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- Wed Oct 02, 2019 7:56 am
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Easily set drives to mount automatically at boot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10794
Re: Easily set drives to mount automatically at boot
Good tutorial! Stickied. 11. Optional - if the disk is a solid state (SSD) you may wish to stop the system writing the time of the last file access to files when they are used. This saves on writes which add wear to the disk. To do this, edit the field that has no label but contains a bunch of opti...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to watch TV in VLC media player and schedule automatic TV recordings using the command line
- Replies: 0
- Views: 686
How to watch TV in VLC media player and schedule automatic TV recordings using the command line
There are several GUI Linux programs that offer to schedule TV recordings. I've tried Kaffeine , Me-TV , MythTV , VLC media player (via its cvlc interface) and xine . However when I tried them I found that they were either buggy or they didn't work at all. All of them except VLC media player seem bl...
- Tue Dec 25, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Finding unique files (SOLVED except for. possibly OP-specific, anomaly))
- Replies: 33
- Views: 834
Re: Finding unique files (SOLVED)
That's two unexplained anomalies in one thread: first
find
not finding files that are there, and then rsync
saying that identical files are different. Something is amiss and I suspect it's related to DropBox. I wouldn't rely 100% on these backups if I were you.- Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:55 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Finding unique files (SOLVED except for. possibly OP-specific, anomaly))
- Replies: 33
- Views: 834
Re: Finding unique files
If the two directories exist, contain files, and their contents are viewable (i.e. you have permission to view the contents) then the method I gave will work. You can test the method by creating a directory, putting some files in it, copying it, then deleting a couple of files from the copy. Then co...
- Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:32 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Finding unique files (SOLVED except for. possibly OP-specific, anomaly))
- Replies: 33
- Views: 834
Re: Finding unique files
This is what I would do: 1. Create list of the contents of /media/tony/DropBox_A/Dropbox and write it to a file in your home directory: $ cd /media/tony/DropBox_A/Dropbox $ find -type f | sort > ~/file1 2. Create a list of the contents of /media/tony/DropBox_A/Backup_of_dropbox and write it to a sec...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:43 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: SOLVED Duplicated Menu Entry - Nautilus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 88
Re: Duplicated Menu Entry - Nautilus
It's probably a bug. The actual files corresponding to the menu entries will be in /usr/share/applications . You can compare them by opening them in a text editor. If you want to you can remove one of the entries from the menu by copying its .desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications then addi...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:23 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: (SOLVED) youtube downloader with gui
- Replies: 8
- Views: 356
Re: (SOLVED) youtube downloader with gui
I'd be interested in trying the command line version, but I'd need some instructions on how to use it. Are there any around? thanks. To download the best quality single-file video: youtube-dl <URL> To see what different quality formats there are to download of a particular video: youtube-dl -F <URL...
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:05 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Software for watching and recording TV
- Replies: 5
- Views: 788
Re: Software for watching and recording TV
Look in your Downloads directory.It seems that VLC player could be a good substitute but I am not able to record TV program in it. Clicking on record button has no effect.
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:02 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: My USB device shows a red stop icon...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 143
Re: My USB device shows a red stop icon...
That looks like a 'proper icon not found' icon.
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:59 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: In which directory is it safest to install a software?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 144
Re: In which directory is it safest to install a software?
Files in /opt have access to the whole system only if they're executed as root. The proper place to put a manually-installed, pre-compiled program is in its own directory in /opt . If you do this you'll need to add the new directory to your PATH. Alternatives are $HOME/bin or $HOME/.local/bin . Thes...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:14 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: gpodder downloading only 199 of 500+ episodes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
Re: gpodder downloading only 199 of 500+ episodes
Not ever having used gPodder, I can't advise you any more about it, except that you could try searching every file in your home directory for the string: grep -r max_episodes_per_feed ~ Alternatively you could possibly use wget to download all of the episodes. You would need to view the page source,...
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:44 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: looking for a plug and play webcam [SOLVED]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 145
Re: looking for a plug and play webcam
I think it's very rare for a webcam not to be supported by the Linux kernel. Every webcam I have owned has worked.
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:42 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: gpodder downloading only 199 of 500+ episodes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: Sound, Multimedia, & Codecs
- Topic: blu ray player doesn't work with Mint
- Replies: 4
- Views: 803
Re: blu ray player doesn't work with Mint
Are the discs encrypted?
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 5:03 pm
- Forum: Mounting Partitions
- Topic: Manage Flags - initial extended partition
- Replies: 2
- Views: 493
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:33 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: How to limit Synaptic search results to installed packages?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 135
Re: How to limit Synaptic search results to installed packages?
1.
2. In Synaptic Package Manager click on Status -> Installed.
3. Type the search term into the 'Quick Filter' field that is on the right of the 'Search' button.
sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index
2. In Synaptic Package Manager click on Status -> Installed.
3. Type the search term into the 'Quick Filter' field that is on the right of the 'Search' button.
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 5:27 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: regulatory.db missing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1153
Re: regulatory.db missing
regulatory.db
is part of the package wireless-regdb
. On my System (Xubuntu 16.04.3) I have the file in /lib/firmware
.What's the output of this command on your system:
dpkg -l wireless-regdb
?- Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:15 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: [SOLVED]USB drive mount point problem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 185
Re: USB drive mount point problem
I would do this: 1. Unmount the volume from both mount points. Use the file manager to do this, or use udisksctl unmount -b [block device] if the file manager can't do it. You can find [block device] by using lsblk . 2. Power-off the USB hard drive, again using the file manager or udisksctl power-of...
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:38 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Thunar file manager causes CPU to max and system hangs
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1083
Re: Thunar file manager causes CPU to max and system hangs
If you don't mind not having thumbnails,
tumbler
can safely be removed. I don't use thumbnails myself. This will fix your problem:Code: Select all
sudo apt-get purge tumbler tumbler-common libtumbler-1-0
- Thu Jun 21, 2018 6:28 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Thunar file manager causes CPU to max and system hangs
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1083