A confirmation dialogue is shown when closing a Konsole terminal window, with a shell to another computer. It has a Do not ask again option. The dialogue, as shown below, alerts to the running process in the window, in this case ssh. There’s the option to continue to close the current window, or tab. And […]
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Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169
Installing Debian non-free firmware I encountered a missing firmware error, related to the Realtek network devices. W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module […]
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Disable KDE4 Screensaver
The KDE desktop was timing out and reverting to a blank screen. Over Christmas I wished to run a series of holiday photos as the KDE desktop background. The KDE desktop was timing out and changing to a blank screen, as a screensaver. As the aim was to show a series of holiday pictures to […]
Get Free Drive Space in Ubuntu
Easily finding the disk usage and free space available within Ubuntu. The File Systems option located from System Monitor provides information about the drives on a Ubuntu computer. Open the apps, by clicking on the top icon on the Ubuntu menu at the left. In the search box type as much of system monitor as […]
apt add CD-ROM Reference to Sources.list File
Adding the reference to the installation CD-ROM back into the apt sources.list file.Wanted to add a reference for the CD-ROM back into sources.list file. Shortly after completing the installation of a copy of Debian I had modified the default repository references within the sources.list file and deleted the entry for the CD-ROM. Subsequently I found […]
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Unable to Authenticate/Execute the Action (code 4)
I wished to change the login theme within the KDE System Settings. However, clicking on apply gave the authentication error. On the KDE System Settings chose Login Screen, under System Administratiion On the Theme tab select one of the Themes for the login. At this point clicking on Apply gave the pop-up error message Unable […]
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NO_PUBKEY 5C808C2B65558117
The error NO_PUBKEY 5C808C2B65558117 relates to the Debian multimedia repository public key. New year (2015) and an error on the Debian multimedia keyring: W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://deb-multimedia.org testing InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified […]
KDE English Language en-gb
To add English language (en-GB) to KDE the language package is installed. I chose to do this from a terminal, as opposed to using a package manager such as Synaptics. In the terminal type apt-get install kde-l10n-engb and click on enter. At this time a number of other KDE related packages were also updated. […]
BADSIG A040830F7FAC5991
A recent apt update gave the error BADSIG A040830F7FAC5991. The full error as shown amongst the rest of the report from apt-get update was: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A040830F7FAC5991 Google, Inc. Linux Package Signing Key <linux-packages-keymaster@google.com> I noted a number of bugs raised on the google forums recommending […]
How to Move a Window When No Title Bar
Rescuing a window which has slipped outside of the screen by moving the window when the title bar has disappeared from view. In KDE a lost Window can be moved back within the screen by holding down the <ALT> key in coordination with a mouse key. The default actions available are: <ALT> key plus left […]
