Questions tagged [system]
For questions regarding the function of the entire operating system and issues that affect users system-wide.
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Broke my install while installing a theme
I installed an Icon theme with elementary tweaks, I guess it was broken because the settings force closed, wingpanel disappeared and most of my apps won't start anymore...
Right now I can only open ...
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updates to the operating system
Excellencies
I really like your operating system for its simplicity and appearance.
I'm a fan of elementary operating systems, but I had three headaches.
All due to updates to the operating system, ...
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How to optimize Juno to be less resource hungry?
I'm a long time xubuntu user (while not very technical I love linux). I switched recently to elementary OS because it looks so beautiful out of the box.
However: the applications are very high on ...
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Where do I find drivers for elementary OS?
If I install elementary OS, where should I get wifi sound and other drivers for my laptop to make these work? I want to delete Windows 10 completely.
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Parental Controls in Elementary OS 5.0 not working
I just today (Sept. 5 2019) installed Elementary OS 5.0 as a virtual machine using Virtualbox.
While logged in to my administrator user account, I created another standard user account for my son. I ...
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system freezes while watching video or after wake up
Im new on elementary os. I quite like it so far but i have a serious issue. My computer freezes while watching videos or after wake up. I can only move the cursor but i cannot click not even with ...
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Ignore touchpad when mouse is connected
So, i found this option on System settings => Mouse & Touchpad => Touchpad => Ignore when mouse is connected
This is exactly what I'm looking for, but, (I have no idea why) this options does ...
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elementary OS auto screenshots and freeze!
Guys i have installed juno version and have worked fine for about 6 months. Now i have some keyboard problems and OS capture my screen automatically and then OS freezes. What should i do?
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system Update failure
I have latest version — juno which used to bring frequent notifications for update and used to get updated easily but for the last 3 weeks it has stopped sending notifications and doesn't get updated ...
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Which Task manager is most similar to the Mac OS task manager
Is there a good task manager similar looking to the Mac OS one. I’ll link an image since I’m using the stack exchange app and it’s giving me errors when uploading a photo
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I get loged out when I go into my Files
Whenever I try to access my files my screen goes blank and I get logged out. When I log back in the only thing that loads is my wallpaper.
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System will not login automatically to SMB server after login
I am new in the Linux world. I want to let elementary OS automatically login to my NAS after each reboot. Now I have to login manually after each reboot which is getting pretty annoying.
I connect ...
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How to know which packages I have installed manually?
Where on the web is Loki's install manifest file? I want to compare it with the current build to see what I have installed?
Or is there another way?
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How to overcome “flip_done” timed out errors
Installed Elementary OS on Lenovo R61 laptop. Takes over 5 minutes to start. Black screen filled with flip_done timed out error messages before splash screen displayed. Once started it takes exactly ...
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[SOLVED]randomly “sleeping/shutting down” while using ElementaryOS
new User here...
I have a "old" tablet pc ( 2 in 1 ), this one : https://www.pipo-store.com/pipo-w1-pro-stylus-tablet.html
i have it for 4 years, and now the performance with windows10 is not as ...
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Only using 2 cores instead of 4
I have installed elementary OS 5 and when i run lscpu i see only 2 CPUcores working instead of 4.
I have notebook Asus E203N. Any ideas to solve it ??
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For some reason amdgpu stopped working
I'm desperate to get a resolution to this problem, the thing is a managed to get the drivers working on and r9 390, went to launch and when I go back the pc was shut off, I start it off and I got a ...
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Update error - signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available
I installed a few days ago(monday I think) elementary OS 5.0 Juno. Everything went really good, I'ma pretty experienced Linux user, I've been using ubuntu,elementary os and linux in general for quite ...
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How to Factory reset Elementary OS Juno [closed]
i want to factory reset elementary os system. How to make it? please help me
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Will we have an SDK for elementary OS?
Does the developer team have any plans to produce an SDk for the operating system?
I imagine the great effort to produce a larger application.
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How to run command on desktop unlock
I have problems with a touchpad on Lenovo X1 Gen 5th.
Each time I unlock my screen session the touchpad is not functioning 100%, namely finger gestures for scrolling are messed up.
I have to run the ...
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Unbelievably slow?
So I have installed Elementary OS hearing how beautiful and lightweight it is. I'll agree it is very good looking but it's too slow in my computer. I'm pretty sure I have installed all my drivers ...
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No system tray icon for Ibus in Elementary OS Juno
I have install Ibus and Ibus-Unikey to type my native language in Elementary OS Juno. Everything works very well, except the case that there is no system tray icon for Ibus, just a band of three ...
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BCM57780 ethernet link is always down
I'm struggling since a while with my NIC "Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe" which can not be connected to any device using ethernet. The link is always down.
I tried to change ...
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Is there a way to turn off move window shortcut?
Default move window shortcut on Juno is win+mouse drag, but I want to change this behavior because another application (Tracktion 7) requires this shortcut to perform some operation and I didn't find ...
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Where is the trash icon?
Sorry for the silly question, but where is the trash icon on Juno? How do i add it to the dock?
