Due to Wayland replacing X11, this unfortunately no longer works with Ubuntu 24.04 :-( Clicking on the Xscreensaver Settings icon causes this error to appear in /var/log/syslog: <em>xscreensaver-settings.desktop[5060]: xscreensaver-settings: 17:42:27: Gdk: gdk_x11_window_get_xid: assertion 'GDK_IS_X11_WINDOW (window)' failed</em> I really would like to get this running with Ubuntu 24.04, but apparently no one found a (simple) solution to this as yet...
Thanks a lot for this article, it is a very good explained. I have got it. Have a nice day!...
This is getting very deep into the weeds, but I thought I'd contribute my own notes about Debian/Ubuntu system cleanups. Very little disk space is likely to be recovered, but if you're someone who strongly dislikes "mess" like leftover files and empty directories after a package has been removed, then this is for you. 1) Check for packages that can be safely purged because they've been removed (e.g. with apt-get autoremove) and just have empty directories and/or ephemeral files left on disk. These packages will have no files associated with them any more in the dpkg system, so their "list" file will be empty. <pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">find /var/lib/dpkg/info -type f -name '*.list' -size 0 -exec basename {} ';' | sed 's/.list$//' </pre> 2) If you got a lot of output, you might prefer to just know how many packages of this type there are. <pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">find /var/lib/dpkg/info -type f -name '*.list' -size 0 -exec basename {} ';' | sed 's/.list$//' | wc -l </pre> 3) Purge the removed/deconfigured packages: <pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">find /var/lib/dpkg/info -type f -name '*.list' -size 0 -exec basename {} ';' | sed 's/.list$//' | xargs -tr sudo dpkg --purge </pre> The -t flag for xargs will cause the command to be printed out before it is run, so that you can see what is happening. The -r flag will prevent xargs from running if there is no input (i.e. no packages were found). 4) You can also identify packages that aren't completely installed - perhaps they've been unpacked but the configuration failed, or something. (Far less likely these days than it was 25 years ago, when we were mucking about with dpkg directly.) <pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">dpkg -l | awk '(NR > 5 && $1 != "ii") { print $2 }' </pre> These can be removed in the same manner. <pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">dpkg -l | awk '(NR > 5 && $1 != "ii") { print $2 }' | xargs -tr sudo dpkg --purge </pre> Cheers! Andrew...
What about /var/lib/flatpak/repo/tmp? This directory keeps growing and growing until the computer runs out of space and I have to clean it up manually. Any tips on how to solve this? It only happens in one of my opensuse tumbleweed systems...
Wow so helpful, thank you so much...
In reply to <a href="https://www.debugpoint.com/easyos-6-review/#comment-8286">Wil</a>. Version 6.6.3 is not booting at all...
What does the -nosplash do? Thanks for the instructions...