Questions tagged [elementary]
An Ubuntu-based operating system featuring the Elementary theme and the Pantheon desktop environment. Be aware that Elementary OS is off-topic, ask in Elementary OS Stack Exchange instead.
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How to collapse page index in Evince
I have a PDF file that contains thousands of page. How do I collapse the index from the file so I could only see the main topic all at once.
For example, from the image below I only want to see ...
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Motherboard's maximum RAM capacity
I'm trying to upgrade the RAM on a desktop computer, which currently has 4x2G m378b5773ch0-ch9 sticks.
When I look up the manufacturer's website, It says that it Supports up to 16 GB (unbuffered) on ...
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Apache unable to write to NTFS automounted drive
I've a main ssd drive where os is installed
I have also a second drive (NTFS auto-mounted) where all www is hosted
All was working fine and Apache could load/write/etc. files into this NTFS partition
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How to know which device is causing PCIe Bus Error severity=Corrected AER: Corrected error received
I've begun noticing the /dev/mapper/data-root volume was 100% used
Then noticed logs kern.log and syslog were 95gb each
Aug 1 08:24:42 mypc kernel: [73212.049797] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: AER: Corrected ...
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No Legacy Boot: Recovery media only functions on Dell and Alienware systems error
I recently purchased Dell XPS 13 (2020) Developer Edition with Ubuntu 18.04 preinstalled. I would like to try Elementary OS on this machine. I followed the instructions here and created bootable USB ...
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Is it possible to use software installed on first distribution in second distribution [closed]
Suppose I have installed two distributions on my drive. In first distribution I install visual studio code then in second distribution how to use that software installed on first distribution. Is it ...
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dpkg error trying to override /use/share/metainfo/granite.appdata.xml which is also in libgranite-common
I have tried this solution however it seems like dpkg is unable to remove that dependency either. Here is my terminal output when I try to fix broken dependency:
ayon@schneizel:/usr/share/applications$...
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Arrow Keys Disable Touchpad/Mapped To Shortcuts
This randomly started happening. Left, Right, Up and Down arrow keys all make a "touchpad disabled" notification icon appear, as well as open a Music player. I went into Settings >> Keyboard and no ...
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Natural copy pasting in gnome terminal
I was using an Elementary Terminal for a long time and there was a possibility to copy and paste by ctrl+c/ctrl+v and also terminate a process. Is there some way to configure the Gnome Terminal like ...
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vmlinuz...-generic has invalid signature when installing Ubuntu on a machine that has Windows and ElementaryOS dual-boot
My machine was on dual-boot with Elementary OS and Windows 10. Today I also installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. These are my boot options now:
Ubuntu and Windows boot just fine, but
when I try to boot ...
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How to install elementary's Pantheon Photos on Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with GNOME 3.36 with the X11 window system. I want to install the elementary OS's Photos app (Pantheon Photos). I don't need anything else. I am happy with GNOME and I'm ...
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"Are you sure you want to proceed?" message on login
I am getting the message below each time I am logging in. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 x64.
The message first appeared after I tried to install Elementary OS Pantheon session, which didn't work.
I had to ...
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Installing the Pantheon desktop/ElementaryOS theme on Ubuntu 20.10
The recommended way seems to involve adding a a repository ppa:elementary-os/daily, which doesn't work for 20.10. Can anyone recommend a way to install this on Ubuntu 20.10?
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Ubuntu OS name changed to Elementary OS
I have been using Ubuntu MATE 20.04 with Kubuntu desktop environment installed on top. I installed Elementary desktop just to get a feel of it, i didn't like and then I tried to remove the PPAs and ...
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How do I install libmutter-dev? [closed]
I am trying to build gala, however make outputs this error:
meson.build:128:4: ERROR: Problem encountered: No supported mutter library found!
