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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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Need help installing LibreOffice 4.4 on Ubuntu 15.04
TL;DR: In ~/.config, rename libreoffice to libreoffice.old.
Often a bug or other problem that keeps a big, complicated application (like LibreOffice or Firefox) from starting correctly is triggered ...
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Is it possible to create new user profile by using command line for Chrome?
Default google-chrome user profile data stored at ~/.config/google-chrome.
If you want to create new profile then use command:
google-chrome --user-data-dir=test --first-run
It will create new ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to set firefox so that it asks for profile while opening?
If you are not using Unity
Copy the global firefox.desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications:
cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
Open the local copy with gedit:...
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Profile picture, whats the point, whats it used for?
The old gnome panel used to show the user profile in the power off /reboot etc menu. Also, it may be used by login managers, but not lightdm as far as I know (which is default in your version of ...
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root profile error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-3.1/+bug/1167281
stdin: is not a tty due to mesg n instead of tty -s && mesg n in .profile
Try the said method to add tty -s && in front ...
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Showing a "cowsay" fortune in every new terminal session
I use
fortune | cowsay -f `ls -1 /usr/share/cowsay/cows/ | sort -R | head -1` -n
This will display a random fortune using a random 'cow'.
There's probably a better way to get a random 'cow', but ...
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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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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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Showing a "cowsay" fortune in every new terminal session
Better you use .bash_profile because .bashrc is also executed at commands like scp and they will fail silently if there is any output
I found a nice script on pastebin. currently using it.
http://...
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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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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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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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How to set firefox so that it asks for profile while opening?
Or when you don't want to change your desktop files you can simply edit ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini and change line:
StartWithLastProfile=1
to:
StartWithLastProfile=0
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How to create Guest User Account in Ubuntu without Password?
The built in guest account seems exactly what you need, from the documentation :
A guest cannot view the home folders of other users, and by default
any saved data or changed settings will be ...
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How to change profile picture in User Accounts
Same problem here. Recent upgrade from 15.10. In 15.10, it worked just fine within the account. In 16.04, I had to change the profile picture from a dummy account.
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Ubuntu 14.04 Login Loop when .profile includes .bashrc
Your ~/.bashrc appears to be execing tmux before testing whether the shell is interactive.
I'm not quite sure why that causes a login loop, since I've always understood that the session manager - at ...
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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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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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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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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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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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