Philipp's questions

I am an Ubuntu user since years but one thing that bothers me daily is the Trackpoint. I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 (8. Gen) and when I dual boot into Windows the Trackpoint feels much more responsive and precise. I can't tell what it is exaclty.

Is there any way to get a similar experience on Ubuntu? Changing the accelaration with xinput helped a little bit.

Here is what I tried already:

# Get the id of the trackpint
xinput --list --short | grep -i trackpoint 

# See what props are available
xinput --list-props 21 

# Changed the accelaration to a value that feels more natural for me. 
xinput --set-prop 21 'libinput Accel Speed' -0.15

What are more things I can do? Thanks!

Before the first coffee of the day sleepy me had the great idea to uninstall nautilus.

sudo apt remove nautilus

Now I am unable to reinstall it.

philipp@X1C:~$ sudo apt install nautilus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nautilus : Depends: libnautilus-extension1a (= 1:40.2-1ubuntu1) but 1:40.2-1ubuntu1ppa1 is to be installed
            Depends: nautilus-data (= 1:40.2-1ubuntu1) but 1:40.2-1ubuntu1ppa1 is to be installed
N: Ignoring file 'fman.list#' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

How do I resolve the unmet dependencies and install nautilus again?

Edit: libnautilus-extension1a and nautilus-data seem to be installed.

Thanks!

Suddenly all my notifications lost the "formatting" and look like this:

What I tried:

• I rebootet multiple times
• I disabled alle gnome-extensions

If I hover above them while poping up they switch to the normal appreance again.

sometimes my laptop freezes and normally I use the "magic SysRQ" combination to reboot it.

How does this work on my DellXPS13 ?

The closest question I could find was this one: How to get Alt+SysRq work on a Dell Latitude E6530?. But no matter which combination I try it does not work.

I am using a German QWERTZ-Keybardlayout but I think that should make no difference for the SysRq key.

Thanks!

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 my system freezes/lags regularly. The mouse, keyboard and screen are completely stuck, after a few seconds it "unfreezes" again. Sometimes it repeats the input I did. For example if I type "F" in a text field it shows "FFFFFFFF" afterwards.

I seems like a lag is triggered every time the system has to read and write a larger amount of data (e.g. start new program, load new firefox tab).

I completely reinstalled Ubuntu 19.10 again on my machine but it is still the same. It runs on a Dell XPS 13.

The same problem is described but not answered in this posts:

Ubuntu 19.10 cursor freezes randomly

Mouse and Keyboard Freeze

Because it was asked in the other posts here are may gnome extensions:

EDIT: Thanks for the comment!

1. I do not use a PS/2 mouse or keyboard.
2. The model: Dell XPS 13 9360 (2016 version). On the label it says: Reg Mode: P54G Reg Type No: P54G002

EDIT2: Turning off all extension does unfortunately not solve the problem.

Edit 3: Here is what it looks like in the system monitor when I reload a website. The

Edit 4: Thank you for your comments! Before I reinstalled Ubuntu 19.10 my swap had 8 GB.

Edit: 6 Increasing the swap to 8GB (I have 8GB of RAM) and setting the swappines to 10 seems to have done something. I will have a further look into it.

Edit: 7 My Bios version is 2.10.0. I'll check of updates.

The Disk utility does not show the SMART data for my ssd.

I successfully downloaded the Dell Command | Configure but if I run the "cctk" command it says:

Command 'cctk' not found, did you mean:

  command 'cct' from deb proj-bin (5.2.0-1)
  command 'sctk' from deb sctk (2.4.10-20151007-1312Z+dfsg2-3)
  command 'cmtk' from deb cmtk (3.3.1p1+dfsg-1)

Try: sudo apt install <deb name>

The executable seems to be in /opt/dell/dcc/cctk (see other question). If I run the executable another error appears:

Usage error.

Dell Command Configure Version 4.2.0  553 (Linux - Mar 20 2019, 11:35:21)
Copyright 2009 - 2019 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.

Usage: cctk --option[=argument]

For more information about a particular command, 
use the option '-H' followed by the command name.
Example: cctk -H --Asset
...

Any way to get it running? Thank you!

today I logged into Ubuntu and got this double window frames.

Any way to fix this?

Thank you!

Update 1: It should look like this, every thing crapped in one bar:

Source

Update 2: A restart fixed it, I don't know why but works now.?