I'm trying to get  to run on my Kubuntu 14.10 machine. I've managed to install it under wine and now have an .exe file to start the fire effect (which works exactly as it should, go wine!). However I am at a loss as to how I can get Kubuntu to use it as a screensaver. I've tried creating a custom screensaver under '/usr/share/applications/screensavers/' by copying one of the existing files and then replacing the proper values with my .exe file but it just won't show up in the screensaver select screen. I'd be grateful if anyone could explain how I can get it to work or offer a worthy alternative. IT IS VITAL THAT MY COMPUTER HAS SOME SORT OF FIRE EFFECT.
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Does anyone know if this is possible?  I'm a Star Trek fan, and there's this screensaver that's for Windows that mimics a Star Trek systems panel, and I'd love to have that on Ubuntu (so would some of my friends).
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The Story  I installed wine some time ago, and after trying out some versions of Cinema 4D that were "free", I looked in the comments of the videos, and saw some people complaining about viruses. I got worried, downloaded and installed MalwareBytes, and scanned my "system". Of course, since MalwareBytes was runnning through Wine, it only scanned ~/.wine/C:. It found many viruses/trojans and I opted to delete them. I did so.  Questions:   Assuming there is any malware left, can this malware spread into my OS? Tell me the entire truth on what can happen. I deleted my entire .wine directory and am planning to uninstall wine later. I am the only user out of the three on this system that runs wine programs, but wine is installed for all. Is that enough, or must I do more? Please be specific on what I should do because I want to be 100% sure that there are no viruses.   I am sure that many others have these questions too, so please answer this question to the point.   Additional information:  Wine was installed with sudo-apt get. The exact commands can be found here:   Commands:  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.6 -y   I did try to install a font that was a ttf font. I tried to convert it to otf with no success. Then, I placed it in the fonts directory directly. I then saw that some people said it was malicious, and I removed it.  This question was flagged as  a duplicate of this question:  It is not the same. This question is more precise, as it specifies two scenarios involving viruses, not risks of viruses. The other question talked about Internet Explorer; this one does not mention the installation of any programs.  Note: wine was installed with sudo privileges, so does that mean it runs with sudo privileges?
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I'm trying to install Kubuntu 16.04.1 on a virtual machine (I'm using VirtualBox). When I boot from the disk image Ubuntu begins to load and then I get this screen:   It looks like it's loading but the display is not working properly (the pink blob is my mouse pointer, only very large and pink).  I also tried installing Ubuntu 16.04.1 and I get a very similar result:   Am I missing something in VirtualBox? Thanks!
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I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to try out KDE and other desktop environments.   But I'm not sure if I'll like them enough to switch permanently. I want to be safe and make a transition in a piecemeal fashion.  Is it possible to install KDE on Ubuntu and yet not do away with the default Unity shell?  Could I install multiple desktop environments and switch between them by tweaking some startup configuration and then rebooting?
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I understand that Lubuntu utilizes LXDE over Ubuntu's Unity(Gnome?); But being new to Linux I'm not sure if that change is going to be simply cosmetic, or if there will be functional differences I need to be aware of. The Ubuntu wiki says no, but it is also seems to be a very superficial discussion. I am comfortable(ish) with the command line and I suppose my question is more directed in that direction, but any information would be great.
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Running macOS Sierra(Version 10.12.2 16C67).  I installed  version wine-1.8.6 (through a .pkg file). I opened up a game and it worked fine.  The next day when I downloaded Origin installer, it wouldn't open. When I double clicked on it, the Wine icon showed up in the dock and said it was open, but no windows showed up. When I clicked on another program(or on the desktop), Wine closed. Now when I try to start that same game I opened when I first installed Wine, the same thing happens that happened when I started Origin installer.  When I go to the terminal and type wine {path of .exe} I got this:   I installed wine tricks using brew install winetricks and it installed fine, yet it didn't change my situation.  winecfg works properly, and so does sh winetricks.
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I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and Notepad++ 6.6.4 (through WINE)  Under the 'Run' tab, I clicked on "Launch in Firefox" , but nothing happened   I uninstalled Notepad++ and WINE, then shutdown. I re-installed Notepad++ and WINE and still have the same problem.   Does anyone know what the problem is?
