shows block files while booting my laptop

I got my screen like below while booting up my laptop : /dev/sda1: clean, 273418/30531504 files, 5245319/122096128 blocks Now my question is what this indicates? I’m using Ubuntu 17.04. Answer Nothing harmful, it’s fsck checking your first partition to make sure it’s in consistent situation. Sometimes a forced power off or power failure might be … Read more

How to fix palm detection in Ubuntu 17.04

I have had this problem since Ubuntu 16.04. The palm detection simply does not work. I tried running commands mentioned in this article but to no effect. Output of xinput: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ DLLC6B2:00 06CB:75BF Touchpad id=11 [slave … Read more

17.04: using matplotlib with GTK-based backend?

On a new 17.04 Ubuntu system, with python and python-matplotlib, I wanted to plot using the Matplotlib GTKAgg or GTKCairo backends. This works nicely in 16.04, but is broken in 17.04, as a result of the following: >>> import matplotlib.backends._backend_gdk ImportError: No module named _backend_gdk But the same command works perfectly in 16.04. Consequently import … Read more

External monitor with hdmi-vga adapter not working – Ubuntu 17.04

So, after many and many nights spent trying to fix this, i’ve came to the very last option: ask here. Let me explain my problem. I have an ASUS NT7000something laptop, witch has only an HDMI output. I managed to install Ubntu 16.10 last year, after a lot of trouble because of my graphic card … Read more

Installing gcc-7.2 via apt

how do I install gcc-7.2 via apt on zesty? Anything I found is either installing 7.0.1 or for installing gcc on Ubuntu 16.10 Answer The Ubuntu maintainers have some alpha-quality/unsupported gcc 7.2 packages that might work. Use at your own risk $ gcc-7 -v … gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-1ubuntu1~16.04) $ Install it (should work … Read more

How to stop Nautilus from showing location along with file/directory name?

Nautilus is showing file names with full paths instead of just the names. How can I make it display only the base name? Answer Open Nautilus Preferences. Your Views tab will probably look something like this: Select None in all the drop-down boxes (First, Second and Third) under the Icon View Captions. AttributionSource : Link … Read more

E: Package ‘libpng12-0’ has no installation candidate (Ubuntu 17.04) [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: E: Package ‘libpng12-0’ has no installation candidate [ubuntu 16.10 Gnome] (3 answers) Closed 4 years ago. When I run: sudo apt-get install libpng12-0, I get this error message: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package libpng12-0 is not available, but is referred to by … Read more