16.10

Some applications’ tray icon images disappearing after screensaver and stand-by

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On my two laptops running Ubuntu 16.10, each time they go to sleep, or after the screensaver (i.e. Ubuntu’s default screen turn off), some tray icons are missing their images. I mean, the placeholder is there, but the image is missing. I’m attaching an image: For reference, here’s how it should look like: This far … Read more

Only wake up when pressing power button, not any other button

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I only want to wake up my laptop when pressing the power button, not any other button (e.g. when I clean the keyboard, the laptop wakes up making cleaning impossible). How can I change this? I noticed the question How can I wake my laptop from suspend only on power button? but the answer got … Read more

After upgrading to 16.10 no wifi connections

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I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 but since then only Ethernet is working and I can’t connect to any WiFi network. How I can troubleshoot and solve this issue ? Some info from my laptop: me@my-LAP:~$ iwconfig wlp3s0b1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=19 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off … Read more

DNS lookups periodically start to fail until dnsmasq is restarted after upgrading to 16.10

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After upgrading from Xubuntu 16.04 to 16.10, DNS lookups start failing after an amount of time, restarting dnsmasq appears to temporarily resolve the issue, but I’m forever restarting it throughout the day. When the lookups stop working, Chrome gives me one of the following errors: “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED”, “DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG”, “DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN”; This is for both sites on the … Read more

Android Device connection problem

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My problem is not seeing my android device on my Ubuntu. Details are: I have Ubuntu 16.10 installed on my computer. I don’t have any issue connecting other Usb or external HDD to my device. My phone is Samsung with android. It is already enabled MTP mode I cannot see my device at all event … Read more

LiDAR Analysis GUI (LAG). Make and Make install

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I have a programm from GIT: https://github.com/arsf/lag. Author of this program has given instructions for its installation: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH cd lag/lidarquadtree libtoolize && autoheader && aclocal && automake –add-missing && autoconf ./configure make sudo make install cd .. libtoolize && autoheader && aclocal && automake –add-missing && autoconf ./configure make sudo make install The first … Read more

Cannot detect wireless driver [duplicate]

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This question already has answers here: Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers (43 answers) How to install Broadcom wireless drivers offline? (2 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I just installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 on my Acer Inspire M laptop but it could not detect the wireless card. I found my earlier post: Cannot locate wireless networks on … Read more