The answer to this question is it depends. If you are running Loki, the kernel isn't all that old.

Provided you aren't using anything really exotic, Linux typically supports most desktop hardware. I can't remember the last time I had an issue running Linux on a desktop machine - normally issues arise when trying to get it to run on a laptop, where there is poorer support for some chipsets (wireless etc.).

A better way to do this is to use something like PCPartPicker to assemble a potential build which suits your needs, and then post to the elementary OS subreddit to ask whether your hardware is supported.

Here are some things you might want to avoid:

32-bit UEFI firmware
Older AMD graphics cards


Browser crashed on youtube-frontend site (invidio.us)

Epiphany is crashing. To fix the crash, you will need to report a bug to the developers. And to report a bug to the developers, you will need to gather a stack trace of the crash. See this page for hints on how to get a stack trace of the crash.

If you are able to acquire a quality stack trace and create a bug report, then point me at it and I will take a look. Without a stack trace, it's not possible to debug.


elementary OS takes up to 20 seconds to login after I enter my login password

rename the file: /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop
to /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled


Is there a way to change aspect ratio when playing videos in Videos (Audience) player?

vlc allows you to cycle between different aspect ratios using the a key or the menu Video->Aspect Ratio

mpv allows to cycle between different aspect ratios with a key set in ~/.mpv/input.conf. To use the A key, you need to have the line A cycle-values video-aspect "16:9" "4:3" "2.35:1" "-1". The file (and folder) can (and may need to) be created manually at that location, copy it from here: just uncomment that line (delete # in front), or set another key combination, like a or Alt-a.


Why is one of my 4 cores running around 14-17% and something on my network active while idling?

Your network is probably still active because you are still maintaining a connection with the Internet and therefor still sending and receiving packets


Loki: AMDGPU-PRO drivers black screen my machine

I also have an AMD RX 460 based card that I got a few weeks ago which I understand is not quite yet supported by Ubuntu 16.04 (and thus Loki) with the current 4.4 kernel but if you wait for just a few hours (maybe a day or two) the Ubuntu 16.04.2 update release should be out with new 4.8 kernel and Xorg stack which should get you up and running even with the built-in "amdgpu" open source driver.

FYI, I had already earlier installed the 4.8 preview kernel from the "HWE" (hardware egde) package and newer Xorg stack from the "oibaf" PPA and it's already working smooth for me, so I am looking forward to the official 16.04.2 release and subsequent Loki updates so I can remove the preview package and PPA.


Desktop not loading when waking up after suspend

Have you tried to login with the guest account? If that works fine then it might be some app you have at start up. It happened to me with f.lux. Check that.


I faced the same problem and solved it by connecting my pc to internet using ethernet. This will repair the grup-pc on the fly and will fix this error.


Freya sluggish on Mac Mini late 2009 (geforce 9400)

This is most likely due to your video card driver. If you are using the open source video driver that installs with freya by default (noveau), I and many others have experienced quite a few issues with that driver. You should try installing the proprietary nvidia drivers and see if that fixes your issue. Personally I've had the best luck with the 331 version of the nvidia driver. You can install it by running sudo apt-get install nvidia-331 nvidia-331-updates from the terminal and then rebooting your machine.


The Realtek drivers have so many issues on Ubuntu.  There are some drivers forked by the community, like "rtlwifi_new" that you can find at github.com

Install instructions:

From terminal :

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git
cd rtlwifi_new
make
sudo make install

Reboot your system and try again.

Source and more info: askubuntu.com

If it doesn't work, open a terminal and try  echo "options rtl8723be fwlps=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf how it's indicated in the link below.


It worked now after disconnecting HDMI and starting the OS and then connceting HDMI again


If the original package is still available somewhere in your repositories, you could do that with

sudo apt install -f python=2.7.6

After this, you might still have to run sudo apt install -f a couple of time to get other dependencies downgraded as well.


Elementary OS is Ubuntu 18.04 with a different desktop environment(Pantheon) and custom applications.

You can install Ubuntu Server on ARM devices and then install the Elementary/Pantheon packages via the PPA. It has ARM builds from what I can tell. If it works as easily as it does on x86 hardware it should be pretty simple, although everything takes much longer on a Pi or something with similar processing power, and it may have issues. Theoretically it's simple though.

https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm

https://ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-the-pantheon-desktop-on-ubuntu/

https://launchpad.net/~elementary-os/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages


UPDATED: org.gnome.Platform Flatpak runtime STILL not updating

Step 1.
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08

Step 2.
flatpak uninstall --unused

Step 3.
flatpak update

NOTE: in the latest step maybe the system update some packages and ask for download what you need and YES. After update the new packages run again flatpak update
Then reboot.
OR
sudo flatpak repair


Software & Updates and Software Updater won't start

Those 2 applications are just graphical front ends for apt. This kind of thing is common with them. Open a terminal, and do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

This may fix or it will tell you what the underlying problem is.

Edit...

Found an old bug report regarding this. Probably a long shot but make sure  package gir1.2-vte-2.91 is installed.


xset dpms force off
Also disable "Lock after screen turns off" in System Settings > Security & Privacy > Locking.


The dock becomes visible when no window pressures it.

Super-Tab

The dock is always shown on an empty workspace. So, the shortkey to cycle workspaces Super-Tab can be used. 'Restrict to workspace' should better not be enabled in this case. Cycling to an empty workspace with Super-Tab reveals the hidden dock.

Super-UpArrow

Toggling Maximize on/off may show the hidden dock.


Different keyboard layout in different windows

Open system settings and click Keyboard:

Then click the Layout tab and change the slider:


Unable to Screenshot using keyboard shortcut on elementary OS 0.4 Loki

Actually this issue touches two different bugs in Loki:

Printscreen "PrtScn" button doesn't actually take a screenshot
Custom keyboard shortcuts not working, loki fresh install


Installation on new Dell XPS 7390 Clamshell

There is a workaround, but it requires a wired connection and Secure Boot enabled to get started.

There is a bug in the intel_lpss driver which causes booting to fail with Secure Boot disabled. This applies to both the installation media and the finished installation. In BIOS settings, you need Secure Boot enabled for the installation. We'll disable it later. However, you need to do the fixes described later so you can turn off Secure Boot, allowing WiFi drivers and other drivers to be installed.

If you're trying to dual boot, make sure you have Windows installed already and you shrunk the Windows partition to create free space for elementary. Otherwise, you can just go through the installer as normal.

Kernel patch

The easy fix described on ArchWiki is to blacklist the intel_lpss_pci module. However, it doesn't work with the Ubuntu-flavored kernel. You'll need a mainline kernel. And if you just blacklist the module, you'll lose support for touchscreen, 802.11ac WiFi, and other useful things.

The best fix is to recompile the Linux kernel with a patched intel_lpss driver.

git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git

cd linux

git checkout v5.3 # or latest stable

wget https://pastebin.com/raw/sqPv8ShP

git apply sqPv8ShP

The source of the patch is this Reddit thread.

Build the patched kernel using the second method in this answer. Then install the generated dpkg files. The compilation will take 30-120 minutes.

At this point you should be able to boot using your new kernel. In the GRUB menu, select "Advanced options for Elementary OS" and you should be able to see your new kernel and boot from it.

Verify your computer boots properly and if so, you probably want to set your new kernel to be the default. Follow this guide to do so.

You should also disable Secure Boot at this point.

Wifi

The XPS uses a Killer AX1650 wireless chip. The drivers are not included in the installation by default. You can follow this guide to install them.

Bluetooth

You already have the linux-firmware repository from the last step, so

cp -r linux-firmware/intel/* /lib/firmware/intel

and reboot. Your WiFi and Bluetooth should be working now.

Remaining drivers

Open AppCenter and update to get the 5.1 update and drivers for various peripherals, including video acceleration. Reboot again and check out the new greeter.

Original instructions are on my blog. It's written for the 2-in-1 but it seems like it should work for the clamshell version too.


You need to install from the UEFI partition on your eOS USB stick. Just choose UEFI USB in the boot options menu when you start your computer.


"Authentication is required to refresh the system sources"

I ran all updates from the Terminal window, rebooted, and now I can access the shared drive. Perhaps something had gotten stepped on, and an update fixed it.

Hopefully this has fixed the other issue as well (the "Authentication is required" prompt).

Update:  The "Authentication is Required to refresh the system sources" window popped up again.  Problem not yet solved.


freya can't install anything by apt-get install

I think I solved my problem. a matter of not checking what's obvious....here is a picture of software&updates and the default settings:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/680965/software-updates-defaults
For some reason the 2 upper settings; canonical en community were off....After switching them on and do a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y, the problem was solved. I can install packages again. I noticed the problem when I started trying installing dependencies manually, till I found that the dependencies gave a "no installation candidate:" error. Than I checked the software&update settings...


In modern Linux kernels, you can use udev to detect removable disks. You can read about udev at:

Ubuntu Manpages

I'm not a Python expert, but i have find a module about using  udev, so you can try with it:

Pure Python udev bindings


Ok, so I don't know how but the window-state in org.pantheon.terminal.saved-state was "full-screen" instead of "Normal".

I used dconf-editor to change it back to "Normal" and now the terminal show the header.


How to insert characters by pressing ALT + # (numpad)?

Often this is easier with the compose key. With the compose key configured you use key combos to produce special characters. For example:

For ë: Compose + " + e
For ẽ: Compose + ~ + e
For ô: Compose + ^ + o
For á: Compose + ' + a

Note that you do not have to hold down the compose key; just press each key in order.

