Ms. Fox Found it! The Tek Solution!

If you are like I am, and for some reason you had to install OBS on another PC, and found out that the VLC Plugin is missing, and literally dont know what to do, and had searched the web like google for the plugin, but still no luck! Then this article is for you!

ISSUE: NEW OBS Installation but no VLC Video Source Plugin.

PROBLEM: You want to install some gnome extensions,so you fire up the browser, and get to Gnome Extensions to install, and then see an red error message? And now you don't know what to do?

Issue: For some reason, the power bank keeps clicking then eventually resetting AC Output ports abruptly, causing devices to restart or mess up, like a windows 11 PC will crash.

You have the Geforce Experience software, but when you record or broadcast or whatever, it shows the wrong camera. In my scenerio it showed splitcam video driver, which was wrong because I didnt want to open an additional program just to broadcast or record my gaming experience.

PROBLEM: When recording your gaming experience or broadcasting, the Geforce Experience, and the overlay [alt - z] chooses the wrong Camera.

You are operating your computer and enjoy your day until one moment or even one day some yellow or unique color shows up everytime you click around, and maybe even blue when you right click. If you related to that verb and dont know what it is, then you are in luck! It looks like you pressed a combination while living and typing on your everyday life keyboard. Maybe you smash the keyboard when losing in a game. Anyway there is a program called PowerToys in windows, and may have went off.

PROBLEM: Accidentally pressed a combination, and now everywhere you click has a Yellow and Blue highlighter!

SOLUTION: The highlighted sounds like windows PowerToys. It's in the PowerToys app under Mouse utilities, Mouse Highlighter. I assume windows lagged, and as it was catching up on all the button presses, it assumed you pressed the key combo [Windows Key]+[Shift]+[H]. Try either pressing the combo again, or disabling the slider in PowerToys.

PROBLEM

So you might have a keyboard that has no speaker icon which would be the main keyboard Volume up or down, or simply the shortcut just randomly stopped working. In my case, I had this expensive $200 Gaming Keyboard that had the pageup and pagedown as the method for Volume Control, but eventually it stopped working, and for whatever reason. In Windows 11, there is a solution!

SOLUTION

Using a piece of software called PowerToys which you can download for free at Microsoft. at this link:

Install PowerToys | Microsoft Learn

And when you finish downloading and install the progam, go ahead and launch the program. When it opens, navigate to > "Keyboard Manager" in the left side navigation list. > And then as the Keyboard Manager is opened, make sure the Enable Keyboard Manager is "On" > And then next look under Shortcuts section to find "Remap a Shortcut." > Now click on it > and a window should popup named "Remap Shortcuts" > Now click the "+ Add Shortcut Remapping"

To set a Custom Shortcut, Under "Select" Section click the "Select" button to continue adding shortcut, and choose any shortcut you desire for your newly volume shortcut to be. Mine was Ctrl + PgDn. When finished click ok. Now the second section, Under "To Send" click and scroll through the list right under Key/shortcut. So the second drop-down list, NOT the Key/Shortcut. Look for "Volume Up" or "Volume Down," in my case Volume Down for my Ctrl + Dn shortcut.

Just repeat those steps for all three Volume Control. Volume up and Down and Mute. After you repeat those steps for all 3 or whichever you want, click OK at the top of the popup window to save. and then Test out your new shortcuts!

PROBLEM:

When you turn off your computer, your USB devices still have power.

SOLUTION:

Navigate to your lovely Start Menu, and then type "Control Panel" and click Control Panel, now go to "Power Options", and then go to "Choose what the power buttons do", and then under Shutdown settings, UNcheck "Turn on fast startup (recommended)." Once that is Uncheck, it won't retain any cache settings for the USB Power to be enabled or disabled by windows, and to strictly depend on whatever the bios setting is set, if any.

