I'm new to Xubuntu, and linux in general.

I've been trying to install steam, but everytime I try to open it it gives me this error:

steam.sh[6727]: Running Steam on ubuntu 24.04 64-bit
steam.sh[6727]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6877]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
/home/thingy/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: line 85: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: command not found
run.sh[6889]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
steam.sh[6727]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
tid(6933) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it
[2024-05-02 17:13:13] Startup - updater built Jan 13 2024 00:51:43
[2024-05-02 17:13:13] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/thingy/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
05/02 17:13:13 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(6933)
crash_20240502171314_2.dmp[6936]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20240502171314_2.dmp
crash_20240502171314_2.dmp[6936]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20240502171314_2.dmp[6936]: response: CrashID=bp-882d5a7d-18a4-4594-9742-109b72240502
crash_20240502171314_2.dmp[6936]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20240502171314_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-882d5a7d-18a4-4594-9742-109b72240502''
/home/thingy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 798:  6933 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

Does anyone know what to do?

As i try the new version, it was quite interesting to see new problem.. as simply booting over the live iso : if you put in the ip and netmask, for a direct ntwrk connection : it do not work. And when booting over the live minimal : the dhcp cannot get an ip and over the iso-desktop.. with all crap of snapd stuff, dhcp do get ip, but cannot keep/connect to a specific ip given.

Of course, booting a live arch, put the ip and netmask and hit save: all work, full connection. Quite funny as i boot lot of time over the xub v23 version and the network do work.

i guess it's normal with the snap implementation to have not a working system out of the box or a reason to simply go to Debian as fully stable and work.

I'm trying to upgrade from 22 LTS to 24 LTS which released recently but

do-release-upgrade -c

isn't returning any new available version, and yes the prompt is set to lts and not normal

what the title says basically, it just took me like 25 minutes to empty the bin.

while this is happening thunar becomes very slow and unresponsive

xubuntu 22.10, thunar 4.17.9

i have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 3.600G

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Hi everyone, I am using Xubuntu 23.10 and I am considering switching to 24.04 LTS in a few days, however my Xubuntu is customized with the Liquorix kernel and a few settings for it to better run games..or flight sims to be precise, so the extra buff comes in handy compared to regular games. So the question is if I do this switch, will Xubuntu at all "upgrade" since it's not the generic kernel, if it does; will I have to reinstall the liqourix kernel and re-apply the settings I made ? Also, will I have to deactivate Snap all over again ?

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solved by recreating the symlink from /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service to /lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service

I temporally disabled lightdm via systemctl in order to change some of its configs but now it won't re-enable.

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I have always used Windows, but recently I decided to take a jump into the world of Linux. I talked to a friend, and asked what distro he recommended. He told me to try out Xubuntu, so I flashed a usb, and started installing it. However when I started setting up the OS, I received this error message:

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SD Cards no longer click into place in my Ender 5 S1, and are not being read by the printer. When I opened it up, I noticed a detached spring at the bottom. I looked it up and discovered that the detached spring is the reason the card no longer reads. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hello! It is my first time using Xubuntu, and I wanted to play retroarch with my controller.
Its a Generic Xinput device KNUP GM-019
When I was using another OS, the controller would connect, vibrate, and light up.
On XUbuntu it vibrates to indicate energy, but does not light up, nor appears in the jstest-gtk.
I already triend installing xboxvdr and ubuntu-xboxvdr, Ieven installed xpad, to no success.
Can someone with more knowledge help me out?

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So, to start this off, I am only about a week into my use of Linux based systems so please forgive me if this is a rather dumb problem.

I started a learn to code course called The Odin Project, and it directed me to downloading a VM and running Xubuntu from it to do the course, which I did, and everything has been working amazing until today. I was practicing coding in VSCode, and opening my index.html files with Chrome through the terminal, and it was all working perfectly. Then I go to open it again a little later and I get:

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libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

INFO: Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.

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and I am completely stuck on a fix. I found one post on Reddit that talked about deleting the chromium-flag files, but it is a couple of years old and I am not certain if it would work here.

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Again, I am brand new to this, so I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask, or if I am leaving out needed information. I will happily provide any other info needed. Thanks for any advice.

I've been using Xubuntu for over a decade, so I should know how to do this already. When using something like Gthumb to scroll through a few thousand product photos, when I right-click to try and open in Gimp there are a ton of options. Often, the default is not the top choice and I accidentally open the image in something else. The same thing happens in different applications. See this screenshot from gThumb as an example.

Sure Firefox can open a JPG, but I don't want it in the default list of "Open With" applications. What I really want to do is reduce that list to the minimum applications I might use to actually open files for editing. For all of the other applications I rarely use, I'll simply open files from within the applications.

I know it has something to do with Mime types, but I cannot find what configuration file is controlling the applications I have in the list. I've checked ~./config/mimeapps.list but it only seems to list the defaults. In the screenshot above Geeqie is in the list, but does not appear anywhere in the mimeapps.list file.

Does anyone know what configuration file can be edited to remove applications from the Open With list?

