Ask Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Monday, December 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: Print a specific part in an output Let us suppose that there is a command such as: cat /boot/config-3.19.0-32-generic | grep CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG The output is as such: CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG="arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig" ... command-line text-processing   asked by Raphael 10 votes answered by Terrance 12 votes What does the new logo of Ubuntu GNOME mean? The new release of Ubuntu GNOME brings a new logo. What does this logo mean? And what is the mainly reason for changing it? gnome release-management design   asked by Night Hawk 10 votes answered by Rinzwind 17 votes How to set the default program to open a certain file type in a certain folder? As well as being a Panda I am also an artist, I make my artwork mostly in GIMP and save my pictures to a certain directory on my computer. However I have a slight inconvenience because I save my ... images gimp default-programs jpeg file-type   asked by Paranoid Panda 9 votes answered by A.B. 6 votes How can I determine what a shortcut key combination does in Ubuntu 15.10? I have just installed Ubuntu 15.10 and can not unbind Super<Button2> from showing me window menu. I bound Super<Button2> to resize window, but it still opens windows menu. How do I ... unity shortcut-keys customization   asked by s9gf4ult 7 votes answered by Serg 5 votes Can I hide files so that they are hidden on both Windows and Linux? I have my computer set up to use the same home folder / user profile for Linux and Windows. As a consequence I have files like NTUSER.DAT that are hidden on Windows showing up when I ls and in my file ... filesystem   asked by 0x539 6 votes answered by Rinzwind 11 votes Is there software to periodically start and close an application? Exemplary use case: I would like to start Telegram Desktop periodically every 3 hours for 15 minutes, to check for newly incoming messages. After 15 minutes, the application should close again and ... command-line software-recommendation schedule   asked by orschiro 6 votes answered by Jacob Vlijm 4 votes Extracting a password protected .7z file with 'p7zip' returns an error I am trying to extract a password protected .7z file with p7zip -d filename.7z command. Unlike on Windows, on Ubuntu I do not get a prompt to enter password. Instead the terminal throws an E_NOTIMPL ... extract 7zip   asked by Moazzem Hossen 6 votes answered by Thomas W. 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to force a clock update using ntp? I am running Ubuntu on an ARM based embedded system that lacks a battery backed RTC. The wake-up time is somewhere during 1970. Thus, I use the NTP service to update the time to the current time. I ... ntp   asked by ysap 131 votes answered by Eric Carvalho 101 votes How can PPAs be removed? I've added many PPAs using the add-apt-repository command. Is there a simple way to remove these PPAs? I've checked in /etc/apt/sources.list for the appropriate deb lines but they aren't there. This ... ppa apt   asked by David Ashford 511 votes answered by Giorgi Jvaridze 599 votes Can you answer these? Can't connect to 2g or 3g with my Ubuntu phone (Aquaris E5) I just bought a Ubuntu phone (Aquaris E5) the only problem is that I can't connect to my 2g or 3g, but the wifi works fine. BTW I live in Sweden so it should be fine and what carrier should I use? phone 3g aquaris   asked by Jesper Helén 3 votes Error with ffmpeg since upgrade to 15.10 Like many of us I have been using AVCONV without major issues, however since 15.10 and the arrival of FFMPEG instead, I have errors in my scripts. This command has been used by me for a while to rip ... 15.10 ffmpeg avconv   asked by markrich 3 votes How do I remount a filesystem read/write? My cat walked over my keyboard and pressed "magical" SysRq u, doing an Emergency Remount R/O. How do I reverse this? On How do I remount a filesystem as read/write?, SirCharlo claims The correct ... mount   asked by Quigi 3 votes

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