George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
When installed as a snap package in Ubuntu 24.04, Gedit displays wrong colours and some menus freeze. The solution is to disable the opengl permission. Either through Settings -> Apps -> Permissions: or on the command line: snap connect gedit:opengl
This is a short follow-up on Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus [UVC] Hardware support is just as good/bad as with Ubuntu 22.04, so all findings from [UVC] apply here, too. The display manager is still X11, I have not tried Wayland. Video hardware acceleration with VLC and SMPlayer snap installations now works, but requires … Continue reading Ubuntu 24.04 on the HP Victus
A quick one: Eclipse (2023-06) + Java (openjdk 17.0.7) under Ubuntu 22.04 crashes after a bit of interaction with this message: C [libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37+0xbbe3b6]. It's Wayland, but there's an easy workaround [1]: env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 ./eclipse Resources [1] Eclipse IDE crashing with Java errors since 22.04 upgrade when using waylandhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-lts/+bug/1988843/comments/5
I don't like Windows much, but I loved Windows 11 sound volume control via three-finger touch pad gestures, so I ported that behaviour to Ubuntu 22.04. The script [TVC] listens to events from a touchpad device, detects three-finger taps and modifies the sound volume depending on the vertical scroll direction. Installation Download the script from … Continue reading Ubuntu gesture volume control
Yesterday (early August 2021) my Ubuntu 20.04 installation started configuring all network interfaces (wifi, ethernet) with IPv4 addresses from the wrong network segment block, namely 192.168.0.x. IPv6 still worked fine. I didn't figure out whether that's due to a change in the router or the OS (I suspect the router, because the situation improved when … Continue reading Ubuntu 20.04 getting wrong IP address
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