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Questions about changing the content of files in all kinds of formats and about the tools needed for this.

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In settings I see no options to edit it. How it may be done? note that it is not a duplicat of How do I edit applications panel menu in Lubuntu? as it refers to ancient Lubuntu version and both ...
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What software can I use to edit the OCR text of an OCRed PDF file? I have tried gscan2pdf which does have this feature. However, I have two problems with it: It changes the font size of the OCRed ...
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I can connect and open files on a server, to which I connect by using fish, but I cannot edit the files. When I edit a file and want to save it I get the following message: The file fish://root@[...
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I have a pdf (having multiple pages) containing some colorful certificates, and need a black and white (grayscale) version of it. Is there any way to make it grayscale with a single command, or with ...
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How would I add an entry to the right-click menu of Nautilus, PCmanFM, or Dolphin without using scripts as mentioned here?
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I've found some characters missing from fcitx-table-cangjie5 and would like to add them. I've tried nano /usr/share/fcitx/table/cangjie5.mb but it always freezes. Questions: Are there any commands ...
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I have a PDF file which I want to edit in LibreOffice Draw/Writer without corrupting it. Is there any way I can do it? I have already installed the LibreOffice pdfimport plugin, yet the PDF file is ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS I've set up a Google Account under 'Online Accounts', and have given access to files, and the account is showing up as I expected in the File Manager. I can open files simply by ...
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I have a text file and I want to edit it using kate. I want all lines to have a length less than 70 characters but wrapped around so that each line is as long as possible. This isn't quite word ...
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I'm using ubuntu 20.04 . Today I reinstalled it , and then i was trying to execute this command via terminal sudo nano /etc/fstab While I execute it, it opens a text file and it was supposed to open ...
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This time and another I need to edit some files that are supposed to be edited by root only. I would very much prefer to do it in a GUI text editor rather than using command line tools like nano or vi....
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I recently upgraded my LUBUNTU 18.04 to 20.04LTS that uses LXQT for its desktop. All my desktop shortcuts (*.desktop files) are unlaunchable. Previous people have posted similar questions for UBUNTU ...
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I am new user of Ubuntu 20.04. I need free PDF editor software for creating and editing PDF files, and for exporting the pages from the PDF files and the PDF files itself, in another format (docx, e.t....
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If I try to use sudo kate to edit a system file, I get the message: Executing Kate as root is not possible. So how can I edit a system file? I put up this question so that I could answer it myself. ...
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I Changed the background screen and when I tried to login it displays a error message. I followed these steps. vitux.com/how-to-change-login-lock-screen-background-in-ubuntu edited using text ...
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