leeuwtje's questions

My system shuts down when I push te power button instead of suspending like most laptops. There are many complex forum solutions for that on the net, but I like to solve it with this command:

"gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power suspend;"

The only problem is lubuntu uses LXQt now, so the result is: No such schema “org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power”...

My question, what would be the equilavent gsettings command for lubuntu 18.10? Thanks for any idea's offered.

Help! Creating clone from a cosmic installed bootable USB stick;

I have a working running USB stick with lubuntu 18.10 cosmic on it. I installed the stick by a normal lubuntu 18.10 .iso.

Now I learned, or always understood that cloning a linux system is easy. Today and yesterday I learned in practical experience it is not. Result is a not working 2th usb stick and even partition manager doesn't like it.

What I do:

How do I use dd to clone an external USB drive installation to a local hard disk?

I use that syntax of the dd command to clone my working linux installed bootable usb stick to another usb stick. I do this by using a third lubuntu installation. In other words, I do not try to backup an active running lubuntu session itself. Yesterday I tried backingup from the running system , it didn't work. Than I found topics stating that this method doesn't result in a readable usb clone, so today I decided to use usb stick number 3 which is starting an external Linux system so I can clone usb stick1 to usb stick number 2.

Complex? Maybe, but I wanted to be sure everything is tested out. And using this context:

sudo dd if=/dev/sdx of=/dev/sdy bs=8M && sync

Doesn't work at all. Result: It creates a clone usb stick. Whne I try to run it, the grub comes up, I can select lubuntu, I see it starting ,the . . . . dots come on the screen which creates hope. Than The system falls back in a initdos or puppydos prompt (or whatever it is called,) I tried to do a fsck command on the patition, rebooting, didn't work. In fact it seems to hang on a video driver or something. But how is that possible if the system is supposed to be an exact clone of the working usb? I can run mc midnight commander, when I type it in the prompt screen (I installed mc before backing up at the system of the original usb stick).

To complete my story I must add, that I also tried to dd backup first to the internal harddrive, before restoring it on usb stick 2. Didn't work either.....

Would there by anybody out there, whom found a way to do what I want to do for a lubuntu cosmic 18.10 USB running sytem?....

I know there are tools like clonezilla and stuff, but doing what I tried should work. Why doesn't it? Does dd only work when you restore the backup on the same usb stick? (note that both usb devices I used are not of the same brand, but have the same size, 32gb....)

Some help required.

Thanks!

update: i forgot to mention 2 more things:

1.On the USB stick wih my working install, I have 2 partitions. A ext4 / system partition and a small 6 gb NTFS partition I use for sharing files. I tried dd if=dev/sdd and if=dev/sdd1 , same end result.

2.The installation of the original usb stick is based on a UEFI partition table! The bios in my laptop is set on UEFI as well. Just in case it is important...

I can't open gparted. When I open it by terminal: sudo gparted; It gives me this:

Unit tmp.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I tried to follow this procedure: Gparted error - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

But it didn't work, I suppose this is a solution ment for old architecture. The result on my terminal is this:

E: Version ‘2.42.0-1’ for ‘libglibmm-2.4-1c2a’ was not found

I remember I used gparted during setup for my system when I installed cosmic. weird. It must be caused by a modification i did. Some sites call it a 'bug'. Some help is required.

Thanks.

Interesting one. After some time of leaving ubuntu I decided to run Lubuntu again. This time 18.10. There is a new desktop called LXQt as far as I can see. MY problem; after installing it it runs straight to the desktop without need for user login. Ok. I must say I like comfort and getting to the point of things quickly. Sadly I have installed lubuntu on a Compact flash, which I carry around. So, without wanting to be paranoid I think it would be good to protect it with a password after booting up at least.

Trying searching on key words on duckduckgo.com like "lubuntu LXQt config file" or "lubuntu change auto login" did get me nowhere. All the solutions provided are based on different desktop gui's like lightdm etc. These desktop gui's store there config files in a different /etc directory. Why is there so much change on important functions like the desktop gui in 1 type of distribution? It creates confusion and scaring away new users...

My question; How to have a login window back in my setup for lubuntu 18.10?

Thanks in advance for all help.

update: I forgot to mention that in the 'users and groups' tool there is no selector for login screen or anything like that. Could be I overlooked something. Because I couldn't find it, I started to investigate the terminal en config file direction...