Suppose I have a file selected in Files. How can I copy it's full file path to the clipboard? hitting <CTRL>+L followed by <CTRL>+C (or <CTRL>+X) just copies the path of the parent directory to the clipboard. How to get the full path copied to clipboard?
I am not looking for drag-and-drop functionality (e.g., I already know I can drag the file to, say the terminal app, to paste it's path there).
Just what the title says. When I edit a (non-all day) calendar event to add a reminder (e.g., 5 minutes before event), or even more than one reminder (e.g., 5 minutes, and 1 hour before event), it seemingly does so, but when I click "Save" (1) no alarm notifications occur, and (2) if I edit such events I find that no reminders have been set/saved.
How to add and actually save and respect a reminder in Gnome Calendar events in 24.04?
Just what it says on the tin: I do not want automated all-window tiling (i.e. the behavior bound to the SUPER key—specifically on release of the SUPER key—where all windows become small and simultaneously visible across the entire screen) under any circumstance. How to achieve this?
I am using 24.04, and Gnome on X.
EDIT: Apparently the behavior I am describing is called 'overview', not 'tilling'
There's a highest severity security hole in openssl v3.0.x where x<7. The patched version (3.0.7) has officially dropped on November 1, 2022.
How to install/update openssl 3.0.7 on an Ubuntu 22.04 system?
Update: The vulnerability has been downgraded from Critical to High.
When I have calendar events with reminders, I get an extremely loud piercing repeated high-pitched double beep.
This gods-awful sound is not any of the Gnome Desktop alarm sounds.
How do I eliminate this behavior without getting rid of alarms altogether?
Edit: Confirm this problem persists in 22.04.
I am asking about something like what fwupd and fwupdmgr do for motherboards, PCI, USB, etc. hardware.
I am running Gnome Desktop 3.36.3 on X11 11 (X.org version 1.20.8) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a ThinkPadP72 with an NVIDIA Quadro P4200.
I notice in Software & Updates > Additional Drivers that I am running the NVIDIA Driver Metapackage from nvidia-driver-450. However, I notice in apt-cache that there is also an NVIDIA binary Xorg driver from xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-450.
Is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-450 an official NVIDIA package, or is it a FOSS package?
If xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-450 is an official NVIDIA package, when should one prefer it to nvidia-driver-450?
I have a 4K monitor, and use (Gnome) Tweaks in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 to set interface font scaling to 1.80. Sometime during the spring/summer months of 2020 Gnome Desktop (using X11 v3.36.3) started ignoring saved Tweaks settings. Due to the 4k, this makes the interface stupidly difficult to read when I first log in until I manually go to Tweaks and then decrement/increment the font scaling back to 1.80.
Around the same time (spring/summer 2020) Gnome Desktop using X11 became even more unstable than it usually is (at least with my NVIDIA-driven GPU) on login (e.g., garbled text, visual artifacts/distortions, etc.). I therefore frequently resort to F2+ALT, and then run r to reset Gnome. When I do this, again Tweeks settings are ignored and I have to manually reset the font scaling.
How can I force Gnome to respect Tweaks settings?
I consider Ux notifications (pop-ups, etc.) to far more often be a dark design, than actually beneficial or even simply neutral.
The version of Gnome Desktop packaged with Ubuntu 20.04 is aggressive about letting every application invoke notifications, and is—ostensibly—organized along an opt out model where I have to manually configure settings so that, say, the calculator is not privileged to annoy me with notification features:
How can I:
Globally disable all notifications with one command, or one Ux interaction.
Make such disabling permanent (i.e., if I manually click through the dozens of application's multi-toggle notification preferences in Settings, a short time later—On reboot? On logging out and back in?—they are all back to full notification status).
Permit/opt in Evolution/Calendar event notices, and only Evolution/Calendar event notices to remain active?
Okular fetches and opens content when (inadvertently) clicking on links. I tend to bleach my PDF files before I open them, and would like to disable Okular from blindly opening PDFs (or any other content on the other side of a link).
Is this possible?
How to disable Okular from following links when clicking on the linked text?
I am utterly baffled and mystified. I have been happily coding and running Python scripts from the terminal (and also running the Python interpreter). I went to bed a happy user of Python, but suddenly I cannot run any Python script from the shell.
hello.py contains:
#!/usr/bin/python3
print('Hello world!')
