Thursday, April 04, 2024

XZ Utils - Checking the Installed Version

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XZ Utils has been affected by a backdoor malware.   Versions 5.6.0 and/or 5.6.1 are the affected versions. Want to see what version of th...
Friday, September 08, 2023

NEMO, Change It's Default Start Directory

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I want Nemo (File Manager) to open the Downloads directory by default instead of my Home directory.  Let's change it now  Step 1.  Ri...
Monday, May 22, 2023

ALT key not working on Windows 10 running in Virtualbox

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I run Microsoft's Windows 10 as a Virtualbox Guest Machine from my Ubuntu 22.04 HOST.  I switched my Ubuntu 22.04 desktop to Cinnamon ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Enable AppImages and FlatPaks on Ubuntu 22.04 +

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 Enabling APPIMAGES on Ubuntu 22.04 + Ubuntu 22.04 does not included the libfuse2 package by default. The AppImage distribution and most Ap...
Monday, January 23, 2023

"The following packages have been kept back" Error

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You're getting the error " The following packages have been kept back:  <list of packages>" after you run the  sudo apt-...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Cinnamon Desktop / Gnome Desktop Nvidia Graphic Driver Fix

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I switched to Cinnamon Desktop a few days ago and did my first update today.  After the update I started getting an error when I logged on s...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Dumped Gnome Desktop for Cinnamon Desktop

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I have become sick of trying to track down a memory leak in Gnome Desktop on my Ubuntu 22.04.  It eats up 12gb of ram over a 4 day period.  ...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

Gnome Desktop Extensions I Use.

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Here is a list and link to all the Gnome Desktop (Shell) Extension I use.  I've been trying to find a memory leak in Gnome Shell (or one...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Mouse/Keyboard Battery Levels Displayed in Panel

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 A Gnome Shell Extension for Ubuntu 22.04 that displays the battery level of your wireless mouse and /or keyboard in your upper panel;   Bat...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 22.04

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Step 1.  Get the Ubuntu Dropbox installer. Navigate to Dropbox's Linux software download site at https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux ....
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Ubuntu 22.04 Stuttering Video Chrome/Firefox/Totem

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I was having trouble with YouTube videos stuttering.  They were NOT dropping frames , but about every 5 seconds they would freezing for 1/2 ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Installing Wine 7.01 on Ubuntu 22.04

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I used Wine to run Photoshop CS2 on my Ubuntu 20.04 box ( Intel Core I5 ).  It worked without issue. I've upgraded that box to 22.04 ...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Openshot AppImage is not working on Ubuntu 22.04

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Openshot AppImage version 2.6.1 is NOT working on Ubuntu 22.04.1.  The app starts and allows you to import video/audio/image file into yo...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Replace GNOME's Next to Useless File Manager

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The default Gnome File Manager is next to useless for anything other than basic file moving.  Over the last few years the entire Gnome Desk...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Installing psensor Graphical Temperature Monitoring App

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psensor is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) temperature and hardware monitoring software for Linux.  Since I just build this Linux box a fe...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

Configure Geany for Python Programming

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I use the GEANY text editor/IDE when I need a quick light weight versatile text editor.  I also use it for writing programming code ( Pytho...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Installing QT5 for Python 3.x Ubuntu 20.04

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I built a new Ubuntu box and needed to install Qt5 to go along with Python 3.10.6.   After some googling I found a discussion at GITHUB  wh...
Monday, September 19, 2022

SNAP Store Won't Update

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If you are getting either of these errors  Unable to update "Snap Store": (null): cannot refresh "snap-store": snap ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Firefox Audio Low Ubuntu 20.04

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 About two week ago my Firefox audio was playing but very low or no sound at all.  This was happening on anything with video (Youtube, local...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Ubuntu 22.04 "After Install" Fixes

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Some Ubuntu 22.04 "After Install" things that I did.  1. Install restricted media codecs to play various kinds of audio/video medi...