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After a PC reboot, I find that Firefox is broken. ... I can launch Firefox from an Ubuntu Docker container (no sound, but that's another battle). Doesn't sound like a broken firefox to me. Have you tried any of the basic debugging methods, namely starting firefox from a terminal and also running it...

You could add a text/asc type, but again use the more complicated "Another way" method because it works: basically add an xml file to /usr/share/mime/application, then run sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime i have created a file in /etc/mime/application called asc.xml and i wrote i...

how can i change the extension or the type of a file? in such a way as to open texts and .asc files with different programs. i'm using cinnamon. You want to "create a new mime file type" - it's far more difficult than it should be, which really isn't too bad because it should be trivially...

my /root is 100% full. Just a note on notation: the "root" filesystem is "/"; /root is the home directory of the admistrator, username="root", and usually doesn't have much in it. Anyway, your problem is probably timeshift - did you ever set it up? But try these to rem...

I tried several versions of wine, in and outside of the software market including snaps, That could make things interesting... I tried making 2 prefixes one in 32 bit and the other 64..needless to say neither work. so am I doing something wrong? is this actually a bug? You're doing something wrong....

khreha wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:31 pm

To ME security is not of any consequence. All I'm trying to do is play around.

Change your user password so it consists of one letter. You can also remove it completely, but dunno if that would affect using sudo.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-uni ... -password/

Lemme make a note for future reference... permanent switch means something completely different than real transition for some reason. No, not for 'some reason', it's for a good reason! As long as the bash is still installed there's always an easy way back and that's not what I'm talking about. Good...

David Chiang wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:00 am

The problem with this is that it's just a permanent switch to zsh and not a real transition!

Lemme make a note for future reference... permanent switch means something completely different than real transition for some reason.

Thanks t42, but this isn't exactly what I want. I don't want to just switch between the two, I want a permanent transition to zsh. As it says in that post: To make it permanent, enter these chsh -l # list the shells chsh -s /bin/zsh # use the FULL PATH of zsh returned from chsh -l Now when you logi...

I'm looking for the safest possible way to change the old shell to the Z shell (zsh). This could get a little complicated, but I want to risk it as the latter is a lot more powerful. In addition, it's also constantly being developed and could soon replace the former. Thanks, t42! Here are several o...

Is it ok if i put a yt link here? Thats how i got it. I just changed my username It's "poor form" to have capitals in your username; without changing your username, you can make your bash prompt have a capitalize it like this (line in ~/.bashrc): PS1='${USER^} : ' USER = your username; ^ ...

You doing better than I am, with handbrake (and everything else, I guess) I get "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firefox process, restart your device, or use a different profile." I fixed it and withdraw my complaint abo...

For example with Handbrake. when I click on the Help >Guide, Pale moon launches, but only to a blank page. You doing better than I am, with handbrake (and everything else, I guess) I get "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firef...

why_137 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:26 pm

Any suggestion is appreciated

Run firefox from a terminal to see error messages.

1 such issue was that my Drives can't be accessed by any User, but the main User... My only Option is Un-Mount My Drives... Any Solution? Is this Normal for a Fresh Install? Yes, it's normal. The solution would depend on information you didn't provide; see "Forum rules Before you post please r...

Thasnks. I had typed "Wine" so I tried "wine" and the file name. That netted this. rg@rg-All-Series:~$ wine ApexMedinav4Appraiser.exe rg@rg-All-Series:~$ wine /home/rg/Downloads/Apex Medina/ApexMedinav4Appraiser.exe wine: cannot find '/home/rg/Downloads/Apex' I must be close but...

i was wondering if it was easy or hard to install linux mint on the latitude 5410 ? is it good for home usage ? it arrive here with Ubuntu 18.04 pre installed If that Ubuntu works properly, it's almost certain that Mint will also work properly since it's based on Ubuntu. I'd also go for Mint 19.3 r...

What I can tell you is that all applications will use the desktop environment's (DE) default open dialog so the problem isn't FF, it's the DE, and this can be verified by opening files in different applications. I get different (three, IIRC) "open file" dialogs from different applications...

Have you tried "Save page" from a browser? (It typically has options about what to save)

Does your system have fairly new graphics (within the last 4 or so years)? If not, it may not have the "missing" firmware because it does not apply for your computer. It's a 2019 Gigabyte MZGLKAP-00 (mini box) with Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 605 driver: i915 v: kernel Display:...