Yet suddenly:
% ./hello.py
./hello.py: 1: #!/usr/bin/python3: not found
./hello.py: 2: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
But
% python3 hello.py
Hello world!
% python hello.py
Hello world!
What. The. Zarking. Fardwarks.
ls -la hello.py shows:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Lexible Lexible 44 May 25 08:35 hello.py
Per two requests by @Kulfy
% file -k hello.py
hello.py: Python script text executable\012- a /usr/bin/python3 script, UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text executable
% cat -e hello.py
M-oM-;M-?#!/usr/bin/python3$
print('Hello world!')$
ls -la /usr/bin/python3* shows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 13 05:20 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5457536 Apr 27 08:53 /usr/bin/python3.8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 27 08:53 /usr/bin/python3.8-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.8-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 13 05:20 /usr/bin/python3-config -> python3.8-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 384 Mar 27 19:39 /usr/bin/python3-futurize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 388 Mar 27 19:39 /usr/bin/python3-pasteurize
For giggles...
% which python
/usr/bin/python
% which python3
/usr/bin/python3
Even...
% python3
Python 3.8.2 (default, Apr 27 2020, 15:53:34)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print('Hello world!')
Hello world!
>>>
PS: I am using Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). I have tried rebooting, and sudo apt install -f --reinstall python3 python3.8 python3-minimal python3.8-minimal libpython3.8-minimal all to no avail.
When I open a new Nautilus/Files window (my default view set to list), the last item in the list is selected/has focus.
This is really annoying (I would much prefer the first item in the list was selected, or that no item was selected, but in any case that the list view was set to the start of the list).
How to change this behavior without changing list view, sort order, etc.?
Answers saying "You can't change this behavior" are acceptable.
Answers of the form "Use such-and-such window manager instead" are not not acceptable.
When I upgraded from 18.10 to 19.04, and again when I upgraded from 19.04 to 19.10, I had to manually reinstall all of the packages I installed through dpkg, apt, etc. (I do not recall the precise details of how I went about either upgrade.) Is there a less painful route to upgrade Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04?
Closely related: When I was a macOS user and upgraded my system software, I could export a list of installed Mac Ports, and then reinstall after the system upgrade using that exported list. Is there a similar kind of functionality for dpkg or apt? I would find this kind of solution to be "less painful" in case there is not a simple and direct way to accomplish an upgrade to 20.04 without losing installed packages. :)
I set the wallpaper to a custom image (and forget when and how), and now want to use the current image for further purposes. Where do I find the file?
Am using Gnome 3.34.3.
I am using GNOME 3.32.1 on Ubuntu 19.04. I cannot drag desktop icons to Nautilus folders. I cannot double click desktop icons to open them in their default applications. I cannot (automatically) organize desktop icons. In short, GNOME desktop icons are non-functional other than to represent files in the desktop folder.
Is there a painless way to add basic integration (drag and drop, click to launch, etc.) of GNOME 3.3X desktop icons with Nautilus?
The "Organize Desktop by Name" option no longer appears in the contextual menu in GNOME desktop (xorg if it matters) on Ubuntu 19.04.
How does one organize desktop icons?
I wrote MyScript.sh! MyScript.sh works great from the command line; it takes one or more file paths as its arguments.
In Ubuntu 18.10 how can I:
I am happy to use either a contextual menu (i.e. right click), or a keyboard shortcut (.e. through Settings > Keyboard > Custom Shortcuts).
Unacceptable answer: I am not looking for someone to tell me to type ./MyScript.sh in the command in a terminal, and then drag-and-drop a file/files onto it from nautilus followed by <ENTER>.
Edit 1: I have tried placing MyScript.sh in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/, ensuring it is executable, and right clicking on a file to apply, but no Script submenu appears.
Edit 2: I have set a Keyboard Shortcut in Settings > Keyboard, but the script does not execute.
Title says it all. I want to drive my Nvidia Quadro P4200 with v415. Lots of sites give advice, but:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
Fresh drivers from upstream, currently shipping Nvidia.
## Current Status
Current long-lived branch release: `nvidia-410` (410.66)
Dropped support for Fermi series (https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4656)
Old long-lived branch release: `nvidia-390` (390.87)
For GF1xx GPUs use `nvidia-390` (390.87)
For G8x, G9x and GT2xx GPUs use `nvidia-340` (340.107)
For NV4x and G7x GPUs use `nvidia-304` (304.137) End-Of-Life!
