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- | Welcome back to another edition of Questions and Answers! In this section, we will endeavour to answer your Ubuntu questions. Be sure to add details of the version of your operating system and your hardware. I will try to remove any personally identifiable strings from questions , but it is best not to include things like serial numbers, UUID’s or IP addresses. | ||
+ | **Welcome back to another edition of Questions and Answers! In this section, we will endeavour to answer your Ubuntu questions. Be sure to add details of the version of your operating system and your hardware. I will try to remove any personally identifiable strings from questions , but it is best not to include things like serial numbers, UUID’s or IP addresses. | ||
- | Back when Pterodactyl abduction was not covered by insurance and my neighbour Barney Rubble got new digs, the company that I worked for was one of the few who did support for Wang equipment (as in Mandarin for “king”, not the other meaning). To support high-speed printing, they supplied what was known as ‘band printers’ (dot-matrix was very slow back then). This consisted of a steel band with letters printed on it, rotating at crazy velocity, and hammers like that of a typewriter striking the letters. A common fault would be for the band to jump off the spindles or moving out of phase. We would say it slipped. As a joke, we (the FSE’s) would enter “knit one, slip one” (and other variations of it) on our reports. One of the companies who had these was a spinning mill and they also made knitted things. Now, imagine the confusion when a new IT manager took over and started looking back at past errors to come up with a plan for the future... Don’t be afraid to write notes or make shell scripts for when you reinstall your OS, reinstallation is a fact – like Windows spying on you. | + | |
+ | Back when Pterodactyl abduction was not covered by insurance and my neighbour Barney Rubble got new digs, the company that I worked for was one of the few who did support for Wang equipment (as in Mandarin for “king”, not the other meaning). To support high-speed printing, they supplied what was known as ‘band printers’ (dot-matrix was very slow back then). This consisted of a steel band with letters printed on it, rotating at crazy velocity, and hammers like that of a typewriter striking the letters. A common fault would be for the band to jump off the spindles or moving out of phase. We would say it slipped. As a joke, we (the FSE’s) would enter “knit one, slip one” (and other variations of it) on our reports. One of the companies who had these was a spinning mill and they also made knitted things. Now, imagine the confusion when a new IT manager took over and started looking back at past errors to come up with a plan for the future... Don’t be afraid to write notes or make shell scripts for when you reinstall your OS, reinstallation is a fact – like Windows spying on you.** | ||
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+ | Bienvenue dans cette nouvelle édition de Questions et Réponses ! Dans cette rubrique, nous nous efforcerons de répondre à vos questions concernant Ubuntu. Assurez-vous d' | ||
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- | Q: Hello. Something is definitely wrong with my installation, | + | **Q: Hello. Something is definitely wrong with my installation, |
A: I would suggest booting from a USB thumb drive and doing this, but you can do it on a live system too: sudo badblocks -v / | A: I would suggest booting from a USB thumb drive and doing this, but you can do it on a live system too: sudo badblocks -v / | ||
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Q: Hi, I need some help here. I have an old proline monitor that is 1280 x 1024, yet it keeps detecting and switching to 1024 x 768. I prefer the square monitors to the stretched widescreen ones, and would like to keep these. Somebody told me to run dpkg - -reconfigure, | Q: Hi, I need some help here. I have an old proline monitor that is 1280 x 1024, yet it keeps detecting and switching to 1024 x 768. I prefer the square monitors to the stretched widescreen ones, and would like to keep these. Somebody told me to run dpkg - -reconfigure, | ||
- | A: Firstly, those old Proline’s are not quite HD. The command you are looking for is xrandr, XOrg’s own monitor configuration utility. First query your monitor with: xrandr -q , this will list all the modes. Possibly yours will be: xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --rate 60.00 if it is connected to your VGA port. The nice thing is you can put xrandr statements (as above) inside your .xinitrc and it will work. Reference: https:// | + | A: Firstly, those old Proline’s are not quite HD. The command you are looking for is xrandr, XOrg’s own monitor configuration utility. First query your monitor with: xrandr -q , this will list all the modes. Possibly yours will be: xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --rate 60.00 if it is connected to your VGA port. The nice thing is you can put xrandr statements (as above) inside your .xinitrc and it will work. Reference: https:// |
