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  1. [ubuntu] Re: How to rescue .wav files on the scratched music CD.

    The limiting factor for the duration of copyright on recordings of classical music actually isn't the lifetime of the composer but of the performers. Performing (and recording) a piece of music is...
  2. Re: Newbie Update Question (GNU Core Utilities)

    As far as I know the percentage shown is the percentage of systems that will get the update at this time. Perhaps on the second attempt at upgrading the number of systems that had tried to update was...
  3. Re: Newbie Update Question (GNU Core Utilities)

    It's a phased update. You can tell by running 'apt-cache policy coreutils'. The output says 'phased 30%'.

    Holger
  4. [ubuntu] Re: How to rescue .wav files on the scratched music CD.

    Another option (after making copies of the readable tracks) would be to try to resurface the disk. Obviously this can go horribly wrong, but if you've got the readable tracks of the disk copied first...
  5. Re: Serious newbie .desktop file help

    The path to the file contains a space-character.
    From the Specification for a desktop file:


    So try


    Exec="/home/Robert/X-Plane 12/X-Plane-x86_64"

    I believe similar rules apply to the...
  6. Re: it's true selecting application alsa first goes to pulseaudio ?

    Pulseaudio is still around, but is already partially superseded by pipewire. These two give you the ability to have multiple programs produce sound at the same time - they are acting as mixers (among...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: New harddrive is not being mounted

    That line should read


    /dev/sdb1 /home/claus/neue_Platte vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush 0 2

    No 'on', no 'type', no parentheses around the...
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    Re: Ubuntu Pro Question

    The command line tool for managing 'Ubuntu Pro' is called 'pro'. So a simple


    pro detach

    executed on the machine that you want to remove from your subscription should do it.

    Holger
  9. [ubuntu] Re: Newly Installed Apps do not appear in Applications Menu

    How did you install Blender ? If you installed it from the Software Center / Snap-store / Ubuntu Store (or whatever it's called now ...) it should have set up a menu item.

    For a program to show in...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Installation of PDF Arranger

    Unless something is wrong with your installation, there should actually be two graphical package installers on Lubuntu - Discover which is a lot like the Software center and Muon which is more like...
  11. Re: How to start Libreoffice Draw to fill in .pdf form

    @satimis: the daily builds are (more or less) for debugging. There are releases which you should use in production.

    @14nd: Yes, xournal(++) is a note-taking application. It does have a function...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't open multimedia apps

    First step should be opening the program from the command line. If you do that, the program has a place to send any warnings and errors (the terminal window). If you start programs from some kind of...
  13. Re: Can a bookmark list be altered from newer to older ?

    Two words: browser extensions. "Auto-Sort Bookmarks" for Firefox seems to do exactly what you want. There's probably something similar for Chrome-based browsers.

    Holger
  14. [SOLVED] Re: How can I change the terminal used in Nautilus > Open in Terminal?

    *.mo is gettext's binary format for message catalogs. They are created from *.po files (human readable text files with a specific structure) using 'msgfmt' which should be part of the gettext...
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    [ubuntu] Re: darktable wont upgrade

    What version of Ubuntu are you on ? The versions of an application in the official repositories stays fixed at the version of the release and only gets bugfixes for critical bugs (crashes or security...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Xrandr Commands Not Working

    @TheFu: --set is a 'per-output' option that's part of xrandr since version 1.2. It sets values for properties which can be listed with 'xrandr --properties'. Whether or not 'audio' is a valid...
  17. [SOLVED] Re: The 'Joystick' utility' does not boot

    Try to find the actual name of the program and call it from the command line. The program will most likely output additional diagnostics in the terminal window. To find the program search the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Audacity, Pulse and Ubuntu

    Since the standard candidate for installation on Ubuntu 22.04 through apt is version 2.4.2 while snap will install the version you have, you've probably installed a snap of audacity. Applications...
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    Re: Disable touchpad while typing

    The problem reads to me like the timeout after a keypress is a bit to short (the trackpad suppression basically works by disregarding all input from the trackpad after a key press for a certain...
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    [all variants] Re: tuned-adm - view properties?

    tuned profiles are just directories in /usr/lib/tuned/. So the configuration for the postgresql profile should be in /usr/lib/tuned/postgresql/tuned.conf if it's a profile installed by the...
  21. [ubuntu] Re: Private directory not setup properly

    ecryptfs uses the login password to encrypt the key it uses to encrypt and decrypt the data. After a 'normal' login it hooks itself into the functions to change the password so it will update the...
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    Re: How do I install this?

    Quite simple: you "git clone" the repository, change into the generated directory (should be 'poppler-lcd-patch'), and run the 'gen.sh' script. This will download the current source code for...
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    Re: low power consumption cpu?

    Is there a reason it has to be x86 ? My Raspberry Pi 4 runs of a USB-C power supply rated for 15.3 W. It probably can run with less if wlan and bluetooth are inactive.

    Holger
  24. Re: How to open apps by left clicking on taskbar ?

    The errors that 'sudo apt install ...' gave were probably due to 18.04 being out of support. The servers holding the packages for installation (the repositories) get cleaned up after a version of...
  25. [ubuntu] Re: Problem changing passwords for users in different groups

    The problem is very simple. Just read 'man 5 passwd'. The first field is not the name of the group, it's the login name. The following fields are the password (and since Ubuntu uses the...
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