I'm running xubuntu-desktop in wsl ubuntu 24.04. The terminal where I start xubuntu-desktop (w. xfce4-session) keeps writing:

Xlib: extension "DPMS" missing on display ":0.0".

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How do I remove that ?

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Eigil

There is this area at the border of a window where the mouse changes on mouse over. It changed from a pointer to an arrow pointing towards the direction which the window can be resized. What is this mystical area called? And how can I make this area larger. I'd like more than that one pixel of grab space.

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Installed Xubuntu Minimal but the bluetooth is not showing. I think Blueman doesnot come installed in minimal installation. Tried installing through terminal but shows Repository not available.

Any help??

Dead keys were not working anymore. I closed the virtual machine (Oracle VM). I restarted and It kept loading. I shut off the pc and tried again, same story. What should i do? Could i recover the files that were there?

I want to run Fortnite off my virtual machine, I only need it to un at the lowest settings, I won't be using it to play the game, just need it to run. Here are the specs of the VM: https://postimg.cc/G4kgy2V7

I am having issues with this, I believe I have given it the right resources to be able to run, but every time I boot up the game it takes a very long time to load and inevitably crashes

I believe the issue is RAM usage. Despite being allocated 8GB of RAM, task manager tells me that the virtual machine is only using 80MB. What exactly is the problem here and how can I solve it?

I have been interested in Linux for a long time and finally got a machine to fix up and put it on. During my parent's recent move from Houston to Orlando, they uncovered my dad's old 2012 (A1465) MacBook Air. It has the 8GB RAM, Dual-core i7, and 128GB SSD. It had been my little brother's laptop for a bit but probably hadn't been turned on since 2017. It was originally running MacOS 10.13 and while not egregiously slow, it wasn't exactly fast. I liked the look of Xubuntu and thought the taskbar was a good fit for the little 13 inch screen since it was so thin (I do not like hiding taskbars).

I am actually using it to submit this post! Xubuntu really lets it fly and so far everything just works, though the trackpad is a tad touchy. I discovered that the power button on this thing is actually busted. I have a new keyboard on the way (this one is C R U S T Y from the abuse my brother put it through even after cleaning...) so that should fix that. The only way to shut it down and restart it at the moment is to take off the plate and disconnect the battery lol.

So far, I have only encountered only minor problems. I am tech-savvy and have a decent grasp of terminal (with occasional guidance) so none have been too bad for me to handle. One frustrating bug I have encountered twice now is when I go to login after opening the laptop clamshell, I can move the cursor, push all three buttons but it will not let me enter text into the box for my password. I found doing my teardown-reboot (tm) works but I'd rather not have to do that every time, or at least until I can get the power button working. Is there a fix for this? I'm running the latest version.

I am a residential college student in Texas and will be flying home to see my parents at their new house in Orlando this week for spring break. I'd like to take this laptop because of it's size and construction. My windows (Lenovo) laptop is big and plastic and so doesn't travel well (I will be taking carry-on only). Any recommendations for traveling with a lil buggy linux machine? I have a desktop there in Florida so I am not worried in that regard, just curious.

Hi! Im about to dual boot linux for the first time on a spare hdd, and i was wondering how slow it would be on a hdd, or if something like mint would be a faster and better option. Thanks!

Will it use 4.18? Can't find official info about this.

Will it also be released on the 25. April?

Im looking forward to it because I want to resetup my system but then I will wait for the new one rather than reinstalling 22.04.

Exactly what it says on the tin. xev allows me to see me clicking the center wheel, but scrolling is not detected at all. How would I go about troubleshooting this? The mouse works just fine on another system and on a windows box.

I don't know if you remember me from my previous posts but I've been using Xubuntu for quite some time and nothing seems to be made to be ran on Linux.

I tried playing games but no majority of the games are windows only or win/mac.

I tried to do some customization and while doing so I realized that I didn't have an zip extractor. So I started to search for one but couldn't find anything (maybe I didn't look enough idk) so I downloaded some random extractor from the software manager. I tried installing unrar but it didn't work for some reason.

I tried to run Microsoft teams but the new version isn't compatible with Linux. Just as I was going to give up I saw an app to run Microsoft teams on software manager but it didn't run the version of MT that I use(work or school version or whatever it's called) so it didn't work either.

Then I tried to edit documents just to see how everything worked. To do that I downloaded LibreOffice which is a program that I've used before but not so much. I downloaded and installed it, but when I tried to edit a PDF file I couldn't do the photo to text thing that Adobe Acrobat has. I tried to search for a way to do it but I guess I have to use an OCR or something to do that idk.

I'm starting to question my decision of switching to Linux completely. Maybe I'm doing something wrong I don't know and if so let me know but what's the point of switching to Linux if I won't be able to do my regular school work and stuff. I really like Xubuntu don't get me wrong. I love not having blootware or being able to customize everything or using the terminal to get stuff but if I won't be able to do basic tasks then what's the point of getting it? Need some help. ı

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I'm connected to the internet right now btw so I can download updates and stuff.

What I mean is I want have windows and Xubuntu on my SSD but of course I'm not talking about running them at the same time. I just want to be able to switch systems every time I boot my PC. How can I do that?

I will get a screenshot once I learn the screenshot key