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+ | Q : Bonjour. Quelque chose ne va pas du tout dans mon installation et je soupçonne qu'il s'agit du disque dur de mon portable HP Compaq. Celui-ci est vraiment vieux. Comment savoir si mon disque contient des mauvais secteurs ? | ||
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+ | Q : Salut, j'ai besoin d'un peu d' | ||
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- | Q: My Ubuntu seems messed up. If Ubuntu wasn’t so damn friendly, I’d go back to Debian, but sometimes the quirks drive me mad. Sometimes it connects to wireless, sometimes not. Then there is that ‘special’ case where the taskbar icon runs up and down through the bars, almost like it is flashing or stuck on initializing. I don’t know if it is connected or connecting or what state it is in. I usually just reboot my laptop. I didn’t have this on Ubuntu 16.04. Is there a simple way to check? | + | **Q: My Ubuntu seems messed up. If Ubuntu wasn’t so damn friendly, I’d go back to Debian, but sometimes the quirks drive me mad. Sometimes it connects to wireless, sometimes not. Then there is that ‘special’ case where the taskbar icon runs up and down through the bars, almost like it is flashing or stuck on initializing. I don’t know if it is connected or connecting or what state it is in. I usually just reboot my laptop. I didn’t have this on Ubuntu 16.04. Is there a simple way to check? |
- | A: Yes. You can use nmcli. It is quite a versatile command. nmcli - -help will bring up the basics. What you will not see in that list is the ‘d’ option (read the manpage for all the switches). Use the command: nmcli d (no hyphen) This will bring up your devices and type and the state. (connected or not) | + | A: Yes. You can use nmcli. It is quite a versatile command. nmcli --help will bring up the basics. What you will not see in that list is the ‘d’ option (read the manpage for all the switches). Use the command: nmcli d (no hyphen) This will bring up your devices and type and the state. (connected or not) |
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Reply: Hahaha yes, you were right, do I feel sheepish! | Reply: Hahaha yes, you were right, do I feel sheepish! | ||
- | (Not sure what we were right about – he never got back to us.) | + | (Not sure what we were right about – he never got back to us.)** |
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+ | Q : Mon Ubuntu me paraît patraque. Si Ubuntu n' | ||
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+ | R : Oui. Vous pouvez utiliser nmcli. C'est une commande très versatile. nmcli --help vous donnera les bases. Ce que vous ne verrez pas dans la liste est l' | ||
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+ | Q : Il y a une ligne dans ma barre des tâches sous Ubuntu Budgie 18.04. Comment m'en débarrasser ? | ||
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+ | R : Vous me donnez très peu d' | ||
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+ | Sa réponse : Hahaha oui, vous aviez raison ; je me sens très penaud ! | ||
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+ | (Je ne sais même pas comment ça se fait qu'on avait raison, car il ne nous a jamais donné davantage d' | ||
- | Q: Before I ask my question below, can I just say that I enjoy you magazine and podcast. I have been reading and listening ever since leaving Windows in 2012 and moving to Ubuntu. It's a great effort. Now to my question: I have an old CanoScan LiDE 60 USB powered flatbed scanner that I have faithfully carted around Australia for years. It just worked with Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & 18.04, and it has served us well doing entire photo albums and all our office work. We currently live in a camper trailer so we keep any essential paperwork digitally - we have no room for filing cabinets and the flatbed without a printer means it is easy to stow. Unfortunately, | + | **Q: Before I ask my question below, can I just say that I enjoy you magazine and podcast. I have been reading and listening ever since leaving Windows in 2012 and moving to Ubuntu. It's a great effort. Now to my question: I have an old CanoScan LiDE 60 USB powered flatbed scanner that I have faithfully carted around Australia for years. It just worked with Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & 18.04, and it has served us well doing entire photo albums and all our office work. We currently live in a camper trailer so we keep any essential paperwork digitally - we have no room for filing cabinets and the flatbed without a printer means it is easy to stow. Unfortunately, |
