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Q: Is it permissible/ethical to post same answer to multiple questions with a future plan to delete all but one?

It's a bit convoluted, please bear with me. Recently I was going through a bunch of old questions seemingly asking the same thing: Dell Vostro 3568 model ubuntu 17.04 touch-pad left and right click behaving same way Laptop touchpad right-click problem Ubuntu 16.04 [Dell Vostro 3568] Right c...

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Q: Command inside GNU Screen seems paused after closing SSH connection

I'm excecuting a large .sql file on a remote MySQL server, so I SSH into the server and run mysql -uroot -p < update.sql from a GNU screen session, then closed the SSH connection. The script is expected to be finished in several hours. However, 2 days later when I SSH into the server and type sc...

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Byte Commander

05:41

Btw, Smokey/MetaSmoke are fully operational again, so whoever pinned my notice from two days ago can or should remove it from the starwall again, please. (@terdon?) Thanks.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Black screen after turning on the TV set connected via HDMI

After I turn on the TV set which is connected via HDMI with my PC, the PC screen becomes black and remains so till I switch the PC off because nothing else helps: turning off the TV set, pulling the HDMI cable. It doesn't always happen. Is there a setting I don't know about or is it some kind o...

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terdon

06:41

@ByteCommander Done. Thanks.

Christoffer Berglund

10:12

Hi, anyone here that are good at creating .desktop files?

Eliah Kagan

I, uh, have created some .desktop files.

@ChristofferBerglund What are you looking to do or solve? Someone may be able to help you even if I cannot.

Christoffer Berglund

@EliahKagan I have created some .desktop files and the are working well. The only thing that is bugging me is when i open that application it makes a new icon on the application bar. But the standard icons for firefox and files are not doing that. Any idea what i could be missing in my .desktop file?

Eliah Kagan

@ChristofferBerglund Is this with Unity?

Christoffer Berglund

@EliahKagan I had that problem with Unity, but atm. im using Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta with Gnome, and the problem is still there.

Eliah Kagan

10:30

I was thinking Why does my custom launcher open under a separate icon? might help. But I'm not sure.

@ChristofferBerglund Does this happen with all .desktop files you make, or just some?

Christoffer Berglund

@EliahKagan I will read the article you linked, it might help. And yes, i have made 4 new .desktop files, and they all do that. I have not tryed to just make a new one for firefox thought and check if it is doing the same.

Christoffer Berglund

10:57

@EliahKagan The link describes my problem! So now im searching for that second .desktop file that does the same as the one I have made. It's abit wierd though, because there where no shortcut for this program in my application drawer (or whatever it's called) before i made the shortcut.

Eliah Kagan

Yeah, I don't think I know what is causing this. If you examine an existing .desktop file, are there any differences between it and the ones you're creating, does anything jump out as being similar across your own .desktop files but different from the other ones?

Christoffer Berglund

@EliahKagan I will try to compare them again, and thanks anyways for helping me troubleshooting this problem!

David

I think I've found my favorite question this year.

Eliah Kagan

@ChristofferBerglund Assuming that question and others don't enable you to solve it, you may want t post a question on the site. Way more people are active on the site than here in chat. If you do end up posting a question, please feel free to ping me in chat with a link to it.

David

@EliahKagan Do we havvvve to put it on hold? We have to help him before he goes home to BIll D:

Honestly, I haven't seen this much character and emotion in an AU post in a while it's so refreshing

Eliah Kagan

11:12

:)

It occurs to me that, the way your comment reads, it seems to be saying 17.04 is actually a beta or something -- which is not the case. I'm skeptical of the idea of recommending people reinstall before they've even given the details on their problem(s), but maybe you could include a link to something that explains what you mean? You don't have to do this. I can reply to the comment or something. But since we're chatting here anyway...

Like, if they know what you're talking about when you say "Long Term Support" then you're not telling them anything they don't know, and if they don't know what that means then you're not telling them anything at all.

David

Oh yeah well a lot of programs like Skype aren't really supporting full porting to 17.04, they just implemented old code into new versions, and also Ubuntu is more supportive an operating system when code is built for that version

Gtg rn, but we can continue to talk later

terdon

Oh wow. People are still using skype in this day and age!?

Eliah Kagan

Yes.

terdon

Why?

There are so many cool platform-independent, web based and easy to use video conference/chat systems around these days, it seems silly to use something as clunky and ugly as skype.

Especially since its quality was never very good (well it was before MS bought it but that was years ago)

Eliah Kagan

11:28

Because they need to talk to other people who use it. There may be other reasons, but that is the only reason I have used Skype in recent times.

terdon

I just send them a hangouts link these days.

Or use WhatsApp/Viber etc

Granted, the latter do need an account though.

Ah, so does the former, I guess. A google one.

Eliah Kagan

Skype users are willing to run proprietary software (at least in the case of Skype) so Discord is also an option. I rarely run into gamers using Skype while gaming anymore (or actually at all, except to communicate with people who only use Skype) since Discord came on the scene.

A friend of mine and I used to use Skype while playing CS:GO. Now we use Discord.

terdon

I haven't used skype on a non-Linux platform in more than a decade, so I may be biased, but it always gave me more trouble than anything else.

Eliah Kagan

The most trouble I have ever had with Skype is on a Windows machine, where it sometimes takes minutes to start a call. It worked better for me on Ubuntu. It works well for me on Android, though I infrequently use it now.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Unable to change fan speed through nvidia-settings

Ubuntu Server 17.04 Kernel 4.10.0-35 Generic nVidia driver 384.90 I am in the process of changing from a GUI Mint system to a headless Ubuntu Server system, but I've been unable to adjust the GPU fan speeds thus far. I am interacting with the system via SSH. The system was installed with the ...

