I'm currently setting up gestures using Touchegg. Most of them are fairly easy, but I want to bind Fn+F11 which is causing me some trouble.

As far as I understand it FN is not an actual key, but more of a physical switch for my laptop, so it doesn't have an actual "Key" I can use as a modifier in my settings.

Using xev I managed to print out the output of my keypresses, but I'm unsure how to use it in my configuration:

Pressing and releasing F11

FocusOut event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

Pressing and releasing Fn+F11

KeyPress event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x1c9, subw 0x0, time 17878429, (-72,69), root:(799,536),
    state 0x0, keycode 95 (keysym 0xffc8, F11), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x1c9, subw 0x0, time 17878519, (-72,69), root:(799,536),
    state 0x0, keycode 95 (keysym 0xffc8, F11), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Any idea what key combination I should use?

I need to run a command and answer a couple of prompts the command asks. Unfortunately I can't input the prompts manually so I'm looking for a way to do that automatically.

I can't install an external package like expect or yes, I also can't move my commands into a .sh file.

I've managed to pass one answer like this:

echo 'response' | command

But I can't figure out how to send multiple prompts for the same command.

Is this possible?

EDIT:

The command is:

certbot certonly --apache

I'm looking to install PHP on my desktop Ubuntu installation to be able to develop locally without uploading my files.

What packages would I need to install to do so?

Last time I tried to install packages for a LAMP stack locally it ended up uninstalling gnome-desktop, rendering my machine useless. I'd like to avoid that, hence why this question.

to be clear I don't need an entire LAMP stack locally, I just need to be able to run PHP files.

I've been following this guide to switch my shell to zhs. However when I get to running this:

chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh root

I get the following error:

You may not change the shell for 'root'.

Is this intended to happen or am I get something wrong? Should I not be changing my root's shell?

I'm not entirely sure what is happening here but I have not been able to update my kernel past 4.20.

I've used Ukuu to update my kernels for a while, but when I try to do it with 5.x I receive this error:

ERROR (dkms apprt): kernel package linux-headers-5.1.14-050114-generic is not supported

After googling I've seen people suggesting this is happening because my secure boot isn't disabled, but I'm positive it is.

I'm verifying it like this:

mokutil --sb-state
SecureBoot disabled
Platform is in Setup Mode

I'm not able to paste the Ukuu log since I can't copy it, but here's screenshots of the installation:

Any way to fix this? Can I get a quick explanation of what is going wrong here? Does my hardware just not support this new kernel?

Bumblebee used to be a package that allowed you to start specific programs with dedicated graphics without having to reboot your system to choose if you wanted to use integrated or dedicated.

Unfortunately it seems like it's been completely discontinued and not updated for 7 years or so.

This is a really useful feature so I was wondering if there was anything similar I could use today?

I do some Android development on my Ubuntu installation, because of it I need JavaJDK installed.

That's all fine, except for some reason the JavaJDK has now something like 15 different icons in my "Show Applications" list that I cannot remove.

I, of course, don't want to uninstall any of them in fear Java might stop working completely, so just a way to remove them from "Show Applications" would be good enough for me.

How would I do that? I know these are .desktop files somewhere on my system, but I can't seem to find them.

This has been plaguing me for a while, my Show Application window is just full of garbage I can't remove

I just updated to Ubuntu 19.04 and now some of my .desktop shortcuts don't work anymore.

For example, this:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_GB]=/home/leonardo/Photoshop/AMT/Core key files/ProductIcon/ps.ico
Name[en_GB]=Photoshop
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/leonardo/Photoshop" wine64  "/home/leonardo/Photoshop/Photoshop.exe"
Name=Photoshop
Icon=/home/leonardo/Photoshop/AMT/Core key files/ProductIcon/ps.ico

Used to launch Photoshop perfectly, now it just opens a gedit window for me to edit the text file of the shortcut itself.

Did something change? What do I do?

I've had Xampp installed on my machine for a while but I have yet to figure out how to start the GUI from a shortcut.

At the moment I am launching

sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run

From the terminal every time I want to start it, but it's pretty annoying to have to go through the terminal for this every single time.