To set the compose key

Open "System Settings"
Select "Keyboard"
Select "Options".
In the left pane, select "Compose Key Position"
In the right pane, choose a key to act as Compose

Original answer from AskUbuntu


When will Terminal package be fixed in daily builds (It's been almost a week, same error)?

It doesn't install nor downgrade, because the package is jacked. Look at the size of it!

versus

Meanwhile, what you can do (as I did) is to manually overwrite all the files from your computer with the ones you extract from an older version that you can download from here. Just be careful to keep the same permissions for the files you're replacing.

Or, install pantheon-terminal ~daily~ubuntu5.0.1 over yours.

Answer to your questions ...

1. The address I gave you leads directly to the file in question, but the source is the same as yours.

2. If I take pantheon-terminal_0.4.3+r1069+pkg51~daily as the newer build for ~ubuntu16.04.1, by old version I mean an older build for ~ubuntu16.04.1.

3. Since I don't use Eddy because the only time I tried it, it didn't warn of or install the missing dependencies (I use the long tried Gdebi) I can't say for sure. As a general rule, it should retain those permissions. My warning was only for what you'll manually copy with your user account over something installed as root.

4. If you don't clean your system too often, you might find an older build for what you have already installed in /var/cache/apt/archives/ or go afresh with another version.


After lots and lots of digging, I found the answer — for me, at least! I hope this helps someone else who became addicted to the ease of use brought by combining Mac OS's Exposé and a five-buttoned mouse...

Firstly, I set up xbindkeys using the information here: https://askubuntu.com/a/246849/777016

Specifically, I ran:

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xautomation x11-utils

Then I used xev | grep -A2 ButtonPress to figure out that my middle (mouse-wheel) button was button number 2.

Then I created the xbindkeys config file:

xbindkeys --defaults > $HOME/.xbindkeysrc

Then I edited the file $HOME/.xbindkeysrc using nano, to add the following lines:

"dbus-send --session --dest=org.pantheon.gala --print-reply /org/pantheon/gala org.pantheon.gala.PerformAction int32:1"
b:2

You'll need to log out and then log back in for the changes to take effect.

The number after b: is the mouse button number as reported by xev.

I got the command to invoke multitasking view from this answer: https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/a/11766/13212 — it wasn't exactly what I wanted, as I'd prefer "show all windows" to "multitasking view" but it's near enough. If anyone knows the commands to invoke other windowing features, please let me know!

You can also add those lines a second time but with + Release on the end, if you want to be able to hold the button down and have the view revert on release. Sadly, to change windows you must click on it with the left button — you can't hold then release the middle button over the window you want, like with Mac OS's Exposé.


in the shell you can remove a package with the command:

sudo apt remove packagename

after that I would suggest to run the following command to remove unused dependencies:

sudo apt autoremove

You can also remove package from the app center, just select the package and click uninstall.


Installer NVMe Support (Dell XPS 15 9560)

Try this guide for installing Ubuntu on XPS 9560. It worked for mine Elementary OS on XPS 9560 (512 GB SSD version).


The dock should restart itself automatically. However, if you need to manually run it from the Terminal and want it to continue running in the background, use the command plank &.

The & tells the Terminal to run the plank command in the background, allowing you to close the Terminal without killing the dock.


Specific problem with my blacklisted Broadcom driver. Ethernet connection working now thanks to solutions found in two askubuntu posts. I have no wifi adapter.

Ethernet Network card BCM4401-B0 no longer recognised?   1
How to Revive Wired Internet and Setup Wireless?   2

sudo modprobe b44 temporarily restored my connection. I then installed gedit to allow me to edit permanent or semi-permanent fixes into */etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf


SOLVED: Can't install elementary OS Loki: nouveau init failed (MMIO write fault)

Got it !

Following the thread I mentioned in my last edit, I followed this guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_parameters, and added the statement:
modprobe.blacklist=nouveau in all *.cfg files contained in the (USB-STICK)"/boot/grub" directory.

Voilà :)


yes there is, you can use several tools, depending if this is your only machine, I used to have this question in my job all the time.

I suggest make a live CD of something such as elementary (I use gparted for it personally)

and use a tool called "testdisk" or "photorec" both have uses.

try to use testdisk as it can recover the whole partition. or individual files dependant on damage.


How to get new Geary 0.11 ? Will Freya get the update?

There isn't much info on this yet but I saw where Geary was being downloaded from when I removed and tried updating from the new PPA. Decided to try this and it worked.

I was able to install the latest version on Elementary by:

Selecting 'Software Sources' in Software Center under the 'Edit' tab
Navigating to the 'Other Sources' tab
Deselecting the 4 sources that began with       http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os (Probably only need to do the two that say 'patches', like you alluded to)
Running apt-get remove geary
Following normal install instructions (ie: adding PPA and installing)
Went back in Software Center and selected those sources again

I won't be suprised if it does something funny when it comes time to update but maybe Freya will be aware of the new Geary by then.
It has one bug on my MacBook Air install but otherwise looks good. Geary was crashing all the time for me so I hope this improves its stability because it's certainly the nicest email cli around that mostly works.

This might be a cleaner solution as well: https://askubuntu.com/a/57749
It allows you to set -t flag on apt-get install which specifies a release.


Unable to install HPLIP 3.15.7 because of dependencies

You will find the dependency list for HPLIP here:

HPLIP Dependency List

Here's a blog showing guidelines on installing HPLIP and it's dependencies on elementary:

HP Printer Setup Under Elementary OS

And here is a similar question like yours which says, if you are using elementary 0.3.1, you need to choose ubuntu 15.04 in the download area of the HPLIP website.

Install New Version Of HPLIP


Computer shuts down after waking from sleep mode

More info needed. After reboot finished, check:
dmesg -T  --level=err,warn
Post output here.
Also post output of:
cat /proc/swaps


Most TVs "overscan" by default, which cuts of the edges of the picture.

You'll want to turn this off in the settings of your TV. Oftentimes you'll find a button on the remote or a setting in the "Picture" settings on your TV to change the size or overscan settings of the output.

For example, you might be able to switch from 16x9 to Screen fit, or something similar depending on the TV brand.


How can I install indicator-session without pulling in extra packages?

As per these comments, using

--no-install-recommends

prevents the extra packages from installing.


Install, configure and use Wordpress in elementary OS

Definitely!

I'm assuming that you want to set up a local development environment for WordPress. If you want to set up a public web server, I'd recommend using a server-oriented distribution, or going with a hosted service such as WPEngine or Digital Ocean.

You could set up WordPress directly on Elementary, but it's easier and arguably a little cleaner to set it up inside a virtual machine. To do this:

Open Software Center.
Search for and install Virtualbox.
Search for and install Vagrant.
Follow the instructions in "The first Vagrant Up" to install VVV, an open source WordPress Vagrant configuration. Start with step 4. (You've already done the first 3 steps!)


For anyone else suffering from this issue, it got resolved after I uninstalled all the proprietary drivers for the Ethernet and used only the free ones.


How can I change the login screen back to a fullscreen wallpaper?

The new greeter was designed specifically to address several user-reported issues and complaints with the old design. One major piece of feedback from many users was that the fullscreen wallpaper made other aspects of the greeter less than accessible to them. Another bit of feedback was that it was hard to quickly see multiple users at a glance, especially when many users don't set a custom user avatar.

The new design instead shows users' wallpapers on cards, allowing several to be seen at once. The neutral background ensures the clock always remains legible and contrast-compliant.

We are open to further feedback on the design, and I personally have been experimenting with a version of the greeter that makes the user cards larger on larger displays. But it is unlikely that we will change the design back to the problematic all-screen wallpaper design from before.


Workspaces seem to only apply to the primary display. Is this a feature or a bug?

You can change this behaviour either in dconf editor:

org -> gnome -> mutter and uncheck the box " workspaces-only-on-primary"

or if you do not have installed dconf-editor you can use following terminal commands:

gsettings get org.gnome.mutter workspaces-only-on-primary to check the current setting. Probably it is "true".

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter workspaces-only-on-primary false to make the settings. Now workspace should contain all monitors.


To extract files from .tar.gz archive in Files browser, right-click the archive and select Extract Here menu item.

To run clonehero in elementary OS, first you need to set Execute permission for its executable:

in Files, go to the extracted folder (clonehero-linux);
select clonehero executable, right-click it and click Properties menu item;
in the dialog window, press Permissions tab;
press Execute button in Owner row;
close the window and double-click clonehero executable.


How to add 'Open folder as root' to Files right-click context menu?

It is already there for me in the dock:

However, if you can't see that, use sudo:

sudo -i pantheon-files

You want to be able to jump to a sudo instance of the current folder. It's a little roundabout, but you could right click, open in terminal:

Then run this command:

sudo -i pantheon-files $(pwd)

you could even set up an alias for it.


Can't Install Elementary OS Hera on Dell Precision 3541

I ended up returning the device to Dell and ordering an Oryx Pro from System76 which is rated online as a Elementary OS friendly device.


Vivaldi flickering while watching videos

Open Vivaldi with –disable-gpu will also solve.Open terminal and in your terminal type the below code and hit the enter key.

vivaldi --diable-gpu
or try

vivaldi --disable-gpu-vsync

From: connect.com


"Failed to fetch updates" popping up on app center and cannot install apps

Replace hera to bionic in the next files:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/appcenter.list

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/patches.list

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/elementary.list

Use the following command to automate this process:

find /etc/apt -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 sed -i 's/hera/bionic/g'


Why doesn't the Application dohicky install the latest software version?

