Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

On Sat, 2024-06-15 at 17:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > remove the 'quiet' option from the kernel parameter Oops, this will not solve "the monitor showed no display found" issue. Unlikely adding 'nomodeset' will help either, but it doesn't harm to test this option. Does running

Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

Hi, remove the 'quiet' option from the kernel parameter and then manually update with that GRUB auto-thingy again. Too funny, that a user still needs to run the auto-thingy manually. Btw. if you remove all that GRUB auto-crap you can edit a clean and lean grub.cfg manually, an example is

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 207, Issue 6

On Wed, 2024-05-29 at 08:31 -0400, Carl Snyder wrote: > I originally allocated 256M for the EFI partition, but the present > requirements for the same multi-boot Linux machine is over 1G > allocated on my 1.5T HDD. Hi, the esp partition of my Linux multi-boot machine does use 20.24 MiB, 13 MiB

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc? - Was: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 203, Issue 1

PS: FWIW • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ /bin/ls -hAl /mnt/ventoy/ total 16G -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5G Jan 13 2023 MX-21.3_fluxbox_x64.iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189M May 9 2023 alpine-standard-3.18.0-x86_64.iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 810M Apr 1 2023 archlinux-2023.04.01-x86_64.iso

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc? - Was: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 203, Issue 1

On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 10:21 -0500, Carl Snyder wrote: > The latest Ventoy and other USB preparation software ASSUMES that your > system has EFI and does not properly boot from USB stick on BIOS only > systems. Hi, I'm not sure if this applies to Ventoy. At least it boots fine on my old Intel

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc?

On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 06:45 +, James Freer wrote: > > Does your BIOS recognize the flashdrive? > > How do i check that? I've forgotten a lot of the commands having been > ill for a year. Much appreciate the reply. Hi, first of all I want to second Kaj Haulrich reply. Ventoy is terrific. You

Re: [xubuntu-users] nm-applet has disappeared on an xubuntu 22.04 system

On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 07:59 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I don't think that's how nm-applet gets onto the panel.  It doesn't > appear in the available to be added list.  It doesn't appear there > either on my own (with working nm-applet) xubuntu system. Hi, the OP needs to add the Notification

Re: [xubuntu-users] New user

Hi, I can't comment on Windows 10. To use drives with more than 2 TiB you need to format the drives with GPT instead of MBR. This should work when using the legacy BIOS boot option, too. IOW it shouldn't require U/EFI. Booting an USB stick containing a Linux requires either to enable the legacy

[xubuntu-users] A 'friendly-recovery' issue and an 'update-initramfs' issue + [update] Supposedly essential Microsoft-signed binary

Hi, before I contiue to complain about some annyoances. Some things that can't be taken for granted are good OOTB. For example, on Arch Linux the reported scaling_max_freq is 580. This isn't correct for the CPU in my machine, see

[xubuntu-users] Supposedly essential Microsoft-signed binary

Hi, I'm building a new computer and struggle a little bit with the new hardware. Since the new Intel GPU doesn't allow to enable CSM, I can't boot using syslinux from an old SSD. On an Ventoy USB stick I had the Xubuntu 20.04.1 live media at hand, so I installed it, since it was the fastest and

Re: [xubuntu-users] Odd behaviour on laptop suspend/resume

On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 10:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 09:22 +, Chris Green wrote: > > I fail to see the point of any of the screensaver type things, if > > someone has access to your computer they can get at its contents > > whether or not there's

Re: [xubuntu-users] Odd behaviour on laptop suspend/resume

On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 09:22 +, Chris Green wrote: > I fail to see the point of any of the screensaver type things, if > someone has access to your computer they can get at its contents > whether or not there's a screensaver running. Only an encrypted file > system will prevent this. > > I

Re: [xubuntu-users] firefox & snap, persry ...onal settings folder ..

