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How to respect leading zero when importing in libreoffice calc

I am importing a file that one of the columns has numbers that have a leading zero or zeroes. Whenever I import the file, it is read properly during the preview: But after accepting and opening the ...

libreoffice  
user avatar asked by Luis Alvarado Score of 7
user avatar answered by kyodake Score of 11

How to remap right shift to backslash in Ubuntu 24.04?

How to remap R.Shift to slash ('/') in Ubuntu 24.04? I want to remap R.Shift to '/' and L.Shift + R.Shift to '?'. I tried to use Input Remapper, Tweak, and XModMap, but their mappings do not work for ...

remapping  
user avatar asked by Ananta Score of 3
user avatar answered by Ajay Score of 4

How to help document Ubuntu?

I am a technical writer with plenty of open source experience and I would like to help document Ubuntu. Where is the best place to start?

documentation open-source  
user avatar asked by Robert Thornton Score of 3

Can usernames containing only digits be used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Please understand that I am not good at English and I have recently applied for Ubuntu Desktop and I do not have much knowledge. ▼▼▼▼ I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now, and I'm trying to use Ubuntu 22.04 ...

22.04 username  
user avatar asked by user1872890 Score of 2
user avatar answered by vanadium Score of 8

Why would text be corrupted in various editors when scrolling with mouse wheel (rapidly)

I have a problem where rapid scrolling up and down of text in various editors (both VS Code and Eclipse for sure) causes fragments of text from elsewhere. I had attributed this to bit-rot in my ...

mouse eclipse 24.04  
user avatar asked by Tuoni64 Score of 1
user avatar answered by Tuoni64 Score of 1

root user can't read `gio mount`ed smb share

As a non-root user I can run $ gio mount smb://raspberrypi.local/shared and the drive mounts fine. However, the root user doesn't have read permissions for it somehow. $ stat /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-...

networking server permissions 22.04 samba  
user avatar asked by Max Coplan Score of 1
user avatar answered by Morbius1 Score of 1

How is the live session created?

What is special to the Ubuntu live session, compared to a normal user session, besides the non-persistence? How is this session created? What changes happen on top of a regular user that would copy ...

live-usb live-cd custom-distributions customizer  
user avatar asked by MakisH Score of 1
user avatar answered by Talaat Etman Score of 0

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

"Unable to locate package" while trying to install packages with APT

When I try to install any package through the command line, I get an error. $ sudo apt-get install <package> Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state ...

apt package-management  
user avatar asked by CodeGeeky Score of 366
user avatar answered by kiri Score of 234

Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop

My Ubuntu is stuck in a login loop when trying to enter my desktop. When I login, the screen gets black and soon after that the login screen comes back. I've read that the problem might be caused by ...

login lightdm login-screen  
user avatar asked by Calvin Wahlers Score of 574
user avatar answered by SiddharthaRT Score of 462

SSH Permission denied (publickey)

I am trying to connect to a Linode (running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) from my local machine (also running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) I have created a private and public key on my local machine and copied my public ...

server permissions ssh  
user avatar asked by Pattle Score of 296
user avatar answered by earthmeLon Score of 168

How to increment a variable in bash?

I have tried to increment a numeric variable using both var=$var+1 and var=($var+1) without success. The variable is a number, though bash appears to be reading it as a string. Bash version 4.2.45(1)...

bash  
user avatar asked by user221744 Score of 852
user avatar answered by Radu Rădeanu Score of 1261

apt-get update fails to fetch files, “Temporary failure resolving …” error

Err http://archive.canonical.com natty InRelease Err http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security InRelease Err http://extras.ubuntu.com natty InRelease ...

apt  
user avatar asked by Lewis Score of 238
user avatar answered by fossfreedom Score of 369

How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?

I'd like to create a Windows bootable USB stick, but I don't have a Windows machine at the moment to do so. How can I achieve that using Ubuntu?

windows usb-installation usb-creator  
user avatar asked by Zignd Score of 542
user avatar answered by Eugene Score of 124

How to get the GPU info?

I'm looking for a command that would give me the same info as: cat /proc/cpuinfo Except for the GPU (type of the chip and memory, frequency).

command-line graphics gpu  
user avatar asked by user2413 Score of 396
user avatar answered by greyfade Score of 175

Can you answer these questions?

Unable to log failed boots via journalctl

Ubuntu's currently failing to boot on my system (hybrid Nvidia graphics), I've already reported the bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2071680 But, journalctl only captures logs from ...

boot nvidia debugging  
user avatar asked by Xashyar Score of 1

Lost Password, Recovery will not work due to a Dependency

I am not a confident Ubuntu user but changed my Password due to unexplained usage issues. I copied carefully the suggested Ubuntu Password but it will not work neither will the previous one nor ...

dependencies password  
user avatar asked by lionel.smith Score of 1
user avatar answered by amar Score of 0

How to record audio with ffmpeg with Python on Ubuntu?

I encountered the problem of recording output audio on Ubuntu with Python. I want to record the output sound from the browser. I used USB Headphone as the output device, then record sounded with ...

sound python pulseaudio alsa ffmpeg  
user avatar asked by Dinh Chu Score of 1
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