Ubuntu 20.04: Switching from GUI to CLI, get a ghost cursor in the GUI

So when switching from CLI windows (idk if that's the proper name, I mean when you ctrl alt f5, etc) and going back to the GUI i get a cursor in the bottom right half of my screen on top of all the windows along with my normal, functional cursor.

Cant seem to find a fix for this? Any ideas (goes away when you restart the display-driver service, but that closes all gui programs, so not really a fix)

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Spotted some Bionic Beaver in the new movie, Nobody
https://imgur.com/a/mOpF0uY

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Linux Deep dive

I'm looking for a learning resource to accelerate my understanding of the inner workings of linux based operating systems. I was previously reccomended trying linux from scratch, but that was a little more involved than i have time for atm. What i would like is something that is audio like a podcast or audiobook that way i can be learning on my long commute ( which can be between 4 and 7 hours each worday)
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

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What are some good apps to try out in WINE ?

I recently installed wine on my linux machine,

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Could someone please suggest me some good apps/games i can try & use in wine.


As of now i only have notepad++ installed

it seems to be working out pretty well so i wish to try even more apps in wine.

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Native Linux Twitch Application Release

Afternoon all. I released a Linux Twitch application which mirrors the web interface. It's an Electron app which means "bloat". It comes in over 100MB because, well,, Electron. It should have all of the features that the web version does so it should be very familiar. This should technically work on Windows and Mac as well, however more testing is needed. Please let me know if there are any issues and open issues on Git, if you can.

Let me know your thoughts!

Just download, untar, delete tar (don't need a large file taking up space), set as executable, and run it:

* wget [https://github.com/NOVATechnocrat/TwitchElectron/releases/download/2.0/Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz](https://github.com/NOVATechnocrat/TwitchElectron/releases/download/2.0/Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz)
* tar xvf Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz
* rm Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz
* chmod +x ./Twitch-linux-x64/Twitch
* ./Twitch-linux-x64/Twitch

All in one:

wget https://github.com/NOVATechnocrat/TwitchElectron/releases/download/2.0/Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz && tar xvf Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz && rm Twitch-linux-x64.tar.xz && chmod +x ./Twitch-linux-x64/Twitch && ./Twitch-linux-x64/Twitch

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How to view session from another terminal

Hi All,

I have a question regarding multiple logins from a same user. For my example I have a console opened up with a user on my Ubuntu minecraft server where I launch the server. The way this works is that while the server runs it shows outputs and details ( errors, who connected etc).

If I SSH with the same user I get a separate session to the server. Is there a way from my SSH session to see the same view I had on the console. In my case I just want to SSH and see the status messages of the minecraft server etc.

I included a picture to show what I mean. On the left is my console connection which has the server status messages. On the right is my SSH session which shows a clean new terminal view. My example is with minecraft but it extends to any type of program that my work this way ( outputting status to the screen)

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https://preview.redd.it/5a5dxfas0tt61.png?width=2570&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5d4ac1ba3ca569b46c94b0e765ba3c9ada6dd9c

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Oh boy I can't wait to try out this linux thing everyone's talking about.
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what is a linux file format that you can only open in linux

i want to compress these folders with my passwords in them and i tryed tar.gz but you can still open them in windows with some software

dose anyone know any compressed file format that can only be opened in linux?

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I see your fedora 3 and raise you redhat 6.1
https://redd.it/mt36le
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I see your RedHat 6.1 and raise you RedHat 5.2 Deluxe
https://redd.it/mt3p1j
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Arch Linux got a guided installer in latest iso
https://redd.it/mt584a
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Will minux ever make a comeback?

As far as I can tell, the minux approach of running less code in the kernel (with elevated privileges) seems like a better design decision.
Will minux (or similar) ever take off?
Or is there just too much effort already vested in linux to bother?
Or am I just missing something?

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Looking for purity in Arch Linux.
http://ludditus.com/2021/04/15/looking-for-purity-in-arch-linux/

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I see your RedHat 5.2 Deluxe and raise you RedHat 4.1
https://redd.it/mt7vij
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I see your Redhat 4.1 and raise you Redhat 3.0.3
https://redd.it/mt8rwq
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Horrendous Debian login reboot loop!

