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  1. [SOLVED] Re: Ubuntu Linux 20.04 - laptop does not recognize Bluetooth devices; need help

    Are you saying that you got both the headphones and the mic to work?
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    Re: Autocorrect not working in LibreOffice

    Yes, I just installed 21.04 and am experiencing the same problem -- auto-correct doesn't work, but it was working fine yesterday in 20.04, with the same LibreOffice version and profile.
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    Re: what is your flavor?

    Budgie, and I've never been happier with a desktop in 30-something years of using *nix and Linux.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mutt Aliases

    Turned out to be trivially easy. Don't know how I missed the "-A" command line option. Here is the working script:

    #!/bin/sh

    # Syntax: ./sms alias "message"

    ADDRESS=`mutt -A $1`
    echo $2 >...
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    [SOLVED] Mutt Aliases

    Is it possible to reference a Mutt alias on the Mutt command line?

    What I'm trying to do is make a simple script that enables me to send a one-line email from the Mutt command line to a recipient...
  6. [ubuntu_budgie] Suspend fails after upgrade to 19.10

    My update from 19.04 to 19.10 went very smoothly and everything seems to be working fine except for Suspend. When I close the lid on my laptop (Dell Latitude E6540) it momentarily suspends, but in a...
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    Re: Timing of updates

    My update from 19.04 to 19.10 went very smoothly and everything seems to be working fine except for Suspend. When I close the lid on my laptop (Dell Latitude) it momentarily suspends, but in a second...
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    Re: Things that u hate in Ubuntu

    Well, this is a rather old entry, but I was looking for a place to call attention to a wonderful discovery I made a few months ago in my year's-old search for a good softphone for Linux. I had tried...
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    [ubuntu] Re: PDF/PDF Software alternatives?

    I've tried everything, I think, and lacking an adequate open-source alternative, I finally forked over the funds for two excellent pdf editors: PDF X-Change Editor Plus (a Windows application that...
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    Re: Acrobat for Linux?

    Master PDF Editor is good, but PDF XChange Editor is better, reasonably priced, and runs fine under Wine.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Horizontal screen tearing

    I searched far and wide for a remedy for screen tearing, which I experienced while scrolling in LibreOffice using the Ctrl-Down action to go from paragraph to paragraph. Continually this resulted in...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Excessive Disk Activity

    By the way, someone recommended DocFetcher as an alternative to recoll, and it is fantastic! Highly recommended!
  13. [kubuntu] Re: How can I install Kexi in Kubuntu 1704?

    I gave up on running Kubuntu in a virtual box and just installed Kexi in my Mint Mate environment via the kubuntu ppa. I had hoped to avoid cluttering up my Mint installation with all the Kubuntu...
  14. [kubuntu] Re: How can I install Kexi in Kubuntu 1704?

    Nope, can't run it from the commandline either.
  15. [kubuntu] How can I install Kexi in Kubuntu 1704?

    I just installed Kubuntu 17.04 in a virtual box in order to try out Kexi, but after installing the Calligra Suite there is still no Kexi, but only their word processing and spreadsheet applications....
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    [ubuntu] Re: Which email client do you use?

    Claws does display incoming html-formatted emails with the Fancy plugin installed, but it does not compose html messages. I've used it for years and have tens of thousands of emails archived with no...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Excessive Disk Activity

    Solved. It was the recoll indexer. Odd, because I've used recoll for years and never experienced such a takeover.
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    [SOLVED] Excessive Disk Activity

    A few days ago I did a fresh install of Linux Mint 18, Mate Edition, and I like it very much. However, there is a strange thing going on during the first ten or fifteen minutes after a reboot and...
  19. [ubuntu_mate] Re-binding Ctrl-key actions globally

    What is the most straightforward way that I can make Ctrl-Shift-D (for example) do the same as the Del key? The xmodmap approach seems only to work for individual keys, not combinations.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Skype for Ubuntu 16 no longer working?

    No, it's a totally separate and self-contained communication platform (and with no Microsoft tweaks!).
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    [ubuntu] Re: Skype for Ubuntu 16 no longer working?

    qTox is an excellent open-source, secure alternative to Skype. See https://qtox.github.io/
  22. [ubuntu] Re: can someone suggest me best PDF editor for Ubuntu

    PDF XChange Editor (http://www.tracker-software.com/), though not free, is inexpensive, very powerful, and runs fine under Wine. It has the features you mention that Master PDF Editor lacks.
  23. [ubuntu] Re: Looking for a pdf reader with tools for...

    PDF-XChange Editor works very well on Linux via Wine. It's my favorite, and I use it all the time. There is also Master PDF Editor (https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/) that runs natively on...
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    Re: Skype Anyone?

    Tox (http://tox.chat) is a very nice and secure open-source alternative to Skype. Tox is a protocol, and there are several clients that are available for various platforms. I prefer qTox...
  25. Re: Need help regarding Skype security on Linux ?

    Perhaps this is worth revisiting. I've been using Tox via the qTox client for several months now and have found it to be quite nice and stable, and presumably more secure than Skype, though I am no...
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