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Pandya
Pandya
1:52 AM
20k! :)
@terdon Hi!
 
 
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Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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6:28 AM
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Q: Multiple Screen Configuration settings

Osama SyI have installed tweaks gnome and dcnof editor and other application to configure dual screen but none of them is not working. and here is a link to a photo that shows the problem https://res.cloudinary.com/depxmvtge/image/upload/v1548913316/Screenshot_from_2019-01-30_22-38-33.png

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: Ubuntu 16.04 hungs up at the booting session ( failed to start resolvconf-pull-resolved.path.)

Anik DeMy PC was stuck during the loading of the desktop so I tried doing boot , but again I am stuck at this point. Please help me to resolve this problem.

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: Bash-Script: rename files in folder order by file-date

omexluI wan't to rename files in order file-date from example: file_1.pdf file_2.pdf to: file_1_ONE.pdf file_2._TWO.pdf The script must rename the first file to "ONE" ordered by file-date. Thanks in advance.

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Q: Making space available to my main partition

Robert PounderSorry if this has been asked before, I didn't know what to search for. I have a cloud hosting provider, I pay for 120GB but only get 50GB and was looking to see if anyone can help me make this space available on my main partition (?). My hosting provider has not been very helpful, below is my f...

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terdon
terdon
8:49 AM
@Pandya Nice! Well done! :)
 
 
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PerlDuck
PerlDuck
10:07 AM
@Kulfy Thank you for trying out. Apparently some Mint users are also affected: forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=286798 They suggest to avoid kernel 4.15.0-44 and switch to -43 until -45 is available.
 
PerlDuck
PerlDuck
10:19 AM
kernel 4.15.0-44 seems to be a suboptimal version.
 
Benny
Benny
10:58 AM
@PerlDuck it's so true. I am using the 4.18 kernel version.
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
11:08 AM
@PerlDuck more rep for us :=D so I see no problem
 
terdon
terdon
4.20 hasn't given me any issues. But I'm not on an Ubuntu kernel.
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
4.18 here
 
 
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Videonauth
Videonauth
12:40 PM
@PerlDuck sure it is 4.15.0-44 or maybe the latest one which is 4.15.0-45?
CC: @Rinzwind
4.15.0-44rund fine for me but on the other hand i not using virtualbox at all, tty works too, no mounting problems at all (have no external monitors), machine not hangs on startiup etvc
the only tty problem i have i get sometimes weird kernel messages occuring which makes it at the begining hard to type anything in the tty but login there works and so on
the problem i face can be because i not have the usual ubuntu install but instead a very hand knittet ubuntu version wich is equivalent to 18.04.1
on the other hand yesterday i got a kernel update to 4.15.0-45 about this one i cant tell you much as I not have restarted yet to make this kernel running
 
 
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1:59 PM
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Q: How to sort files in unix

Praveen KumarI have files in the following manner ar01440_1775_17_vc00_00.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_01.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_02.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_03.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_04.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_05.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_06.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_07.png ar01440_1775_17_vc00_08.png ar01440...

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Moytaba
Moytaba
4:49 PM
Hi, I want to enable costing for my scroll so that it keeps scrolling for a little while when my two fingers have left the touchpad, now I searched a bit and got to this: mankier.com/4/synaptics , there seems to be options related to my need, but I don't know where to use those options, I mean where in the terminal? What is the command for it? Please help me as a beginner :)
 
Zanna
Zanna
did you mis-type coasting when you asked a search engine about this too? :)
 
Moytaba
Moytaba
5:04 PM
Oh, sorry. No. :)
 
Zanna
Zanna
ah, ok then haha
 
Moytaba
Moytaba
That's what happens when you don't have a "feeling" about the words you use :)
@Zanna Do you think I post it as a question on AskUbuntu? I really need it
 
Zanna
Zanna
sure, seems like a good thing to ask about
 
Moytaba
Moytaba
Alright. Thanks.
 