I tried installing libmutter-dev
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Calendar app (Maya) from Elementary OS on Ubuntu 20.04
I would like to try the calendar app from Elementary OS in vanilla Ubuntu. I followed the instructions in Maya Calendar from Elementary OS on Ubuntu, but they don't seem to work anymore; I guess the ...
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Migrating from Ubuntu to ElementaryOS [closed]
I have lots of important development files and set up in my Ubuntu installation. But now after trying Elementary OS, I'd like to make it my primary OS. Since everything in Linux is a file. I was ...
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aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Elementary/next
The following happens every time I want to add a repository - It is not working since I have installed (and then uninstalled) pantheon desktop :(
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:appgrid/stable
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Very Slow Download speed in terminal [closed]
The download speed in Terminal is very slow. about 40kBytes. But the speed in the browser works fine
I have chosen the best server but I still get the problem
by the way loot at the output of ...
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Install Themes and Icons from Elementary OS without pantheon
I know How to install the Pantheon desktop environment?, but I'd rather not install the whole desktop environment but only the theme and iconset.
I can install Cairo dock That looks alike Plank (the ...
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How to hide desktop icons?
After using ElementaryOS I am back on Ubuntu. In eOS one of the features are "no desktop icons" and "no right-click option on desktop" and i prefer that setting, its simple and lightweight and I don't ...
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Install Button on Live CD does not work
Maybe this question is widely known by all of you and I am still too newbie / new to Linux to know this, but I am going to say it anyway.
Well, I am facing a problem while trying to install Ubuntu 18....
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No sound from speakers and also earphones
information regarding sound cards present in my system
There is no sound coming from earphones ans also speakers, I am using elementary os loki which is based on ubuntu. More information regarding ...
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How to completely remove Elementary OS 5.0 Juno from Ubuntu 18.04?
I have found similar topics, but none of the answers helped me.
I have installed Elementary, but the amount of bugs on it was atrocious, so I wanted to move back to just regular Ubuntu (Yeah, I know ...
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pantheon-terminal no longer send notifications (Ubuntu 18.10)
I'm using pantheon-terminal (from Elementary OS repo) on Ubuntu 18.10 because it will send desktop notification when a long running task completes which is a handy feature for me.
However, with ...
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Is there any way to run doom on ubuntu? [closed]
I want to run doom on my elementary OS (ubuntu derivative), any ideas on how could i do it?
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Way to get elementaryOS's picture-in-picture on Ubuntu [duplicate]
With version 5, elementaryOS introduced a picture-in-picture feature, allowing one to select any screen area and confine it to a floating rectangle above other windows. (Demoed here)
Is it possible ...
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How to completely remove elementary OS (Ubuntu 18.04)?
So, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 with gnome3 and then lured by the prettiness of elementary OS 5.0, I installed that as per the instructions. Now, I have purged all the PPAs as suggested by this or other ...
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Accidentally installed elementary os boot name, icon and splash screen on Ubuntu 18.04, how can I restore the defaults?
I was trying to install pantheon terminal from the elementary os repository, so I ran an install of elementary-* including desktop and icon packages.
One side effect of this is that in the GRUB menu ...
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Problem with isorespin on a live usb [closed]
I have to use isorespin.sh, and I have to launch it on elementary live usb, but when I try to use it, I get this message:
How can I solve this?
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Pantheon desktop and ubuntu questions
Hi everyone im kind of new to linux and I have the latest version of ubuntu installed. I wanted to try the pantheon desktop of elementary os so I installed it through the terminal but I thought that ...
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Edimax EW-7811 UTC wireless usb adapter [duplicate]
I'm having quite the trouble of installing drivers for my wireless usb adapter. I have tried different drivers, but none of them work. Someone in the same situtation?
uname -v
#48~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP ...
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Panel is missing in Ubuntu 14.04 with Pantheon
I installed Pantheon desktop in my Ubuntu 14.04, as described in this guide, but when I log in with Pantheon the Panel doesn't appear:
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Storage partition created by mkusb is not usable in Windows10 [closed]
I just created a persistent live USB of ElementaryOS on a 32GB USB stick by following this awesome guide.