I have already tried pasting that command in a shortcut and when I try to start it nothing happens. Here's how my shortcut looks:

Any idea how I can get this to work?

I've googled to hell and back about this and I cannot find any information.

Is there

• A browser
• An Extension
• Any program

That allows me to smoothly zoom a Webpage with a pinching gesture on my trackpad? My laptop supports multitouch and I have a bunch of programs that emulate most touchpad gestures, I just can't believe there wouldn't be a single way to get a smooth zoom pinch on Ubuntu.

I'm not looking to bind ctrl++ to a pinch gesture on my trackpad to be completely clear.

Can anyone help?

This is confusing me a lot, I followed suggestions from a lot of answers here and for some reason it is still not working at all. Please bear with me as I explain what is happening.

I have a folder located at /home/admin/shared, I want to give a group called developers access (read and write) to this specific folder.

I have created the group and set it as the owner of the folder with this:

sudo chgrp -R developers /home/admin/shared

I then run ls -l /home/admin to check who owns the folder:

drwxrwxrwx  7 admin developers 4096 Dec 20 19:10  shared

I even check what groups my user is part of with

groups {username}

And it's right.

However both from SSH and FTP Client (Filezilla), every time I try to move to /home/admin/shared, I receive a permission denied error.

I've tried to use chmod too, but with the same results.

How do I fix this?

I'm accessing a remote folder on my server by doing this:

1. Opening Nautilus
2. Going to Connect to Server
3. Writing sftp://user@server/specific-folder

This works just fine the first time I connect, Nautilus displays the specific folder rather than displaying the user's home folder. However if I close Nautilus, the shortcut saved on the left panel inside of Nautilus will just show the default user's folder rather than the one I specified.

Any way to fix this?

I'm interested in editing the script associated with the "Switch to workspace" shortcut on gnome, the one that is assigned by default to CTRL+ALT+arrows.

I'm having some trouble in actually finding where the script for this specific behaviour is.

I've searched inside the gnome-shell github page and I was able to find js/ui/workspace.js js/ui/workspacesView.js js/ui/workspaceThumbnail.js and js/ui/workspaceSwitcherPopup.js

Do any of these contain what I'm looking for? I've looked through the code and I couldn't find anything specific. Does Ubuntu use a different version of gnome-shell made specifically for Ubuntu?

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Edit: Title is possibly misleading, but I'm not entirely sure what to change it to.

I updated to Ubuntu 18.10 earlier today. The installation worked without any problems. So far everything seems to be working as expected.

For some reason however, after opening both Brackets and Atom, I noticed that a lot of their fonts have been inexplicably changed to a monospaced font that is quite hard to read.

• I tried changing my system fonts with Gnome Tweaks.
• I tried switching back to the default Ubuntu theme.
• I tried uninstalling and reinstalling
• I tried changing the font settings from the programs themselves (they had no option to do so)

If I install Atom from the .deb package on their website the fonts do go back to normal, but of course that way I won't get the commodity of automatic updates.

Brackets on the other hand does not install from the website-provided deb package, so I'm unsure on what to do there.

Here's how the programs look:

I don't know why this isn't an option by default in Ubuntu because you'd think it would be pretty important but as far as I've researched the only way to add more options to the nautilus right click menu is to install the package nautilus-actions which, by the way, isn't available in the Software Center anymore.

I followed this guide to install it, however what I didn't realise is that after installing it I would have to customise my own commands to actually have them appear.

What do I need to do after installing this package to have a simple "Create Shortcut" option?

Can I just download a pre-configured set of options?

Edit:

Just to be clear, there's a bunch of guides that explain how to start the gnome-desktop-item-edit, I'm asking if there's a way to make it more automatic so that I can

• Right click any Application
• Select Create Shortcut
• Have a shortcut to that Application created inside the current folder

Essentially what Windows does

There is an option on nautilus that allows to "Create Links", unfortunately as soon as the Link is moved outside of the folder it was created in it will stop opening the Application when clicked.

