I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and Mate 1.12.1. Changing my DE to Mate, I figured out that I can't use any Ctrl + any Shift combination to switch layouts, only reversed combination (Shift+Ctrl) works. Both keys works separately, Alt+Shift works well in both directions. How do I fix that wonderful behavi...

We have this canonical post: Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears Apparently this has been a common problem and this question currently has around ~480 linked posts, many of which are closed as duplicates of it. The score, and the timeline showing continuing upvotes suggest that man...

Just to start to playing with Ubuntu Repository i wanted to try to use my UBUNTU DVD as Local Repo. Googling what i did was 1) Mount the ISO for example in /mnt/localRepo 2) in the source.list i put the the following string: deb file:/mnt/localRepo trusty main restricted but it does not work, c...

I run elasticsearch for development purpose, none of the data has any importance, no external hits and I don't care about its performance. it used to take around 150mb of ram on my 4GB ultrabook. which I thought it was fine. it ran like this for almost 3 years, it was version 2.x though now I g...

On my workstation I run two partitions - Ubuntu 14 and Ubuntu 16. Both have the same IP but they have different ssh keys. Every time I reboot into the other and try logging remotely I have to clear .ssh/known_hosts on my laptop. Is there a way how to copy the credentials from one partition and us...

I really look forward to upgrade my system to the new Ubuntu 18.04 version this april. But I am worried that it comes with the risk of unstable software? Netbeans, MYSQL and some system tweaks done with CompizConfig. What are you guys experienced with previous upgrades, when it comes to previous...