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    Re: Snap Wish List

    1. Autoremove unused dependencies, especially after uninstalling a snap.

    2. Option for no caching uninstalled snaps while uninstalling a snap, to help free up disk space.

    I and some other...
  2. [all variants] need advice on purchasing a new printer

    Before I begin, in my home country, we don't have a return policy like in the States, you cannot just return an item just because you changed or mind or it's not compatible with your computer, there...
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    Re: What counts as an old PC?

    I'm running Zorin OS 16 Lite on my 17 year old Dell Inspiron E1505 from 2006, which is a 64bit laptop. I upgraded the old 120GB HDD to a 160GB SSD, it cannot take anything higher than 160GB. The RAM...
  4. Re: i dont get all the fuss about snaps, i think it's great!

    AFAIK, yes. On the same thread, there's a command to remove old revisions of snaps:
  5. Re: i dont get all the fuss about snaps, i think it's great!

    After uninstalling a snap, a copy of the uninstalled snap is stored in /var/lib/snapd/cache/ and overtime after many uninstallations, it gets populated, mine was about 2GB, so clearing this restored...
  6. Re: i dont get all the fuss about snaps, i think it's great!

    I agree, snap runs great now, there was a time when Firefox's snap would take longer to load but that was fixed by Canonical in later revisions, but what I'm criticizing snap on is unease of...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: Error While Installing Brave via apt on Ubuntu 22.04

    Alternatively, you could just install Brave via Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.brave.Browser

    I have Brave installed through Flathub and it's working well.
  8. Re: i dont get all the fuss about snaps, i think it's great!

    Snap still needs improvements though, some quality of life improvements, here are some bug reports and I and others have made:

    Bug #2017926 "Unused content snaps not autoremoved"
    Bug #2018626...
  9. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    Found the culprit.

    It was an hold over from my 20.04 backup, I backed up my home folder from 20.04 and I made a bash script for File Manager that had this code in it:


    /usr/bin/thunar '$*'
    ...
  10. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    I figured out a workaround to this issue:

    I created a bash script and saved in it /home/ardouronerous/.local/bin/thunar.


    #!/bin/bash
    /usr/bin/thunar "$*"

    This seems to have fixed the...
  11. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    It's installed already. So, it's not that.
  12. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    This is the result of ls -la /home:


    ls -la /home
    total 12
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 23 08:52 .
    drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Apr 23 08:51 ..
    drwxr-x--- 26...
  13. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    Thanks, but I'm not sure if this is related to my problem anymore though since it's not my USB is the problem, it's Thunar.


    As you can see from the screenshot, as a test, I've created a folder...
  14. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    UPDATE:

    It's not just my USB that's being affected by this, but my whole filesystem. As a test, I've made a folder called "My Stuff" on my home directory and when I try to right click and "Open...
  15. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    Sorry, I should I have been clearer, while Thunar gives out the "no such file or directory" error, I can still manually get to the USB directory directly from Thunar, the problem only happens when I...
  16. [xubuntu] Re: Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    I bought this last year, and yes I formatted it and that was the name given to it after format. There's personal files in it. And I don't have any other OS to try it on.

    BTW, this issue also...
  17. [xubuntu] Thunar doesn't open removable media folder if there's spaces

    I'm running Xubuntu 22.04.

    As you can see from the screenshot, my USB flash drive is named "USB DISK" and upon mount, Thunar doesn't want to open the USB folder, complaining that no directory...
  18. Re: Snap is broken and it needs to be fixed

    Same, I prefer flatpak over snap.

    It's always been a policy of mine to leave default software alone and don't use them, but I kinda want snap to succeed and this is why did those bug reports so...
  19. Snap is broken and it needs to be fixed

    Hello guys, I and some other people have created bug reports for snap and I think these bug reports need more eyeballs.

    Bug #2017926 "Unused content snaps not autoremoved"
    Bug #2018626 "Unused...
  20. Re: Upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to Linux Mint XFCE 21: Is it okay to carry over my e

    Thank you guiverc for your response. I will process what you have written and will make my decision accordingly on whether to upgrade to Linux Mint or stay with Xubuntu and upgrade to 22.04.

    Thank...
  21. Upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to Linux Mint XFCE 21: Is it okay to carry over my exist

    Upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to Linux Mint XFCE 21: Is it okay to carry over my existing login password?

    I'm upgrading from Xubuntu 20.04 to Linux Mint XFCE 21.1 because of the support timeline,...
  22. Re: can I use an iPad 1st gen as a second monitor for my laptop?

    Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately, this doesn't help me because my iPad 1st gen runs on iOS 5.1.1, the software required for make this run is iOS 14.0.
  23. can I use an iPad 1st gen as a second monitor for my laptop?

    Running Xubuntu 20.04.

    I have an old iPad 1st gen. It works, it's jailbroken and I use it to play mp4 videos with Kodi, I play YouTube videos with it through Invidious on Safari and I surf the web...
  24. [xubuntu] Is there a way to change the icon of an app on the taskbar?

    https://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=290595&stc=1

    Running Xubuntu 20.04.

    As you can see from the screenshot, PulseEffects doesn't follow this icon on the taskbar, is it...
  25. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu 20.04 users: What version is your Firefox at?

    Well, at least I'm not the only one experiencing this, so thanks for the confirmation.
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