On Mon, 2023-01-02 at 13:17 -0500, Clarence Fender wrote: > Regardless of what you do, do a duckduckgo search for securing FF. > There are a few steps you can take to make FF a lot more secure and > private. Hi, please don't suggest searching for it, but make specific suggestions. To see what

Re: [xubuntu-users] file system window read-only

On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 15:20 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I suspect that > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS-3G#Metadata_kept_in_Windows_cache,_refused_to_mount > is the culprit, however, here's some more guessing [snip] PS: Don't care about all that guessing, first check your Window

Re: [xubuntu-users] file system window read-only

On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 08:06 +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote: > Op 5/11/2022 om 19:43 schreef Alessandro Lin: > > Hallo, > > > > I have a problem with read-only filesystem. > > I describe neatly: > > > > > ... etc. etc. > > > > /dev/sda3 on /media/alex/B87A648A7A64476A type fuseblk > >

Re: [xubuntu-users] file system window read-only

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Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:09:48 +0200, Hund wrote: >https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 That's a common FLOSS issue, it's just less known by the Linux community, since most major distros really {re,}distribute binaries. However, Arch Linux is one of the major Linux distros, that also

Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:09:46 +0200, Hund wrote: >On August 11, 2021 9:25:48 PM GMT+02:00, Karel P Coors wrote: >>That sounds like a great tip. >>Downloaded Dissenter Browser and enjoying it > >Are you aware of the fact that the Dissenter Browser is made by Gab? I never heard of gap before.

Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 17:02:04 -0500, Karel P Coors wrote: >I solved the issue by downloading Brave Web Browser and purged and >removed Firefox. Sometimes firefox --safe-mode to disables extensions and themes might give a pointer. Maybe just removing an add-on would have solved the issues, too.

Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:21:45 -0500, Karel P Coors wrote: >Good day all, I have been a user of Firefox for years but Firefox >90.0.2 turns me off. It's slow and freezes intermittently. Hi, you are probably using an Intel GPU. Latest Ubuntu flavours default to the "modesetting" driver. Maybe the

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 169, Issue 5

What are MIME and Plain Text Digests? How do I change which one I get? http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node28.html Please, digest subscribers migrate from plain text to MIME digest. In 2021 there's no valid reason anymore to prefer plain text over MIME. When using MIME, it's possible to keep

Re: [xubuntu-users] Keep display on permanently

On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 09:33:27 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote: >Have you tried uninstalling xfce4-screensaver altogether? Hi, when using Xubuntu Live-DVDs I noticed, that after using the power manager GUI to set everything energy saving for the display to off, then still the screensaver is active.

Re: [xubuntu-users] Signature send to the wrong address - Was: MFP aus hplip installieren

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:31:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >To: m...@bundestag.de ^ Since I don't receive my own mails sent to the list, just for the record, if the chosen recipient shouldn't be visible by mails sent via the mailing list ;). >Cc: xubuntu

[xubuntu-users] Signature send to the wrong address - Was: MFP aus hplip installieren

The below quoted signature obviously was sent to the wrong recipient by mistake. I decided to forward it to a target that fits the bill. Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:02:04 +0100 To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com [...] Die Welt, die wir geschaffen haben, ist das Resultat

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04: Qt Library

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:17:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:56:39 +, Peter Flynn wrote: >>On 09/12/2020 15:35, Hartmut Haase wrote: >>> Hi, >>> to compile LyX I need the Qt Library for qt5-gtk, but I don't know >>> the name of its Package

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04: Qt Library

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:56:39 +, Peter Flynn wrote: >On 09/12/2020 15:35, Hartmut Haase wrote: >> Hi, >> to compile LyX I need the Qt Library for qt5-gtk, but I don't know >> the name of its Package. Can someome help? > >I think it's called qt5-style-plugins Maybe "just"

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04: qt5 development package

My apologies for another PS. Since you didn't mention what you want to do. If you just wish to provide translations, the linguist tool is provided by the Ubuntu package qttools5-dev-tools. -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04: qt5 development package

PPS: Correction [weremouse@moonstudio ~]$ dpkg -l *qt* | grep ii | grep -e dev -e qmake ii libqt4-dev 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 amd64Qt 4 development files ii libqt4-dev-bin 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2 amd64Qt

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04: qt5 development package

On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 19:01:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Maybe this one https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qt5-default with >it's dependencies or just https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qtbase5-dev >. > >IIRC some development packages containing headers aren't available by >the re

Re: [xubuntu-users] Trying to udate browser

Hi, today I read the complete thread. Firefox is indeed installed by default for most, if not all Ubuntu flavours. However, updating from command line isn't explained correctly. To upgrade the complete install by command line, including firefox, you need to run sudo apt update # to

