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- 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...
- 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...
- 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 -...
- 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:
Is "sudo" in the list of groups? Then you have administrator rights.
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- 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 ...
- 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.
Then go to maintenance and remove foreign packages; should only be google chrome if it is still somehow installed.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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?
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.- Thu Oct 24, 2024 2:29 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: flatpaks....can they be removed or ignored?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 362
- 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...