If you go to flathub you can install the Gimp flatpack from there.  From there forward flatpacks will show up in the App Center.DigiKam is there as well.
By default, App Center seems to have the version in the ubuntu repositories.  I don't now if any repository carries the latest Gimp.
edit:  Clarity


Die APP Systemeinstellungen ist nicht auffindbar (The APP system settings can not be found)

Terminal öffnen und folgendes eingeben:

apt search switchboard

und danach alles, was aufgelistet wird mit:

sudo apt install "Paketname"

installieren. Der Paketname ist jeweils fett und farbig.

Translation: Open the terminal and enter the following:

apt search switchboard

and then everything listed with:

sudo apt install "package name"

to install. The package name is bold and colored.


Low resolution and DPI causing save dialog input text to disappear

This is likely a duplicate of Buttons are missing in the file chooser dialog. What should I do?

You could try the following command to reset the preferences that have likely gotten messed up:

gsettings reset org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides

In summary, elementary overrides some GNOME settings that place the buttons in the Save/Open dialog at the top of the window where the path bar is and moves them to the bottom. If this setting accidentally gets undone, there is nowhere for the buttons to go at the top of the window so they simply aren't displayed.


I am assuming you are running on a stock version of Freya with kernel 3.16. I looked up the internet a bit for your laptop configuration and it seems that you have a NVidia dual GPU. Kernel 3.16 does not support relatively modern Nvidia GPUs (like the GT 755M) properly-because of Nvidia(who BTW Linus Torwalds, the creator of Linux, gave a middle finger...publicly) which does not release the drivers for its models.
So I would not suggest playing games on elementary OS on your configuration. I myself have an AMD discrete GPU and only recently it has got fairly good support on Linux. This is also the reason why your laptop is getting really hot. The Nvidia card without proper drivers support sucks in a lot of unnecessary power causing circuits to get hot and the fan to kick in at full speed. Then when you reboot into Windows, the circuits are still hot and the drivers put adjust the system so that it cools down as soon as possible.
I would suggest(any one of the following, preferably try 3, 2 4,5 ,6 and if nothing works then 1)

Using a Linux distro with a newer Kernel(like Ubuntu 15.04)
Install tlp from here. When installed, open a terminal and activate tlp using sudo tlp start.THis is saved across restarts. When you connect to AC adapter, your laptop will run as it is now. When you remove the AC cable, it will run on low power mode.
Install powertop from the Software Center via sudo apt-get install powertop in the terminal. Then open it- sudo powertop in terminal. Then press Tab number of times till you reach the the Tunablessection. Press Enter to change each option with "Bad" to "Good" and up down keys to navigate the list. When done changing all to "Good", press Esc or Ctrl+c to exit powertop. Everytime you restart, you will have to configure powertop again using the methods in this point(starting from sudo powertop)-the settings are not saved across restarts. Here is the official User Guide on powertop-you don't need to read it though.
Installing Nvidia drivers from their official site after checking all the release notes otherwise if your kernel is not supported, then it could lead to the system unable to boot
Install bumblebee-since I am on AMD, I don't know a lot about Nvidia drivers but I heard about this project on a lot of discussions. Check out this project here. If I were you I would use it with a grain of salt because the drivers seem to be last released in 2013-check if your system(Ubuntu 14.04-elementary OS is based on this) and graphics card are supported
Disable the discrete Nvidia graphics card and use the integrated Intel Graphics card-a little Google search will help


is it possible to connect Maya Calendar to Microsoft Exchange?

Exchange generally allows you to publish a calendar feed in .ics format. This will give Maya read-only access to your calendar. Here are instructions on publishing the feed in Outlook 2007. You can also publish the feed from the Outlook web app.

Unfortunately, read/write Exchange support on Linux is limited. You might have better luck using the Outlook Web app. In the Midori web browser, if you open the Outlook web app and click Menu --> Create Launcher, you'll get a standalone wrapper for the web app that you can run from the Elementary launcher.


installing elementary OS primarily onto a USB while I trial Linux

Ok, if you just want to try it, just follow Paul's instructions or just use Etcher to make your USB bootable. Then boot from USB and try it. Simple as that. Nothing is changed in your system and you can try it freely without the need to install anything.

If you want to install in a USB drive (not recommended!), you need to select the USB when partitioning. Format the disk as EXT4 and mount it as '\'. I do not suggest this method because Elementary Boot menu is hidden and you may have difficulty in booting up.

If you want to install it in your HDD, next to your Windows, first you need to create a partition for Elementary. One partition is enough. Don't forget to make it big enough to install Elementary OS (20 or 30GB should be enough).
Then create a live USB. Follow Paul's instructions or just download Etcher (works pretty well) to create your bootable USB.

Then boot from your USB (search how to do it in your PC). Basically you need to select USB and not your harddrive to boot-up.
When installing Elementary, select your new partition and mount it as EXT4. Also flag the format in that partition. On the dropdown, select '\'.
DO NOT format your Windows or personal Docs partition.
That is all you need to pay attention to. The rest is fairly intuitive.

Again, keep in mind Elementary OS boot menu may appear hidden and you may find it difficult to boot Windows.

Shout if you need more help.
Good luck man!


VPN type - only PPTP - no VPN or Import option.

Found that the following created the relevant entry option -
sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome


Is it possible to re-arrange the indicators in the panel?

It's not possible to re-arrange the indicators in the panel.


The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/versable/elementary-update/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file

Looks like you've installed the following third party ppa: https://launchpad.net/~versable/+archive/ubuntu/elementary-update

I would recommend removing it using ppa-purge:

sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:versable/elementary-update

If you don't want to remove the packages that you've installed with this ppa you should contact them. But it looks like the project is no longer maintained, but then again I have a hard time understanding Launchpad.


Hera (5.1) - MacBook; Installation failed at grub install

Macbook2,1 has 32bit EFI.

Normal grub tries to install 64bit efi loader, so

You need to Install grub-efi-ia32 and run grub-install.

Here I have a bookmark which describes the whole installation process on Macbook2,1.
https://cloud-infra.engineer/installing-elementary-os-on-my-late-2006-macbook/


KeePass from Application Center just plain doesn't work

I was unable to replicate this issue following your steps in the first paragraph. Is it KeePass or KeePassX? I found KeePassX and KeePassXC in the AppCenter and neither seemed to have the issue, although maybe there is a particular setup this happens with.

To your more general question, while I can't speak for elementary, this appears to be exactly what they mean by "uncurated" (note the "It may not receive bug fix or feature updates" warning when installing one), and they don't appear to spend time on checking uncurated apps for issues/upgrades between bi-annual releases. I don't believe you are expected to trust the uncurated apps; trust in the curated apps, sideload or install uncurated where you feel you can and want to invest the research necessary.


In the source code file src/View/Sidebar.vala (cf. apt-get source pantheon-files) it seems that the sidebar and source-list classes are applied to the sidebar.

In /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/ you have "source-list" classes defined in the files granite-widgets.css, gtk-widgets.css and gtk-widgets-dark.css. You should customize one or more of these.


How to reduce the brightness of a desktop pc?

Install graphics driver

  Settings > Additional drivers

Option to change brightness should be in settings:

  Settings > Brightness & Lock

Do you use latest version of elementary OS?


How to add and sync Gsuite calender in calender?

-When you open Calendar, there's a cog on the top right of the window which will open up an options dropdown.
-From there you can add a new calendar by clicking the "Add New Calendar..." option.
-Then, you would open the "Type" dropdown and select "Google". You would then name your calendar, and enter the Gmail address associated with the specific GSuite calendar you're attempting to sync and then choose "Create Calendar". Separate addresses might appear in your GSuite dashboard. You might also have GSuite calendars nested under the main Gmail address.
-Afterwards, you will be prompted for the password to authenticate the calendar add.
Please note that if you use 2FA (Two Factor Authentication), you will need to create an app password specifically for this at https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords and enter that instead of your normal password.


How can I set the physical button to act as right click on an older MacBook?

elementary OS Loki uses a new input stack called LibInput, so previous methods of configuring the trackpad through the command line or config files may not work.

By default, Loki should detect the right method of secondary-clicking according to your hardware. If you'd like to change it, visit System Settings > Mouse & Touchpad and choose an option under Physical Clicking.


How to Enable Right-Click and desktop icons in Elementory OS Juno

You should be able to do the right-click menu, mouse to "Open in", and select Terminal.


How do I pass the Ctrl-key through to an application? Elementary seems to be swallowing it

The culprit here is the "Reveal pointer location" checkbox in the Settings Pointer dialog. If you enable it, the Ctrl key will be swallowed in some un-curated applications.

Also, in the latest Amazon workspaces version, Ctrl works in fullscreen mode.


In fact, having the swap space twice the size of your RAM is only a guideline. Actually with 8 GB of physical RAM you won't need much swap space: you might want to keep the one and delete the other partition. If you want to use swap encryption you should keep the cryptswap if not, keep the other one.

However, to hibernate you must have at least the same amount of swap free as you do RAM used.


Any way to mount NFS shares via the Pantheon file manager

Pantheon Files does not currently have this feature. Currently, the "Connect Server" dialog only works for protocols that can be mounted using gvfs.  NFS servers are often connected at start up using etc/fstab.  If you are using NFS for an always on NAS for example this is probably the more convenient approach.

It may be possible to extend the functionality of "Connect Server" to do ad hoc mounting of NFS servers; I suggest you raise a wishlist bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-files.  It is unlikely to be implemented in the next release (Loki) however.

Using the search field if one enters the path to the nfs volume and presses return/enter the nfs directory will mount to /run/user/1000/gvfs/.