Re: [xubuntu-users] keyboard and touchpad stop working after a few hours

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:25:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:09:34 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: >>Borrow another and see if the same happens. > >FWIW the built-in keyboard and touchpad could suffer from a software >issue, that doesn't affect externally

Re: [xubuntu-users] keyboard and touchpad stop working after a few hours

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:09:34 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: >Borrow another and see if the same happens. FWIW the built-in keyboard and touchpad could suffer from a software issue, that doesn't affect externally connected devices. However, if the build-in devices should fail to work related to broken

Re: [xubuntu-users] Trouble receiving e-mail from this group

PS: If you log in your xubuntu mailing list account, do you see on top of the page a bounce score? It's ok if you don't see a bounce score, but if there should be one, it's an issue. Is "Mail delivery" enabled? Even if digest is disabled, mail delivery needs to be explicitly enabled. --

Re: [xubuntu-users] Trouble receiving e-mail from this group

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:17:39 -0400, Phil Staub wrote: >Looking for suggestions as to why I don't seem to get posts to this >list. > >Yes, I'm subscribed to the list. > >I have digests turned off so that I should get individual e-mails >whenever there is a post to the list. > >I have (temporarily)

Re: [xubuntu-users] Slow opening folders on Xubuntu 20.04

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 05:39:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >GVFS is still a possible culprit. For testing purpose you could >install an empty dummy package, so you don't break hard dependencies >against gvfs, but you could test, if running Thunar or Nemo doesn't >suffer from a delay anymo

Re: [xubuntu-users] Slow opening folders on Xubuntu 20.04

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 22:19:08 -0400, Phil Staub wrote: >> Just for testing purpose install spacefm/spacefm-gtk3. It's a very >> customizable file browser that doesn't have a dependency to GNOMEish >> bloatware helpers such as gvfs. >> >>sudo apt update >>sudo apt install spacefm-gtk3 >> >>

Re: [xubuntu-users] Slow opening folders on Xubuntu 20.04

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:51:11 -0400, Phil Staub wrote: >Does this sound familiar to anyone? Hi, no and I neither have got Xubuntu installed, nor am I using Xfce at the moment. However, my first guess was, that it might be related to gvfs. I don't have got gvfs installed, but both Thunar and Nemo

Re: [xubuntu-users] Animation Program

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 22:48:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I don't know what kind of animation software Jasc Animation Shop3 is. >I suspect that pixel graphic software such as Gimp or Krita could >maybe use layers to generate animated gifs in a flip book/stop motion >style. IOW you need

Re: [xubuntu-users] Animation Program

Hi, I don't know what kind of animation software Jasc Animation Shop3 is. I suspect that pixel graphic software such as Gimp or Krita could maybe use layers to generate animated gifs in a flip book/stop motion style. IOW you need to draw each picture. However, there are a lot of tools with

Re: [xubuntu-users] How to stop firefox 'pulsing' its panel tab when a new site opens?

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 19:43:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Ok, there's probably nothing humans in the future could do against the >warp drive noise or the impulse drive noise >but it still should be easy to disable useless computer noises -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubu

Re: [xubuntu-users] How to stop firefox 'pulsing' its panel tab when a new site opens?

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:22:03 +, Chris Green wrote: >I find it very annoying when Firefox pulses its tab in the panel just >because I have opened a new site but haven't yet moved to Firefox to >display it. > >I *know* I've opened a new web site and don't need the distracting >panel pulsing to

Re: [xubuntu-users] E4rat

On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:55:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >The magic term is "el Chepo TOSHIBA (OCZ) SSD". Very cheap, reliable, >fast at 6.0 Gb/s, but even at 3.0 Gb/s, not included to the smartctl >data base, but a proprietary tool called ocz-ssd-utility is available >for f

Re: [xubuntu-users] E4rat

The magic term is "el Chepo TOSHIBA (OCZ) SSD". Very cheap, reliable, fast at 6.0 Gb/s, but even at 3.0 Gb/s, not included to the smartctl data base, but a proprietary tool called ocz-ssd-utility is available for free as in beer, so all SMART data is provided, as well as updating the firmware

Re: [xubuntu-users] Hundreds (thousands maybe) of nm-applet error messages in .xsession-errors

On Sat, 2019-12-07 at 02:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 21:22 +, Chris Green wrote: > > I have recently upgraded from xubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 on my laptop. > > > > The .xsession-errors file is getting rather large very quickly, it has > > grown

Re: [xubuntu-users] Hundreds (thousands maybe) of nm-applet error messages in .xsession-errors

On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 21:22 +, Chris Green wrote: > I have recently upgraded from xubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 on my laptop. > > The .xsession-errors file is getting rather large very quickly, it has > grown to 8Mb in not much over 24 hours. A large proportion of the > errors in .xsession-errors

Re: [xubuntu-users] mobile broadband set up ?

