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I have AllowRoot=yes and I can log in to gnome with my root account so this shouldn't' be the problem.

Using expect under gnome i login as root:

expect -c 'spawn su - ;expect senord:;send "assword";interact'

but opening a GUI-application doesn't work:


spawn su -
Lösenord:
root@x22:~#...

sources.list.d was bungled.
Sorry about that

App center says synaptic not found

Trying to install synaptic on a brand new Ubuntu 24.04 with
apt install synaptic
I get synaptic has no installation candidate.
What can I do?

as diemstra told me Imagmagick must be configured with
./configure --with-modules --with-fftw=yes

I am trying to do some fft processing with imagemagick but it doesn't work.
When trying I get:
magick: delegate library support not built-in `kors.png' (FFTW) @...

I have some problems with my Ubuntu 22.04 running on an Intel I7 with a Radeon R9 GPU. I have reason to believe that these problems are associated with the GPU. Sometimes it the computer hangs,...

I have some troubles with my Ubuntu 22.04 on an Intel I7 which I have reason to believe are associated with the GPU: AMD Radeon R9. In order to investigate this I would like to turn off or disable...

Thanks. I hadn't heard about gscan2pdf. Sadly it falls far short of the at least 9 years old ABBY. Please see the examples I prepared on
https://smeden.org/scan2pdf/ (the gscan2pdf was to large to...

I have a Windows 10 virtual VM-ware guest on my Ubuntu 22.04 taking up about 50 GB disk space.
This for the single purpose of an OCR program ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Sprint that many years ago came...

Yes, I have ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks with the content below. Another user on my system has the same issue.

file:///home/he/Dokument Dokument
file:///home/he/Musik Musik...

Presently I have both Favorites and Starred and they are different. I can, however, not add anything to Favorites,

And suddenly, today, Favorites appears again, in Nautilus and in Nemo but I can't add anything.

My Nautilus file manager Favorites have suddenly disappeared. This has also happened to Nemo.
How can I get it back?
Thanks in advance for any tip
H
Using Ubuntu 22,04

Please forgive my forgetfulness.
I had never heard of kidle_i but when I realised what it is, a processor power throttle I took off the lid of the computer.
The dusty innards revealed themselves...

My Ubuntu 22.04 has suddenly become very slow. Gnome system monitor shows that all my 8 processors are running at 95-100 % with no active applications beside system monitor.
My system is an old...

​Moving to a new computer I can't move the passwords available to my Vivaldi browser along.
I can't find them in Vivaldi settings and I can't find them in the Gnome keyring with GNOME Passwords...

Sorry being late but https://ubuntuforums.org/ was inaccessible for the major part of today.

sudo ifconfig enp3s0 down
sudo ifconfig enp3s0 -promisc
sudo ifconfig enp3s0 up

had no effect,
H

he@20:~$ cat /etc/netplan/*.yaml
# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system
network:
version: 2
renderer: NetworkManager
he@20:~$

Can't explain but I have tried
ifconfig enp3s0 -promisc
but to no avail
H

[ 5.974690] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: Link is Down
is most likely when the PC is suspended
H

root@20:~# dmesg|grep -e Network -e enp3s0
[ 0.749692] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: renamed from eth0
[ 5.974690] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: Link is Down
[ 9.134786] r8169 0000:03:00.0...

he@20:~$ ping -c3 192.168.1.1; ping -c3 8.8.8.8; ls -al /etc/resolv.conf
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.


--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0...

Suddenly I lost networking on my Ubuntu 20.04 PC.
My network adapter works properly shown by running Ubuntu 20.04 from a live USB-stick.
Networking also works from both Ubuntu and Windows VM-ware...