Edit2:

The problem is that I cannot create Shortcuts to my applications without doing a lot of really annoying steps. I'm going to use my Wine Photoshop installation as an example for this.

To run Photoshop through Wine, I can just open my terminal and paste:

WINEPREFIX=/home/leonardo/Photoshop wine64 /home/leonardo/Photoshop/Photoshop.exe

And this will easily launch the application.

However, say I wanted to have a shortcut on my Desktop that launches this command.

I create it like this, I double click it, and it just gives me this error

This happens with pretty much every single application I try to create a shortcut command to.

cd /home/leonardo/quakespasm && ./quakespasm-sdl2

This works perfectly in terminal, however once I create a shortcut to it, the application doesn't launch and gives me the same error as above.

The only way (that I have found) to get around this is create a file like this:

#!/bin/bash
WINEPREFIX=/home/leonardo/Photoshop wine64 /home/leonardo/Photoshop/Photoshop.exe

And then create a shortcut to launch that file.

Is there any way where I could just create a shortcut to the command and have it work?

I was testing out ways to get better gestures on my laptop, someone on reddit suggested this, I installed it following this guide.

It worked, but I don't really like it, so I want to now remove it. Except I have no idea how. I tried finding it in my installed packages with

sudo apt list --installed | grep -i mtrack

But that didn't find anything. What should I do?

Edit: Going to the install folder and running sudo make uninstall results in this:

 /bin/bash ./libtool   --mode=uninstall rm -f '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mtrack_drv.la'

After running Powertop to do some tests with power usage, I realised that I have two USB devices listed that are not actually in use and that I would like to remove completely from my system.

USB device: usb-device-8087-0a2b
USB device: XiaoMi USB 2.0 Webcam (SunplusIT Inc)

When I installed Ubuntu I checked the option to automatically install drivers, so I'm going to suppose that's where these two came from.

Is there a way I can

• Understand what the first one is
• Figure out the drivers connected to both
• Remove those drivers so that they wouldn't get activated anymore

I don't have any other information about what they could be and nothing else is connected via USB to the laptop.

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS

Edit: I checked in System Monitor and I can't find anything that could be related to them.

Edit 2: Running for device in $(ls /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product); do echo $device;cat $device;done

Resulted in

/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5/product
XiaoMi USB 2.0 Webcam

and lsusb

Resulted in:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f3:0c1a Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05c8:03a2 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Which should be the first

Edit 3: echo '1-5' | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind

Resulted in

1-5
tee: /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind: No such device

A few months back I installed Ubuntu for the first time on a new laptop and started getting accustomed to it. After doing the initial setup and installing nvidia drivers for my dedicated gpu I encountered a bug that would cause the drivers to not unload properly once prime-select was switched to intel.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1778011

Now as I'm looking at this, and correct me if I'm wrong, the bug seems to be resolved.

Does that mean that I have to install nvidia-390 and that will contain the bugfix or do I need to install a different driver?

Nvidia-396 which seems to be the latest stable driver returns a not found when trying to install from terminal.

Using ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS

Here's the output of inxi -G

Graphics:  Card-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620
           Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1d12
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: [email protected]
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5

I'm aware this has been asked a hundred times but it seems like none of the solutions that have been posted for other people are working for me.

Adobe must've changed something in the past year because half of the questions are completely outdated.

Here's what I've done:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

According to most tutorials online this should work. But it doesn't.

I tried installing

flashplugin-installer

but not only does it not work it also gives me an "update" message every time I start, but when I choose to update nothing happens.

I checked here https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html and firefox is not recognizing flash player to be installed.

I'm completely lost and I feel like I installed and uninstalled so much stuff that at this point it's going to be impossible to actually fix this.

I don't know what to do anymore, please help.

EDIT: Flash works perfectly on Chromium. I don't know if Chromium still comes with its internal version of Flash, but it seems to be working just fine.

I installed powertop and tried to run --auto-tune as I've seen that seems to be the suggested options, however I'm pretty sure it's not actually running.

I'm on a fresh Ubuntu installation and I'm also fairly new to this. No one else seems to be having this problem either.

Here's a screenshot of my terminal