[GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04?

[Alex Volkov]

Hi Stewart,

Not that I actively use ftp, but all of the Norton Commander-like file 
managers that I use still have FTP support.

Krusader for example,




Also a more classic and very much TUI implementation of the same 
interface -- Midnight commander, has FTP support


Alex.

On 2021-06-04 5:42 p.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
>
> Hi - so browsers don't support ftp:// links any more 
> <https://www.somagnews.com/mozilla-firefox-drops-support-for-ftp/>, 
> and I was wondering what people used as a drop-in app? I'd prefer if 
> it weren't Filezilla, as that thing was a bug-ridden mess of spyware 
> last time I looked at it. Most of the very old computer documentation 
> I use lives on FTP sites, and this change came out of nowhere.
>
> Also, my go-to screenshot thingy /*scrot*/ no longer works on Ubuntu 
> 21.04: it gives me this:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window 
> parameter)   Major opcode of failed request:  14 (X_GetGeometry)   
> Resource id in failed request:  0x0   Serial number of failed 
> request:  8   Current serial number in output stream:  8
>
> My keyboard doesn't have a PrtSc key so I can't use any of the 
> built-in screenshot tools. Is this a Wayland thing? I thought Wayland 
> was supposed to be compatible with X?
>
> cheers,
>
>  Stewart
>
>
>
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