVM", and the installer failed with the error above. I tried the 17.10 installer and had the same issue.

After trying multiple workarounds suggested on the forums (boot-repair, GPT, Fast Boot, Secure boot, etc.) and none solving the problem, thinking about why is it trying to install grub onto /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdc I decided to try to disconnect all hard drives but that one.

As soon as I had just the SSD drive, it installed without a hitch.

I have no idea why it was trying to install grub onto /dev/sda. Perhaps it's a bug in the installer. 2 years earlier I installed onto the same drive on the same system from 16.04 installer without a problem.

FYI, my SSD was set to be the first drive to boot from in BIOS, except it wasn't connected as a first SATA drive, which should make no difference.

Hope this helps someone.

edit: and I have just noticed the installer botched it even more. It created 1GB Swap partition, for a 24GB RAM installed. Yickes. I had to go to live CD, install and use kvpm to reduce the root lvm partition and extend swap.

I have an Intel onboard GPU and NVIDIA GPU. I am running Ubuntu 18.04.

How do I configure a dual GPU setup so that Intel onboard iGPU will drive the monitor, leaving NVIDIA GPU exclusively for Machine Learning CUDA work?