Learned an important lesson today: be VERY careful creating/editing the /etc/environment file in Debian! I lost all ability to login (both GUI and CLI). No helpful output (including logs from recovery boot); just a blank login loop. Searched for HOURS on the net trying to narrow down the issue, with no luck. Tried all the usual: fsck, disk space, shell, PAM etc. The kicker is, all I was doing was setting an LD_LIBRARY variable for Fortran! I'll never touch/edit THAT file again...

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Can't turn on Bluetooth on a Lenovo IdeaPad 330 running pop-os

Bluetooth works from time to time, most of the time I tried to power it on using both the GUI and the "bluetoothctl power on" command, but when I use "bluetoothctl show" to display my controller info, it says my controller is powered off.

Sometimes when my Bluetooth actually turns on, My wifi suddenly stops working.

Any idea on how to fix this?

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Why all linux ebook readers suck so much?

So recently I began to enjoy reading books just before sleep in my bed on my linux laptop (fedora 34). I'm currently reading Harry Potter series. I like to have ebook reader on right half of my screen so I can open up browser on the other half, and look up words in dictionary that I dont understand. Light in my room is very dim, so dark theme is must have, and my laptop screen is also on minimum brightness. First ebook editor that i picked up was calibre, it worked pretty well for a while, I also managed to setup VIM like key bindings so i can scroll with J, K buttons. So the issues that I have:

1. table of contents is all messed up:

https://preview.redd.it/p1kc1m814xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=b192af4210b2e0f77ec7706d3a526077b38528c9

2. When you encounter illustration, it's very small, so naturally you click to expand it to look at it in better detail.

https://preview.redd.it/ngxb3ri64xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=b54b09475e8accc9070db0ba8521233b70adbf12

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https://preview.redd.it/n7bgcjlc4xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1816fbd9c66d01ef9dcc8a90e48f475e877661c

When you aer done looking at it, you want to go back to reading. NO you cant, tried pressing all buttons imaginable, ESC, ENTER, SPACE, BACKSPACE and so on. Only solution is to close calibre, and open it up again. Thats ridiculous!

3. Yesterday I was reading and wanted to increase font size so i tried to press CTRL + '+' but i think i pressed something else, and application crashed, and somehow partly CORRUPTED my EPUB file. Now callibre cannot open this file anymore, i get following error:

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https://preview.redd.it/9rslzqk15xt61.png?width=857&format=png&auto=webp&s=210aa78ae884aa72ee4871b0c4f23a283e7ed8a4

I tried even opening this file on my other machine with calibre installed, same error. I opens up previous copy (Lucky that I was reading copy, on my laptop).

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So i got pissed and started looking at the alternatives to calibre:

So next goes Foliate

Issue: When you change to dark theme, this basic font stays black, no matter what theme you choose. And also cant expand picture.

https://preview.redd.it/xomty6li5xt61.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=f2c1607dd51962c8505bc2d25aaf50fbf51ae900

Well you can select option "INVERT", Witch messes up illustration. Ridiculous!

https://preview.redd.it/s6pzw5xs5xt61.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=f77f34adcc63bdb68efeacda9aebda8ac3800151

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Next goes Okular, extremely laggy, Cant setup dark theme, illustrations dont work. Terrible.

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https://preview.redd.it/7mis3p4a6xt61.png?width=1330&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1dfb5333d1efa155a8dbd385ed9ac54b4f1efca

Next goes Bookworm:

Interface and dark theme looks nice, but this illustration is all messed up, and you cant u

https://preview.redd.it/8ozx3xvc6xt61.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc371424a234f38c6d6a8043d0cab23be99441db

When you click on it you get this:

Blank screen

https://preview.redd.it/t4b5p0rp6xt61.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=51c5c1f1f2f69747f6fe7a33771488ad01f6466f

And when you want to setup keybindings:

White gray text on white background. Good luck!

https://preview.redd.it/ljjij4i57xt61.png?width=894&format=png&auto=webp&s=3540a7900e0aff4945fdba194824b7ed3caf5d67

Next goes FBReader:

App looks pretty ancient, but content rendering is best of all of them. Image looks good, but you cant expand it. You can actually disable top toolbar: by right clicking on it and disabling this checkbox, but you cant enable it back again.

https://preview.redd.it/y22026ge7xt61.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=26abd255445766cb28871f04b83f685ecc92ef6e

What are your thoughts, what reader do you use? FBReader is the best in my opinion.

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