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  1. I don't really understand git and I can't get my passwords on my phone.

    A fair few years ago I started using gnu pass to store my passwords on my pc, at the time I used the android app Password-Store to access them on my phone which uses git to keep the passwords in sync...
  2. [ubuntu] Re: Xbindkeys input for two mouse buttons together.

    Yeah, thats the command thats being passed to xdotools I'm trying to bind it to my mouse as well so I can quickly switch while still on the mouse.
  3. [ubuntu] Xbindkeys input for two mouse buttons together.

    I've an xbindkeys config file which currently switches to the next available workspace via sending the keyboard shortcut to xdotools, the mouse config is currently set to "b:10 + release" which is...
  4. Small pieces of unused space on hard drive.

    When I first partitioned my harddrive I made 1 small root partition formatted as ext4, 1 large home partition also formatted as ext4 and one very small swap partition. I never asked the installer to...
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    [ubuntu] dd - using the bs flag

    I see many guides on copying a .img file to a drive (usually a usb or sc card) using dd and I have been doing this on and off for many years and every different guide seems to give a different value...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Help with Nuvola Flatpak install

    Shameless bump!
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    [ubuntu] Help with Nuvola Flatpak install

    I've been trying to update Nuvola player on Ubuntu 16.04, it seems the team have moved to Flatpak which I know nothing about yet. I've been following the instructions here...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Disk check on every boot.

    Okay, thanks untrustytahr, it was simply the hardware clock that was causing the issue, rebooted after setting it and now the check doesn't happen.

    I still have this for tune2fs though ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Disk check on every boot.

    @untrustytahr The battery went back in after a short period, just to clear the cmos (if that's the right term, I don't know but it worked and got the PC running) checking hwclock has the wrong date...
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    [SOLVED] Disk check on every boot.

    I had a power outage last week, I think there was a brief power surge just before which blew the power out completely. I had to remove the battery from my mother board to get my PC booting up...
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    [all variants] Re: Help with Maths in bash.

    Unfortunately this won't cut it then, floating point numbers are essential to this, I need the calculation reciprocals done to at least 5 decimal places. Would I be better using python?
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    [all variants] Help with Maths in bash.

    Can someone help me out a little with some maths. I've no idea how to do maths in bash as I've never had to other than incrementing numbers by 1. I've got a PC at work that I'd like to set up a...
  13. [ubuntu] Google Chrome can find Chromecast, Chromium can't.

    Does anyone know of a reason as to why Chromium cannot find my Chromecast on my network but Google Chrome works fine.
    I've tried searching online but all I keep finding is reports of a known bug...
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    [ubuntu] Blu-Ray drive questions.

    So I have a few questions, I have a collection of Blu rays that have been sitting up in my loft/attic since moving house over a year ago that I just have no where for them to go in the living room...
  15. [ubuntu] No persistence in Live USB? Bug or Feature?

    So I found out the hard way recently that Ubuntu doesn't support persistent Live USB's anymore with 16.04, apparently there is a workaround but it's complex and I couldn't get it to work.

    I think...
  16. [all variants] Can I use zenity (or similar) to show terminal output in a drop down?

    So I have a bash script that run a quick network based backup. Currently I have a script run, which pipes the output to zenity in order to show a basic progress meter. The script checks for failures...
  17. [ubuntu] Recommend Media player (Graphical and CLI controls)

    I'm in the market for a new media player, I'm still using Banshee even though it hasn't seen an update since 2014.

    I need a GUI based media player but one that also has full control from the...
  18. [ubuntu] Re: Why value of $0 is path of my shell script, not the element match * in my array?

    I'm not expert but variables with a number I think are reserved for the arguments given to the program, so $0 is the command you used to run the program $1 is it's first argument $2 the second etc.
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    [ubuntu] Re: xrandr commands do nothing

    Sorry but check again, there's 5 xrandr commands there, you must have skim read it.

    Anyway I've done some digging and the DPI command does work in xrandr but it has no visible difference on the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: xrandr commands do nothing

    Not even sure you read my post or not all the way through. I have tried xrandr command with several options, I figured out the rotate option isn't working because it's already rotated onto its right...
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    [ubuntu] xrandr commands do nothing

    I was lead to believe that xrandr commands should make immediate changes to your user session but I can't get them to work. I'm trying to manually change the DPI of each of my monitors

    Monitor 1...
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    Re: Home Folder Gone

    Any forum user worth his/her salt would never tell you to use "sudo rm -rf [anything]" unless in very rare circumstances so as Bucky Ball says, next time, if in doubt, ask on here. For future...
  23. [SOLVED] Re: There is no public key available for the following key IDs

    I have exactly the same key coming up as a problem. I had heard recently on a podcast that Canonical have been updating the launchpad ppa's to use a higher bit key signing process, I would assume...
  24. [ubuntu] Using pass (password manager), please help with git repo

    I'm just looking into setting myself up using pass, the password manager.
    I've generated my GPG key and started using pass locally, but I understand it can use git repos. I think this means you can...
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    [ubuntu] Re: sudo nautilus

    That's a bit like asking why you would call sudo cp or sudo mv, there are infinite reasons why you would do those, just that some people feel more comfortable with GUI, it's just the OP didn't know...
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