A: Thank you for the kind words. The CanoScan 300 is not Linux compatible. That said, a user on the Late night Linux Telegram channel got it to work using this link: https:// | A: Thank you for the kind words. The CanoScan 300 is not Linux compatible. That said, a user on the Late night Linux Telegram channel got it to work using this link: https:// | ||
- | After some investigation (pardon the long wait), it seems that in the new scanners, only the Epson flatbed scanners are SANE compliant out of the box. Tested with SANE drivers and Simplescan, it works. | + | After some investigation (pardon the long wait), it seems that in the new scanners, only the Epson flatbed scanners are SANE compliant out of the box. Tested with SANE drivers and Simplescan, it works.** |
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+ | Q : Avant de poser ma question ci-dessous, puis-je dire tout simplement que votre magazine et le podcast me plaisent beaucoup. Je le lis et l' | ||
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+ | R : Je vous remercie pour votre gentillesse. Le CanoScan 300 n'est pas compatible Linux. Cela étant dit, un utilisateur sur le canal Telegram de Linux tard dans la nuit l'a fait fonctionner avec ce lien : https:// | ||
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- | Q: Hey guys, I was trying to install Deflemask, but can’t get it to work. My computer uses Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. Gnome 3.28.2. Their website forum is forbidden 403 for some reason. http:// | + | **Q: Hey guys, I was trying to install Deflemask, but can’t get it to work. My computer uses Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. Gnome 3.28.2. Their website forum is forbidden 403 for some reason. http:// |
A: I have never even heard of Deflemask, let alone use it. I tried the installation and got the dll shuffle too. Made me feel like Using Fedora 2 back in the day and breaking it. Do not feel ‘dumb’, rejoice! It means you are learning more and realising there is more to know. Instead of ia32libs, use (t)rusty old dpkg: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 and update your repo’s. (That is two dashes, the word processor sometimes turns it into one long dash.) | A: I have never even heard of Deflemask, let alone use it. I tried the installation and got the dll shuffle too. Made me feel like Using Fedora 2 back in the day and breaking it. Do not feel ‘dumb’, rejoice! It means you are learning more and realising there is more to know. Instead of ia32libs, use (t)rusty old dpkg: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 and update your repo’s. (That is two dashes, the word processor sometimes turns it into one long dash.) | ||
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(note the “:i386” at the end). It should run fine after that. | (note the “:i386” at the end). It should run fine after that. | ||
- | P.S. I really like this software, maybe we can do an article on it sometime. | + | P.S. I really like this software, maybe we can do an article on it sometime. |
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+ | Q : Salut, les mecs, j' | ||
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+ | R : Je n'ai jamais même pas entendu parler de Deflemask et encore moins utilisé. J'ai essayé l' | ||
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+ | sudo apt install libsdl-image1.2: | ||
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+ | sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0: | ||
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+ | sudo apt install libglu1-mesa: | ||
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+ | (notez bien le « :i386 » au bout). Après tout ça, il devrait s' | ||
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+ | P.S. Ce logiciel me plaît beaucoup ; on pourra peut-être faire un article dessus un de ces jours. | ||
- | Q: Is this a good laptop for Ubuntu and CAD? <link to deal removed> (Cherry Trail SoC 2GB laptop, 32GB SSD.) | + | **Q: Is this a good laptop for Ubuntu and CAD? <link to deal removed> (Cherry Trail SoC 2GB laptop, 32GB SSD.) |
A: No. CAD requires a graphics card, unless you are willing to suffer in silence; failing that , a very powerful CPU. (Cherry trail is an Atom CPU SoC , like a Raspberry Pi). CAD is memory hungry, 2GB will barely cover it. Try for an HD screen, 1366 is usable, but will strain your eyes on a 14-inch display. As for Ubuntu, not sure, it may need Raspbian... | A: No. CAD requires a graphics card, unless you are willing to suffer in silence; failing that , a very powerful CPU. (Cherry trail is an Atom CPU SoC , like a Raspberry Pi). CAD is memory hungry, 2GB will barely cover it. Try for an HD screen, 1366 is usable, but will strain your eyes on a 14-inch display. As for Ubuntu, not sure, it may need Raspbian... | ||
