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by xenopeek
Fri Nov 01, 2024 5:28 am
Forum: Releases & Announcements
Topic: <Completed> Forum undergoing maintenance in 2 hours
Replies: 0
Views: 110

<Completed> Forum undergoing maintenance in 2 hours

2 hours from the time of this post, on Friday at 11:30 AM UTC https://time.is/UTC, the forum will be undergoing short maintenance. At the start of the maintenance window the forum will be completely offline. Once it comes back online it will be slow to respond for some time and it may take up to a d...
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: LAPTOP CRASHED - HOW Do I Retrieve My Files?
Replies: 10
Views: 202

Re: LAPTOP CRASHED - HOW Do I Retrieve My Files?

I don't know Kubuntu but with a flash drive with Linux Mint on it you would simply: - open the file manager - go to the internal disk of the laptop - open the "home" directory there - in that directory should be a subdirectory with your username, go there and you can copy the files from it...
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:48 pm
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Identify file by content
Replies: 6
Views: 175

Re: Identify file by content

If you look in the file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml you can see there are comment tags on each mime type. The comment tag gives the display name for the type. You can use xq-python, part of yq ( apt install yq ), to query the xml file. For example for image/jpeg running: xq-python -...
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 2:30 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: I don't have Administrative Rights, How to restore
Replies: 20
Views: 405

Re: I don't have Administrative Rights, How to restore

Confirm whether you have administrator rights or not. Open the Terminal program from your menu and type the command:

Code: Select all

groups
Is "sudo" in the list of groups? Then you have administrator rights.
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 2:20 pm
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Identify file by content
Replies: 6
Views: 175

Re: Identify file by content

A caveat with the shared mime info database, and commands / libraries using it, is that it doesn't have information for how to identify the file type from the file contents for all types — it doesn't know the identifying string or sequence of bytes to look for in the file (most likely because there ...
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:43 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Annoying Repositories and packages
Replies: 1
Views: 64

Re: Annoying Repositories and packages

Start the Software Sources program from your menu. Go to additional repositories. Delete Google there. Same with keys.

Then go to maintenance and remove foreign packages; should only be google chrome if it is still somehow installed.
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: flatpaks and Security
Replies: 8
Views: 257

Re: flatpaks and Security

Shouldn't need sudo with flatpak update.
by xenopeek
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:06 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How does deleting outdated applications from the repository work?
Replies: 1
Views: 74

Re: How does deleting outdated applications from the repository work?

First figure out where the package comes from. You can use apt policy telegram-cli to find which repository it is available from. If Linux Mint, you would file an issue on the Linux Mint GitHub. In this case the repository is Ubuntu. So you'd find the package in its repository https://packages.ubunt...
by xenopeek
Mon Oct 28, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Forums Feedback
Topic: Can't get on the forum sometimes lately, too many connections
Replies: 8
Views: 296

Re: Can't get on the forum sometimes lately, too many connections

Is in the forum, Sucuri or your web browser that says "too many connections"? Can you share a screenshot when next it happens?
by xenopeek
Sun Oct 27, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: flatpaks and Security
Replies: 8
Views: 257

Re: flatpaks and Security

Users that are system administrators can run flatpak operations without authenticating. That has always been so.
by xenopeek
Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:07 am
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: [Solved] Get flatpak name from pid
Replies: 2
Views: 71

Re: Get flatpak name from pid

This would work: pid=12345 appid="$(flatpak ps --columns=pid,application | grep ^$pid$'\t' | cut -d$'\t' -f2)" name="$(flatpak list --app --columns=application,name | grep ^$appid$'\t' | cut -d$'\t' -f2)" You provide the pid. The 2nd line finds the appid for that pid. The 3rd lin...
by xenopeek
Sat Oct 26, 2024 5:59 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Firefox sandboxing analysis
Replies: 7
Views: 303

Re: Firefox sandboxing analysis

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-hardened/2017-June/000927.html Between Linux 2.6.23 and 3.8 new user namespaces could be created only by privileged processes. In Linux 3.8 the restrictions were relaxed to allow unprivileged processes to also create new user namespaces. Firefox tests these p...
by xenopeek
Sat Oct 26, 2024 2:32 am
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: [SOLVED] App window position - left or right side monitor screen
Replies: 2
Views: 73

Re: App window position - left or right side monitor screen

A process can have multiple windows. Use the 1st found window ID, that should be the main window. Try it with --limit 1 option added.
by xenopeek
Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: New pc for a retired (but not tired) grandfather
Replies: 11
Views: 338

Re: New pc for a retired (but not tired) grandfather

I don't need great features and, in fact, I don't want to spend so much money unnecessarily. When I say "unnecessarily" it's because I'm already retired and my needs are not that many. Can you add a little bit about what you'll use the PC for? Aside from web browsing and email. You mentio...
by xenopeek
Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Two line prompt for the bash shell because it is useful.
Replies: 9
Views: 303

Re: Two line prompt for the bash shell because it is useful.

spamegg wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:06 am Should this be a tutorial (in the Tutorials forum)?
Showing off / sharing script things you made for yourself, that's at home in Scripts & Bash forum.
by xenopeek
Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:45 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Firefox sandboxing analysis
Replies: 7
Views: 303

Re: Firefox sandboxing analysis

I'm trying to figure what the difference is between your install and mine. Because I didn't need to make any changes for Firefox and Chromium to use user namespaces. I see I have apparmor installed (package from Ubuntu repository) which includes files /etc/apparmor.d/firefox and /etc/apparmor.d/mint...
by xenopeek
Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:30 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Firefox sandboxing analysis
Replies: 7
Views: 303

Re: Firefox sandboxing analysis

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5879#issuecomment-2255568180 See https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged-user-namespaces. That was an interesting read: Unprivileged user namespaces […] expose kernel interfaces that are normally restricted to processes with privileged c...
by xenopeek
Fri Oct 25, 2024 3:23 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: pulse equalizer not working
Replies: 2
Views: 139

Re: pulse equalizer not working

As replied above, Linux Mint 22 uses PipeWire not the PulseAudio. For an equalizer with PipeWire you can install EasyEffects. It should be in Software Manager (pick the system package, not the flatpak) but you can also run apt install easyeffects to install it. It has an equalizer and other effects.
by xenopeek
Thu Oct 24, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: flatpaks....can they be removed or ignored?
Replies: 12
Views: 362

Re: flatpaks....can they be removed or ignored?

Qwazert wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:46 pmMaybe I'll just revert back to LM20.3 and call it a day...
As a stopgap you could do that but mind after April 2025 that release reaches end of life. It will not receive security updates, or any updates from the official repositories, after that.
by xenopeek
Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:34 am
Forum: Forums Feedback
Topic: Forum: include System Information in support requests
Replies: 27
Views: 1135

Re: Forum: include System Information in support requests

It doesn't make sense I think to add it to Non-technical Questions, Tutorials or Other Topics & Open Discussion. For Software & Applications and Desktop & Window Managers it may be nice to know the Linux Mint version but I'd guess most often knowing the entire system information isn't re...

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