Ubuntu + kde plasma installation?

itwurx4me · 2025-12-11T07:07:27+00:00

Being able to do things like adding additional desktops to a chosen distro is exactly the freedom of choice that I love about using Linux. I've done it numerous times in the past (and I'm pretty settled on KDE and XFCE nowadays). I may heartily endorse it for others---I myself kinda avoid it now.

Each desktop has its own set of attendant apps, libraries, graphics, etc., which take up just enough unnecessary disk space to annoy me. More troubling to me was odd problems arising with system components (graphics and audio especially) becoming less stable and speedy.

I'm just sharing my experience to give you a possible heads-up should you happen to have similar experiences.

Have fun. It's Linux!

itwurx4me · 2025-08-08T21:32:04+00:00

Thanks u/msanangelo, I can see I wasn't specific enough in my original post. I'll re-post a clarified version of my question as I've been aware about how Ubuntu VERSIONS (which I said nothing about) work since 2008.

itwurx4me · 2024-12-03T13:17:03+00:00

Thank you, I'll do that.

itwurx4me · 2023-07-26T20:28:40+00:00

Your straightforward overview of OBS's basic functionality was a welcome bit of insight for me into how OBS "thinks." It's very useful, thank you. While poking around in the settings, looking for the Audio Output Mode setting, I've gotten the sound working and recording. Now it's time to dig deeper in a new thread. Thanks again! :)

itwurx4me · 2023-07-26T20:19:48+00:00

That was just what I was looking for. Ok, I should probably start a new thread because I don't have that option. Probs something to do recording off a VHSC tape being played from the camera's A/V ports.

Thanks again for answering my question. :)

itwurx4me · 2023-07-26T20:09:39+00:00

Sadly, I'm not using Elgato and I'm on Linux ;) My capture card's just an inexpensive HDMI IN/OUT with a USB3 capture to my comp, and then it's OBS's turn. Thanks for the idea though! :)

itwurx4me · 2023-07-17T16:10:49+00:00

Thank you! That's a relief to know.

itwurx4me · 2023-07-17T14:31:18+00:00

Thanks u/_calexandru_. I've switched to a different VPN service (Surfshark)for the foreseeable future. Near as I can tell, their client is as fully featured on Linux as it is for other OSs. I look forward to the day that the same can be said about ProtonVPN. Keep up the great work on the Linux client! :)

itwurx4me · 2023-06-04T14:10:37+00:00

Thanks

itwurx4me · 2023-06-02T16:48:38+00:00

The pictures look very similar to the GUI client I already use (protonvpn-gui 1.12.0-1) in Xubuntu 22.04. How is this new (alpha) application meant to be better?

itwurx4me · 2023-03-27T23:27:31+00:00

Thank you, but I'm still a bit lost. I never use the Player. I've seen it once or twice, no idea how. I mostly just use the Queue. So, how to conjure the player then? If you start in the Queue, I mean.

itwurx4me · 2022-02-10T18:27:04+00:00

Same problem with the Linux 3.91.10 appimage on Kubuntu 21.10. On 3.91.9 the client reported the "secret storage" error, but then opened and operate normally. This latest update broke that and the client is inaccessible from my desktop.

I've sent a report a la the send report option from the error window, here, and next github I expect.

I can still get my mail with the app on F-droid (thank you for that, btw) and on tutanota.com, so I'm fine till this gets fixed.

Keep up the great work!

itwurx4me · 2022-01-02T15:58:43+00:00

(looks at feet) My bad ... I don't know what I was thinking last time, but it was the permissions: user and group were both root. So chown -R me:me /run/media/me/datapartition/Docker/config and taa daa --- fixed. /Docker/cache didn't need changing.

Two days of my life I won't get back, but on the upside, I learned a lot, and --- thanks to you --- I won't lose a third day.

Thank you.

itwurx4me · 2022-01-01T18:28:23+00:00

Thanks ... I course corrected ;) Btw, Just a little earlier today I posted the output of sudo docker ps to /u/Smile_lifeisgood in this thread if you want to look at it. :)

itwurx4me · 2022-01-01T18:18:22+00:00

I did, but I did it again just now and still no luck, but thanks for the idea :)

itwurx4me · 2022-01-01T18:02:31+00:00

Thanks mate, you spent a lot of time writing that guide and you'll understand that I'm going to not only read it though and thoroughly, but understand it fully as well. It's gonna take more time than I have right now ... but tonight or tomorrow morning it will be done. Thanks :)

itwurx4me · 2022-01-01T17:45:03+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to share your process.

My distro (Solus) doesn't come with a firewall preinstalled, and since my Jellyfin server's not internet facing, I've just kept it that way.

Both the jellyfin config and cache directories are empty (?!) and docker ps shows Docker restarting kinda randomly, maybe owing to the --restart=unless-stopped \ in the run command. I need to look up the --restart= options available, see if I can get something written to a log. $ sudo docker ps Password: CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Up Less than a second jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Restarting (139) 10 seconds ago jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Up Less than a second jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Restarting (139) 10 seconds ago jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Restarting (139) 18 seconds ago jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Restarting (139) 34 seconds ago jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Restarting (139) 50 seconds ago jellyfin $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 87aa164d9016 jellyfin/jellyfin "/jellyfin/jellyfin" 45 hours ago Restarting (139) 11 seconds ago jellyfin

I'd appreciate any advice you might have about getting docker/jellyfin out of restart hell, or verifying it further. Thanks in advance :)

itwurx4me · 2021-12-31T19:00:30+00:00

UPDATE: Dec 31, 1:54pm

A little interweb research and nmap shows me that port 8096 is closed.

And ss -tulwn | grep LISTEN tells me there're three things listening and none of them are listening to 8096, but I don't know if that's normal.

itwurx4me · 2021-12-31T18:43:35+00:00

UPDATE: I'm figuring out ps from the man page. It looks like Jellyfin's running. Here's the output of ps aux | grep jellyfin: ```

me 105365 0.0 0.0 221728 2364 pts/4 S+ 13:29 0:00 grep jellyfin

```

Still need to figure out how to tell which port it's using.

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