Well, you can try to use neoreeps's Kernel (https://github.com/neoreeps/surface-pro-3), but don't expect everything to work.


Just installed Loki (elementary OS 0.4.0) and the problem seems to have vanished on its own. Not sure what fixed it, but there was definitely something missing on my Freya installation.

Perhaps a fresh Freya installation could also have fixed it. Nonetheless, it works on Loki. :)


How to hide the menubar in non-native applications?

As far as I know, there is no universal way to hide all menu bars.

To toggle the menu in Atom: View > Toggle Menu Bar

To toggle the menu in Sublime Text: View > Hide Menu


Getting errors while using the command sudo apt-get update

It looks like one of the ppa .list files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory may have a typo and instead of an "http" reference it has "ht*p".

I'd check the files in that directory for the typo...


Installation stuck after selecting a partition as an ext4 "\" mountpoint

Ok. I solved the problem:

I started a live session
I opened gparted
I formatted the partition where I wanted to install the system
I started the installer in the same live session
I followed the same procedure as before

I don't know why things in this way worked, but they worked.

Image Proof


You can download the indicator source with

apt source wingpanel-indicator-datetime

I would start at the source file src/Widgets/PanelLabel.vala: it seems that removing (all occurences of) the date_label variable does the trick.

After you can build and  install the package

debuild -us -uc
sudo dpkg --install ../wingpanel-indicator-datetime*.deb


Connect to PHPMyAdmin from guest (Windows)

Enable ONE network adapter. Set it to NAT and start your machine. Don't need to configure anything.

On guest machine's browser type http://10.0.2.2 which will show you the same content as "localhost" in the host OS.

10.0.2.2 is the "default gateway" for NAT connections and your guest OS' IP is 10.0.2.15

Of course you can set a "HOST-ONLY" or an "Internal Network" which will allow you another advanced configurations. (The original author at superuser.com recommends to stay with NAT)

(source : https://superuser.com/questions/144453/virtualbox-guest-os-accessing-local-server-on-host-os)


Can't change value in struct property inside class

I think the issue is you are using a cast, try using io.wchar.to_string() [https://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/uint64.to_string.html]

Edit:
This worked for me based on your code, casting gave me a segfault.

struct Monitor.IO {
    public uint64 wchar;
}

int main (string[] args) {
    Monitor.IO io = {};
    io.wchar = 111111;
    warning (io.wchar.to_string ()); // Struct.vala:9: 111111

    return 0;
}


I can't see any wireless setting in loki 0.4. Please help!

Now, it will be good to provide some troubleshooting info so we are able to help.
To me it sounds that Loki is trying to load incorrect driver for your wifi hence the issue.
You need to discover the manufacturer of your wifi card, and discover what driver Loki is trying to load. For example if you have Intel wireless card and Loki is trying to load Acer drivers will result in wifi card blockage.

Here you go few commands to help us troubleshoot. Please provide output of this commands and/if by issuing this commands your wifi started working. We should be able to take from there if further assistance is necessary:

iwconfig - to find your wifi interface name (e.g wlan0)

rfkill list all - to see whether your interface is blocked, hardware block or software block (here you may see different wireless vendor instead of the actual one which indicates and issue)

ifconfig wlan0 up - trying to bring the interface up

lspci - find the hardware manufacturer

lshw -C network - find the manufacturer of your wifi card

nmcli radio wifi on  - try to bring the interface up

killall NetworkManager && NetworkManager - kill existing network manager process

/etc/init.d/network-manager reload - reload service

/etc/init.d/networking restart - reload tcp/ip stack


Root password option no longer appears on App Centre installs

Then you must ask for this developers at git or Twitter. They are not using this forum. They have official channel on Facebook. Last time, about week ago they mentioned they are going to remove the password from the App Center. So eventually you can use terminal to install apps with

sudo apt install nameoftheapp


This question seems really simular:
https://superuser.com/questions/408683/why-my-usb-mouse-gets-suspended-after-3-seconds-of-inactivity

You can check if you have the same issue as the one above by entering the command:

for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control; do echo on > $i; done

If this fixes your problem, you can make it permanent by editing /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf in scratch

sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf

and replacing CONTROL_USB_AUTOSUSPEND="auto" by CONTROL_USB_AUTOSUSPEND=0

[Edit]

The permanent fix seems to have changed, if modprobe usbcore autosuspend=-1 doesn't do anything, you need to change the bootloader.
To do this, you have to open the GRUB config in scratch.
sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/default/grub and loof for a line that states GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add usbcore.autosuspend=-1 to that line.

The line will be something along the lines of this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash usbcore.autosuspend=-1"


There should not be any problem. Both Intel x86_64 CPUs and AMD64 CPUS implement the same specifications.


check your software ppas with "Software and Updates" utility and make sure you have all the ubuntu ppa's and Elementary's launchpad ppas (aka stable package).


The ASUS PC you have supports GPU display. Go to BIOS, System Agent Configuration, then Graphics Config and set Primary Display to CPU instead of Auto. Turn Fastboot OFF and then leave Windows UEFI on and boot to your setup drive. It will now boot properly.

And don't forget to put the cable into the display port for the CPU not GPU on your tower otherwise you won't see anything on the screen.


This will reinstall the default icons and theme:
sudo apt install --reinstall elementary-theme elementary-icon-theme elementary-default-settings elementary-desktop

Also try this: System Settings -> About -> Restore Default Settings


What is the currently recommended development setup?

The problem of the 'unmet dependencies' on elementaryOS 6.0 appears to be solved when installing the elementaryOS 6.0 public beta from their April 30 build (I was still on an apt-updated install of the April 28 build before).
So it appears that we can use the 6.0 public beta to work on elementaryOS apps at the moment.


How can I install the latest Pantheon-files(0.3.xx) from (0.2.4) in Freya?

If you really need it, you might want to compile it from the source code with static linking to the newer libraries so that it does not mix up with the libraries already installed on your system.

If you need or will need in the foreseeable future more software updates than this one, you might just consider to install elementary OS 0.4 Loki.


Got 'GPG error' when try to fetch update

Just remove the repo for your system:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
I hope this help you
Edit:
Could you please try:

cd ~
wget https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/linux_signing_key.pub
sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub


I've the same problem no dockable windows, as a workaround I use to add hangout as a standalone app, using chrome app extension then each set always on top on popup windows


Slingshot accually does show subitems. If you search for "Keyboard" it will show it on the bottom:

Same goes for all the other plugs of Slingshot.

Thing to note: this feature only has been added a while ago, you might want to update your system.


Files does have a search facility - you just start typing or press <Ctrl>F and type into the pathbar (which doubles as search entry).  The first results returned are those found in the current directory.  It also returns (grouped separately) results found in subfolders of the current folder, in bookmarks and in recently used.
However, if you wish you can install Nautilus from the AppCenter.


Freya does not give notification when I plug my USB drive. How do I active it like on Gnome 3?

You can't, because it was never intended to be possible. Due to security concerns, the elementary devs decided that the default behaviour when plugging in an external drive was to keep it unmounted and leave it to the user what to do with it.

Questionable as it may be, it is a design choice. What I personally find less justifiable is that the volume does not get mounted even if you drag a file on it, which to me is a bug, but it has been currently labelled as "wishlist".


Split application windows to fit the screen

Luís de Sousa answered on Ask Ubuntu:

To set a window occupying the left half of the screen use this shortcut:
Ctrl + Super + ←
For the right half:
Ctrl + Super + →

Super is the Windows key.


I would check out this instructional post.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/315914/step-by-step-guide-to-partition-an-external-hdd-in-two-file-formats

Seems to have a lot of information along with step by step instructions including screenshots on the use of gparted. I would be aware though, monkeying with the partitions has its risks and I would suggest making a backup of your xbox data elsewere so you don't loose your saved 'Banjo Kazooie' files ;) .

Best of luck!


When you begin to install, in the options at the beginning, make it a custom install and then direct the installer to the drive you want to install to. You can tick or right click the other drives before installing anything to indicate they must be left unchanged then the installer will ignore those drives. It says something like DO NOT USE THIS DRIVE.
Of course you must double check that they are marked as unchanged that is not to be used for installation before you go ahead. It will tell you when you are about to install or if changes you are about to make can't be reversed.

Before installing, in the live view open "Disks" and you will be able to see how your disks are named and their sizes etc. make it easier to tell the installer which you want to install to and which should be unchanged.


This seems to be a bug in Gala, see issue Tracker.


newby from Mac: how do I "install" a program I've downloaded

Most apps are in the AppCenter (the icon with a down arrow). Just open it and use the search function to find the app you want.

I'm not sure what you did but you can delete those files you've downloaded. Both apps, Firefox and Libreoffice are in the AppCenter.


How do I get back that app that I bought after reinstall?


Open Pantheon files as an administrator. Then change the owner of the /media/magnus folder to the correct user. Now your user should have full access to mounted media.


Please look at:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=716892#c5

This issue concerns any file selection dialog.


Can't click buttons that are directly under Sound/Wi-fi/Battery/Power shortcuts (top right corner)

I had the same issue once, then I restart my laptop and didn't experienced anymore.


Unable to add elementary tweaks repo (gpg key timed out)

SOLVED! I only needed to disable IPV 6 (why would you need it anyway?)


How can I change label color for any entry in Files, using scripts?

