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If you try to open FF using the terminal does it give you any error messages?
If you try to open FF using the terminal does it give you any error messages?
You can set a custom URL for your homepage and there is a “homepage” button you can add to your toolbar.
It would be nice to have a button that you can set to open a URL of your choice.
Well that sucks.
I wouldn’t have even been doing that if I could add custom “home” buttons to the toolbar.
Have you tried running the laptop down until it shuts off then charging it?
Install RockBox onto it and continue using it as a music player.
Edit: apparently this is a device that can’t use RockBox.
It’s not so much both computers being able to access it.
From what I have experienced Timeshift tends to lock a drive when it is doing a backup.
If computer 1 is doing a backup and computer 2 tries to start it’s backup it may fail without you noticing.
Giving each computer their own partition on the drive should alleviate the problem.
A partition for each one the drive should work alright, but it may turn to custard if they both try to access the drive at the same time.
To be honest I haven’t had the need or the time to delve that deeply into how Timeshift works sorry.
You should be able to highlight the ones that you want to remove then click on the delete button.
From what I understand is that each backup is just the difference between the original backup and the current system.
Have a look at XNview MP
I can definitely say that it is avery good photo management program.
I am only using about 20% of it’s features and it is my go to image software.
What I do is start up Firefox first to create all the first start files then close it and delete everything in the Firefox folder then copy across everything from the original pc.
Seems to work alright.
I have had several distros working on the X205TA (I even had a how to guide written up on reddit years ago).
But I was not able to get a usable system (i.e. being able to use the system without waiting on average 20-120 sec for the device to process an action).
Life has gotten to the point that the effort to do so is better directed into activities that I would enjoy.
To be brutally honest about this, your best bet is to recycle the unit.
The problems of trying to get a distro to install properly, have all the hardware working right and have a usable experience are not worth the minimal upsides.
I have an ASUS X205TA which is a similar unit and after trying for countless hours to get a usable device out of it was not going to be worth the headaches plus if I was getting paid for the time I spent on it I could have brought an off lease laptop with better specs.
I have an LTS kernel as a backup in case something doesn’t work with my main kernel.
Just recently I had an issue where my main kernel had a bug where snap’s can’t start up, so I just restarted into the LTS kernel to use it then restarted back into my main kernel.
Hannah Montana Linux
If you can, get yourself a wireless access point instead.
You can connect the computer by ethernet to the access point that then connects to the WiFi network.
By having the device separate you can have it situated away from the computer for better connection and the computer only sees a wired connection.
Plus they tend to be more stable than dongles.
Just had fun with this with my optiplex 790.
Things I have found:
If you are using the front USB ports try the lower ports.
Make sure that you have formatted your live USB properly.
On boot press F12 to get the one time boot menu, if everything is right you should get a menu that gives you legacy boot options with UEFI boot options below that.
The big thing here is that not all live distros appear to work with the Dell UEFI implementation (got Linux Lite and Manjaro working)
This is why you back up your data!
I use both Timeshift and Lucky Backup.
Timeshift is setup to back up the entire OS and user data and fire off a backup when updating (onto an internal drive).
Lucky Backup has been setup to do a one way sync of my user folders (doc’s, download, pictures, videos etc) onto an external drive.
Settings > advanced > open links in apps
Set it to never and the blue dots should disappear (the instal option doesn’t go away from the menu though).
From the what I have read it seems like this is a Gnome error causing problems for software.
You might be able to get better feedback if you post in one of the Linux specific communities.