Restarting crashed cairo-dock processes with gksu script

 From time to time it becomes necessary to restart cairo-dock process on my lxde desktop (lubuntu 16.04). Here is how I created a shell script driven desktop shortcut to accomplish that. 

$ cat restartDock.sh 

#/bin/sh

killall cairo-dock 2> /tmp/tim1
killall cairo-dock-launcher-API-daemon 2> /tmp/tim2

gksu -u tim -S "bash -c 'cairo-dock -c 2>&1 | tee  /tmp/cairodoc.log '" &

12/19/2020 The other day I discovered this is inadequate and does not work in some circumstances. I did not document it when it occurred so it will have to wait until the next occurrence in order to put up a revision to address the deficiency. Sorry.

I am the greatest

 A few of my famous relatives:

Presidents

Miscellaneous

Useful android spells...

  1. List your usb connected devices.

$ adb devices

List of devices attached

ZY225CWBFX             device

    or...

   adb devices -l

List of devices attached

ZY225CWBFX             device usb:1-1.1 product:payton_fi model:moto_x4 device:payton_sprout

 2. List focused app package name:

adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mFocusedApp'| cut -d / -f 1 | cut -d " " -f 7

Useful for creating a list of frequently used apps. Allowing you to recognize what is putting something unusual up on your phone and maybe head off a problem. I created this list with the above command and a bit of vi editing...

com.google.android.apps.messaging       - text messaging

com.android.chrome                      - standard android web browser

com.google.android.apps.magazines       - googles maddening "news" feed

com.google.android.keep                 - google note taker

com.google.android.dialer               - manual dialer (call blocking)

com.motorola.camera2                    - camera UI

com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox - weather?

com.google.android.gm                   - gmail 

com.google.android.calendar             - google calendar

com.google.android.projection.gearhead  - android auto UI

com.google.android.contacts             - contacts app

com.android.settings                    - settings

com.android.vending                     - android play store

us.zoom.videomeetings                   - zoom meetings

com.motorola.launcher3                  - normal desktop launcher

Another reason to hate windows

Periodically our printing gets shutdown (disabled) by windows based print jobs. When this happens here is how you fix it. 

1. Go to printers on the linux server

2. select the printer giving trouble

3. click on "policies"

4. Make sure the three states are check-marked.

Typically the enabled check mark will be missing most likely due to some ancient flaky code in windows or the printer vendor's equally flaky driver code that disables the printer after the print job commences since windows ancient legacy history is non-multi user and there are still tons of that crap waiting to bite the unsuspecting user of that gosh awful mess.

Note the above screen shot is from a Lubuntu 16.04 server I use for all my printing, you mileage may vary of course. Also note that I use Mobility Print to provide all my home printing as it is much better than trying to figure out where Microsoft is going to hide the print spooler next and bonus support for mobile/MAC devices too! I initially thought I had found a bug in this Google Cloud Print replacement product but no it was the same old familiar windows flaw striking again after a few months without any hiccups.

Unable to connect laptop via wifi after install completes on lubuntu 20.04LTS

Borrowed from a post on askubuntu.com originally written for lubuntu19.04 but works for new 20.04 LTS also...
NOTE: you will need a android phone that supports tethering effectively!

Though its been long and many years since this question is posted, yet i find it meaningful to add my experience of facing the same issue with latest lubuntu version ie. 19.04. After installing lubuntu 19.04, i noticed there is no way to configure wifi connection. Network manager was not listed. There were some of posts which points to download and install driver, but how exactly you can download driver when you dont have internet connection at all. At last i followed below steps which helped me to get rid of problem-

1. You have to provide internet connection to your system in some way. Either use lan cable to connect to broadband modem or use your smart phone's internet.
2. I used my android phone. connected through usb cable to my laptop. After connection go to cell phone -- settings --> Network & Internet --> Hotspot and Tethering --> USB Tethering. Turn it on.
3. As soon as I turned it on, my laptop running on lubuntu started displaying available wifi networks. i could then connect to my wifi network (it just demanded for wifi password). Lubuntu was using the network support from android device tethering. The problem is not yet solved! If you disconnect your cell phone or switch off tethering, lubuntu laptop will again loose the internet. So you need to install the drivers now to resolve it permanently.
4. In your Lubuntu go to Start --> Preferences --> Additional Drivers . Enter you password if asked for. It will open Software Sources. Go to 'Ubuntu Software' tab. Make sure all options are checked. Source code you can ignore. Next when you click 'close', it will prompt to upgrade the outdated drivers. Click ok and continue. Let system install new drivers. Let it complete.
5. After completion of driver downloads, go to Preferences. You should see Advance Network Configuration' available now. You can disconnect your cell phone now! Internet would continue working fine on you lubuntu system.