Low-level sqlite approach

The file-color associations are stored in the ~/.config/marlin/marlin.db sqlite database. You can try to reverse-engineer the format, as far as I have seen, there is one table tags, as seen in the dump:

CREATE TABLE tags (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
                   uri TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL,
                   color INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
                   tags TEXT NULL,
                   content_type TEXT,
                   modified_time INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
                   dir TEXT );

Update/delete file color

So basically you need to either the color already in the base as in

UPDATE tags set color=1 WHERE uri = 'file:///home/user/test'

changed the color of the file ~/test to yellow (1).
Colors seem to be 0 (no color) and 1…9 (yellow, orange, etc. as shown in the file Properties dialog).

If you want to delete the color, you only have to set color=0.

Set file color

If there is no entry for the file specified, you should create it with some housekeeping:

id might be NULL as in auto-assigned,
uri is the URI of the file of which you want to change the color
tags = NULL as in nothing special for now,
content_type you might find this with the file utility,
modified_time seems to be a simple Unix time stamp,
dir I don't really know but the parent directory seems to be a safe bet.

This line seems to work and has set the color of ~/new_file not present in the database before to green (4):

INSERT INTO tags VALUES (NULL, 'file:///home/user/new_file', 4, NULL, 'text/plain', 1481148148, 'file:///home/user');

However, be careful and double-check this with the source code of pantheon-files as this might render your database inconsistent. The relevant source file seems to be pantheon-files-daemon/marlind-tagging.vala.


How can I launch a command from terminal and then close the terminal?

You can use:

nohup

nohup scratch-text-editor /path/to/file &

Then close terminal with Ctrl+D

If you want direct in single command: Use exit at the end of the command. like,

nohup scratch-text-editor /path/to/file & exit

setsid

setsid scratch-text-editor /path/to/file ; exit

disown

scratch-text-editor /path/to/file & disown ; exit

All in one command:

(scratch-text-editor /path/to/file &) ; exit


You can extract it anywhere as long as you don't create a conflict with firefox dependencies. To be safe and for ease of finding its location, I recommend just putting it on /opt.

Just create the /opt directory manually via terminal or file manager with root privileges. Since elementary doesn't use it by default, it's safe to put manually downloaded software in it.


You forgot to execute an texteditor to edit these files.
Example of editors are scratch-text-editor, gedit, nano, vi,... .

sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/hostname
sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/hosts

For the /etc/hosts file just make sure their is a entry to your new hostname and delete the old one

127.0.1.1       newhostname
127.0.1.1       oldhostname #delete this one

Than you just restart your computer.


Make sure chrome is not running, and remove icon from the dock
Run sudo pantheon-files
Go to : /usr/share/applications
Open Google Chrome configuration file with text editor
At the bottom of: [Desktop Entry] right below this line: (X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts). Add this line: StartupWMClass=Google-chrome-stable
Save and exit


Hi have you tried just hitting the windows(super key)
then go to setting it the top right cnr
then to custom
then just add new and tell it what you want it to do


You can remove them by using:

sudo apt-get autoremove nvidia*

It will remove everything related to nvidia, so make sure to double check before continuing.

You can also try this:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get autoremove

I'm not sure if removing nvidia drivers will stop your nvidia GPU. It will probably still work and use Nouveau drivers, but I'm not sure.

Have you tried sudo prime-select intel with your nvidia drivers installed?


This message in the picture :

X Screen 0 (No Scanout)

makes me think that xorg is not detecting your monitor vendor.

Connect the monitor to the laptop, start it and login. Try the buttons on the monitor,  enter in the OSD menu, go to SETUP > Reset.

After this, go to Configuration > Displays in your desktop. Monitor will go to blank for one second and you will see the correct resolution and your monitor vendor.


Just installed DevilSpie created a hotcorner and the dock disappear everytime I use it

You need to tell devilspie to ignore plank and wingpanel. In the minimize.ds file you should have something like:

(if
     (begin
        (not(is(application_name) "wingpanel")))
(if
    (begin
        (not(is(application_name) "plank")))
(begin
    (minimize)
    (quit))
))

EDIT: I also updated the instructions in How can I view the desktop?, it is quite a nifty feature and I think it should be available in elementary OS by default.


ibus (Avro) is not working in elementary OS Loki

As I can see you already installed iBus Avro now you need to change Input Method Configuration only.

Open Terminal and type

sudo im-config

Select Ok then Yes
Select Ibus as input method for the system
Click Ok and Ok for the next windows. Then restart your computer.


Switch to a text console by pressing ctrl+alt+F1 then login and do full upgrades with apt update, apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade.

Then reboot and see if that helps.


not able to add google calendar in elementary calendar

The right answer depends on if you use 2-factor authentication (2FA) or not.

With 2FA

You have to create a per-app password in your Google account here. Afterwords you will be able to login using that single-use password with your account.

Without 2FA

In this case I think you have to tell Google to trust less-secure apps in your Google account settings (it just means they use standard authentication methods instead of Google-made methods). I cannot confirm this works as I no longer have any account without 2FA.

Hope it helps :)


'no' internet connection within appcenter

I figured out what was causing the issue.

By default, if you even dare you mention a device inside /etc/network/interfaces at all, even if its just

auto eno1
 iface eno1 inet dhcp

something like this, witch is what i had put in there, NetworkManager will ignore the device (in my case eno1 aka my LAN) completely.

All i had to do is delete this from the file and then restart the network-manager service.

And appearently appcenter is one of the few applications that does not actually check if you have an internet connection, but instead just asks NetworkManager if it has an internet connection.


As stated voer there at WineHQ runs slightly bad on Linux. Noise as out-of-the-box media player has the feature to sync with iDevices, as far as I know. So give it a try.


Settings schema 'io.elementary.code.settings' does not contain a key named 'smart-cut-copy'

As you'll find in the linked Github issue - likely one of the schema settings is interfering with settings for elementary's code app. Since Code is unable to find it's settings it's crashing; it can be fixed if XDG_DATA_DIR is set to a value so that Code gets correct settings. In my case I, initially, had to add following in my terminal's shell startup script (e.g. .zshrc for zsh or .bashrc for bash) -

$ export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS"

but on further reading it I found out that in order to launch it from the dock, I'd need to put it inside ~/.xsessionrc

$ echo export 'XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS"' >> ~/.xsessionrc

Just make sure if something goes awry, you should be able to revert the changes to xsessionrc


Go to system settings --> user accounts --> unlock --> Click on + (at left bottom corner).

Then add details.


I had this issue on Loki as well. It is fixable by installing the newest version from github. Click clone or download and download as a zip file. I built it using the instructions in HACKING.md. You'll have to install the prerequisites. Once it was installed I copied the sample ~/.config/redshift.conf from AUR. Google the latitude and longitude in your location and change that in the conf file. I also put a ; in front of:

adjustment-method=randr

I was getting an error about randr, and with the manual longitude/latitude setup randr isn't needed. It's a bit of work, and requires making a new .desktop file, easy with an app like alacarte, but redshift doesn't glitch on me now.


Problems when recognizing wifi connection

Try to type in the terminal:

nmcli radio wifi on

Let me know if that solves your problem


This problem can be caused by installing Nemo file manager. If you have Nemo installed and don't want it, remove it using the Software Center or by running sudo apt-get remove nemo


Need to change boot order in an old MacBook Air running only Elementary OS

THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM, THANKS!

Resetting NVRAM

Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R.
Turn on your Mac.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys immediately after you hear the startup sound.
Hold these keys until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for a second time.
Release the keys.


Freezing & nonresponsive after starting Zoom video chat

I've use zoom almost every day, and it's working pretty well. You should try to purge that zoom first and install it with Eddy.

You can download Eddy from the app center just search Eddy. These apps will install all your .deb files automatically.

Or maybe you can see the task processes on command

htop

and see how much zoom eats your resources. Freezing apps probably happen when your memory doesn't have enough resources to run the program.


Something wrong with updates and appcenter

Per the Debian Wiki:

  Public key cryptography is based on pairs of keys, a public key and a private key. The public key is given out to the world; the private key must be kept a secret. Anyone possessing the public key can encrypt a message so that it can only be read by someone possessing the private key. It's also possible to use a private key to sign a file, not encrypt it. If a private key is used to sign a file, then anyone who has the public key can check that the file was signed by that key. Anyone who doesn't have the private key can't forge such a signature.

To solve the error messages shown by the Terminal and install Skype, you need to add Skype's public key which can be done by running:

curl https://repo.skype.com/data/SKYPE-GPG-KEY | sudo apt-key add -


Geary blurred on HiDPI screen, possible to compile with latest WebKit version?

No need to compile anything: you can just update to a newer libwebkitgtk - then Geary (and other applications like e.g. the WiFi login window) will use that instead of the old one. I think the issue was fixed in 2.4.9, but the version currently available in the repository is 2.4.8.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webkit-team/ppa
sudo sed -i s/trusty/vivid/g /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webkit-team-ppa-trusty.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0

Don't blame me if that breaks things - I destroyed a lot while finding the solution!
Edit: fixed a lot of wrong things about this :D


The grub-pc package failed to install into /target after installtion

Check out the comments section of this bug thread. Freya has a know UEFI boot bug. Be sure to use your root partition as you are forcing the GRUB to load the file from the install.


Touchpad works only after waking from Suspend

Updating to kernel 4.10.0-28-generic fixes the issue. The touchpad works on boot itself.


try to use the official PPA for the latest drivers of nvidia, you can see how to use it in this page
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/08/new-official-proprietary-gpu-drivers.html

but you should know that is a external PPA, so read very carefuli what are you doing


If you click on the menu entry called Shutdown... it does not turn off the system immediately but instead opens a dialog, where you can also click on Restart (pictured in the middle).

