Ubuntu 18.04

This page contains notes and changes introduces with the update to Ubuntu 18.04.

Printers

The CUPS printing service has been switched back to the official way with cups-browsed. That means you will see all printers in the institute, not only those intended for your use. Be carefully when choosing a printer. You can select your default printer with the command 'lpoptions -d PRINTERNAME'.

Update 18.7.19: Printers are still pain. They disappear sometimes from the announcement service of the print server. We are working on a solution for this.

Computer is very slow

In the case the KDE full test indexing, call 'baloo' is consuming all your network bandwidth. Benefit is rather small, you should disable this service. It's a use service. We have disabled this service in other desktop environment except KDE Plasma in later installations. This issue popped up already with Ubuntu 16.04, you will find instructions here: Baloo_file_indexing