Questions tagged [kubuntu]
Kubuntu is the official Ubuntu derivative using the KDE Plasma Desktop. Use this tag only for questions that are Kubuntu specific. Questions for Kubuntu are probably better asked at http://askubuntu.com/, the stackexchange site for Ubuntu.
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how to restore default kde kwin on cmd?
yesterday I restarted my Kubuntu 22.04 machine and now I have a problem. Normaly my login screen looks like this:
I am not 100% sure, but I changed nothing after installation, so i think its kwin. ...
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Invoking remote apps with Kubuntu GUI?
Most apps run fine on the user's local system. but there are few that need to be on a remote server for performance or licencing issues.
For some user's they just use a terminal emulator:
ssh -X ...
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Limit mouse / pen tablet to a single app (i.e. Krita)
Multi seating use case (Using Kubuntu 22.04.1 / Plasma5) with single display:
Huge 65/4K Desktop Screen with plenty of space
Second mouse/Tablet/Keyboard USB input devices plugged on the same ...
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Kubuntu 22.04 won't boot after a clean install
After a clean install of Kubuntu 22.04, I get these messages and computer just hangs infinitely:
[0.149135] x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS
[5.427817] usb 1-6: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x81
[5.440863] ...
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Browsers redirect from local "index.html"-file to "file:///"-root
I downloaded the website https://www.untools.co/ with
wget --mirror --convert-links https://www.untools.co/
and have respective pages on my filesystem:
When I open untools.co/index.html with Firefox ...
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Is it ok to delete the /srv directory?
Is it okay to remove the srv$ directory in Kubuntu 20.04
There seems to be no files contained inside and it will clear up the structure.
after research I found that it was very much up to what I want ...
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/run/udev/tags/ on a Kubuntu VM: Cannot remove 'snap_firefox_firefox' after uninstalling Firefox. What are these files?
I am trying to completely uninstall Firefox in a VM, which I did via:
snap disable firefox
snap remove --purge firefox
But an FSearch query turned up the following:
There is next to nothing on the ...
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Double-click JavaScript files in KDE Dolphin and open in editor instead of trying to execute
I've been searching for an embarassingly long time without finding a solution for this. Having to right-click files all day would be an exceedingly miserable experience. Is there any way to fix this?
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Sudo won't accept correct password
I'm having a weird problem; sudo isn't accepting my absolutely correct password on my new Kubuntu install. This happens in terminal and in graphical sudo prompts, like if you double click a .deb or ...
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Kubuntu: how to disable color in output of 'watch' command
I am runnung Kubuntu 20.04.
Command watch is from package procps.
dpkg -l procps
shows the version:
2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2
I am redirecting the output of warch to a file, like
watch -t "date" &...
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for Kubuntu: how to get a working pdftotext
I am running Kubuntu 20.04. Therein is installed pdftotext based on poppler-utils, version 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.
This pdftotext does not work. I have tried very many different pdf files. It gives no output,...
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where in the FHS does command less store its buffers?
Using Kubuntu 20.04, which is running from an USB stick. Therefore there is a /cow overlay file system mounted on /. The USB stick has a total capacity of 32 GB, But to the cow overlay file system ...
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Why does GRUB stall on a system that has only BIOS support with no UEFI?
I have several old laptops that only support BIOS or Legacy mode. They do not have support for EFI/UEFI. The laptops all have a 64-bit CPU. I have attempted to create a bootable USB with dd, cat as ...
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Is this an expected directory under /run/user/1000?
I have a directory under /run/user/1000 that looks like this from an ls -al.
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc
Is this normal, or an error of some sort?
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Grub-customizer trying to use `KDE su` - Cannot login
I would like to use Grub Customizer, but I cannot start it. After entering the administrator password,
it asks again for it:
(see update below: I guess the first image shows an interface that is not ...
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