I am trying to password protect a compressed file, but the option to do so is greyed out. I am using Ubuntu 14.02 Mate. How can i password protect a compressed file? Answer The selected compression option does not support it. Select a different one from the list after the filename. According to the documentation: … Read more
Note: I installed Ubuntu Minimal because of a bug in (apparently) all *buntu 15.04, 14.04 and 14.10 versions which cause the installer to hang when installing on my system before the partitioning stage… See these questions… Example: Installation hangs up on 14.04 But I am not running on a laptop and that question did not … Read more
xclip is a command line interface to the X clipboard. When I was trying to set up a security function with this tool, I observed some effects I don’t understand. What I did is I piping strings into xclip with the loops option set to 1 (xclip exits after a single paste event with loops … Read more
I upgraded a system from jessie to stretch the “Dark Yellow” colour from the palette does not appear to be used in Vim (either the new Vim in stretch or a different vim on a remote host). Instead of the colour I specify in the palette under Profile Preferences, a dark orange is used. I … Read more
I have an Acer TravelMate B117-M-C1W5 Notebook Qua which worked reliably for over 3 years, apart from the battery always mysteriously draining completely within a week of it being entirely shut off. However, for a few months now it was very difficult to get it to start. Before the problem started, the instance the power … Read more
On my Ubuntu 20.04 installation with Mate as DM, I am facing the annoying problem that the page scrollbar in Firefox seems to have a 1 pixel wide border on the left and right side. Clicking into this border scrolls one page up/down. This is annoying because if I put the window into fullscreen and … Read more
We have some PC with accounts that are shared by several users (in this case pupils). I’d like to restrict the things they can configure on the desktop environment. E.g. they should not be able to change desktop background image etc. Is this somehow possible in xfce and / or mate (using linux mint)? I … Read more
I was trying to install a Linux Distro but I couldn’t proceed. Someone suggested to update the BIOS but after downloading the BIOS file from Acer website and running the windows version of it my laptop shuts down and the BIOS version stays the same, v1.19. I searched in the internet but I couldn’t find … Read more
I joined the throngs migrating away from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and bought an Acer TravelMat P2: Model name: TMP2410-G2-M-55HN Part number: NX.VGTAA.006 It has an ELAN touchpad and driver, so there’s no point trying to install Synaptics (which is perilous anyway, if it doesn’t already come installed). Is there any software … Read more
I have Lenovo Thinkpad T-480, with dual boot Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS and Windows 10 using GRUB. Normally I use Ubuntu-MATE for my programming needs and Windows 10 for editing images. Two days ago I removed python3 from my Ubuntu-MATE enviromnet, I needed to switch to python3.7 and python3.6 was provided by the OS. I thought … Read more
