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I have been unable to run updates through apt. It was working fine until yesterday. I can connect to the WIFI and browse the web or anything else, but apt won't work



lxhome@lxhome:~$...

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On Mantic Minotaur (23.10) how do I get the system theme to apply on the hot corner animations like it does on the Jammy Jellyfish LTS. The hot corner animation color remains white...

Doug S, getting an SSD will take time. I'm going to have to stick with what I have. Having said that, an NVMe PCIe stick is something I can arrange soon enough. But we have not really ruled out...

You all have given me a lot to think about but the one suggestion that stands out is to get a swap partition.

@Doug S when the slowdowns happen I just run sensors on the terminal and it shows CPU...

okay.. so I should increase my swapfile size, but is it possible that 32GB of swap in a partition would be about as efficient to say what 64GB would be in a swapfile format?

Thanks but swappiness at 10 doesn't help either, slowdown occurs within minutes of torrent downloading and video playback. Maybe I need a partition instead of a swapfile?

Very interesting, thanks for that. Setting swappiness to 100 made the slowdown worse. I will test it at 10 and see if that helps. My system doesn't have an SSD yet. There is a slot for an NVMe PCIe...

Thanks so much for all the suggestions and ideas, @ian-weisser, @TheFu, @TenPlus1, @HermanAB

Some system info:


kabir@kabirsubuntu:~$ inxi -Fz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-79-generic x86_64...

I have a swapfile twice the size of the system ram (16gb)


kabir@kabirsubuntu:~$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swapfile file ...

Thanks for your suggestions, I was able to reproduce a slowdown with the same behavior. A torrent on download alongside a video playing on celluloid



kabir@kabirsubuntu:~$ free
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Is it just me or has ubuntu suddenly become slow or is it the Intel / AMD bug fix, I mean my system is ridiculously slow. All I need to do is put a torrent file of say about 10GB on download...

Thanks for the tip, I've disabled private messages altogether.

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I'm not sure if this is the right section for posting about Ubuntu Forum Security. But anyway, I just wanted to highlight that I got a spam / phishing private message by some user asking me to...

You make a very valid point. While you are right, over a period of time one does get comfortable with what one earlier disliked, there's always the dealbreaker. In my case it is an immutable system....

Yes, there are tens of thousands of Linux distros out there, and there is no vendor lock-in here or anywhere. I may not have been around as much as other Linux users, nor do I have the experience or...

I hope my predictions, assumptions, speculations, all turn out to be wrong. I'd hate to see their standard LTS release default to all snaps and thus, locked down. Yesterday I chanced upon a...

They have been throwing in the towel for a lot of their projects, maybe they don't this time. (I hope they do). I can't imagine using a Linux system that is locked down and cannot be changed, snaps...

They may not abandon apt or deb but just restrict it to their interim releases.

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I can't help but wonder if the standard LTS release of Ubuntu will default to the new snap based Ubuntu Core and then eventually canonical may stop supporting the non-immutable, non-snap based...

Running that code worked. The screen does not dim anymore while playing videos on mpv. Thanks so much for that. :)

Just one question:
Before running that code, I tried build/install library...

@1fallen I'm sorry for not being able to get back earlier, was caught up with other things. Will try out your suggestions and get back.

Thanks again!

Edit: just read that Celluloid does not need a copy of mpv.conf inside ~/.config/celluloid/ but instead to upload the mpv.conf from ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf, so I removed the .conf file from...

Thanks so much @fallen1 and @TheFu for your suggestions.

I added to the mpv.desktop file


Exec=gnome-session-inhibit


and in mpv.conf the stop screensaver option

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While watching any video on mpv player (without an mpv frontend), the screen dims as per the system power settings. Mpv player does not prevent this behavior. The only workaround I have found...

wow! it's working! and it is so much faster than the snap package, just as fast as running bash.


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I had swapped out my toml for yours.
Thanks so much!!