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Desktop stuck in alt-tab mode
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P_J

I don't know how I managed to do this but my desktop is stuck in the alt-tab application selector mode. Clicking on an application does nothing, it stays on the zoomed out view.

Any tips on how I can escape this?

Things I have tried so far.

  • Restarting computer, works initially then goes back to zoomed out mode when changing apps.

  • Restarting lightdm.

  • Using super+w and other common keyboard shortcut ...

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Access third monitor on 21.04 w/ Nvidia NVS 315. Live USB works, installed not
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My desktop contains two NVS 315 graphic cards with three displays attached. I was running kubuntu 20.04 and used them as shared screen. I am not sure how it worked, but I remember making it work was a pain. I think Xinerama with two X screens, one with two, one with one display. After setting it up, there where no related issues.

Now I started a fresh install of ubuntu 21.04 for other reasons. Wh ...

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How to install scanner brother dcp-7030 on ubuntu
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When I try to follow the instructions here: Scanner driver 64bit (deb package)

I get this error when I run this command in 3:

dpkg -i --force-all   brscan3-0.2.13-1.amd64.deb

Error:

error: required read/write access to the dpkg database directory /var/lib/dpkg

How do I resolve this issue? This is fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 I think. I have no idea what this means and I am a linux newbie. All I ne ...

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Ubuntu UI screen image freezes randomly during usage after fresh 21.04 install, suspecting Wayland or Nouveau

Edit: reported this at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wayland/+bug/1931387 as well, and it was found to be a duplicate of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/+bug/1497593

I was running 20.10 previously with NVIDIA drivers,

Then four days ago, I did a clean 21.04 install from ISO without installing the NVIDIA drivers, and since then the UI has frozen three times on me.

I am unabl ...

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Why does Ubuntu show battery and charge info when it is a desktop with no battery?
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I've just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a desktop computer. The motherboard is an Asus P5N7A-VM in a desktop case. There is no "battery" (other than the BIOS battery) and no charger, just a normal power supply. But in Settings->Power Ubuntu shows the battery level as "Fully charged" and it has Automatic Suspend set for "When on battery power". In Notifications, Power is "On". And in Applications, Po ...

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How to turn on night light only for a specific monitor in a dual-screen setup
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I am using Ubuntu 20.04.02. I have connected an old LG monitor via an HDMI cable. When I turn on the Night light- both the monitors (laptop screen and old LG monitor) are affected (as they should ideally).

Is there a way to only use the night light on the original screen(laptop) and view the old screen(LG) as it is without the night light?

Edit: I am using the "Join Display" feature.

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is there some basic text editor like Notepad++ for Ubuntu that supports emmet/zen coding?
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I would like to use emmet/zen coding on Ubuntu but I haven't found any simple text editor that supports it preferably with easy to install way. A plugin for Geany (which is pretty similar to Notepad++) is very old and hard to install. Are there some other editors?

UPD: I've found Bluefish that is even more alike Notepad++, shortcuts and functionality are pretty close in default package.

Notepad++ as ...

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How to show desktop items on Ubuntu 20.04?
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I recently upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 but all my desktop items have disappeared from the Desktop (they are still in /home/username/Desktop though).

When I search the internet for how to show them, they suggest using Extensions under the GNOME Tweaks app, but the button to "show desktop items" is not there for me.

Tweaks -> Extensions.

How can I show the items in my Desktop folder on the actual desktop again?

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Ubuntu Software is not opening in Ubuntu 20.04
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I am not able to open Ubuntu Software, even after I restart/shut down my machine.

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The esstimated time to empty is not correct and keeps changing
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At 100%, it said that the battery should last for 2 and a half hours. The laptop has been running for 3 and a half hours and still running.

The battery percentage is was changing between 6% to and 7%, sometimes 10%, so it isn't accurate.

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Is this normal, or should I be worried?

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Saeed Neamati avatar
How to make ubuntu know a terminal command for the entire machine?
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I have a lot of projects. And for each project, I have two files in them: setup and serve.

Each developer follows these simple three steps to start coding:

  1. git clone ...
  2. ./setup
  3. ./serve

The problem is that ./setup is not easy to type. And since this is a microservice architecture with a lot of repositories, ./setup and ./serve would be used frequently.

How can I make ubuntu understand that any time I wr ...

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is their any possible way to retreive permenently deleted screen recordings which was recorded from kazam
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tee

it was taking so much time to save and by accident I permanently deleted it

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Running a software from a different folder
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I want to run software for genomics data using Plink. My software is located in one folder and the required data files are in another folder. I can run easily if I put all files in the plink software folder. I would like to run plink commands directly from the data folder. Is there a way, I can directly call plink commands from a different folder.

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Vulkan tries to use Intel GPU by default
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Whenever I try to play a Vulkan game, I get a black screen because the game's trying to render to my Intel GPU (which isn't connected to any monitor). Using the launch option "VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json %command%" in Steam works, but I'd like to know if there's a way to use my Nvidia GPU by default. I'd disable my Intel GPU but I likely will be connecting a monitor to it s ...

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External monitor connection cause Ubuntu (20.04.2) freeze
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Setup:

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 64bit
Intel® Core™ i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz × 12 
NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P1000 Mobile] (P1000 [Zbook Studio G5 mobile workstation])

A few days ago I hade my laptop connected through USB-C to my Dell 38" 4k monitor and all was working fine. Then I had some updates (which I did not recall what they were, I just installed them as I usually do with recommended upda ...

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default value of $TERM? vim is now broken
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after installing ubuntu 20.04.2 on my laptop, i set up vim. i found this colorscheme that i like: colorscheme. the colours for syntax highlighting were correct, but it didn't have the beautiful blue background that i wanted:

upon quick research, i found many claims about how setting $TERM to xterm-256color fixed their problems with incorrect vim color rendering. i wasn't sure this would help because a ...

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