After my biennial system rebuild to 22.04 LTS I am resetting config on all my apps. I know the password for my Backup app. So I can restore my old data backups with no problem. But I want to restore only my settings for the Backup app (this is the text file that Backup reads and defines which folders I usually include and which I exclude from my daily backups). I should like to carry on using Ubuntu back up program as I did before I rebuilt Ubuntu. But I cannot find the config files. I've looked for "duplicity" and "deja dup" configs but cannot see anything. I have a copy of my original home folder, root home folder and etc.
Since installing Ubuntu 22.04 icons are missing on the thumbnails images in Digikam. In particular, the mini icon top right of a globe to signify "this item has geolocation information" is missing though the tool tip can be made to display by mouse over the icon that does not display. Digikam is 7.5.0 installed from synaptic. The snap of Digikam 7.6.0 did not work.
Problem. For some time my Focal Fossa 20.04 desktop requires me on most occasions when booting from power off to login twice. It loops back to the login screen after first attempt. No error messages. On the second attempt it always works. How do I view a log to tell me what is happening?
Kingston MobileLite G4 lists (lsusb) as: Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Card reader 0bda:0326 System: Fossa
It is no longer working with my MicroSD card when contained in its usual SD card converter straight from the camera. Until recently I had been using it successfully for several years.
It shows in Ubuntu/Disks app as two devices but no longer seem mountable.
Is there a step by step procedure to set up a shared pdf printer on 20.04?
I have installed a cups pdf printer which works fine on my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop host.
From the GUI >> Printers >> Additional Printer Settings my pdf printer is shared. The Device URI: = cups-pdf:/ But I do not see this printer from a Windoze (sic) or other 20.04 PCs on my network or from Android phones or networked iPads.
I know that I may need to change setting in:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
/etc/samba/smb.conf
and possibly access:
https://pcname_or_IP:631/admin
But I have not found any procedures that works or make sense.
Is there a simple method using the GUI?
Is there a step by step published?
I have looked at https://www.steveroot.co.uk/virtual-pdf-printer-for-our-small-office-network-a-step-by-step-how-to.html but it does more than I need.
I am looking print to pdf at home from mobiles, iPads and Windoze clients.
Output from:
sudo cupsctl
_debug_logging=0
_remote_admin=0
_remote_any=0
_share_printers=0
_user_cancel_any=0
BrowseLocalProtocols=dnssd
DefaultAuthType=Basic
JobPrivateAccess=default
JobPrivateValues=default
MaxLogSize=0
PageLogFormat=
SubscriptionPrivateAccess=default
SubscriptionPrivateValues=default
WebInterface=Yes
Often when I start my PC the desktop icons do not display in the actual desktop.
To clarify, my shortcut launchers do not appear on my desktop but of course Nautilus and Thunar show them in the folder: ~/Desktop. The missing items include launchers I created or were created for me by apps and also "Rubbish Bin" and my "Home" folder icon which was created through settings.
To date I have had to reboot or log out and re-login to fix. The problem repeated this morning on start-up up from cold.
This is slow because I have startup background apps including: Conky, Dropbox, Mega and Universal Media Server.
Is there a quicker way?
Note: Possibly related but I continue to get strange behaviour whenever I edit a desktop launcher or create a new one. A bug registered as Bug #1878392
Two wireless Logitech mouse models: M310 and the smaller M185 have recently started to misbehave when using Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic on different PCs. They do not stop completely just have intermittent major latency.
They were fine when first purchased in the last 12 months. Changing the surface has helped the M310. I now stick a magazine with lots of typing under it which ameliorates the problem.
Has some dodgy driver come out in a kernel update?
I have a script in a USER folder that works successfully when run manually. But I cannot get it to work when run via USER CRON (edited via crontab -e).
There are web posts elsewhere by others who have the same problem but I do not understand the discussions well enough to implement a solution.
I originally had RCLONE installed via SNAP on Bionic 18.04 but suspected that SNAP could be the problem. I have removed the SNAP version and reinstalled via SYNAPTIC.
My credentials for the remote on Microsoft ONEDRIVE are held in
/home/USER/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
I simplified my script into a test with a pipe to see output: >> test.log and my test log got created but was empty so I cannot see what is going on. My simplified test script is:
rclone move onedriveUSER:Pictures "/home/USER/Documents/PATH" >> test.log
I am not sure if the pipe is the right approach to debug. I'm new to this.
I'm using this script to move to my PC from the cloud pics of credit card receipts captured by my mobile using the Microsoft Office Lens app on Android. I'm really pleased with the process that allows me to throw away all my paper receipts each day.
But I want to automate the process on my Ubuntu desktop pc with CRON.
I have used Universal Media Server for many years to stream family photos, home videos, music and movies to smart TV from desktop PC running Ubuntu (now on Bionic 18.04). The media library is very large.
I'm getting massive CPU usage caused by Oracle Java 8. It can be as much as 40%.
UMS shows a lot of media indexing going on and I cannot close UMS via the interface.
My only resort is to use System Monitor to KILL Java.
Grsync does not browse to a source path for a shared folder on a local network PC. I have read about setting up a mount for a shared folder and have succeeded in the past in doing this. But it seems like hard work. I want to be able to sync easily from my desktop PC which has some SAMBA shares to a laptop. Grsync looks perfect but its interface does not seem to support setting the path to a shared folder.
The Fn + F7 / Fn + F9 are the keyboard toggles for Wifi and WebCam respectively. These don't seem to work in Bionic. The BIOS is unhelpful offering either off or last state for each of these. The machine is dual boot but Windows 10 doesn't appear to use these key combinations either.
pyrenamer is an excellent bulk file renaming tool. But I could not find it in the repository for 18.04 Bionic Beaver or a PPA.
I use it all the time to rename photo images before importing into the Shotwell image library management system.
In particular, I use a pattern to get names in the form yyyymmdd including a day of the week (it is so much easier to remember the day of the week one visited the zoo) and the model name of the camera used. The ~ symbol helps if one wants to search and replace to revert to the original file image name. See:
{imageyear}{imagemonth}{imageday}_{imagedaysimp}_{imagehour}{imageminute}{imagesecond}_{cameramodel}~{1}
If a PPA becomes available for 18.04 please inform here.