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:41:06 +0100 (CET), Fritz Roth wrote: >I will re burn the dvd next week at the library >to see if this will solve this problem Hi, I can't help with the "mobile broadband set up", but before you burn a new DVD consider to not only check the image against the checksum, but

Re: [xubuntu-users] Changes made into sysctl.conf not getting picked up after reboot

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 16:01:21 +0200 (CEST), Prithvi wrote: >The problem is that after a reboot the configuration given above is >not applied. The entries are there in the sysctl.conf file but the >ICMP services are not disabled. What can be the reason behind this? Hi, maybe it's overridden by a

Re: [xubuntu-users] Removing failed header update

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:49:42 +0100, David Wright wrote: >After a header update to 4.4.0-165.193 Hi, probably the kernel and the kernel headers were upgraded, right? Is it an "averaged hard disk drive" that can't get mounted or something very special? What kind of drive, connected to what kind

Re: [xubuntu-users] virtual machine

On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 10:43 +0200, hans Schneidhofer wrote: > You know, caution is the mother of porcelain box ... old but true. :) https://www.dict.cc/?s=vorsicht+ist+die+mutter+der+porzellankiste My lovely Mr. Singing club! https://www.dict.cc/?s=mein+lieber+herr+gesangsverein --

Re: [xubuntu-users] virtual machine

On Fri, 31 May 2019 05:44:56 +0200, hans Schneidhofer wrote: >the VM I'll only use for mathematical Programs Hi, VirtualBox is the easiest to use VM, but it's for sure not the best. I wonder if VirtualBox supports the instruction sets provided by your CPU? IMO you should use VirtualBox only to

Re: [xubuntu-users] snap and flatpak

On Thu, 30 May 2019 19:01:33 +0200, hans Schneidhofer wrote: >The memory should match this also, I have 16 GB-DDR3-RAM installed. Yes... >Can I use an extra SSD for this installation ? and yes :). I'm using VirtualBox, IMO the easiest to use VM. -- xubuntu-users mailing list

Re: [xubuntu-users] snap and flatpak

On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 17:08 +0200, hans Schneidhofer wrote: > So now my question is, can I have a snap- and flatpak- > installation on the same machine ? I don't know the details, but I suspect it should be possible to use both on one install and it also should work to use other container systems

Re: [xubuntu-users] missing file

On Mon, 20 May 2019 03:18:19 +0200, hans Schneidhofer wrote: >http://ppa.launchpad.net ^^^ Hi, you add a PPA to your repositories. Don't you remember for what purpose you add this PPA? If you shouldn't know what a PPA is, consider to google it. The package is provided by the official

Re: [xubuntu-users] auto logoff happens no matter what I{ do

On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 20:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2019 10:56:27 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > I turned off power management in my xscreensaver program and > > rebooted. It still logs me off/out. Is this a systemd thing? > > Hi, > > I suspect it's

Re: [xubuntu-users] auto logoff happens no matter what I{ do

On Sun, 12 May 2019 10:56:27 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >I turned off power management in my xscreensaver program and >rebooted. It still logs me off/out. Is this a systemd thing? Hi, I suspect it's neither related to systemd, nor caused by a backend used by xflock4, that logs you out. My guess

Re: [xubuntu-users] TTS: text to speech

On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:44:36 +0200, Marc Coevoet wrote: >Op 28/04/19 om 09:37 schreef Hartmut Haase: >> is there a TTS application foe xibutu 18.04 tjat someone can > >I think ORCA is used in Knoppix, but there is at least one more? Hi, can you recommend Orca for usage with Xfce? I'm not

Re: [xubuntu-users] 19.04 trouble with waking the screen

On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 11:18 +0200, Bjoern Franke wrote: > Does it stay at "this screen is locked" I can't speak for the OP. What I've noticed is that screen blanking is the issue. A blank screen remains until you Ctrl+Alt+Fn... IOW even if the screen isn't locked, just blanked, this issue