Kulfy
Kulfy
5:32 PM
@PerlDuck -It seems Ubuntu has released 4.15.0.45-generic to fix all issues (I got an update just now). Not sure if it is the old stuff in a new packet (43 released as 45) or they've seriously fixed issue and updated
 
Terrance
Terrance
Interesting on the 4.15.0.44 kernel. I didn't experience anything that was listed above. But now I am upgrading it to .45. That's the first time I have seen it ask where I am supposed to install grub again. Strange, but oh well....
 
raindrop
raindrop
5:56 PM
yay
so like i'm trying to get dropbox working on ubunt
ubuntu 16.04 LTS
 
Kulfy
Kulfy
@Terrance I experienced neither the problems listed by @PerlDuck (while on 44) nor installation of grub while updating to 45.
 
raindrop
raindrop
every time i open dropbox it tells me
according to the news dropbox supports file system Ext4 for Linux
nevermind itsfoss.com has a nice guide
 
Kulfy
Kulfy
@raindrop How dropbox was installed?
 
raindrop
raindrop
6:26 PM
using the automatic thing from dropbox
 
PerlDuck
PerlDuck
@Kulfy According to a Changelog the kernel 4.15.0-45 fixes some bugs (external monitor, mount problems) but not all.
I'll simply wait until my TTY problem gets fixed or use -43 instead.
@Videonauth Yes, I'm sure I have -44. But funnily, I also sometimes encountered logmessages while logging in in a TTY. I then usually hit ENTER a few times and wait until the machine calms down.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@PerlDuck yes same i do here or what i do lately if i have really to do something in a TTY well i rather drop to root shell
reboot grub root shell
 
Kulfy
Kulfy
@PerlDuck I think you pasted link for xenial. Link for bionic: ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/bionic/main/proposed/…. Hardly matters.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
as i anyways only wanted to tty when i wanted to change graphics drivers, root shell is the even better option
 
PerlDuck
PerlDuck
I added an entry to my grub menu to boot into text mode and sometimes then do sudo grub-reboot Ubuntu\ \(text\ mode\) to set that the default for the next boot.
cool thing is: grub-reboot <TAB><TAB><TAB> works!
 
raindrop
raindrop
6:40 PM
nice!
 
PerlDuck
PerlDuck
I love bash completion.
 
Terrance
Terrance
@PerlDuck I also love the grub-reboot command. askubuntu.com/a/1017464/231142 Cheesy me decided to start making desktop apps to reboot to different OS choices.
 
PerlDuck
PerlDuck
@Terrance Pretty cool :-)
 
 
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Videonauth
Videonauth
7:54 PM
@Terrance +1 nice idea and answer
 
Moytaba
Moytaba
8:10 PM
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Q: How to enable coasting scroll on my Asus laptop?

MoytabaMy laptop is ASUS UX310UQ and my touch pad is ElanTech (according to "xinput list") and I have Ubuntu 18.04 + Gnome installed, now I want my scroll to be in the "coasting mode" which means (if I'm not wrong) I want the scroll to keep moving even a short while after my fingers are up and my two sc...

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Terrance
Terrance
@Videonauth Many thanks! :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
you're welcome
 
raindrop
raindrop
is it possible for one folder in ubuntu to have different file system than others?
because my ubuntu is ext4 which dropbox supports, but dropbox says my dropbox folder is in an unsupported file system
 
Fabby
Fabby
@raindrop Depends which folder, but if not system folders or home: Yes.
 
raindrop
raindrop
is there a way to see what file system a specific folder is using?
i want to check if my dropbox folder is using ext4
 
Terrance
Terrance
8:21 PM
@raindrop That would have to be a different mount point for that folder. Partitions only use one file type at a time.
 
Fabby
Fabby
@raindrop rightclick properties.
 
raindrop
raindrop
@Fabby it does not show me the filesystem used
 
dessert
dessert
@raindrop is the folder existent? the dropbox process might not be able to create the directory and show an error like that.
 
raindrop
raindrop
@dessert the folder exists and has files in it
 
Fabby
Fabby
@raindrop then it's using the same file system as its parent
go up one level and try again until you see a disk with a pie chart.
 