Alternatively you can just type "Restart" into Slingshot or use the terminal command sudo shutdown -r now.


Theme for elementary OS which makes active apps in the Dock easier to spot

I know exactly this problem. :-)

Dock, right click: Settings.
Set the Theme to "Matte".

Now you can see the blue indicator.


Cant Install/Boot elementary OS with GPU + AMD PRO WX2100

According to this the AMD PRO WX 2100 doesn't work really well under linux at the moment.

Updating your kernel to a more recent version may make it work. Here you can download the necessary packages.

If you want to install elementary on UEFI mode you need to set your bios/firmware to UEFI mode and then boot the usb. The key to open the boot menu varies between different motherboards but it's usually F10, F12 or so. If you get into a infinite loop it's because your system didn't detect your bootable USB or you didn't set correctly the first boot device.


Blurry fonts in Atom, Steam and GitKraken

Solution: It was neither Electron nor Elementary OS but the Nvidia driver. All I had to do was disable FXAA Antialiasing in the antialiasing settings.  Now everything is sharp again: Atom, GitKraken and even Steam. So, if you come across blurry fonts, follow these steps:

Open Nvidea X Server Settings
Go to X Screen 0 -> Antialiasing Settings
Remove the checkmark next to Enable FXAA

You only need to restart your applications, not your computer.


Install Antivirus protection Software (bitdefender) on elementary OS 5.1.2 Hera

Bitdefender is proprietary software.  It is up to them to provide a version for Linux.

edit - I mean a home version.  they have endpoint for business users.

edit 2 - I should have included some alternatives.  If you are comfortable with the command line, try Sophos.  That is what I use.  Ages ago I used a trial of ESAT NOD32 and it was quite good, but a little intrusive.

Consider if you really need an antivirus.  I just use it as I share a lot of files with windows computers and don't want to pass on a virus from a windows file.  there are very few actual Linux viruses.


Strange occlusions + cropping in Firefox

It was webrender after all. Disabling it in prefs.js and restarting FF helped. Unsure why going through about:config  didn't.


The problem was keyboard configuration.
For some reason, the greeter has been set to US-English keyboard (instead of French) when the console and once logged in Freya is still with the French Keyboard. As the keys are not mapped the same way, I was having an authentication failure.
This was clear when looking at the file:
/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log

I haven't managed to get the French keyboard back (for Greeter) yet but at least I can work around it:
 - I can use the on-screen keyboard (not cool as anybody can see what I am typing ... but it works)
 - I can type the password on the keyboard knowing the US keyboard map (if there's no punctuation signs that's doable).

Hopefully I will manage to get the French keyboard back for the Greeter.


have not tried this but it should work ...

download the "DEB" package for linux (remember where it is downloaded)
You can install it by using sudo apt install ./name.deb

this assumes you are in terminal app in the directory where the file exists
or you could specify the full path name of the file


Where can I download older versions of elementary OS?

Please keep in mind that elementary supports its penultimate releases only slightly into its current release's life. The older software below is unsupported by the developers and is provided here primarily for purposes of history and curiosity.

A librarian once told me about the lifecycle of periodicals. At first, they are common, used, and after some time, they lose their currency and are discarded. Then they become rare and mainly curios for historians. Looks like we're nearing that latter half already.
So the DistroWatch links are down—elementary isn't hosting these anymore—and the major distro archives (the Internet Archive distro collection and http://distro.ibiblio.org) do not carry it. Until they do, the best way to get these will be by torrent. Be sure to check the torrents against their hashes to verify their authenticity by running the command below each section.
Loki 0.4.1 (64-bit)

sha256sum elementaryos-0.4.1-stable.20180214.iso
5c499579e6ba05eed5626abbbb68fc1e3660e23ccb6a27f1a5f7794fed98bd56

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:54dca0477d74d88ed051a9cd62fe5359151e7823&dn=elementaryos-0.4.1-stable.20180214.iso&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fashrise.com%3A443%2Fphoenix%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce
Loki 0.4 (64-bit)

sha256sum elementaryos-0.4-stable-amd64.20160921.iso
8035e0a2fbc977d931af22dcefb77ed6fe87815d89188a43e2cb345f13e629cf

Freya 0.3.2 (64-bit) (32-bit)

Softpedia also has a mirror of the latest Freya ISOs

sha256sum elementaryos-0.3.2-stable-amd64.20151209.iso
ee737ffa6bf33b742c5a7cee17aa26dec5ee3b573cbbc4b53cbe2a2513c9197a
sha256sum elementaryos-0.3.2-stable-i386.20151209.iso
97e143e762a1d1e3abac9eba33a59a7a6b9f319a7063cd47e406678c379fc683

Luna 0.2

Assorted mirrors: unchecked torrent links, virtual panic, Google Drive, simosnet-livecd, mirror, ac.id

sha256sum elementaryos-stable-amd64.20130810.iso
bfd2d56ec2936e7634f466372be6c839af12a8f7df956c0989664dcf9029da18
sha256sum elementaryos-stable-i386.20130810.iso
fb00edb0037e3ed6e4d15e035bd9e450e148c1aa18a15e26c839fb550e075051

Jupiter (0.1) at the Internet Archive
Remember: Lots of copies keeps stuff safe


Middle click pasting does not working in native apps

I have the same situation as @Heiko.

Casually, I installed elementary-tweaks and disabled "Natural copy paste" in the Terminal subsection and now I can copy&paste with middle click from any app to the Terminal.

This would be a workarround.


elementary logs out when screen goes blank

I'm not sure if this will be the solution for your problem, but you could try turning of the Screen Lock (normaly it shouldn't exit applications).

Got to System-Settings->Security->Locking:

Also try to set "Sleep when inactive" to "never" under Energy


How can I enable USB in Virtual Box inside Freya?

Steps to enable USB support for vbox:

Install the appropriate vbox extension pack
Open terminal and execute this command

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER
Go to settings > usb
Tick USB controller and USB 2.0 controller
Add an USB device filter.


That's a known bug .

There's even a possible solution in there, but sadly nobody from the elementary team decided to fix it...


Tap to click enabling with console Command

You can enable tap-to-click with follow command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true


Try disabling all video acceleration. Uncheck 3D acceleration. Do not check 2D acceleration. I did this and performance improved markedly. The problem seems to be graphics rendering.


Can't wake the computer from suspend state with wireless mouse and keyboard

Try setting it up on the BIOS. According to your BIOS you can find some option to tweak that.

If there is not option in your BIOS for that, you can also use tlp. Check this question.

Hope it helps.


As Philip Scott (the tweaks dev) replies here, the issue is being taken care of. So I guess we'll have to wait a little until the update will be deployed in the PPA.


Not sure, if your system freezes completely, or if it's "just" the desktop.

In case you are very new to linux and didn't already know:

Try switching to a Terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 or ...+F2 (your desktop should be at ...+F7)

From there you can view all active processes using the command
ps

Each process has an ID. You can force-quit any process using the command
kill ID

If you're curious, here is more info on the ps-command.
I hope I didn't completely misinterpret your linux-knowledge. :)


Screen mess up - VMware Workstation on Elementary OS

vmware-workstation works without problems with the root user, however, it is very annoying to open the terminal to open the program and believe that the icon is useless. I found a way to bypass the problem by clicking on the icon and the program open asking for root password without having to open the terminal.
First we should open the file that is in
/usr/share/applications/vmware-workstation.desktop
and then modify the line:
Exec=/usr/bin/vmware %U
for:
Exec=gksudo -k -u root /usr/bin/vmware %U

Note:  You will need to have gksu installed:

sudo apt install gksu


As far as I know, there isn't currently a way to add titles to multitasking view.

If you'd like, you can file a feature request on Gala, the elementary OS window manager. For more on filing bugs and feature requests, see this question.


How to share files and folders between host and guest in virtual box?

Instructions:

Install Guest Additions in virtual box.

see here for Installation.
Install extension pack. Download link. After installation, right-click on downloaded file and select open with Oracle VM virtual box

3.Create a folder in host

I  will create a folder SHARE in home directory.

Goto VirtualBox settings--> shared folders --> Adds new shared folder ( folder sign with green +)

Note: If the Virtual Machine already running, you will have make permanent option. If the Virtual Machine is not running already you will have only other two options. (I mentioned this point to avoid confusion, like, how his VBox has make permanent option o_O )

Now open Virtual Machine (guest) then open terminal and run the command:

sudo adduser [user_name] vboxsf
sudo reboot

Example : sudo adduser ravan vboxsf

Now open files --> file system --> media

There you will have your SHARE folder.


It's possible. Open the terminal and copy/paste;

nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Add the following;

.panel.maximized {

background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.0);

}

Save: [ctrl]+[o]
Exit: [ctrl]+[x]
Logout and login.


plank themes work in loki. Check your .local/share/plank/themes folder. I bet the themes aren't there. It looks like that ppa is down and the one in the comments doesn't support an ubuntu 16.04 based system. The deb link is 404 too. you can download the deb for an older system from:
https://launchpad.net/~versable/+archive/ubuntu/elementary-update/+files/elementary-plank-themes_0.4-0~4~precise1_all.deb

open it with archive manager and extract the data file. open the data file in archive manager and extract that too. It will extract to a hidden folder .usr/... Go to the .usr and browse to the plank/themes folder and copy all the themes in that folder to .local/share/plank/themes


Elementary OS Freezes Randomly after booting [AMD Ryzen 7]

Looks like Nvidia driver issues happened a lot with me in past, I would start with GPU logs, Also can you please provide GPU info?, When you google just use ubuntu instead eOS that way you'll get more info.
Nvidia is tricky some times they say they don't have a solution for a certain model I had an issue with gtx 1080 ti GPU where Nvidia said they don't have a proper fix for ubuntu, I used an open-source driver instead of proprietary and that fixed my issue with gtx 1080 ti. you can give it a try.