Re: [xubuntu-users] 19.04 trouble with waking the screen

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:39:27 +0300, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: >I've noticed in 19.04 that whenever I lock my screen and it powers >down, the only way I can get my display back is to switch to a virtual >console and then back to the graphical environment. Like before, is >this a known issue, and is

Re: [xubuntu-users] Installation questions

On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 16:11:30 +0100, David Wright wrote: >is TRIM still important/necessary? Hi, I don't know if a firmware mechanism could replace trim or if it shouldn't be needed for what ever other reason. My interpretation of the information provided by [1] is, that it's recommended to use

Re: [xubuntu-users] Installation questions

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 18:11:37 -0700, fred roller wrote: >My experience with the hybrid hdd/SSD was to partition main storage >(data being less sought) on the hdd and, if memory serves me, put the >boot partition on the hdd. I wasn't overly concerned with boot time >since I rarely booted. What went

Re: [xubuntu-users] Installation questions

On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 14:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Bought 03.02.2017, OCZ TL100 240GB 77,95€ Health 65%, Power-On Hours Count > 15169, Host Writes 278773, Bad Block Count 0 > Bought 27.07.2017, OCZ TL100 240GB 86,50€ Health 86%, Power-On Hours Count > 12289, Host Writes 10715

Re: [xubuntu-users] Installation questions

Hi, people who worry about a write cycle related lifespan of SSDs and treat SSDs with kid gloves make their lives painful for no reason. It's also not worth to worry about less fast and very fast SSDs, since even a "slow" SSD won't be the performance bottleneck. At the moment I'm using 4

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu: End-of-life Question

PS: On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 08:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > IOW since XFCE4 is from "universe" the support provided by community > maintainers could differ from packages maintained by Ubuntu > maintainers, but keep in mind that dependencies are kept consistent and &

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu: End-of-life Question

>> Is it that the Xubuntu team stops working on 16.04 in April. But, >> that updates to *Ubuntu* are still available? Can one depend on >> downloads from Ubuntu's servers for security updates but that >> Xubuntu bugs will no longer be fixed? Hi, if you take a look at the package search, you'll

Re: [xubuntu-users] Repo issues

On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 22:03:11 -0400, linux@gmail.com wrote: >On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 20:42:03 -0500, Lutz Andersohn wrote: >>I am wondering whether anybody else has these issues: >>I did a fresh install of 16.04.5LTS. >>updated my repositories >>- I cannot install gimp. Broken packages because

Re: [xubuntu-users] GUI / GTK visual artifacts after 18.04.2 inline upgrade

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:06:05 -0600, Len Philpot wrote: >So far, changing desktop and window manager themes hasn't made a >difference Does those themes include default GNOME themes, that fit to the used GTK versions? I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, as well as Arch Linux, a rolling release close to

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xorg with 99% CPU

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:03:31 +0200, Ulli Horlacher wrote: >The xmodmap command itself is fast, produces no messages at all and >terminates with exit code 0. > >Xorg is running on high CPU for several minutes, as before. > >What is going on there? Is it a large $HOME/.Xmodmap? Btw. my Ubuntu (not

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xorg with 99% CPU

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:10:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:30:31 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >>What browsers are you using, and how many tabs do you use in each. My >>experience is that piggy browsers like Firefox and Chrome/Chromium >>make X swell up. Whe

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xorg with 99% CPU

On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:30:31 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >What browsers are you using, and how many tabs do you use in each. My >experience is that piggy browsers like Firefox and Chrome/Chromium make >X swell up. When X' usage exceeds 90%, do killall -9 on all web >browsers. Most of the time the

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xorg with 99% CPU

On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:28:39 +0200, Ulli Horlacher wrote: >Any idea what is going on and how to debug it? Is anything related in the log files? $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ journalctl -b $ dmesg | less $ less ~/.xsession-errors -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

[xubuntu-users] Off-topic: 18.04: no printing

On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:37:22 +0200, Hartmut Haase wrote: >Frauen sind die Hälfte der Menschheit I guess this is a Xubuntu related mailing list. However, you are using it as a political mailing list. Please provide a link to a scientific study to underpin the 1:1 ratio. And while you are on it,

Re: [xubuntu-users] How can I install Apple ITunes on Ubuntu 18.01 LTS Desktop or get new software for my Apple IPad?

