I have seen posts tagged with hidpi twice or thrice in the past, and each time I replaced it with hdpi, whose tag info reads:
High DPI (dots per inch) screen resolutions, e.g. 4k/UHD/QHD screens
in a relatively small form factor, e.g. laptops/tablets. Use this tag
for issues relating to t...
Panther answered the question in quite a straightforward way. He's not a maintainer of the vlc ppa or daily build repos, so it's not really his problem anyway. If I was running daily, I wouldn't even try to run ppas. It's begging for trouble.
Previously, I was getting this error when I merely tried to update. I believe this problem is related to the VLC PPA which has always been total and utter trash on Ubuntu. I had to actually remove a file that was under package control with rm in order to purge the *vlc* packages. Now, that I dele...
Could someone running Wayland please test whether the answers on this question still apply? I'd like to set a bounty in case neither xclip nor xsel work under Wayland.
In Windows I used command-line clipboard copy-and-paste utilities...
pclip.exe and gclip.exe
These were UnixUtils ports for Windows (but they only handled plain text). There were a couple of other native Windows utilities which could write/extract any format.
I've looked for something...
@dessert applications can freely write to the clipboard (aka copy). Only the application with focus is notified that the clipboard has been modified and can read from it (aka paste). Worse, the clipboard for applications running under the XWayland is independent of the clipboard for native Wayland applications, so something needs to sync them (IIRC the KDE KWin window manager does this, not sure if GNOME Shell does).
@Videonauth That's what I thought: Wayland may be the future, but I will stick to Xorg as long as it's not possible to properly control it from the command-line.
The Wifi-USB-stick is Edimax EW-7811Un. After some 12 - 24 hours in use, the connection speed usually slowly deteriorates to the point of stalling (the Wifi-USB-stick is still associated with the AP, but not even pinging the AP will work). There is nothing in dmesg when that happens. After reboot...
Anyway, luckily the StackExchange network still has expertise over at Unix.SE. This site seems more lost everyday to Microsoft's "Power Users" who just use Linux because it "looks cool".
Panther answered the question in quite a straightforward way. He's not a maintainer of the vlc ppa or daily build repos, so it's not really his problem anyway. If I was running daily, I wouldn't even try to run ppas. It's begging for trouble.
@DavidFoerster Wow. Although, I did say someone would get extra cool points when Apple banned the use of Pepe in any context on iOS, that if someone could get an app to compile that had ASCII art of Pepe when viewed in a hex editor.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 17.10 on a system with BIOS. I have two HDDs in which I wanted to setup a basic RAID 0 with mdadm. Also on top of the software RAID, I created an LVM volume group consisting of the root partition (that means including /boot too) and a swap partition both in the...
@Panther - I think he wanted to install a daily build of VLC that doesn't exist because of a bug in the way it got pushed to launchpad. So, an unsolveable problem that can't get answered beyond download the source and build it yourself or open a bug on launchpad. Your answer was perfectly sufficient imo.
Good on you for entertaining the question at all. I just ignore questions about daily-builds, because my answer would be "Wait a few days, and it will work itself out"
It would be an interesting feature to tack on to the launchpad build system to ensure that every package is installable, or even though it's built - just not present it to users. So, if there's an unsolve-able dependency because A got pushed before B, then the package is just hidden on the back end.
A recent update on arch bricked some people, because a systemd dependency borked. I use PPAs, but expecting daily build on Ubuntu to just work is like begging for trouble. And I don't complain if one goes wooly.
Yeah. The faster release cycle in Arch makes it happen more though. I like the release cycle now, and I don't mind using arch from time to time, but I would never run arch edge on anything critical.
How can I test whether a file's last line ends with a newline character? I want to append text to the file, but I can't be sure I always end the last line with a linebreak – and I don't want to create empty lines, needless to say.
A simple approach is to use perl:
perl -ne '/\n/ && print' file
If you just want to check that the last character of a file is a newline, you can do:
tail -c1 file | grep -q '^$' && echo yes || echo no
But the -c option is not POSIX, so it isn't portable.
Um. We are not in any way shape or form a US site. On the contrary, this and every other SE site is explicitly an international community. — terdon ♦17 mins ago
@terdon Thanks for clarifying that, I was worried a bit there…
I delete the history with this command:
cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit
but when I put this command in a bash script (in /etc/init.d/) and execute it with "sudo" privileges, the following error occurs:
sudo: history: order not found
This error occurs because "history" ...
Welp, very soon I shall revoke my Ubuntu card, and become proud full time user of another distro. You may begin booing and throwing rotten tomatoes now
I have a usb flash memory which I can't do anything on it because its read only:
sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 7864319 7862272 3.8G b W95 FAT32
I've tried to fix file system with mkfs and I got this :
sudo mkfs.fat ...
@dessert Tried Fedora once. Didn't like it when Network Manager just stopped working, couldn't fix it, so I got rid of it. I'd go for CentOS if I had to choose something RH based
Hey... I have a question on hardware rec's asking for a tablet that supports linux... any thoughts on it? https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/8532/want-a-dream-tablet-with-data-plan-rooted-to-run-linux-distro
So I finally went with a small 2 in 1 laptop. I didn't look hard at its ability to run Ubuntu out of the box, but I figure worst case scenario I can use the Linux subsystem.
@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I've been using OpenBSD and GhostBSD. OpenBSD is highly recommended and it's easy to setup a desktop. Ghost is good but a little buggy. You might also use FreeBSD and follow the guilde at cooltrainer.org to set up a desktop.
I think I just read up on it... looks like even though my wife and I have TMobile, it's not for us because I just use a tablet associated with her phone plan.
Hey all - Got a question on viability of a procedure. Looking at this tutorial to create a 64g persistent USB install of Ubuntu for use with a Surface Pro 3. This will mostly be for study/experimentation towards Linux+ certification.
I'm unsure whether UEFI on a surface pro 3 will allow USB boot. I know on my ASUS laptop, the particular UEFI implementation would not allow boot from USB devices. Further, it gave me some trouble in getting dual boot working even with dual UEFI partitions and a bootloader that supported both. It may work, but I don't have your hardware, and UEFI implementations are hardware dependent.