The problem is that mkusb should let you use the remaining space as an usual storage USB ...
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I got message this message in rails "The dependency tzinfo-data"
I just install ruby on rails couple days ago and every time a create a new project in the console I got this message:
The dependency tzinfo-data (>= 0) will be unused by any of the platforms ...
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Dell XPS 15 9560: After booting from live USB, screen is stuck on distro logo.
I have a Dell XPS 15 9560 (4K display, NVIDIA GTX 1050, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Core i7-7700HQ). I'm trying to install an Ubuntu flavor alongside Windows 10. I've attempted to install the latest versions ...
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Unable to install pantheon-shell and elementary-tweaks due to missing dependencies [duplicate]
I am on Ubuntu 14.04. I want to install two packages: pantheon-shell and elementary-tweaks but getting following error:
$ sudo apt-get install pantheon-shell
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Maya Calendar from Elementary OS on Ubuntu
The Maya Calendar from Elementary OS seems really nice:
Has anyone been able to run it on Ubuntu ? Is it available on some repository ? After installing the dependencies, I only get a ton of error ...
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Blacklist a Nvidia gpu for qemu/kvm passthrough
I am trying to run Windows in a virtual machine while giving the VM a direct passthrough to the GPU for better performance.
I have an integrated intel GPU (I will use this one for the host) and a ...
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I have two Linux distros dual-booted. I want to install Ubuntu and overwrite/delete Zorin OS [duplicate]
I have Zorin OS and Elementary OS installed on my laptop. I'd like to install Ubuntu 16.04 and replace Zorin OS. My question is, in the Ubuntu installation program, when it says "You have Zorin OS ...
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Install pantheon desktop on Ubuntu 15.10?
Pantheon desktop doesn't install on recent versions of Ubuntu, but is there a way to install it now?
Are there any workarounds?
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Uninstall Linux from Linux [closed]
I searched the web for how to remove or uninstall Linux from your computer but the only information I found was how to remove it from Windows.
I've installed Linux on an old PC and I'm trying ...
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Installed elementary on ubuntu 16.04. But no login screen now
I installed elementary loki on ubuntu 16.04.3. But after rebooting my login screen was on loop. Then removed gnome and unity. Now no login screen comes. I have installed pantheon-greeter. Any help ...
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How would grub2 be affected when deleting the main OS?
So I was wondering what would happen to grub2 if someone uses several OSes on the same computer and then deletes one of them?
For instance I installed Elementary OS and Ubuntu 16.04 and now the ...
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How can I use the eOS terminal notification in Ubuntu?
elementaryOS has the following feature to notify the user of a finished terminal process.
Is it possible to use this feature in Ubuntu?
Figure 1: Example of eOS terminal notification
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Error processing packages when trying to install python-pygame [closed]
Whatever I try to install using apt-get install , it simply doesn't work.
I've been using Elementary OS (based on Ubuntu) since yesterday, so I'm pretty new to Linux.
Here's an example of my problem:...
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How to remove Pantheon DE from Ubuntu 16.04?
Can anyone help me remove elementary-desktop? I installed it in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64 system. I already did the "solution" from this question:
How to completely remove Elementary-Desktop from Ubuntu ...
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Which configuration files should I change for lightdm and pantheon-greeter
I've been reading the other questions and none explains it simple enough.
Must I have lightdm installed with pantheon-greeter?
Which file am I to use if I wish to use pantheon-greeter? /etc/lightdm/...
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Confused about app icons folders
Actually, there are at least 4 or 5 folders where icons are stored! I'm confused. I never liked those linux folders organization when you are the only, and begginer user.
I would like to change/add ...
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Help with using "gnome-web-photo" with "at" to get screenshot of website at specific time
I want to get a screenshot of a website at a specific time.
I managed to understand "gnome-web-photo" and it works great standalone but I can't get it to work with "at" so that it triggers at the ...
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