I'm currently delete things manually by going into the .local/share/trash. But it would be nice to use ...
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Die APP Systemeinstellungen ist nicht auffindbar (The APP system settings can not be found)
habe die App Systemeinstellungen (System Settings) deinstalliert. Wie bekomme ich diese wieder zurück oder neu.
Danke euch.
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I have uninstalled the app System Settings. How do I get ...
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There is no system tray feature for third party apps i.e. qBittorrent, KeepassXC etc [duplicate]
I can't send third party apps like qBittorrent,KeepassXC to system tray instead it gets closed even when the necessary options are marked to use those on background system tray.
currently using ...
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Laptop wakes immediately after suspend
So basically, I can suspend the laptop just fine, whether from GUI, by closing the lid or from the terminal. But about half a second after suspending (after the whole thing has gone quiet) it suddenly ...
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Wacom on elementary OS
I would like to know if elementary has support for Wacom Tablet now. I have the wacom one and in seeings section Hardware there is no wacom graphical support.
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="elementary OS 5.0 ...
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Very big file in /var/logs/syslog due to repeating error
I got a notification that that my root directory was running out of space which was odd because I had given it 20 GB of space and the installation was only a day old. After a bit of snooping, the ...
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Зависание при выключении/перезагрузке - Hangup on shutdown / reboot
Установил Elementary OS вместе с виндой параллельно, всё чики-пуки, но когда нажимаю на кнопку "выключить", пропадает курсор и всё зависает, либо ждать пока ноут разрядится, либо кнопкой мучать. Когда ...
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UFW and Elementary OS 5 - Juno
I have a new, fresh installation of Elementary OS 5 - Juno on a Razer Blade Stealth (2018). All of the updates have been applied (as of 02/02/19). I want to enable the firewall through System ...
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Num lock does not work in elementary OS Juno
I have a problem with my keyboard in elementary OS Juno. In the lock screen, my num lock works fine, but when I login it does not work.
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Complete system freeze
My computer freezes completely every now and then.
I do nothing heavy on resources, plain browsing the internet reading articles.
When system freezes there is NOTHING I can do. Mouse not moving, I ...
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How to disable fstream on boot
I have a laptop with Elementary OS 0.5 with SSD drive. Every time it boots it executes fstream. Can anybody point me which service needs to be disabled to prevent this. I want to conserve as much ...
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Is it possible to use elementary OS from a live USB?
Can I use live version from usb and save the things done during the session?
Or does it simply come back to original state every time it is opened from live USB?
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Tried to install libglib2.0-0:i386 (wine dependency), and it removed most of the apps and OS
I was trying to install winehq-stable and it gave me an error that it needed some dependencies. The first one I tried to install (libglib2.0-0:i386) removed most of my stuff (well over 100 packages - ...
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system doesn't start - hangs on a process
I can not turn on computer anymore. I tried to update my release-loki to release-juno manually. Something may have gone wrong. I just see a bunch of process starting and started but this hangs with,
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Is it possible to turn Ubuntu to elementary OS? [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 18 installed in my computer. I want to installed elementary OS. I kind started liking it. But I have so many apps installed in the Ubuntu installation and I don't want to lose those. So ...
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System broken due to faulty upgrade
I had elementary OS Freya installed on my computer. Knowing that there's no official way to upgrade to Loki from Freya I decided upgrade it manually this answer. I don't blame the answer posted in ...
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How to run multiple command sequentially?
I am new to elementary OS. I usually use windows. In windows we can create batch file which can make several command run at command prompt by single click. How to do this in elementary OS?
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Up to date elementary OS is incredibly slow, whats wrong?
My system is:
Quad-Core Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1)
16.4 GB memory
233.7 GB storage
I'm using the latest nvidia-driver-415 driver ...
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USB does not work on elementary OS (Juno) on virtual box
I have decided to install Juno. As it is new I thought to try it without installing it on my computer, i will have to backup lots of data so I thought lets see it at once. I installed it in virtual ...
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How to upgrade from loki to juno? [duplicate]
I have elementary OS version loki installed on a computer. I want to upgrade it to juno . How do I get juno without losing the apps i have installed?
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(LoadError) No such file or directory - wpscan
Trying to install wpscan on my system. I have installed these following packages libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev ruby-dev build-essential libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev. I have downloaded ...
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user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported [duplicate]
I have tried creating a user through command line with sudo adduser user but when I log in using that user's credential I get some error saying user is not in sudoers file. How can I add new user to ...
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How to view all existing user of my system?
I am new to elementary OS as well as Linux and command-line. I have learned that some users are not listed in the system user accounts. How can I view them?
Thanks in advance.
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How can I know which is my Elementary OS version?
I just tried:
lsb_release -a
But the answer is only about the Ubuntu version (16.04). I have no information about elementary OS version.
The reason I want this information is in order to upgrade, ...
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Apt repo add with human error, empty AppCenter
I installed Elementary OS since 2 weeks now, and I wanted to install Syncthing, what I did... But I went to this page and due to my window width, I typed 2 commands instead of one :
echo "deb https://...