STILL AN ISSUE?:

PROBLEM:

So I was trying to install a fresh or clean copy of Windows 11 Professional on my computer, and everything was pretty straight forward with the obvious. Basically you just download the ISO and flash it to a USB stick. The problem is, when you boot up the Windows 11 setup, and click "Install" it literally cant find any storage drivers. Meaning it cant see any hard drive capable of installing Windows on. But what the heck!?! Its windows 11! Till this moment, I dont know why, and was disappointed. But I do have a high-end latest built computer, so maybe that played a factor!

ANYWAY! I FOUND A SOLUTION!

SOLUTION:

WoeUSB! Using WoeUSB actually is designed to prepare a Windows Installation on a bootable USB from Linux, in my case, Ubuntu 22(23 has issues)

With Terminal: (INSTALL THE Pyhthon-pip for Installation)

sudo apt install git p7zip-full python3-pip python3-wxgtk4.0 grub2-common grub-pc-bin

(INSTALL WoeUSB with pip3 command* NOTE THAT PIP3 ONLY WORKS ON UBUNTU 22, NOT 23.)

sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng

Once that's install, its pretty self explanatory. Find the app in the applications section and launch.

If you are like me, then you went from ubuntu to an Arch Linux distro. In my case, Manjaro. Ubuntu made life easy to install software either from the store or from deb files. Both linux has a store, but Arch linux has cant install deb files right out the fresh install. So it was annoying installing overGrive, it was annoying until I googled it and found an easy how to install guide for the terminal. Here is how to install. Dependencies are a must install if you haven't already. Most likely you haven't! Lets go ahead and install that with a one liner.

------------- sudo pacman -S libnotify python3 python-oauth2client python-pyinotify python-pip python-gobject gobject-introspection libappindicator-gtk3 -------------

And once you have all that stuff installed, lets install the main software. Make sure to download the software from the original website. Download the Arch Linux version. Lets install with this liner.

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sudo pacman -U overgrive-3.5.*-0-any.pkg.tar.xz

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And now after that finishes, everything should be fine now!

You can either browse your google drive as a drive by going to Settings > Online Accounts and adding a google account with files permission. Or you can Download OverGrive, the "G" letter not D. This gives a trial to use the software, or pay $9.99 one-time license fee which is very fair. This syncs folder by folder, so you can set what folder to sync or auto backup. So I sync from the root of my Home folder, keeping my entire linux account sync.

https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive

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ISSUE:

I needed some scaling options between 100% and 200%. 200% being to big for the desktop environment accessible features. They only had two options. 100 and 200. And I needed something around 125, 150, etc.

SOLUTION:

Wayland Enable the experimental fractional scaling feature: Launch the terminal and enter this one line below.

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" then RESTART! After Boot, open Settings > Displays (the new options should NOW appear.).

ISSUE: If you're like me, you like installing, and using the standard main version of a companies software. I never liked Chromium because the icon colors are less colorful. Something about the colors that lack interest over the colorful regular version, that you can download off their website. I had already found out how to install the standard chrome along time ago, but I thought I'd log in for my own benefit. I can just point myself to my own website. AND thats the point of this website anyway! My own person tech log of tutorials.

SOLUTION: Installing the standard Google Chrome with the Command Line (Elementary OS | Or equivalent Ubuntu Based Distro)

Installing Google Chrome from the command line only takes a couple of commands. We’ll use wget to download the “.deb” file.

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

You’ll see a text-based progress bar and percentage counter as the download progresses.

When the download has completed, use the dpkg command to install Google Chrome from the “.deb” file. Remember that you can use the “Tab” key to expand filenames. If you type the first few letters of the filename and hit the “Tab” key, the rest of the filename will be added for you.

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

You’ll be prompted for your password, and then the installation will start. It’s very quick, only taking a few moments.

If you see error messages complaining about unmet dependencies, use the next command to force apt to satisfy the dependencies. The computer that this article was researched on was running Ubuntu 21.04. There were no unmet dependencies using this release.

sudo apt -f install

Found on: https://askubuntu.com/questions/360886/personalize-monitor-position-before-login

I was experiencing this too. So long as you have your monitors configured as you want them in your user space then you should be able to follow these steps to set your monitors up the same way on the log in screen: