George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
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
Windows introduced [citation missing] the Alt + Left Shift key combination for switching between keyboard languages and ever since I tried to configure that combination for every setup I've worked with. Ubuntu, unfortunately, made it harder and harder over time to do that. User Raffa on askubuntu has the solution [KL]: Open a terminal and … Continue reading Toggling keyboard languages in Ubuntu 24.04 with Alt + Shift
An Elgato Camlink 4K wouldn't work under Ubuntu 22.04. It would show up with lsusb, but Cheese wouldn't list it as a device and OBS studio would show it as a disabled device. A little stream conversion magic [RED] #!/usr/bin/env bash # You need to run # sudo apt install v4l2loopback-utils v4l2loopback-dkms # once and … Continue reading Elgato Camlink and Linux
Under Ubuntu 22.04, when Skype is installed as a snap, some menus are blank (+ it keeps freezing the entire computer sometimes). There's a simple workaround [1]: disable "access to opengl" in the snap store properties. I don't know, yet, what else this'll break... but we'll find out soon. [1] Some snap application menus don't … Continue reading Skype/Snap menus are blank
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
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