I'm using a USB-C hub to connect power and a hdmi external display to my laptop, which means easy connection with one cable. However, whenever I connect it gnome will revert me to the login screen. And after I log in all my windows are gone, it's a new session.
Also, often when I disconnect the monitor, the system will restart.
I've tried disabling extensions but no difference.
Any Ideas?
I expect it to show list of recent apps and as I type update the list matching my results. Neither happens it's just always blank.
I'm not able to open any app using the GUI, I have to fall back to terminal.
It will work after a restart, but soon breaks once the system has been running for a short time.
Any ideas?
When opening up my laptop (dell xps) from sleep, I would like to be able to just tap the power button for fingerprint login and get straight into my desktop.
Currently there's a lock screen with the time on it and I need to press a key or a mouse press to get to the password/fp login.
How can I disable this screen?
I use ubuntu accounts to sync events from gcalendar.
And I want to hide past events to avoid clutting the notifications dropdown.
example here
I've checked all the relevant setting in evolution and also in dconf editor, none seem to make any difference.
Any ideas?
Usually this happens when resuming laptop from sleep having previously been connected. When the client tries to reconnect is just hangs indefinitely and shows reconnecting in the status.
The annoying this is I cannot cancel this, or kill the nord vpn process, leaving with no open other than to reboot.
I'm using the latest version on NordVPN linux client NordVPN Version 3.10.0.
I've tried various settings changes, kill switch on/off etc. I'm currently on the following settings.
Technology: OpenVPN
Protocol: UDP
Firewall: enabled
Kill Switch: disabled
CyberSec: disabled
Obfuscate: disabled
Notify: enabled
Auto-connect: disabled
IPv6: disabled
DNS: x.x.x.x, x.x.x.x
Is there a way to kill nord VPN using the usual method of searching in system monitor, doesn't seem to work as the process pops straight back up again.
I'd like to be able to map a double press on the ctrl key to a keyboard shortcut that other applications can use.
Example use case,
I found this old post here but looking for something a bit easier.
Any ideas?
My system crashed and after rebooting I'm left with a corrupt/broken desktop environment. I can see the toolbars and dock, however none of the icons are loading and cannot get ANY windows to display (even terminal).
I did ctrl + alt + f2 to get to the terminal and tried reinstalling gnome.
sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-desktop
However, this didn't change anything.
I also tried the fix in this post but wasn't able to find 'Linux Filesystem' partition.
I'm using the Online Accounts feature to sync my google calendar to gnome calendar, and keep noticing the alarm clock sound. It also doesn't seem to match up with the event time and or any consistent like '2 mins before'.
So I would like to disable it completely and just rely on the visual pop-up.
Tried:
On Ubuntu 20.04
I'm using VLC which is installed via the snap store. However, I have an issue when viewing it on a 4k display.
So I'm wondering if there is a way to set the scaling for snap apps, as I may run into this again for others.
I tried this post here so my desktop entry is now. .
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/vlc_vlc.desktop --force-device-scale-factor=2 /snap/bin/vlc %U
but couldn't get it to work.
Thanks!
PS. on Ubuntu 20.04
When running out of battery and trying to bring the system back up again, I'm faced with a black screen and fans on full.
I've configured hibernate using guide which sets the swap uuid in the grub file.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=14cee2ec-9d37-4ac0-b594-eae0e55814aa"
and sets the swap uuid again in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
My swap drive is the same size as my RAM.
However, something is still causing crashes during hibernate only when running out of battery - otherwise hibernate works fine.
Following on from a reinstall of ubuntu desktop sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop to fix a previous issue with not booting.
and then a reinstall of google chrome
sudo apt remove google-chrome-stable
I got the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'google-chrome-stable' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-panel-data gnome-shell-pomodoro-data gparted-common intltool
libaacs0 libaom0 libaribb24-0 libass9 libavutil56 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbs2b0 libcodec2-0.9 libegl1-mesa libflite1
libgconf-2-4 libgme0 libgsm1 liblilv-0-0 libmusicbrainz5-2 libmusicbrainz5cc2v5 libmysofa1 libnorm1 libnuma1 libopenmpt0
libpaps0 libpgm-5.2-0 libpostproc55 libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib librubberband2 libserd-0-0
libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsord-0-0 libsratom-0-0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample3 libswscale5 libvdpau1 libvidstab1.1
libvo-amrwbenc0 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libx265-179 libxcb-xtest0 libxnvctrl0 libxvidcore4 libzmq5 libzvbi-common libzvbi0
mesa-vdpau-drivers paps python-gobject-2 python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-distutils-extra
python3-levenshtein python3-pyinotify python3-websocket vdpau-driver-all
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 5 not to upgrade.
And running sudo apt autoremove gives a warning about removing these packages
The following packages will be REMOVED ...
And the list of packages again. My question is is this safe to run, are these packages neccessary
I am trying to use my laptop in a docked mode, so external monitor, mouse and keyboard with the lid closed. I found this post but didn't much and was very old and have tried to the following.
In gnome tweak tool I've unticked 'suspend when lid is closed'.
and downloaded caffeine gnome extension to try and prevent sleeping etc.
However, I simply get a blank screen with the mouse cursor still working, the laptop does not suspend though.
Any ideas?
Edit: also set HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore in my login.conf.
I frequently dock my 4k laptop to different monitors, sometimes HD, sometimes UHD etc and usually lower my built-in screen to match.
When I do this I notice the mouse, and more importantly the trackpad, speed varies and I need to re-set this on each dock.
Is there anyway to solve this?
I'm only able to access nvm using bash, I'm trying to add it to my zshrc but unable to find it's install location.
I tried,
$ which nvm
but that does nothing.
When my system boots pCloud mounts a drive which adds an icon on my desktop and show the safely remove hardware icon in the top title bar.
As there's no option to stop this in the GUI is there something I can do system-wise i.e. I tried to add
umount /home/user/pCloudDrive
rm -rf /home/user/pCloudDrive
to my rc.local but the drive is not mounted at that time and fails. Also the folder won't delete for some reason.
Installed postman from the ubuntu software centre under a fresh install and the app will not open.
This is the information from snap list
postman 7.13.0 97 stable postman-inc✓ -
I've tried the fix suggest here, however that didn't work.
Madness, that this app has been chosen as the banner for software centre and doesn't work out-the-box on LTS version!
Laptop is a Dell XPS with OLED screen and nvidia 1650 currently on nvidia driver version 440.
The mouse cursor will flicker when an external monitor is plugged in.
These questions generally go unanswered
-Mouse flickering, 2 displays, 18.04
-Laptop display flickers when external display is connected [Ubuntu 18.04]
Is this out of our hands and very much an Nvidia driver issue?
If I browse to ~/snap all of the directories contained inside are empty. Also, if I ls -a in terminal I get,
intellij-idea-community/current $ sudo ls -la
total 8
But no files?
I'm trying to perform --auto-tune in powertop, however I get the following error
Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
If I browse to that directory the file does exist.
I started by running --calibrate first, which completed okay.
Here is the full print out;
~ $ sudo powertop --auto-tune
modprobe cpufreq_stats failedLoaded 48 prior measurements
Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with battery only
RAPL device for cpu 0
RAPL Using PowerCap Sysfs : Domain Mask f
RAPL device for cpu 0
RAPL Using PowerCap Sysfs : Domain Mask f
Devfreq not enabled
glob returned GLOB_ABORTED
Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with battery only
To show power estimates do 333 measurement(s) connected to battery only
Leaving PowerTOP
For example, when I run export export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin or a GOPATH=~/workspace/me/go which file does this get added to?