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Dear speartip,

Before I received your message I stumbled upon a solution.

I installed GNOME Tweaks, then went to "Desktop" and turned off "Show icons." Only the unwanted icons disappeared....

I run Ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Inspiron 660 PC.

NOTE: I've installed Nemo as my file manager and set it to control my icons.

Here is the left side of my desktop:

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I installed the...

Dear Frogs Hair: Bingo! Very simple, but I'd never have figured it out myself. Many thanks.

I just upgraded Ubuntu to 18.04 and now have these desktop icon problems (see attachment):

A. All my drives are mounted automatically when I boot up, but I don't want their icons on the desktop....

Success, but I don't know why.

I followed the instructions in "Testcase Encryption" but only a few of the steps, because the opportunity to encrypt came up in the usual place. I just kept...

Dear 1fallen and Sudodus,

I will give it a try. Thanks. We newbies depend on you guys for survival.

Dear Sudodus,

Many thanks from a grateful newbie.

I used a live CD to install Lubuntu 18.04 on a 16-Gb flash drive. I will use it to run Lubuntu independent of any hard drive.

After the installation, Gparted showed there was just one partition...

Using a live CD, I installed Lubuntu 18.04 on a 16-Gb flash drive. All went well, and it booted fine.

But there was never an opportunity offered to encrypt the entire flash drive, as there was...

Here's what I got by running df:

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I ran Gparted (see first post) but see no separate partition for a swap file. I thought one was there when I orginally installed Lubuntu.

I boot Lubuntu 16.04 from an encrypted 16-Gb thumb drive to do my online banking. Works fine.

When I've updated (security updates only), I've used the autoremove and clean commands to clear...

I will contact Dell and report back.

Here is the result of the above command:


03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1506 WLAN Half...

I'm trying (and failing) to get Bluetooth running and connecting to a Bluetooth speaker.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell Inspiron 660 desktop.

The speaker is an Anker SoundCore model A3102....

All's well now. Thanks to both of you.

That's good to know. Thanks to both of you.

I run Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16 on a desktop PC.

I'm used to regularly defragmenting my Windows installation.

Q: Should I defrag Ubuntu 16?

Q: If so, how do I do it?

I run fully updated Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell desktop PC.

Lately, this window pops up every time I boot:

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When I click "Report problem," I get a window asking for my password:

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Dear Guber2:

Thanks. I'll correct the commands.


Dear Vasa1:

I changed the "Nobody" to "Anyone," rebooted, but the script still isn't executing when I click the icon.

Any further...

In Ubuntu 16.04 I wrote a script that clears the clipboard:

chmod a+x ./ClearClip
#!/bin/bash
xsel -bspc
exit


It runs from a desktop icon and works fine.

Dear TheFu,

Many thanks for your detailed reply. I tried, but it was beyond the capabilities of this newbie. So I resigned to reinstalling from scratch, which eventually succeeded.

I installed Lubuntu 16.04 onto a thumb drive and fully updated it. I encrypted the thumb drive when I installed. Worked fine.

Then I edited fstab so it would mount my hard drives at bootup.

I...

Thank you, papibe, for your quick reply.

But the problem solved itself. As soon as I closed down Lubuntu, then rebooted, the phantom shortcut was gone.

I feel like an idiot, but an idiot with...

I'm running Lubuntu 16.04 from a thumb drive on a Dell desktop computer.

A mysterious shortcut has appeared on my desktop; I have no idea where it came from.

I have tried every way I can to...

I use a Dell desktop running Ubuntu 16.04.02 and Windows 7 (dual boot).

I installed Lubuntu 16.04.02 onto a 32 Gb thumb drive. I occasionally boot from that thumb drive, and all works well.

I...