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Q: Hey guys! Can you please help me, I have searched the internet empty, but can’t find a solution. Run Xubuntu 18.04 with the latest Firefox, and I have tried all the about: | Q: Hey guys! Can you please help me, I have searched the internet empty, but can’t find a solution. Run Xubuntu 18.04 with the latest Firefox, and I have tried all the about: | ||
- | A: Dear frustrated, open Firefox preferences and under general go to performance. Now untick “smooth scrolling” - if this does not fix your problem, get back to me. (yes it sounds counter intuitive, but it works). | + | A: Dear frustrated, open Firefox preferences and under general go to performance. Now untick “smooth scrolling” - if this does not fix your problem, get back to me. (yes it sounds counter intuitive, but it works).** |
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+ | Q : Est-ce un bon ordinateur portable pour Ubuntu et la CAO ? <lien enlevé> (Cherry Trail SoC 2 Go, SSD de 32 Go.) | ||
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+ | R : Non. La CAO nécessite une carte graphique, à moins que vous vous sentiez capable de souffrir en silence ; ou, sans carte graphique, un très puissant processeur. (Cherry Trail est un processeur Atom SoC, comme le Raspberry Pi.) La CAO a besoin de beaucoup de mémoire et 2 Go suffiront à peine. Essayez d' | ||
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+ | Q : Salut, les gars ! Pouvez-vous m' | ||
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+ | R : Cher frustré, ouvrez les Options de Firefox et, sous Général, allez à Navigation. Maintenant décochez « Utilisez le défilement doux » et si cela ne corrige pas le problème, écrivez-moi à nouveau. Oui, cela semble contre-intuitif, | ||
- | Q: My machine is an i5/8GB with Ubuntu 18.04. I want to theme Geany. I have become used to the dark interface of Sublime text. My problem is this: Geany themes only cover the code pane. | + | **Q: My machine is an i5/8GB with Ubuntu 18.04. I want to theme Geany. I have become used to the dark interface of Sublime text. My problem is this: Geany themes only cover the code pane. |
A: This one also threw me a curve ball. However, there is a youtube video on this: https:// | A: This one also threw me a curve ball. However, there is a youtube video on this: https:// | ||
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Q: My question is about Focus Writer. I have installed it from synaptic as I did not want a snap package. I can’t edit a theme and I am feeling very stupid. Could you redpill me? | Q: My question is about Focus Writer. I have installed it from synaptic as I did not want a snap package. I can’t edit a theme and I am feeling very stupid. Could you redpill me? | ||
- | A: The short answer is that you can not edit default themes. You can, however, duplicate a theme and edit that. It will move to “custom”, | + | A: The short answer is that you can not edit default themes. You can, however, duplicate a theme and edit that. It will move to “custom”, |
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+ | Q : Ma machine est un i5/8 Go sous Ubuntu 18.04. Je voudrais ajouter un thème à Geany. Je me suis habitué à l' | ||
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+ | R : Celle-là m'a également déboussolé. Toutefois, il y a une vidéo à ce sujet sur YouTube : https:// | ||
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+ | Q : Ma question concerne Focus Writer. Puisque je ne voulais pas de paquet snap, je l'ai installé à partir de Synaptic. Je n' | ||
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+ | R : La réponse courte est que vous ne pouvez pas modifier les thèmes par défaut. Mais vous pouvez dupliquer un thème et modifier la copie. Il se déplacera vers « personnalisé », ou vous pouvez même créer votre propre thème qui sera modifiable une fois enregistré sous l' | ||
- | Q: hey, my problem is my ubuntu is hanging up. sometimes with graphic corruption. It has never happened before. This is my specs. <output of neofetch removed.> | + | **Q: hey, my problem is my ubuntu is hanging up. sometimes with graphic corruption. It has never happened before. This is my specs. <output of neofetch removed.> |