Notes

1. Several typos corrected from original(askubuntu.com) version.

2. In my reflashed chromebook application the step four above did nothing as there never were any windows style drivers for this device. What fixed the wifi was the update process from the version installed to current patch level I believe.

Hope it helps!

Dad's WW2 Halftrack crew names and etc...

Picture below is from winter training maneuvers prior to deployment after D-day invasion.

Pine Camp, NY

These are the things/people penned onto my Dad's war trophy Nazi flag.

Mg Sqd 3d PLAT --- not sure this is very faint

1. Leo Fowler          – Lisbon Ohio                       * Leo Fowler

2. Gerald H. Petersen  – 1013 California Ave. Butte, Montana Gerald H Petersen *

3. Ralph D Olson       – Effie, Minnesota                  * Ralph Olson

4. Edward Swieca       – Groton, Mass.                     * Edward Swieca

1 st Rifle Squad

1. Anthony J Ritch     – Penna.                              Anthony J Ritch

2. Scotty Schofield    – Syracuse, N.Y.

3. Pat Flaherty        – 257 E St. So. Boston, Mass.         Pat Flaherty

4. Robert E. Scharon   – 2928 Grantley Rd. Balto, MD.        Robert E. Scharon Sr.

5. Larry Steubing      – N.Y. **

6. Arthur Goquen       – Mass.

7. Charles Harrison    – W. Va.                              Charles Harrison ? ***

8. Glen Byrd           – Moiss Point, Miss. (Perhaps Moss Point?) ****

9. Vincent T. Stolarczyk

10. Grover Peffers     – Geneva, N.Y.                        Grover H. Peffers

11. Anthony J. Dispoto – Lodi, N.J.                          Anthony J. Dispoto Sr.

12. Cecil L. Bryant    – Fort Worth, Texas                   Cecil Lee Bryant

Co A. 41st Armd. Inf                                         ^

Machine Gun 5AD                                              |

                                                             \_ findagrave.com 

                                                                memorial links

* I am adding the ones in findagrave.com to wikitree.com

  with some notes/link to this page in hopes of contacting

  relatives of these heroes for my late dad.

** There are two Larry A. Steubing's that can be found here: Nationwide Gravesite Locator (NGL) part of the VA

Both of these gentlemen were born after WW2 ended, they may or may NOT be sons of this Mr. Steubing. Both seem to have served our country one in Vietnam the other apparently in the Persian Gulf and both are interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

*** In addition to this findagrave.com link above. I searched NGL and found 234 Charles Harrison's who have proudly served our country and are interred in nation cemeteries! Many of those 234 served in the WW2 time frame. Apparently that particular name is second only to John Smith?

**** There is a Glen Elbert Byrd who served as a PFC in WW2 buried at the Florida National Cemetery. I don't have a way of confirming if this is him or not. There are three other Glen Byrd's in the NGL but none of them fit the Army WW2 specs.

Late in life, my dad wondered what became of all these men that rode in his halftrack after the war ended. I've now linked all that I could find on findagrave.com to this page and placed links (via virtual flowers on all their memorial pages) to this page in hopes of finding out more about them and their lives since the service in WW2. I also searched NGL (see additional asterisk denoted items above) for possible interments in national cemeteries (3/2/2024). Some of those links above are missing and some may be inaccurate but most seem to be pretty reliable. The others may still be living or just haven't been added to findagrave at this point (6/9/2020). The odds of any being still living is diminishing here now as I write this (3/2/2024).

Leave comments below if you know any information about any of the above individuals or even unit information that I may be unaware of.

Thanks to all these brave soldiers for saving the world from the tyranny of the axis powers.