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I just installed Kubuntu 15.04 and I can't find a single place with systematic description of all available desktop configuration settings. For example, I was setting Screen Locking Timeouts and I found by experiment that setting Lock screen after to 0 is the way to disable it. Another example is Edit application-specific settings: what is the difference between Apply initially and Remember options? Is there a single piece of documentation explaining these issues?
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I'm trying to run a exe file that is located on my Vista partition, when I browse to the file and try to change the file to run as executable the tick box unticks itself right after i tick it, i tried running gksu nautilus but it does the same thing
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Hi all :) I want to create a KVM image from an existing iso file (for glance on OpenStack), but I didn't find how to do it. Can you help me please?
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I am willing to use KDE Plasma 5 Desktop environment.  Should I use Kubuntu or Ubuntu 16.04?   If I would use Kubuntu, which advantages would it offer?
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Ubuntu 17.04 comes with a wayland display server session. I've used and seen what it can do, I've used it before by selecting it from the lock screen just like selecting Unity 8 session, with a gear icon, that option doesn't appear in Kubuntu's lock screen. A blatant explanation would be that Kubuntu doesn't ship with wayland display server but it comes with an app exclusively called as wayland    The app itself does nothing that or I can't seem to understand how to use it and make wayland session possible    Update  I'm sure that I'm not running Wayland, but I've seen videos of KDE Neon running Wayland, is it just not possible in Kubuntu?
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I have just installed the latest Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to install KDE along side my Gnome/Unity that I have now. How can I do this?  Thanks!
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I want to use the windows 10 screen sketch and launch it with a single click.  I know I can configure the pen to launch it - but that's not good for me. I want to be able to launch it from the Volume up/down keys of the surface itself.  Since it wasn't probably designed for that - I'll settle for running it from a command line (that I'll hook to the volume up button myself)  Any help would be highly appreciated
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Hello fellow dwellers of askubuntu, as the title says I'm having difficulties with getting Steam to run properly. I think I have the solution but I am pretty incompetent with Ubuntu (just started using it the other day) so a step by step process would be unbelievably appreciated! Here are the links to what I think possible solutions are:  [1]   [2]   I've tried googling how to preform the solutions such as changing the alias/script for steam (no idea what that is) to -no-dwrite or launching with wine Steam.exe -no-dwrite. The dwrite seems to be the issue in all this but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do anything about it.  Any useful input is what I'm hoping for but for the brave soul who feels like typing a bit more, perhaps a step-by-step list of instructions starting from downloading Steam off the official website, would be my saving grace.  If there is any more info you guys need let me know and I'll of course be happy to oblige!
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I'm looking for a portable version of Chrome (not Chromium) that I can work with on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I can only find Chromium or really outdated versions. Due to limitation on the machine I'm using, I cannot install Wine or utilize any admin features as I am on a standard account. Ideally, I would rather have an official version or at least one that exists in a repository that I can apt-get from.   (I understand that apt-get requires sudo, I can use it for the initial vagrant setup, but that's all. Hence why I would need non-admin methods)
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So I'm new to Ubuntu but not inexperienced with customizing open source software, and I recently learned about an application called KDE Connect --  -- which I would love to install onto my vanilla 14.04LTS box... but I immediately know this won't be as simple as a little apt-get install action because I understand there is some difference between KDE and Gnome (which I understand is what vanilla is using).  It seems like, from a little poking around, that it is possible to run KDE apps under Gnome/Unity in vanilla Ubuntu, so I'm cautiously optimistic that I won't have to switch to Kubuntu just to use this one app... but when I decided to just give it a shot and install it from the Ubuntu Software Center, it appeared to install without errors but ultimately resulted in no new software showing up anywhere that I could see at a glance.  So I went ahead and uninstalled from Ubuntu Desktop and my Android phone...  I suppose I need to either takes some extra steps to allow KDE apps to run on my system, or maybe I need to do a custom build of the KDE Connect source?    Has anyone successfully got this app working under Gnome/Unity without heavy customization?  Or would I need to port the code from KDE to Gnome?   Any generic guides out there on how I would modify a KDE app to work in Gnome?