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Prevent an open terminal from being closed
It has been a long time, so I am rusty with my commands.
I use a script to have reminders. One I have running will display "Meteor shower occurs after midnight." after 3 hours.
Is there a ...
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Shortcut to specific profile mate-terminal
As you can see, I have in the upper bar a shortcut to open mate terminal:
Here you can see the shortcut properties:
I have some profiles which I use frequently, and would like to have shortcuts for ...
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How to modify MATE Tweaks -> Appearance Preferences -> Fonts sizes through a script in command line
Hi everyone and thank you for any help or advice that you could give me.
I work half time from home and half time in person in my office; however, the screen size/resolution of my available monitor at ...
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Having apps stay open when the computer starts
Hello Running Ubuntu Mate. Is their a way to have command line applications open automatically at startup.
Right now every time I restart the computer I have to open the programs manually.
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Streaming paused while in console
I am running Ubuntu Mate 18.04, recently updated. When I have Spotify playing in my browser (happens either with Firefox or Google Chrome), and I switch to tty1 to work, the music plays 10 or 20 ...
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Mate Desktop freezes on login
I got a new laptop, and swapped my hard drive into it. it booted right up. when I log in with my typical user account, the screen goes black, and it eventually shuts down.
I can log in via the ...
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Unable to type in a terminal, but there is a prompt
I am running Ubuntu-MATE 18.04.4 LTS, and using MATE Terminal 1.20.0.
All of my existing terminal sessions are unresponsive to most keyboard input. Basically, I cannot type anything meaningful into ...
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Need to add something permanently to my PATH [duplicate]
I'm really struggling with the different tutorials as I keep getting errors or I keep getting told that what I'm doing isn't recognised as a command so I would really appreciate it if someone could ...
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Resize image from command line to 1024x576
I need to convert images down to 1024x576 using the command line.
I have Gimp, VLC, and Inkscape, on Ubuntu MATE 18.04.
Thanks.
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Resume script does nothing
This script is in /etc/pm/sleep.d/.
I used this as a guide. I am using Ubuntu Mate 18.04.
https://superuser.com/questions/733333/how-do-i-run-commands-on-suspend-return-from-suspend
Execute bit is ...
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Print picture from a terminal
I would like to print a picture from a terminal.
I use Gimp. I could not find anything using a search.
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Dual Boot (Windows 10 and Ubuntu Mate) boots to Grub command line
So, for the record, I'm new to using Ubuntu/Linux. I'm slowly getting acquainted with everything, but I'd love it if you guys could help me out with an issue I'm having.
I have a laptop with two hard ...
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mate-terminal: trigger profile on command
When I start an ssh session I want some constant on screen signal, such as a color change, that reminds me that this session is not local. I keep a lot of terminals open and I too often don't notice ...
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Bash script help substitution
Is there a way so I don't have to manually change maxruntime?
So that --timeout "time" = maxruntime
SCRIPTS="/home/andy/bin/CPU_Stress_Test.txt"
command="/usr/bin/stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-...
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Line in sudoers.d not working
The last line is not working when I use sudo geany.
andy ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/thunar
andy ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/geany
andy ALL = NOPASSWD: /home/andy/PEAZIP/peazip_portable-6.6.0.LINUX.x86_64....
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