If you liked this page you might also like this: Link to my father-in-law's tribute page

Old Cagle family photo found

Old family photo found on familysearch.org caption says:
Cagle family taken sometime between 1908 and 1916

My great grandmother at lower right side.

 l-r top row

Maryetta Jane Wofford Cagle  (Levi Cagle's wife)                   findagrave.com

Lorinda Jane Cagle Darnell     (great aunt)                              findagrave.com

John Darnell                            (great uncle by marriage)         findagrave.com

Francis Marion "Frank" Cagle (great uncle)                             findagrave.com

Fannie Isabelle Cagle Darnell (great aunt)                              findagrave.com

James Edward                        (great uncle by marriage)         findagrave.com

Zachariah Taylor Evans          (great uncle by marriage)         findagrave.com

l-r bottom row

Levi Cagle                                    (great uncle)                        findagrave.com 

Martha Elizabeth Wright Cagle    (Frank Cagle's wife        )    findagrave.com

Nancy Cagle Garner                    (great aunt)                         findagrave.com

Mary Mariah Cagle Edwards        (great aunt)                         findagrave.com

Lutisha Cagle Evans                     (great aunt)                        findagrave.com

Martha Emeline Carpenter Cagle (great grandmother Cagle) findagrave.com

More photos and interesting links about this generation at:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cagle-2131

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carpenter-16591

Backup full linux system to remotely mounted archival device (like a jump drive say)

Make a source directory like this on your destination jump drive:

/media/tim/ext4_ext/Chromebook_lubuntu18_finalbackup/
                         ^
                         |
                         +------ auto mount point for my jump drive

login to system to be backed up.

Type a command like this on the system being backed up.

$ sudo rsync -aHAXv / --exclude={"/bak1","/cdrom","/dev","/lost+found","/mnt","/proc","/run","/sys","/tmp"}  192.168.1.14:/media/tim/ext4_ext/Chromebook_lubuntu18_finalbackup

Note: you will need a passwordless ssh login credential setup for root access into the destination system.

Handy command line usage info for automated print jobs via cron for example...

The "l" option to the lpoption command is your friend for getting color saturation or duplexing to suit your needs correctly....

$ lpoptions -d AutoPrintViaCron -l

MediaType/Media Type: PLAIN_HIGH PLAIN_NORMAL *PLAIN_DRAFT PLAIN_SUPERDRAFT LETTERHEAD_HIGH LETTERHEAD_NORMAL LETTERHEAD_DRAFT LETTERHEAD_SUPERDRAFT RECYCLED_HIGH RECYCLED_NORMAL RECYCLED_DRAFT COLORPAPER_HIGH COLORPAPER_NORMAL COLORPAPER_DRAFT PREPRINTED_HIGH PREPRINTED_NORMAL PREPRINTED_DRAFT PREPRINTED_SUPERDRAFT PMMATT_HIGH PMMATT_NORMAL PLATINA_HIGH PLATINA_NORMAL PMPHOTO_HIGH PMPHOTO_NORMAL PSGLOS_HIGH PSGLOS_NORMAL ENV_HIGH ENV_NORMAL THICK_HIGH THICK_NORMAL
Ink/Grayscale: *COLOR MONO
Duplex/Duplex Tumble: *None DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble
PageSize/Media Size: A4 TA4 4X6FULL T4X6FULL 2L T2L A6 A5 B5 L TL INDEX5 8x10 T8x10 4X7 T4X7 ENV10 ENVC6 *Letter TLetter Legal
InputSlot/Paper Source: *Auto Cassette1 Cassette2 Rear

Here is an example cron command line I wrote to keep my ink jet system clog free without having to remember to print to it twice a week:

#
# Print InkJetPM sheet twice a week to stop getting ink clogs

# 0=Sunday @ 5PM and 4=Thursday @ 5AM
#
0 17 * * 0 /usr/bin/lp -d AutoPrintViaCron -o MediaType=PLAIN_HIGH /home/tim/Documents/InkJetPM.pdf
0 5 * * 4 /usr/bin/lp -d AutoPrintViaCron -o MediaType=PLAIN_HIGH /home/tim/Documents/InkJetPM.pdf
#

Had to add the -o MediaType=PLAIN_HIGH to get full color saturation output of the following
pdf content....

This ensures that all four color nozzle sets get flushed twice a week as recommended by inkjet printing experts.