my programming journey

Kubuntu 20.04 on Dell Inspiron 5480 I have had another issue with Kubuntu. Really strange that as an Ubuntu-based distro Kubuntu has a few problems while the others don't. This time Kubuntu has problem installing chromium browser. As you may know Ubuntu has shifted Chromium to snap in 20.04. So when I tried to install chromium with sudo snap install chromium I got this error "error: cannot communicate with server: timeout exceeded while waiting for response" I checked the snapd status and it was running... So I didn't have any idea. Until by chance I found out the error has to do with missing snap-store. In short after I installed snap-store everything runs well. Oh... Kubuntu.

Kubuntu Virtualbox Settings I must not be the only one with this problem, so I decided to write down this solution to help others. After using Ubuntu 20.04 for almost two weeks and being very happy with it I could resist the temptation to test some Ubuntu-based distros in Virtualbox. Most of them work flawlessly with the exception of Kubuntu 20.04. Kubuntu would always boot with 800x600 resolution. And every time I changed the settings to a higher resolution Kubuntu would revert back to that low resolution display. I thought the issue would resolve by installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions, however the problem persisted. After trying different settings without success I changed the Graphic Controller in Kubuntu Virtualbox Settings to VBoxVGA ( see the picture above ). Of course as you can see in that picture Virtualbox fires a warning of Invalid settings detected . But this "invalid setting" solves the issue at least partially . Now Kubuntu can resize to diffe...