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Q: evdev touching the wrong device

I am trying to configure evdev to pass a mouse through to a virt-manager VM. Why is ubuntu touching the /dev/input/event device instead of the defined one? ls on the device shows this: ls -l /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-if02-event-mouse lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 23 19:41 /dev/...

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Q: Unable to ping other VM's on same subnet after bonding NIC's

6:03 AM

I have set up a number of VM's in KVM on a host VM machine running Ubuntu 18.04.3 Desktop. Each machine is running on Ubuntu 18.04.3 Server and has 4 NIC's set up, where NIC 1 & 4 are reserved for remote access and connecting with a remote repository respectively. I have been experimenting with ...

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7:42 AM

There is a user going through and systematically answering every question about grayscale-ing the desktop, just linking back to his one answer.

And honestly, it's getting infuriating

What am I supposed to do here?

"I'm sorry. I'm newby."

@David I suggest flagging the ones that are effectively link-only as NAA, and raising a custom moderator flag explaining the situation on one of the others.

That's done, just waiting for mod review for (hopefully) user deletion..

7:59 AM

I haven't noticed any indication of deliberate abuse. As far as I can tell, the user very well may be unaware that what they're doing is not helpful. I'm not saying this is the case, just that it could be. Either way, though, probably all six posts should be deleted (and surely at least five of them).

The original post he is linking back to that he posted is just a rip of someone else's, and the question it is posted on should most likely be marked as a dupe and closed.

I think I flagged all 6 of them for closure but at this point I can't keep track.

I have cast delete votes on those answers. I suggest other 20k users consider doing the same. (Even if the post the custom mod flag was raised on is deleted by 20k delete votes, the custom flag will remain in the mod queue, so a mod will still be able to examine the situation and take further action if needed.)

Alright, I'm gonna do some quick formatting/grammar edits and head to sleep. Thanks for the assistance.

No problem.

Btw, judging from comments on the questions, I don't think you flagged them all for closure as duplicates. Though the KWin one is probably not a duplicate.

I guess the Unity one is not either.

It's been a long night, I am almost positive I made at least one mistake

Much more likely more than one

8:07 AM

Well, I haven't seen any.

I mean, I don't think those were ones you flagged as duplicates.

I am not sure though.

Also, it might be that we would consider some duplicates even though the technique described in the target does not work on the old systems they were originally asked about. Probably not the KWin one, but the Unity one.

I agree. It's probably better in the long run to have one main question.

8:20 AM

I'm starting to think the user just doesn't understand ...

Q: Why are my fonts rendering so horribly in Chrome in KDE?

I have anti-aliasing enabled with slight hinting. The system font is Ubuntu, including serif, sans and mono fonts. The Chrome font is Roboto. It works just fine in GNOME.

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Would anyone happen to have @Fabby 's Ubuntu paste list? It's getting tedious typing out the same things and I feel I'm not being descriptive enough in some of these repetitive cases.

I see all this user answers in Late Answer queue

@damadam Not really surprised. The user was going through all questions about grayscale and pasting their answer

Using the "Related questions" section, on the right probably :/

8:34 AM

Very likely.

I'm gonna head out for the night. Happy holidays everyone!

u2 ;)

That one isn't really a link-only, because there is no link; just a little too broad

8:49 AM

Can this answer be deleted? askubuntu.com/questions/346211/…

@damadam I voted to delete it and flagged it NAA. I don't think it's an answer.

after reading it, I just see as trying to deny all other answers

karel

9:15 AM

@damadam I also voted to delete it and posted a comment below that answer.

@damadam I voted that it looks OK.

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Kulfy

11:18 AM

Going to try to close questions listed here as dupes for the third time -_-

Close votes would be highly appreciated :)

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Rinzwind

2:05 PM

@Kulfy done :)

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3:15 PM

Q: Mounting a Luks partition

I have backed up a drive with all its partitions using the command dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/oshirowanen/external-drive/backups-2019/full_drive_backup.img /dev/sda is an ssd which has a Linux OS with full encryption. Before I wipe this drive and re-purpose it, I want to make sure the backup h...

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Kulfy

3:43 PM

@Rinzwind Thanks :)

2/5 closed. 2/5 need 1 more vote. 1/5 need 3 votes

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RobotHumans

6:43 PM

@Kulfy added sine ckise votes. vmware workstation is not vmware player though, so i didn't vtc that one.

Kulfy

Yeah but.....

Possible duplicate of How do I install VMware Player? (the same technique, including download instructions for the .bundle file, applies to VMware Workstation as well) — Eliah Kagan Nov 27 at 10:41

Also, originally that question was closed as dupe of other one. Previously that was serving as the canonical question for VMware installation. The OP themself accepted that it was a dupe. But the unmerge, the target needed to be rectified.

Timeline and comments might convince :)

@Kulfy But after the unmerge happened, the target needed to be rectified.*

@RobotHumans By the way thanks for the close votes on the other two :)

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9:03 PM

Q: Can't open the Terminal!

I use Ubuntu 18.04. I used to be able to open the terminal by using the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut, however now I can't. Even if I click on the Terminal executable in my applications, it doesn't open the terminal. The only way I can open it by using right-click on the desktop and pressing 'open the term...

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Fabby

10:04 PM

@David Huh? Me posting the same answer over and over??? That must've been a long time ago... (probably when I was a N00b)

How can I help?

P.S. Merry XMas to everyone!

10:25 PM

Q: Port C# code to Unix

Is it possible to control the Ubuntu terminal like I'm doing in Windows with this code? if so How can I do it? public Rasterizer(short width, short height) { StringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); DoubleBuffer = new DoubleBuffer<Color>(width, height); Width = width; ...

ubuntu c#

11:21 PM

Not really answers, just for when flagging a post, I remember you had a Pastebin or something somewhere with a bunch of canned responses for repetitive closures @Fabby