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Thank you all for your responses!
I was expecting maybe 1 response, but it was really heartening to see so many amazing responses!
I feel like I'm in a master class learning a lot from everything...

Use Case:

1. A family does not use or want to use internet.

2. They have some very old computers with ubuntu server and ethernet cables but no switches or networking gear.

3. All...

Thanks for your reply.

Yeah, I'm able to toggle traditional/simplified Chinese with the native fcitx pinyin package, but I'm trying to be able to have similar functionality with the...

@monkeybrain20122 I appreciate your reply, but unfortunately this is a different issue.

There is no problem displaying or typing traditional Chinese characters on my computer. And, believe it or...

Does anyone know how to change the cangjie5 pinyin option to display traditional Chinese characters

or how to toggle between simplified and traditional using that tool?

If you're unfamiliar, to...

@deadflowr Thanks!
@VMC I have not.

Update:
So, scim & fcitx work fine on one of my machines that I updated through "do-release-upgrade -d". They started working with 21.04 onward.

But...

Has anyone gotten Chinese input working in Impish?

I've tried gcin, hime, ibus, fcitx, & scim to no avail.

I'm not sure where to find known bugs or report them.

Thanks for all the replies!
I was successful in upgrading to 21.10 using
sudo do-release-upgrade
and
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
.

Thanks again!
This thread can be closed as far as I'm...

Thanks for your reply!

So essentially, I need to go:
A, B, C, D in the "do-release-upgrade"
And can't skip from A to D, right?

Have you ever tried the upgrade using an ISO?

Questions:

1. Does "do-release-upgrade -d" get me the daily build or just the latest development release?

2. ...

I was recently forced to boot from an old lubuntu 14.04 live USB when I found myself without a computer.
I could not do what I needed to because everything was so out of date.
I asked my friend if...

I have a very large external HDD.
I would like to encrypt it with something like truecrypt, with multiple layers and passkeys...

But I see truecrypt is no longer supported or updated.

I found...

I have two Ubuntu Servers.
I want to connect the two machines via ethernet.
I want to be able to view and transfer files between them.
I would prefer to do this without setting up SSH because...

My history was more than 1 day old.

Through the GUI, I had it set to keep history for 0 days.

I edited
~/.config/ring/dring.yml
so that the keep history field was set to 1 day.
When I...

I installed ring from ring.cx using the repository.

I was able to make calls, etc.

Now I'm unable to clear the message history.

I go through the GUI options and it appears as though it...

## verse when no $DISPLAY
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then

verse
verse | espeak

verse
read
fi

Thank you! That is awesome!

Generally, you can easily install an image to a USB device with usb-creator-gtk .
But your machine has no USB ports?

I don't know if this would help, but:

Alt+F2
or
Alt+T

Then type:
nm-applet.

You should be able to see the applet on the right side in either the top or bottom. (Wherever your toolbar...

Currently, when I log into Ubuntu Server, it displays information like:

Last Login:...
Welcome to Ubuntu....


I want to know how I can edit this to show things like weather, time, a bible...

So, I've been away a few days.

I tried again tonight and was able to finally get sound working on my second machine, as well! :)

Basically, I followed the same procedure, but this time it...

Per a suggestion on some other posts -- I can't remember which ones -- I purged pulseaudio.

Partial SOLUTION: ---------------> sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio (Worked only on machine 1)

The...

No worries! Thank you for taking of your time to try and help!

No worries! Thank you for taking of your time to try and help!

Thank you for your reply, TheFu!
It's very important that I have sound.

I'm not very familiar with creating new users.

I did the following:

sudo adduser testuser
sudo adduser testuser...