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 07:19:13 -0600, Dan Juarez wrote: >You can, of course, install software and music/videos directly from >the iPad without using iTunes at all. Updates to iPad should also be >downloadable over the air as well. I run Windows 7 on VirtualBox from Oracle, not VirtualBox from any

Re: [xubuntu-users] Firefox using loads of memory.

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 08:59:25 -0400, lefty wrote: >We must be using different versions. More likely we are using different distros, different profiles and much important, we most likely visit different websites. Lets take a look at the dependencies [1]. More or less all web browser suffer from

Re: [xubuntu-users] Firefox using loads of memory.

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:11:05 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: >On 14/08/18 12:39, lefty wrote: >> On 08/14/2018 05:56 AM, Peter Flynn wrote: >>> One of the reasons I trashed FF and switched to chromium-browser. >> >> otoh, Google > >Yeah, something to suffer for the convenience... So what? I

Re: [xubuntu-users] 18.04 issue-bug?

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:35:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Are you sure that your old SSD reached end of life? Did you connect the >old SSD to a port using the same controller? Perhaps a microchip on ^^^ This should read "new SSD" >your mobo is broken? What are th

Re: [xubuntu-users] 18.04 issue-bug?

Hi, assuming the issue should be related to the SSD, if you should use continuous TRIM, stop doing so and use periodic TRIM instead, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drive#Continuous_TRIM . Using Ubuntu 16.04 and Arch Linux, I don't experience any SSD issue, excepted of one

[xubuntu-users] Thoughts about SSD - Was: 18.04.1 Point Release Testing

On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 13:03 -0400, Art wrote: > Encryption we have today, is just the home folder. If encryption of the > entire drive is used, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that > the performance slows severely, that more ram is needed and that more > SSD read/write cycles will be

Re: [xubuntu-users] 18.04.1 Point Release Testing

>On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 12:36 -0400, Art wrote: >> How do I learn about such changes BEFORE they happen?? A misunderstanding, the release notes are helpful to avoid it happening by installing the new release, but... yes, to know about such changes before they are done, requires to follow the

Re: [xubuntu-users] 18.04.1 Point Release Testing

On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 20:51:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Don't get me wrong, I dropped Xfce a long time ago. I dislike it. Since >I've got the skills and the time to set up what I need, to follow >upstream of a WM, the desired panels etc., instead of the need to stay >with a LTS only,

Re: [xubuntu-users] Off topic, suggestions for light weight linux OS

On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:26:17 +1200, chris wrote: >On 15/07/18 15:14, Art wrote: >> I need some help deciding which linux distro to install. It's a >> special project which needs the following: >> >> Must run directly from a usb or sd card >> Must support gpg for strong encryption (gpg) >> Must be

Re: [xubuntu-users] magic processes

PS: As already pointed out by another subscriber, some processes, such as e.g. GFVS activity is pushed by something trivial, the trash icon of your file manager might be the cause you need GVFS running. You can't blame systemd for the way shallow programmed file managers work. Systemd has got

Re: [xubuntu-users] magic processes

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:08:14 -0700, Cody Smith wrote: >Those are important processes,  > >Gvfs is a filesystem mounting daemon from Gnome For a lot of users GVFS is an absolutely unneeded process, only good to kill external green drives by causing it to spin up right each time it spin down. Since

Re: [xubuntu-users] 18.04 destroying my M.2 SSD

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:06:40 -0400, Daniel Wastak wrote: >UUID=[Your blkid here] / ext4noatime,errors=remount-ro I'm using "noatime" for partitions used to record realtime audio, but for anything else I stay with the default "relatime" for good reasons, see the mount manpage.

