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When I lock my laptop screen, I find that I am completely locked out. No key press or other input will unlock it. To regain access, I have to close and open the lid again to send the machine through...

I have tried to configure Samba to share my home folder, and I have Unix password sync enabled in my smb.conf. However, when I try to connect to from my iPad or my Mac (using the same name and...

I am running Ubuntu 22.04. I installed the low latency kernel and that broke support for my Nvidia card. Neither when booting into the low latency kernel nor the generic kernel can I get a resolution...

I have Windows on my SSD (which Ubuntu sees as sdb). I have just installed Ubuntu on my HDD (sda), but I put /boot on the SSD (sdb4) because I want to boot from the SSD and I mostly want to use...

I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows on an SSD. However I got something wrong (must have mistyped my password during the install process) and so I need to boot back into the installer flash drive to...

Thanks for all your advice.

I realise now that I had been thinking about this too narrowly. I was looking to be able to check the file names once they had been copied to the NTFS volume, but of...

Ah. I see what you mean. The thing is that I do want to be able mount the volume in Linux with the non-Joliet filenames intact so that I can identify them and change them.

do you mean in the "mount" command? I can't find anything in the man page about this.

You mean copy the files first to an iso image and then to the ntfs volume from the iso image? That might not be a bad idea if I don't come up with anything else.

It's definitely Joliet I need. I got into trouble once before when I successfully copied files to an NTFS volume, but found that Windows got upset when I mounted the volume in it.

Are there any...

Is there a utility to scan for non-Joliet-compliant file names? I need to copy some files to an NTFS volume so that they can be read by Windows. My experience in the past has been that Ubuntu will...

Please can anyone just tell me the answer instead of questioning my motives?

I want a trash folder for the reason they were invented, to allow me to change my mind if I delete something by accident.

In /home I have two directories. One is my home directory, which is...

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I have a very small encrypted home folder, but nearly all of my larger files I keep unencrypted on the root file system. This means that I need to create a trash folder for these other...

Thank you :) I'll try it out later when I get a bit of time.

I want to build a kernel with the -rt patch because I believe that I am not getting satisfactory performance from the low-latency kernel. I want to stick with the Ubuntu kernel sources if possible to...

Since upgrading to 15.04 my network connection keeps getting dropped. First the wifi connection gets dropped, so I plug in the ethernet cable. After a while the ethernet connection gets dropped, so I...

Since I upgraded to 15.04 I have been finding that both my wifi and ethernet connections get dropped frequently, more than once an hour.

When the ethernet stops working I find that unplugging the...

Thanks for the link. That's not a bad workaround. But it depends on being able to do without MS Word shading. Does anyone ever use that in the real world? If they don't then this will be a viable...

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Thanks for the pointer to WPS Office. It looks interesting, but I'm wary because the Linux version is still in alpha and there is a long list of recently fixed serious on the community...

I am currently doing a test installation on an old hard disk with a view to reinstalling the ghastly Windows Vista on my laptop, which has been running Ubuntu for many years. The reason is that I...

How can I get music players such as Rhythmbox and Clementine to copy music to the SD card on my Android phone (a Galaxy S4 running Lollipop and connected by USB) instead of the internal storage? In...

Isn't it time for Ubuntu to rethink the fonts that come with it? I have just done a clean install and I have over 1900 fonts (including the few installed with Wine). Most of these fonts are low...

I recently clean-installed 14.10 and found that it came with a broken cryptswap setup. After trying to follow various instructions on various forums to get cryptswap working, all without success, I...

The strange thing is that it doesn't happen at the same time every day, but it does happen every day. I will try leaving iotop running in a terminal and if I can swap the windows on my desktop after...