Support timeframes for Unix legacy GPU releases:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142
## What we're working on right now:
- Normal driver updates
- Help Wanted: Mesa Updates for Intel/AMD users, ping us if you want to help do this work, we're shorthanded.
## WARNINGS:
This PPA is currently in testing, you should be experienced with packaging before you dive in here:
Volunteers welcome!
### How you can help:
## Install PTS and benchmark your gear:
sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite
Run the benchmark:
phoronix-test-suite default-benchmark openarena xonotic tesseract gputest unigine-valley
and then say yes when it asks you to submit your results to openbechmarking.org. Then grab a cup of coffee, it takes a bit for the benchmarks to run. Depending on the version of Ubuntu you're using it might preferable for you to grabs PTS from upstream directly: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads
## Share your results with the community:
Post a link to your results (or any other feedback to): https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers-testers
Remember to rerun and resubmit the benchmarks after driver upgrades, this will allow us to gather a bunch of data on performance that we can share with everybody.
If you run into old documentation referring to other PPAs, you can help us by consolidating references to this PPA.
If someone wants to go ahead and start prototyping on `software-properties-gtk` on what the GUI should look like, please start hacking!
## Help us Help You!
We use the donation funds to get the developers hardware to test and upload these drivers, please consider donating to the "community" slider on the donation page if you're loving this PPA:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute
More info: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
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sudo apt install nvidia-415 # There is no such package
sudo apt install nvidia-drivers-415 # There is no such package
sudo apt install nvidia-graphics-drivers-415 # There is no such package
These drivers are referenced in articles and press releases but no love. For example:
$ sudo apt install nvidia-graphics-drivers-415
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-graphics-drivers-415
And...
$ sudo apt-cache search 415
libgempc410 - PC/SC driver for the GemPC 410, 412, 413 and 415 smart card readers
libghc-haxr-dev - XML-RPC client and server library for Haskell
libghc-haxr-prof - XML-RPC client and server library for Haskell; profiling library
node-webfinger - Client library for Host Meta (RFC 6415) and Webfinger
swaml - Semantic Web Archive of Mailing Lists
libnvidia-compute-415 - NVIDIA libcompute package
I do not see the driver package listed.
I have installed /usr/local/stata/xstata-mp as root, permissions 755.
When I try to run this program from a non-root account via the terminal, I get:
user@host ~ % /usr/local/stata/xstata-mp
(xstata-mp:8030): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:09:24.384: cannot open display: 0
"That's odd," I think, I just know I set DISPLAY=0 in my .zshrc, "Well, maybe I need to explicitly do so when running this command?" So I try:
user@host ~ % DISPLAY=0 /usr/local/stata/stata-mp
(xstata-mp:8201): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:13:28.638: cannot open display: 0
Edit: per @steeldriver 's comment I have also tried DISPLAY=:0
I have a gander around, and find Why don't gksu/gksudo or launching a graphical application with sudo work with Wayland? which seems promising (although I am not using Wayland, I am on Ubuntu 18.10 and Wayland remains installed). I try the below command as user@host, and as su in an administrative account:
user@host ~ % xhost -si:localuser:root
xhost: unable to open display "0"
I get desperate, and try:
user@host ~ % DISPLAY=0 xhost -si:localuser:root
xhost: unable to open display "0"
I try other display numbers all to no avail. I think "I am a newb, maybe localhost really means [LOCAL USER] and try with the permutations mentioned above.
user@host ~ % xhost -si:user:root
xhost: unable to open display "0"
It turns out I am a newb, but that didn't help. :)
How can I make the xhost magic happen so that Gtk doesn't throw a fit and I can just launch my application (as user@host)?
EDIT 3-22-2019:
pgrep -a Xorg
3907 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt1 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/123/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
7370 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
I know how to minimize/hide all windows in Cosmic Cuttlefish/GNOME Shell using SUPER+D, but I would like to be able to quickly minimize only all windows for a single application (say the one that currently has cursor focus). For example, I would like to minimize all LibreOffice documents, or all Terminal windows.
I am not quite seeing or recognizing a way to do this in Settings > Devices > Keyboard. Is this possible?