raindrop
raindrop
8:27 PM
but its in home
 
Fabby
Fabby
@raindrop EXT4/3/2
 
raindrop
raindrop
i cant go to home's parent
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
what you can try is in terminal. Type: stat -f <path> to see what filesytem the path has
 
raindrop
raindrop
oh no wonder
Type: ecryptfs
basically dropbox does not support encrypted file system
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
heres an example: 
$ stat -f /home/michael/pictures/
  File: "/home/michael/pictures/"
    ID: 9927fb50814bd972 Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 26379292   Free: 7683829    Available: 6333084
Inodes: Total: 6733824    Free: 6105890
 
raindrop
raindrop
8:29 PM
the dropbox files are the ones i wanted to encrypt the most in the first place though
 
Fabby
Fabby
@raindrop Founnd it!
 
raindrop
raindrop
tony@stark_industries:~$ stat -f Dropbox/
  File: "Dropbox/"
    ID: ad2012750eb96464 Namelen: 143     Type: ecryptfs
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 117981774  Free: 97286425   Available: 91287539
Inodes: Total: 29974528   Free: 28691174
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
The stat command is a pretty nifty tool
 
dessert
dessert
8:44 PM
@raindrop write a script that copies the directory’s content over to a temporary directory, have dropbox upload the files and remove the temp dir :)
 
raindrop
raindrop
9:00 PM
@dessert is it possible to have a temporary directory running an unencrypted file system?
oh yes
i encrypted the home directory
so i would just need to create a temporary directory outside of /home
 
dessert
dessert
@raindrop mktemp -d uses /tmp by default if I’m not mistaken
 
raindrop
raindrop
cp -r ~/Dropbox /tmp/Dropbox
sudo service dropbox start
# wait for dropbox to sync
sudo service dropbox stop
cp -r /tmp/Dropbox ~/Dropbox
rm -rf /tmp/Dropbox
if i used mktemp i would have to keep updating dropbox settings to point to the directory it creates
mktemp adds random alphanumeric characters to the end of the directory name
 
dessert
dessert
note that your files are stored unencrypted then and will be easily recoverable until the data is overwritten – you could write random data in the size of the directory to the disk if that concerns you, but it’s still not totally save of course
@raindrop add mkdir /tmp/Dropbox to be sure it exists
 
raindrop
raindrop
ok
ok a dumb question
lets say i'm really dumb
and lazy
what folder outside of home is safe to put the files in
can i just make /dropbox
 
dessert
dessert
I have an alias: 
drop='dropbox start; while [[ $(dropbox status) != Aktualisiert ]]; do sleep 0.5; done; dropbox stop'
 
raindrop
raindrop
9:09 PM
Aktualisiert
 
dessert
dessert
this is for german locale, adjust that :)
 
raindrop
raindrop
wow i have a dropbox cli thing
 
dessert
dessert
@raindrop you can, no problem with that
 
raindrop
raindrop
i meant
it was on my terminal and i didnt even know it
it is just dropbox start, dropbox status, dropbox stop
i think dropbox installed it automatically or something
 
dessert
dessert
yes of course :)
that’s what my alias uses
 
raindrop
raindrop
9:11 PM
oof
omg i didn't notice that aaahhh
wow
 
dessert
dessert
with dropbox status you can query the upload status and act on it, e.g. wait for it to finish
 
raindrop
raindrop
9:23 PM
ok i have a folder /dropbox
but when i try to set it as the dropbox folder it fails
i think this is because the dropbox process does not have the appropriate permissions
i needed to use sudo to make the directory, so only root is able to read write etc
this is really noob but... how can i change the permission of the folder so that dropbox can use it?
i know chmod but then, do i just make the folder a user read/writable, or do i need to assign permissions specific to the dropbox process?
i just had to do sudo chown user /dropbox
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
9:41 PM
chown $USER:$USER <path/folder/file>
you might need sudo and then use $SUDO_USER (I think) instead of $USER
 
raindrop
raindrop
it works now just unencrypted
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
of course you can as well simply type your username
 
raindrop
raindrop
thanks
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
to change permission sets chmod is your command
 
chili555
chili555
10:30 PM
Is there any way to get this poor soul into a chat with me? askubuntu.com/questions/1114230/… I think he has a number of problems.
 
dessert
dessert
@chili555 not with less than 20 rep, no :(
 
chili555
chili555
So there is no "have mercy on Chili" exception. OK, I tried!
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Thx
 

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