Chrome browser freezes after uploading/downloading files

Workaround to solve this problem is found on:
Issue 716892


elementary OS attach separate partition '/home' from previous install

you can follow these instructions to move your Xubuntu home partition. Instead of creating a new partition you can use the xubuntu one.

Like the article says Rsync can be used to copy the files over to your seperate home partition, but the same command can also be used to merge them. Pay attention however if a file with the same name exists on both the current home and the new home it will always keep the file with the most recent 'last modified' date.


Can I install elementary on a Lenovo Tab 2 A10-70?

As your tablet uses an ARM processor instead of a 32 or 64 bit processor as is typical on laptops and desktops, elementary OS is not available for it at this time.


This is a bug in GNOME Do and would have to be corrected in Do's source code. See this issue in launchpad.

Since GNOME Do is no longer developed, it will likely never be fixed.


In the case of normal updates, this problem appears to be solved.


On Juno, updates authentication dialog crashes on loop

On my Juno system:

→ ls -l /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 14328 gen 15 14:18 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1

→ file /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1: setuid ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=642077ae71b5ca8f6f12f66f0b92e896adbfc68b, stripped

as you can see the executable polkit-agent-helper-1 has the setuid bit set:

-rwsr-xr-x <-- the "s" in "rws"

and

/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1: setuid ELF 64-bit LSB shared object <-- file aknowledges the executable has the setuid bit set

Looks like on your system the seuid bit "got lost", as the first error shown on your screenshots correctly reports.

A fast workaround is to give the setuid bit explicitly:

$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1

That said, you should investigate on why the setuid bit was removed as usually it's not something that "disappears" on itself.


In my opinion, Freya will have lower performance. I have not a single fact but I remember the "exposé effect" much smoother in Luna that in Freya, for example.


One more power cycle (full power off and power on) did it (kept HDMI cable plugged in throughout).  It would be nice, however, to have a method that didn't rely on pure luck, as I power cycled several times previously with no effect.  Perhaps xrandr can manually force a state change?


It is cause you have multiple extensions added
try installing elementary tweaks using the following commands in
the terminal which you can either open manually or press the windows+t shortcut

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks

then open the tweaker and you should be able to turn it off in additional settings


I have same problem solved after installing ubuntu-restricted-extras

Open terminal and run the command:

 sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Note: Use Tab when EULA appear in terminal.


is hp envy 15 2020 model compatible with linux distros?

This query on https://linux-hardware.org shows that some people have been able to get Linux working on that specific model.
You might check the individual hardware probes for any particular hardware issues.
Since at least one probe is Ubuntu 20.04, it's likely the device will work with elementaryOS even if this requires the newer kernel in 20.04 since Ubuntu backports Linux kernels through its hardware-enablement stack to older LTS releases, i.e. Ubuntu 18.04 which elementaryOS 5 is based-on.


i am unable to get past the welcome screen to install

This never happened but you can tried the following solutions

Try unplugging your keyboard and/or mouse in other USB port
Enable USB Device Legacy Suppor in your BIOS settings
Maybe try plug your Keyboard and/or Mouse in USB 2.0 and not 3.0 if you were on 2.0 ports

If there is only your keyboard that works you can use:

Tab : to change selection
Space : to valid
a checkbox
Enter : to press a button


Gray background when swithcing workspaces

This bug appears when the main screen is on the right side. Switching main window to the left side is now working properly. To achive this we have 2 options:

Settings -> Display -> Star icon on left screen

or use terminal and add --primary tag to specific monitor $ xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --scale 1.33x1.33 --primary  --output DisplayPort-1 --pos 2554x0


"No Results. No apps could be found. Try changing search terms."

Problem went away after a reboot. Ggggeeeeerrrrrr!


I'm new to eOS, and Linux, too.

Just try to use Custom Shortcuts to launch apps. It seems do the trick.

For the Command Line to launch specific app, AppEditor have some handy informaitons. As I'm not familar with command line.

AppEditor can be installed from AppCenter:

https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.donadigo.appeditor

No idea is it a proper way. Any experienced user, please advise.


you could try to install the ubuntu restriced extras. This package contains some codecs.

First, be warned that it might not be legal in some countries, because of software patents.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras


Native videos app can't play some type of videos

VLC uses libav (also backend to ffmpeg), which can decode just about any type of digital audio or video format.

I think Videos is using gstreamer, which needs individual codecs to handle each format. Most of these come in the packages gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-bad, and gstreamer-plugins-ugly.

Installing those three should cover most everything you need.


Welcome to the Elementary OS forums!

What happens if you go to Applications -> Terminal and issue the command

nmcli d wifi list

If the result of that command has the data you expect in the following areas: SSID, CHAN, BARS, SECURITY that is the first step.  For the second step, what are the results of this command (also in terminal).

ping -c 3 8.8.8.8

Please let us know.


how do i configure the plank in elementary os?

Hold control and simultaneously right-click the dock. Select preferences.


cannot configure CUPS on elementary OS juno

Just use the cups! do not open the interface. By doing so you will solve this!


You need to install the matching vapi package (valac-0.52-vapi) as well the compiler binary (valac-bin).


Click on "Carpeta Personal", create your Work file in Home (or wherever you want). Then right-click that new file and left click on Bookmark (or for you it's probably "Marcador" or something like that). Then it should be available on the left-hand panel.

I made a little slideshow for you: https://goo.gl/photos/Zvk4KbZ3iMnHkJH36


This exact behaviour happens to me as well if the nVidia drivers are not installed. In terminal, run sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall. Reboot when it's done (or force shut-down).

After reboot, use the nVidia Settings app from the Application menu to switch between the integrated Intel GPU and the dedicated nVidia one.

For more information look here:
How can i switch between Intel and Nvidia Graphics card?,


Used AppCenter to download Mozilla Firefox, but Files shows no .tar or download

Alternatively you can also simply install it via Flatpak just by clicking on the "Install" button in the Flathub page for Firefox: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox
This flatpak package is directly maintained by Mozilla.


Mounting internal drive to be shared between users

Try method described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/351991/mounting-disk-drives-among-different-users. It worked OK for me. Note however that the last command given should be sudo chgrp <groupname> <mountpoint>


Run the LiveCD, or boot from USB again (whichever you did to install it). select the "Try elementary OS" option, Then in that session, connect to the internet and install boot repair.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair
boot-repair

Do the recommended fix, to install Grub on your System. When grub is installed, feel free to reboot. When you reboot you should be brought to a page similar to this.

There should be an option relating to windows (maybe multiple). Just try them all out (if there are multiple), and see which one boots you into Windows.

(Optional) When you figure it out, reboot back into Elementary OS,install Grub customizer

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

and find the option that booted you into Windows, and then rename to to Windows (preferably), then hit save in the upper top left corner!


Forking an app and adding a GTK+ 3 frontend in the app store

qbittorrent is licensed under GPLv2 so the licence should allow it (as long as you use the same licence). The problem is qbittorent is written in C++ and elementary apps are written in Vala. Plus there already is a quite good Torrent client called Torrential in the app center.


My syslog files have a file size of 71.7 GB

we have the same problem, this problem occurs when a locked system is running VLC (in my problem), here I include the log, to solve it i do truncate sudo truncate -s 0 /var/lib/syslog, this is because of Nvidia Driver.

[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007fb9d402a790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.


Try "AppEditor" from Appstore - it saves you the chore of editing the *.desktop files manually, but includes that option if you still want to. When editing files manually there is always greater chance for an error. This app minimizes it. Ofcourse it can also set icons of menu entries. Very useful.


Hi out if the blue its difficult to give help here.

Would you please run the commad
ifconfig in the terminal and look in the output for en0 for example to see if the wired connection works.
Theres another thread with this issue maybe it helps:
How can I fix Networking, Wi-Fi and Ethernet, not being available after update?
For more details on Network configuration heres a guide from Ubuntu:
Ubuntu - Network Configuration


AppCenter doesn't start: Metadata files have errors

I made

sudo aptitude purge appstream
sudo apt install appcenter

Solved the problem. But maybe simply deleting files in /var/lib/app-info/yaml/ would solve the problem too, I don't know.


A temporary solution is  -
Go to tty1 with CTRL + ALT + F1 then get back to desktop with CTRL + ALT + F7


elementary OS makes my router reboot, why?

elementary OS does not have any management access to your router. If this is really caused by Linux (elementary OS uses the same network stack as every other distribution), it's your router's fault. You might want to contact your router supplier (which you did not specify yet).


Want a zoomed-in display to pan the way a Mac does

Contact with the developer on github.
https://github.com/elementary


How can I fix this strange icon in wingpanel?

How to find out which application indicator is broken

You can end the process of each application you are used to see wing-panel step by step and see when the broken indicator hides.

In my case it was the Dropbox indicator.

How to fix the Dropbox indicator

You can run the following script from Nathan Dyer to fix it:
https://github.com/nathandyer/elementary-dropbox-mods


Removing or disabling the wingpanel in 5.1 Hera without breaking the system

So I ended up devising my own hacky solution to get rid of it. I made a bash file titled /usr/bin/nowingpanel and in it, I put this...
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
    sleep 1
    killall wingpanel
done

I made it an executable and put it in the startup applications and now wingpanel is no more.


Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now

It turns out there is a bug in 0.91, and 0.91 is what you get from Ubuntu repo, so I installed PPA from Inkscape official website and got 0.92.1 version, which has resolved the issue.


Your user needs to be a member of the lpadmin group to have privileges to add a printer.
That is the default setting.
You can double check /etc/cups/cups-files.conf and look at the "SystemGroup" setting to confirm this.


Can't boot eOS 5.1 because of missing mmx64.efi

Boot an Elementary OS Live USB stick, go into your hard disk drive's /boot/efi folder and rename the file grubx64.efi to mmx64.efi. Save. Restart the machine. Check will it boot.

Other possible solutions are here: Can't install Ubuntu 18.10 on XPS 15 - EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi not found


what does the red circle with a white x in it on an icon in the tweaks sidebar

This is your icon themes representation of a "missing icon". The theme does not provide the icons required for those items in the sidebar, so it displays that instead.
As you have found from the comments under your question, changing to an icon theme that provides those icons fixes the issue.


In the Pantheon Terminal you can move between terminal tabs with Ctrl+Shift+← and Ctrl+Shift+→ respectively.

You might as well be interested in List of keyboard shortcuts for Terminal


was resolved, everything's back to normal :)


After installing Linux in late 2011 macbook pro osx lion doesn't start

For me, recovery mode is automatic if the hard drive is blank and will try to talk to Apple via a network connection to install MacOS, run Disk Utility, Terminal, etc., though it takes a while. You should also be able to enter recovery mode by holding down Command+R at system start.

All rEFInd or rEFIt do is save you the time of having to hold down the Option key at system start in order to choose the proper partition/hard drive/DVD to boot from. You should be able to choose MacOS from that menu.

Have you tried clearing your NVRAM? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063. It's helped me a few times, for whatever reason, when my MacBook wants to act like an ass.


How to hide partition from pantheon files?

Since you are already familiar with Disks and elementary OS is based on Ubuntu, why not use this application again?
Just open Software Center, search for Disks and install it.

start Disks
select the partition, you want to hide
click at the gear icon and select Edit Mount Options
disable Automatic Mount Options
make sure Mount at startup and Show in user interface are unchecked

This partition won't be shown after the next login.


Switch only between windows of the same application (not tabs)?

There is no such option that you could use with a keyboard shortcut -- and probably it will not be implemented: workspaces serve precisely the purpose of grouping windows.

If the multiple windows of the same application are on the same workspace, the goal is achieved with the shortcut for switching windows of the same workspace (Alt-Tab) if only that application is using that workspace.

The general idea is to open the multi-window application (and only that) in its own workspace and then switch windows there with Alt-Tab.

Go to the Workspace Switcher (Super-S, Super,DownArrow) and there you can add new workspace and drag&drop windows between workspaces; namely, drop the windows of your application onto the + button to add to new workspace.

If you need more than one multi-window application, use separate workspaces for each app, and switch between apps by switching workspaces (Super--Tab).

Note also that any window that is made fullscreen with Super-F gets a new workspace for itself.


Go to System Settings
Choose Keyboard
And activate "Left Alt" as "Key to choose 3rd level" in the Options Tab


Is it possible to have Windows 10 and elementary OS installed on my HP notebook at the same time and boot without a USB drive?

You can install the elementary OS on a separate partition or over free space on the hard drive. You will only need an external storage device to install the OS.


Unread number i pantheon email doesn't update

There are alot of issues using gmail in patheon mail, I'd suggest you install another mail client instead my personal prefference is thunderbird

You can get it through the terminal using.

$ apt-get install thunderbird


I had the same problem on my HP Probook G4 laptop. It is issue of 16.10 kernel. Just turn off in Bios your ATI or Nvidia videocard. Graphical system will work on CPU. On 17.04 kernel hybrid graphical system works fine, you just need some time to wait for updates.


elementaryOS freezes after login -- new razer blade stealth 13.3"

I have a kby lake chipset, although on a Dell XPS 13, and it works fine for me.

First try sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm and try again sudo service lightdm restart

I did also upgrade the kernel (and you can try the ubuntu hwe - hardware enablement kernel as a first option - you can do it with apt), I did also install the kbl specific firware from Intel (you can tell it's worked when you upgrade kernel because there is no missing kbl firmware logged). You can also try fwupdmgr in terminal to see if there are any firmware updates available.

Nvidia drivers should not work, as it's intel graphics.

The intel stuff is here: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/firmware

They also have "recipes" on the site which suggest version of packages for a good intel Graphics stack. Can be worth trying.


WiFi speed is 10 times slower on my PC then on my phone

It was a hardware issue:

USB antenna was next to the WiFi antennas
WiFi antennas themselves were folded in too much
Bluetooth was on


I just recently installed Elementary in Virtualbox without an issue.  Can you share a bit more information?

Where in the process are you getting stuck?

If you use the Wizard to create the machine, you may have to go in and designate the ISO to run after the machine has been made.

You can go into settings, and select your ISO the first time you attempt to run the Machine.

Click that little drop down and you'll be able to browse to where you've saved your ISO file.  Then try to run the machine again after you've saved your settings.

Give that a try.


Use dconf

Install dconf with the command:

sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

Open dconf org --> gnome --> desktop --> background.

Change picture uri. (total path of image)

If not working:

Open terminal and run:

gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.desktop.background

Now try again to change the background.

The command form to change background is:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///home/thepathtoyourfile/yourNewBackgroundFile.jpg


Problem after suspend: sudo command doesn't work, wifi does not connect

Seems like the problem is that the Wireless card isn't capable of waking up after suspend. We are going to create a service that disables the wireless card on suspend and then enables it again when you start the computer.

First, open a terminal window and execute the following command:

sudo io.elementary.code /etc/systemd/system/network-suspend.service

On the window that opens, paste the following code and then close the window:

#/etc/systemd/system/network-suspend.service
#sudo systemctl enable network-suspend.service
#sudo systemctl start network-suspend.service
#sudo systemctl status network-suspend.service
#sudo systemctl daemon-reload
[Unit]
Description=Network suspend service
Before=sleep.target
StopWhenUnneeded=yes

[Service]
User=root
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u $USER /bin/bash -lc 'nmcli networking off'
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 1
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl stop NetworkManager
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 1
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip link set wlp1s0  down
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 1
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rmmod  ath10k_pci
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 1
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/rmmod  ath10k_core

[Install]
WantedBy=sleep.target

Now type on terminal again:

sudo io.elementary.code /etc/systemd/system/network-resume.service

And paste the following code. Close the window.

#/etc/systemd/system/network-resume.service
#sudo systemctl enable network-resume.service
#sudo systemctl start network-resume.service
#sudo systemctl status network-resume.service
#sudo systemctl daemon-reload
[Unit]
Description=Network resume service
After=suspend.target
StopWhenUnneeded=yes

[Service]
User=root
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/sbin/modprobe ath10k_pci
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/sbin/modprobe ath10k_core
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip link set wlp1s0 up
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl start NetworkManager
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u $USER /bin/bash -lc 'nmcli networking on'
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u $USER /bin/bash -lc 'nmcli r wifi off'
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u $USER /bin/bash -lc 'nmcli r wifi on'

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

Lastly, execute all of this on terminal:

sudo systemctl enable network-resume.service && sudo systemctl start network-resume.service && sudo systemctl enable network-suspend.service && sudo systemctl start network-suspend.service && sudo systemctl daemon-reload

And done! It should work now. It shouldn't be necessary to reboot but it won't hurt anyway!.

source

If you want to remove this service (because it didn't work or any other reason) just execute on terminal:

sudo systemctl disable network-resume.service && sudo systemctl disable network-suspend.service && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/network-suspend.service && sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/network-resume.service


screen flip issue with Juno 5.0 on HP 840 G1

If this sudo systemctl stop iio-sensor-proxy.service works temporarily for you, then disable it so next time you reboot, it will not load

To disable it:

sudo systemctl disable iio-sensor-proxy.service

If disable don't work (sometimes services are called externally or by other enabled and needed services), just mask it into null and will not run no matter what

sudo systemctl mask iio-sensor-proxy.service


There was some problem that messed up the update screen. Elementary released new updates that solved it. In particular, you need to install the latest packagekit package:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install packagekit

Source: https://medium.com/elementaryos/important-update-released-501c9d9f28b


Can I run multiple instances of plank that only shows the current windows windows?

If you check your settings for plank, there is an option, under the Behaviors tab that specifies: Restrict to Workspace, This may help you in the right direction


Setting up Elementary OS with VMware Workstation, cannot use unity?

VMware drop support for Unity with later Workstations, use VMware Player 7 and it works. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/518568


I have the same problem but my loading times are even higher than yours:

Startup finished in 1.987s (firmware) + 25.210s (loader) + 37.081s (kernel) + 3.052s (userspace)
= 1min 7.332s graphical.target reached after 3.041s in userspace

I have found a solution here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1037457/slow-boot-with-ssd-and-lvm-on-new-install-of-18-04

Just use the First Method in the first reply. I'vr changed UUID to file path and used wait_for_udev instead of wait-for-root .

Now my loading time is:

Startup finished in 2.244s (firmware) + 2.808s (loader) + 5.160s (kernel) + 6.683s (userspace)
= 16.897s graphical.target reached after 6.670s in userspace


Where's the right place to post feature requests?

elementary is now hosted on GitHub. So just go to the right repository and open an issue. This is the repository for pantheon-files

This is an example of a feature request I made for AppCenter.
https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/issues/411