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Sync Chromium with a Google account does not work any more … solutions?
There's literally nothing that can be done by users or anyone other than Google to change this. You will need to use the actual Google Chrome browser if you still want profile sync to work.
Google ...
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Whats the .local folder for in my Home Directory
Let me share one of my experiences about the .local directory.
I also found my disk partition(root partition) which store home directory has no enough space, and after I check those directories' ...
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Renaming user name
on the server this worked for me:
sudo usermod -md /home/NewHome -l NewName OldName
sudo groupmod -n NewGroupName OldGroupName
This renames the user and its group and also the home folder.
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Sync Chromium with a Google account does not work any more … solutions?
Either install Firefox
Or install a third party browser sync tool such as xbrowsersync
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Ubuntu is asking for password for small things
You have enabled autologin, i.e. you are immediately booting into your desktop without having to provide your user name and password. Normally, your keyring used to store diverse credentials is ...
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Accidentally deleted my user's home folder
Just recreate the folder, add the default config files, and change the owner to you:
sudo mkdir /home/user
cp -a /etc/skel/* /home/user
chown -R user:user /home/user
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Change default location of document folder of user
The way I do it is using the user-dirs.dirs file, an then making a symbolic link. I will explain for Ubuntu 20.04, but it should be much the same in 18.04.
Make Documents bookmark point to a different ...
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How do I set profile picture on Lubuntu?
I'm new to Lubuntu (16.10) and here's how I did it:
Start
Under System Tools > select LightDM GTK + Greeting Settings
Click on the default avartar icon at the bottom of the popup window to choose:
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Is it possible to make a directory that a user cannot list, but would be able to access files in it?
Yes indeed. You can see the contents of the directory if the read r permission is set. You can traverse a directory and retrieve a file from it if the x permission is set.
Examples where that may be ...
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Removing user photo (18.04)
There is no possibility to reset/remove you user photo from the "Users" panel in settings. You need to resort to the terminal and change some configuration settings as root. How to do that is already ...
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Renaming user name
This works, but a lot of the apps will break because they specifically call for the /home/oldusername; many individual software authors don't use variables to call their configs, they directly specify ...
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Where did the user icons go?
The location ~/.local/share/icons is still a valid thing in 16.04, it's just usually not needed and therefore somebody decided not to create it by default. If you want to use this directory, simply ...
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Accidentally deleted my user's home folder
Have you tried
mkhomedir_helper
Usage: mkhomedir_helper [ []] ?
If you are asking about recovery of the folder it was possible only before the restart.
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check startup applications with a different user
So you want to get the list of startup applications of another user.
To do so, you must need to know the username and password of that user.
So, while you are using your account open terminal and type
...
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Is it possible to have Wine use a dual-boot Windows's profile data and vice versa?
Is it possible to have Wine use a dual-boot Windows's profile data and vice versa?
No.
Respectively, is it possible for changes made to those files using Windows be used by Wine?
No.
WINE is ...
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Jmeter not starting up while excuting command as non-root user
Note that this is not the result of testing, just research. Constructive criticism to this answer is welcome as are tested solutions.
Generally Speaking:
This error appears to occur due to a ...
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Change default location of document folder of user
On 18.04 and later, open /home/[user]/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks in a text editor, locate the line that says
file:///home/testuser/Documents
and change that to
smb://server1/share_name Documents
If ...
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How do I backup everything on Ubuntu 20.04?
Because you're a newbie I suggest you to install and use deja-dup. It's a backup graphical interface very easy to use. You can make backup of your home directory and save it on the cloud or in a usb ...
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Sync Chromium with a Google account does not work any more … solutions?
Schultz Hartmut" added comments to provide a solution. Here is the full text:
Just came across this solution: gist.github.com/cvan/44a6d60457b20133191bd7b104f9dcc4
Subscribe to mailing list (as ...
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How can I permanently change PATH variable in Ubuntu 20.04?
You can just add it to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or ~/.THESHELLYOUHAVErc
like adding :
export PATH=$PATH:/some-new/:./another
changing might be more like
export PATH=yourneed1/:yourneed2/
...
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Ubuntu 22.04 rewriting user-dirs.dirs
How to prevent the rewriting of ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs?
The following works for me on Ubuntu 22.04:
First change the system defaults: sudo nano /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
Then change the config: ...
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Dot gitconfig file not reflecting when switch user on ubuntu 22.04 lts
Git doesn't care what your system user name (as displayed by echo $USER) is, it only cares about what you configured in ~/.gitconfig or in your project's .git/config files.
So if you wish to work with ...
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Fingerprint option is not shown in lenovo thinkpad e14
It is not compatible yet, but good folks are working on it. There is long thread about it https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/376
And there is discord server with all the news ...
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Can't mount sshfs directory at login
I'd try to insert the complete path of the mount point. For example:
/usr/bin/sshfs [email protected]:/klipp /home/he/klipp
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How do I backup everything on Ubuntu 20.04?
Pasted from my other post:
Pinguybuilder is a tool that can create a ISO out of the running system (containing all its files, applications and configurations) which then can be used to re-install the ...
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New User, use /etc/skel
Generally .bashrc and .profile should be sufficient. Maybe an .xsession? An .xbindkeysrc?
I guess a simple rule of thumb is that if the configuration file is useful to you, it might be to other users ...
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Removing user photo (18.04)
I think your user photo is stored in the hidden file .face in your home directory
If you remove it
rm ~/.face
you should get the default faceless gray avatar.
Otherwise you are probably storing ...
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How to set firefox so that it asks for profile while opening?
Finally i managed to edit the binary of Firefox to get the profile while opening.
Open /usr/bin/firefox file in any text editor with sudo privilege and edit the last part of the file.
After editing ...
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How to use terminal from Krusader?
General
gnome-terminal --working-directory %d
User Actions
gnome-terminal --working-directory %d --name %t -e
Mate: since mater-terminal is a fork of gnome-terminal so we need to pass the same ...
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