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 17.10.1 for Virtualbox to run Windows10

On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 21:26:19 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >And, yes, of course a SSD makes things massively better for any VM. That's the whole point. The reason I'm using vbox with QCOW instead of VDI was the plan to migrate from vbox to KVM. As a side joke, it would require QCOW2 or RAW to

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 17.10.1 for Virtualbox to run Windows10

On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:47:11 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 15:35:28 +0100 >Teach wrote: >> It is recommended to run windows 10 in Virtualbox under Xubuntu >> 17.10 *Virtualbox or VMWare?* > >Just for the record, Virtualbox is user-friendly but not very

Re: [xubuntu-users] From Ubuntu 17.10 to Xubuntu 17.10

PS: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xubuntu=names -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users

Re: [xubuntu-users] From Ubuntu 17.10 to Xubuntu 17.10

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:21:37 +, Eric Curtin wrote: >On 24 February 2018 at 14:55, Paul Rijke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone has an migration manual or command to migrate from >> Ubuntu 17.10 to Xubuntu 17.10 (without reinstall) >> >> Thank you >> Paul > >Hi Paul, > >Don't

Re: [xubuntu-users] Qt apps don't follow the GTK+ theme

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:15:12 -0200, Teresa e Junior wrote: >Em 28/10/2017 02:27, Ralf Mardorf escreveu: >> If it doesn't work with installed >> https://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/qt5-style-plugins , you could try >> to find a Qt5 theme, that comes close to your desired the

Re: [xubuntu-users] System slow, multiple thunar processes running

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 06:38:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >what does swap show? IOW how much swap, if any is used. If swap is used during a performance slow down, test your drives by running for i in $(smartctl --scan|awk '{ print $1}');do sudo smartctl -HA $i;done -- xubuntu-users mailing l

Re: [xubuntu-users] System slow, multiple thunar processes running

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:21:12 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote: >Thanks for the follow up. Most of my machines have 2GB RAM. I didn't >realize it, but when I ran free -m, I found there is only 1GB on this >machine. I think you're right. Feature/bloat creep? Hi, you are guessing based on what

Re: [xubuntu-users] System slow, multiple thunar processes running

On Sun, 2017-09-03 at 08:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I stopped my openbox session and booted xfce4. *lol* I logged out and logged in without rebooting ;). -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [xubuntu-users] System slow, multiple thunar processes running

Next time please without line wrapping and grep alias. john@sentry35:~$ ps aux|head -1;ps aux|grep thunar|grep -v grep\ thunar USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND john 11837 0.0 1.3 45556 13496 ?Sl 10:15 0:00 thunar /home/john/Desktop/Old

Re: [xubuntu-users] left Alt key not working in xubuntu 16.04 (mapped to some GUI volume control instead)

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:53:07 + (UTC), Richard Fromm wrote: >I hope this cross posting isn't considered poor etiquette. Don't worry, it isn't. Asking the same question on several forums about something existential is ok. If the issue is solved, you just need to provide the solution everywhere

Re: [xubuntu-users] How to get the right information about a "crash"

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:03:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >And perhaps this workaround helps: > >https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/580#issuecomment-6 >8306494 Oops, the link is broken, it should red https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/580#issuecomm

Re: [xubuntu-users] How to get the right information about a "crash"

I should explain the command I mentioned. There are Xorg log files in /var/log. [weremouse@moonstudio ~]$ ls -hl /var/log/Xorg* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 Jul 17 22:58 /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 Jul 17 22:58 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29K Sep 10

Re: [xubuntu-users] How to get the right information about a "crash"

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:33:29 +0200, Willem Hobers wrote: >I assume that my error is sent to someone, somewhere. If you are using some tool to report issues, e.g. Apport, carefully learn how to use this tool and how to avoid privacy risks. "Apport collects potentially sensitive data, such as core

Re: [xubuntu-users] The Devil's Advocate

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:51:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:33:09 +0100, Joao Monteiro wrote: >>- CAD wise, linux is still useless > >I can't speak about the software, but at least some people are >satisfied with Linux for CAT.

Re: [xubuntu-users] The Devil's Advocate

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:33:09 +0100, Joao Monteiro wrote: >- CAD wise, linux is still useless I can't speak about the software, but at least some people are satisfied with Linux for CAT. The real-time patches seem to work. Much likely it's the same as for pro-audio, which is my domain. How much

Re: [xubuntu-users] The Devil's Advocate

Hi, while it's a good idea to open a new thread, instead of becoming off-topic for another thread, I guess it's not useful to continue this discussion. At least I've said what I wanted to contribute to this discussion. Regards, Ralf PS:

Re: [xubuntu-users] Rookie question on backups

On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 06:16:19 +0100, Joao Monteiro wrote: >True. And yet, in my personal experience, when there is a really >urgent cry for help, it usually gets answered pretty quicker than I'd >expect. You don't get that in microsoft land. In the context of this discussion "operating system" is

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