A: If you take a gander at that output, you will see: Disk (/): 3G / 410G (99%) - fourth from the bottom. Boot into ‘advanced’ or ‘recovery’ mode and use the make space option. If it fails to make space, boot from a live medium and delete some stuff. It may be wise to install Stacer to monitor your disk usage and clean up some space. | A: If you take a gander at that output, you will see: Disk (/): 3G / 410G (99%) - fourth from the bottom. Boot into ‘advanced’ or ‘recovery’ mode and use the make space option. If it fails to make space, boot from a live medium and delete some stuff. It may be wise to install Stacer to monitor your disk usage and clean up some space. | ||
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Q: I am so addicted to 2048-qt game in Ubuntu. How can I hide it so my supervisor can’t see what I am doing? | Q: I am so addicted to 2048-qt game in Ubuntu. How can I hide it so my supervisor can’t see what I am doing? | ||
- | A: The short answer is you can not. However, there is a command-line version (with graphics) that will show up as terminal open and not a game, but you never heard it from me. | + | A: The short answer is you can not. However, there is a command-line version (with graphics) that will show up as terminal open and not a game, but you never heard it from me.** |
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+ | Q : Salut, mon problème est que mon Ubuntu plante, parfois avec une corruption graphique. Cela ne m'est jamais arrivé avant. Voici mes spécifications <sortie de neofetch enlevé> | ||
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+ | R : Si vous jetez un œil à cette sortie, vous verrez : Disk (/) : 3 Go/ 410 Go (99 %), c'est la quatrième du bas. Redémarrez en mode « avancé » ou « récupération » et utilisez l' | ||
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+ | Q : Je suis vraiment accro au jeu 2048-qt sous Ubuntu, que je voudrais pouvoir cacher quand le superviseur passe pour qu'il ne puisse pas le voir. Comment faire ? | ||
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+ | R : La réponse courte est que vous ne le pouvez pas. Toutefois, il y a une version en ligne de commande (avec des graphismes) qui s' | ||
- | Q: Help! I can’t log into my Skype any more. It just says that I have been logged out for security reasons. The more I log in, the more it logs me out immediately. Have I been hacked? | + | **Q: Help! I can’t log into my Skype any more. It just says that I have been logged out for security reasons. The more I log in, the more it logs me out immediately. Have I been hacked? |
A: No, it’s Microshaft at its finest. You need to uninstall, reboot, reinstall the latest version, and go through the ‘forgot password’ routine and reset your password. Only then will you be able to log in. Failing that, you may have to make a new profile. | A: No, it’s Microshaft at its finest. You need to uninstall, reboot, reinstall the latest version, and go through the ‘forgot password’ routine and reset your password. Only then will you be able to log in. Failing that, you may have to make a new profile. | ||
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Q: How can I create a shortcut to point to the default application for reading mail, without specifying what it is? I know about mailto: but this does not work well. I am creating a vanilla desktop with applications on it. I want to roll it out across multiple machines, but the machines may / may not be the same, but it must be standardized. If that makes any sense? | Q: How can I create a shortcut to point to the default application for reading mail, without specifying what it is? I know about mailto: but this does not work well. I am creating a vanilla desktop with applications on it. I want to roll it out across multiple machines, but the machines may / may not be the same, but it must be standardized. If that makes any sense? | ||
- | A: That sounds like an interesting project, will you keep us informed about your progress? You can try: exo-open --launch MailReader %u in the command parameters. It is unashamedly stolen from: “exo-open --launch WebBrowser %u” (That is two dashes, word processors do funny things.) | + | A: That sounds like an interesting project, will you keep us informed about your progress? You can try: exo-open --launch MailReader %u in the command parameters. It is unashamedly stolen from: “exo-open --launch WebBrowser %u” (That is two dashes, word processors do funny things.)** |
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+ | Q : À l'aide ! Je ne peux plus me connecter à Skype. Il dit que j'ai été déconnecté pour des raisons de sécurité. Plus j' | ||
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+ | R : Non, c'est un excellent exemple des agissements de Microshaft. Vous devez le désinstaller, | ||
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+ | Q : Comment créer un raccourci vers l' | ||
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