Changing BIOS worked. And the BIOS setting was called "action keys". Googling that jargon led me to this helpful page.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_5878386-5878448-16
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Changing BIOS worked. And the BIOS setting was called "action keys". Googling that jargon led me to this helpful page.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_5878386-5878448-16
Function Keys/Multimedia toggle?
I recently purchased a new HP laptop - I'd been using my previous Dell Vostro for 14 years, so I figured I was overdue an upgrade.
Installing Lubuntu 22.04 LTS went fairly smoothly.
But I've...
I have re-installed 20.04 LTS.
This video thing wasn't working.
(I also noticed that the new Firefox snap was using 10.7 Gb on my 4Gb machine, which was never going to end well; my current...
OK, I'm going down a bad rabbit hole here.
Is there a base-mode graphic driver (or option) I can use (I'd settle for VGA with no acceleration) so I can un-brick my machine?
Hardware/driver
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G86M [GeForce 8400M GS]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
...
Ah. I get:
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
So it looks like Wayland isn't my issue?
upgrade from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS Firefox fails on NVidia machine
I'm running an old Dell Vostro 1700 (with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT), and using Lubuntu.
I just upgrade, with no great difficulty. Took about an hour.
But on logging in and starting Firefox (my...
After "some trouble" upgrading from 18, I'm on Lubuntu 20 on my aging (read: slow and small memory by 2020 standards) machine. Which is running LXQT. Everything is working "OK".
Then I started...
Latest stage in the saga - my machine is not happy (not powerful enough) running full Ubuntu/Gnome.
Further googling shows me that Gimp has "issues" with the Clipboard under LXQT, reported from...
OK. I "apt-get remove"d (1) and (2) and gnome-tweaks itself.
A reboot showed everything working OK, and the Extensions App still loaded, showing (3) and (4).
I "apt-get intall"d gnome-tweaks...
The Extensions App shows 4 extensions:
Desktop Icons
Hide Top Bar
Ubuntu AppIndicators
Ubuntu Dock
Having tracked my way through the application Desktop file to the executable, I tried from the command line:
bugbear@bugbear-dell: gnome-tweaks
bugbear@bugbear-dell: echo $?
0
Nothing...
Key in the safe - Gnome TWEAKS crashes
After numerous application difficulties with Lubuntu on my 2008 Dell Vostro 1700 (4Gb RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz, SSD installed), I installed "straight" Ubuntu.
Most of my...
Initial problem solved - hold down shift key during USB boot, select "install, use SAFE graphics"
Installation now running.
EDIT; installation complete, Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS running.
BugBear
After having trouble with some applications in Lubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, I decided to try the "normal" Ubuntu. I created a USB installer, using the same process I'd used for Lubuntu, and rebooted.
...
Good news - by using
sh -c "<command>"
as the entry in Autostart directory, I have managed to issue the command to disable my touchpad. This concludes my requirments for "legacy" config carry...
I am making slow progress, but progress nonetheless.
Keyboard shortcuts work in pretty much the same way, but are in a different file.
My old (edited) file was
...
That may not be good - IIRC I selected lightdm at the install window.
Should I reinstall?
EDIT: I clearly misremembered:
cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/sddm
BugBear
That's not the same - logging out is precisely what I'm trying to avoid when I have a load of applications running, with sized and placed windows (i.e. valuable "state").
Switch user does NOT log...
Just did a fresh install of Lubuntu, Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (was running 18)
On my laptop (only) machine, I have always had two logins, one for me, one for my partner. This allows us to have separate...
OK, after a steep learning curve, I did a clean install of Lubuntu, retaining my /home partition with all my user data.
I will now try to re-implement my various changes. I suspect most of them...
Been waiting for the 18->20 upgrade process to go live, and this morning it was available.
Having updated (and backed up) my 18 LTS machine, I ran
sudo do-release-upgrade
And (after a couple...
It's some kind of generic/equivalent config that's missing.
If I change the font-family to be explicitly Times New Roman
<text text-anchor="start" x="8" y="-14.3" font-family="Times New...
The glitch is system wide - viewing the SVG in Firefox gives the same result (I've updated thread title)
BugBear
According to "WhatTheFont" (https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/) Inkscape is defaulting to "Prima Serif Std Roman" by Bitstream.
Edit; which I don't appear to have installed. Further checking...