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I have worked out a solution by installing: system-config-printer

This allowed my to share printers on my local network

So, a little bit more info. I have installed the 23.10 Desktop installation (cups is already installed).
My computer has a USB printer attached to it, and I want to share it over my local network....

I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu 23.10, but I don't seem to be able to share a Printer over my local network.
In Ubuntu 22.04 I would simply set the Printer to be shared in the Printer...

Many thanks, I will give that a try.

I have a number of existing partitions (40Gb for / ; 200Gb for /home ; and the /boot/efi).
I want to replace the current installation (22.04.3) with the new installation on the 40Gb partition,...

I currently have Ubuntu 22.04.3 installed on my PC. It boots in UEFI mode (I set up a /boot/efi partition to allow this to happen)

I am wanting to install 23.10 over it. However, the...

Weirdly, when I google 'WSLView' it indicates that is a:
Component of Windows 10 Linux Subsystem Utility

I've never had Microsoft Windows on this machine ?!?
So something is awry.

Screenshots would say otherwise ....

https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/gnome-sushi-file-preview-photo-on-ubuntu-desktop.jpg

I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04, and would like to get gnome-sushi to work.

I am currently able to get a preview of the file - that all works fine.
However, I should then be able to open...

I have 'solved' my issue by re-installing Ubuntu 20.04.
If the issue hadn't occurred on a key application (ie. Thunderbird, though could have been FireFox, LibreOffice), I would have found (or...

Hi Walts48

I have the current language packs installed:
thunderbird-locale-en
thunderbird-locale-en-us
thunderbird-locale-en-gb

I can start thunderbird in safe-mode from the command...

Further to the above post, if I start Thunderbird from the command line I get


[calBackendLoader] Using Thunderbird's libical backend
Extension error: Error while loading...

I am on Ubuntu 20.10 having upgraded from 20.04.
And have just done the latest updates this included Kernel 5.8.0-26-generic

However, on re-starting the machine, thunderbird won't start. I get...

I have been running 18.04 (fresh install) for about a month with no issues whatsoever. However, in the last few days I have been met with numerous system freezes. Everything is unresponsive: the...

Many thanks !
I have looked through all the preferences for about an hour, and never spotted these tabs.
Well they don't really display as tabs (no borders or anything to delineate them from each...

I don't have any setting named Spelling under the Composition Tab. Should I have ?

Yes, that was my understanding as well.
As my Global Language Settings are already set to the UK, there seems to be an issue.

I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and have noticed that I am unable to change the dictionary that Thunderbird (52.7.0) uses (i.e. when I compose a message I would like it to use UK English...

I am using Okular to look and print PDF documents (it is slightly better than Evince as it is able to open multiple documents in Tabs rather than in separate windows). However, when I try to print a...

It worked in the guest account.

I logged in using Gnome fallback session so I could see my installed applications (discovered loads I'd forgotten about !) then started up Ubuntu Tweak Tool, and...

When I use the Dash to search for installed applications so that I might use them, the Dash returns no results !

I have seen this on two of my machines both running Ubuntu 14.04.

Any ideas ?

I give your suggestion of waiting a couple of minutes before entering my password a try, and let you know.

But many thanks for replying to my thread - I had given up all hope of a response (!)

Anybody ?

Anyone got any ideas how to resolve this, or for me to interrogate my machine to get a better idea what's causing this issue ?

I have now installed Ubuntu 13.04 (32bit) hoping that it might resolve the problem. It seemed to be running much quicker, more responsive, the cursor didn't stutter as previous. Suspend and Resume...