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Byte Commander

@EliahKagan on Windows it shows a metric shitton of lowest-quality ads all the time and auto-updates and starts itself on a regular base and stealing focus when doing so.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Fingerprint reader on Asus Zenbook

So I have ZorinOS installed on my ASUS ZenBook UX330UA-AH54, however, FingerprintGUI shows my fingerprint sensor (Elantech I think) as an unknown device. Is there any custom software or fixes that can be used to get my laptop to pickup the fingerprint sensor?

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cl-netbox

14:11

Hello :)

cl-netbox

14:22

:40375848 I think this (my) setup makes a reinstall quite convenient ->

[cl@cl-fw-1 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        7,8G     0  7,8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           7,8G   94M  7,7G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7,8G  2,1M  7,8G   1% /run
tmpfs           7,8G     0  7,8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb3        40G  7,4G   30G  20% /
tmpfs           7,8G  100K  7,8G   1% /tmp
/dev/sdb1       4,0G  9,5M  4,0G   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs           1,6G   20K  1,6G   1% /run/user/42

terdon

Why do you have all those things mounted under /run? That seems like a strange choice.

Isn't that a ramdisk?

cl-netbox

14:39

@terdon This is default when you open separate partitions in nautilus on redhat based systems ... such like in ubuntu they get mounted on /media. :)

@terdon no :)

terdon

Ah right, OK. So it mounts everything through gvfs or something, I guess. Well, I still like my /home to be its own partition, but that's me.

cl-netbox

@terdon Both ways are okay of course ! :)

Nathan Osman

15:32

After much testing, I am pleased to announce that today, my brain has entered private beta.

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Journeyman Geek

Oh my

Seth

wat

Nathan Osman

15:49

Anyone want invites? :P

Swapnil

Anyone help me to install chrome remote host controller on KDE Plasma? Need to add exec command but don't know exact command so.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Unable to locate package linux-image-4.4.0-43-Microsoft

I tried this command "ufw status" on "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" which is located inside windows 10. but unfortunately this error appeared : > ERROR: problem running iptables: iptables v1.6.0: can't initialize > iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) > Perhaps ip...

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terdon

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L I just migrated that here. Don't we have a tag for that weird Linux susbsystem on Windows thing?

cl-netbox

16:28

@terdon What about "blacklisting" that subsystem as off-topic ... I agree : weird thing ... in the end it is a Microsoft problem - right ? :)

terdon

That's what I thought, but we've decided it's on topic.

And it is an Canonical product.

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Q: Do we consider "Ubuntu on Windows 10" the same as an official Ubuntu flavour? Do we support it? To what extent?

As many will have heard of, Microsoft will distribute a stock Ubuntu installation to be run on Windows 10. Source. Someone has made the point that being this the result of a partnership with Canonical, questions about it should be supported. Per the Help Center: Questions that you may ask: ...

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cl-netbox

@terdon I have no clue whoever needs this thing and what would be the benefit over using a native Linux system at all ... but okay ... :)

Bharadwaj Raju

17:21

A user is answering questions using only links to (presumably) their blog. It came up in edit reviews. What to do? User.

Seth

@terdon wsl

Maybe we should consider a better name.

Bharadwaj Raju

I'd suggest windows-subsystem-for-linux. Verbose, but much clearer. Or ubuntu-on-windows?

Christoffer Berglund

18:40

@terdon Hi, it was you trying to help me earlier today about some shotcuts with .desktop ?

Christoffer Berglund

18:50

@EliahKagan Hi! You was trying to help me with the .desktop shortcut error earlier today. Finally after many hours of troubleshooting i figured it out!

Eliah Kagan

Cool! What was the solution?

Christoffer Berglund

I had to set the StartupWMClass to the same string that the "extra" icon had that popped up

@EliahKagan specifications.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/… here is the documentation for StartupWMClass if you are special interested ;)

@EliahKagan And the programs i was having touble with was jetbrain programs, which are using java, and after reading a lot it seams like java programs can be a bit tricky when it comes to shortcuts and so on.

Thomas Ward

19:05

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@cl-netbox If you want to make it offtopic bring it up on Meta

because it seems the consensus was to keep it on topic

but forward problems that we can't solve to the "File a bug report" reason

because there are issues with WSL that we just can't solve because it's how it works with M$ stuff that's broken.

well

i am ALMOST at the point of permanently switching to Android

and of course Samsung had a nice witty reply to my tweet about it.

Well, @SamsungMobileUS has almost made me convert to Android completely (from Apple) with the Galaxy S8... almost.

Tweeted by teward001 on October 6, 2017 at 5:14 PM

(see the replies to it)

@teward001 https://t.co/AfVsy0k3yh

Tweeted by SamsungMobileUS on October 6, 2017 at 5:35 PM in reply to teward001

^ that was their reply

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: what is the meaning of this command line and how to apply this?

Set the following permissions: sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache public sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache public To the following folders: ./bootstrap ./storage ./public

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TheWanderer

@ThomasWard kek

Byte Commander

22:16

This is quite cool:

The Academic - Bear Claws (Live Looper Version)

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: socat - Monitoring USB port to standard CP2102 serial adaptor

I have been trying to get a HEX dump of what is being sent/received to CP2102 serial converter chip. I can find examples of people monitoring hardware serial ports /dev/TTYS0 and the like. socat -d -d pty,link=/dev/ttyUSB0,raw,echo=0 pty,link=/dev/ttyUSB1,raw,echo=0 Does anyone know of a resou...

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