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4 **Current Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS **
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6 This guide provides essential how-to instructions for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users working with the Linux console FSFL.
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8 == Access Information ==
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10 **Need login credentials functional accounts or support?**
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12 * **Email:** [[darya.loktev@desy.de>>mailto:darya.loktev@desy.de]]
13 * **In-person support:** Come to room 02.015
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16 Paths of the mounts ==
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18 Since the path's are not in the fstab anymore, one have to know the paths which are:
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20 FLASH Core-FS:
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22 **/asap3/flash/gpfs**
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24 FLASH-O Core-FS:
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26 **/asap3/fs-flash-o/gpfs**
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28 pnfs:
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30 **/pnfs/desy.de/flash1**
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33 == How to take screenshots ==
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35 Shortcuts of the Screenshots:
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37 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-22 10-16-28.png||height="250"]]
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39 Easy to take screenshots of the full Desktop, only the active window or just an area. In area mode your cursor turns into a crosshair and you have to mark the area you want to take a screen of.
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41 In the above picture i used alt+print, for the following i used shift+print, so you see its just an area:
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43 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-22 10-16-02.png||height="250"]]
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46 == How to change colors in terminal ==
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48 In the Terminal click on "Edit" → "Preferences". A new window opens and there you click on the tab "Profiles". After this click on "Edit" to change the used profile:
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50 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-22 10-18-49.png||height="250"]]
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52 In the tab "Colors" you can change the colors from system themed to your own favorite:
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54 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-22 10-19-13.png||height="250"]]
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56 In my case on my computer i use green text and black background with a much more colored stuff [[image:http://confluence.desy.de/s/en_US/7901/4635873c8e185dc5df37b4e2487dfbef570b5e2c/_/images/icons/emoticons/smile.svg||border="0" title="(smile)" class="emoticon emoticon-smile"]]
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58 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-24 09-06-40.png||height="112"]]
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60 (One can edit some coloring-the-terminal stuff in the .bashrc, too! But this isn't the topic in here [[image:http://confluence.desy.de/s/en_US/7901/4635873c8e185dc5df37b4e2487dfbef570b5e2c/_/images/icons/emoticons/smile.svg||border="0" title="(smile)" class="emoticon emoticon-smile"]])
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63 == How to run the Shell as a login shell ==
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65 In the editing Profile Windows (see picture above) click on the Tab "Command" and check the "Run command as a login shell":
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67 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-22 10-19-44.png||height="250"]]
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69 To see if you are running with or without login you can use the command "echo $0":
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71 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-22 10-20-29.png]]
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73 The "-" implicates that it is a login shell. At example you need the login shell to use all your own variables. If you just change user etc. without it, it may happen that - at example - you don't have permissions to geht dconf work because of some variables still got owned by the previous user.
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76 == How to change the language ==
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78 Under "Manage Installed Languages" one can install Languages:
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80 [[image:attach:Screenshot from 2020-01-24 13-29-16.png||height="400"]]
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83 But be aware that support is only for german/english. So if you don't understand something and theres a language like italian, korean etc. the chance is low to find someone who can understand this. So then we have to change the languages before and this needs a restart of the session.
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