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  1. [xubuntu] Re: xscreensaver randomly disappears after automatic updates

    Since I installed xubuntu over ubuntu, does that mean if I select ubuntu at the log-in screen, I will be using a supported OS again? what are the security ramifications of doing that? It seems like...
  2. [xubuntu] Re: is there any way to automatically lock screen without xscreensaver?

    I did not know that. When I upgraded, it removed xscreensaver and didn't install a new screensaver in its place so I re-installed xscreensaver since I didn't know there was a replacement. If I had...
  3. [xubuntu] Re: xscreensaver randomly disappears after automatic updates

    Are you kidding? I never knew that "Flavors" had a shorter life than regular ubuntu. I just upgraded a month ago. Now I have to do it again?
  4. [xubuntu] Re: is there any way to automatically lock screen without xscreensaver?

    I agree with everything you said, which is probably why I have used Linux exclusively since 2005.

    However, I am still frustrated when something like this slips through (e.g. no fallback built-in)...
  5. [xubuntu] Re: xscreensaver randomly disappears after automatic updates

    I forgot about /var/log/apt. I took a look at history.log and there were no entries for the date that things appeared to get borked up. Likely because I ran my update script, which consists of:...
  6. [xubuntu] Re: is there any way to automatically lock screen without xscreensaver?

    I understand that the GUI isn't part of the OS and that it is written by the XFCE folks and adapted for use by the xubuntu folks. I guess I should've said that it is ludicrous that a modern GUI...
  7. [xubuntu] xscreensaver randomly disappears after automatic updates

    I upgraded my System 76 meerkat from 16.04 to 18.04 a couple of weeks ago. i run xubuntu and have the power manager set to lock the screen when the screensaver deactivates. 3 or 4 times now since...
  8. [xubuntu] is there any way to automatically lock screen without xscreensaver?

    The searches I've done on the internet seem to indicate that there is no way to have xubuntu automatically lock the screen without xscreensaver, but I thought i'd ask here.

    It has never been a...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Sound stopped working

    I was able to get the sound card to be recognized by pavucontrol by issuing a
    sudo alsa force-reload I had done that earlier and it didn't seem to work, but it did tonight. It also solved a problem...
  10. [SOLVED] Re: youtube doesn't work in any browser at all

    It turns out that the problem was caused by my sound not working correctly (documented here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2357393).

    I did a
    sudo alsa force-reload and my sound card...
  11. [SOLVED] youtube doesn't work in any browser at all

    Running xubuntu 16.04 on a System76 meerkat. Youtube doesn't play whatsoever in *any* browser. I have tried vivaldi, firefox (safe mode), pale moon and the results are all the same: the video...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Sound stopped working

    Looked at /var/log/syslog and saw several of the same warnings between the last time we heard sound and when we discovered it wasn't working:


    Apr 1 09:03:02 opus pulseaudio[2231]: [pulseaudio]...
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    [SOLVED] Sound stopped working

    Starting around 2 weeks ago the sound on my meerkat would just stop working. When I use pavucontrol, on the "output devices" tab, under "Hardware Output Devices" it says "No output devices...
  14. [SOLVED] Re: setfacl doesn't work with copy, only with create

    You're right -- they aren't doing any thing that would create those permissions. I set their umasks to 0007. I checked my son's homework downloads from his school website and they were coming down...
  15. [SOLVED] Re: setfacl doesn't work with copy, only with create

    You're right -- they aren't doing any thing that would create those permissions. I set their umasks to 0007. I checked my son's homework downloads from his school website and they were coming down...
  16. [SOLVED] Re: setfacl doesn't work with copy, only with create

    Ah.. OK, so it is a "copy" thing and not an "ACL" thing. I moved a file from the "mark" account into the xfer directory using the --no-preserve=mode option and it achieved what I wanted. Trouble is:...
  17. [SOLVED] setfacl doesn't work with copy, only with create

    I've read dozens of forums and tutorials on setfacl for the last few days and still have this fundamental problem. It seems all the stuff I've read about setfacl deals with creating files/dirs and...
  18. [SOLVED] Re: Sound only works for sudo after suspend (System 76 laptop)

    Wow, many apologies for not following up. I found a workaround but forgot to post it here. Basically, I found in another forum that if I open a terminal and issue a
    pulseaudio -k followed by a ...
  19. [SOLVED] Sound only works for sudo after suspend (System 76 laptop)

    Ever since upgrading to Xenial on my System 76 laptop, the sound occasionally stops working after resuming from suspend. In these cases, if I start anything with sudo (e.g., sudo audacious), the...
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    [SOLVED] Re: How to undo "Always perform this Action"

    Mc4Man: It took me a minute... Clever!! :o And yes, now I see it. I don't know how I missed it before.
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    [SOLVED] Re: How to undo "Always perform this Action"

    Yeah, whoops... I remebered as I was going to sleep that I forgot to mark it. Will do.
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    [SOLVED] Re: How to undo "Always perform this Action"

    Holy cow that was easy! Thank you! I wouldn't have thought to look at that button because it's log out/shut down etc. I was looking in System Settings instead.

    I've been using xfce for the last...
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    [SOLVED] How to undo "Always perform this Action"

    As the title says... When I first plugged in my camera in my Wily Werewolf installation (Unity), I selected "open folder" and checked the "Always perform this action". Now I want to automatically...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mugshot won't take user's password

    Thank you Dennis N! That will do fine for a solution -- he's a clever kid and can handle doing that.

    I narrowed the group assignment to enable the feature in mugshot down to sudo. I don't...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mugshot won't take user's password

    I just did an extra test and elevated his privleges to administrator level and that solved the problem. This is a completely unacceptable solution, though... I don't want him to have administrator...
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