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Update to Ubuntu 24.04

After years running Ubuntu 20.04, I recently (January 2025) installed Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat. This cames with few improvements and a couple of disappointments, mainly the lost of my dual-screen: my graphic card, Nvidia Quadro FX3700, is not supported anymore by the latest driver. The result is: when the computer boots up, it does on output 0 (right screen). But as soon as Wayland starts, it switches to output 1 (left screen), ignoring the other output; my right screen remains black. This is a new behavior, it works fine on 20.04.

Keyboard

I write mainly in French and English. My keyboard is US Qwerty with US International layout.

In English, what I see on keyboard is what I get on screen. In French, the diacritics are obtained with compositional keys:

To get Ubuntu 20 Ubuntu 24
á é í ó ú ý
Á É Í Ó Ú Ý		 ' e (Quote letter)
' E (Quote shift+letter)
à è ì ò ù
À È Ì Ò Ù 		` e (Backquote letter)
` E (Backquote shift+letter)
â ê î ô û ŷ
Â Ê Î Ô Û Ŷ 		^ e (Caret letter)
^ E (Caret shift+letter)
ä ë ï ö ü ÿ
Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü Ÿ 		" e (Double quote letter)
" E (Double quote shift+letter)
ç
Ç 		' c (Quote c)
' C (Quote C) 		, c (Alt+Comma c)
, C (Alt+Comma C)

Terminal

I use the terminal a lot. However, I noticed it doesn't behave as on previous versions.

Copy and paste shortcuts

I'm used to the old shortcuts Ctrl+Insert for copy, and Shift+Insert for paste. By default, it is not configured but hopefully, this is configurable:

  1. Open the terminal: Ctrl+Shift+T
  2. In terminal, open the hamburger menu (3 stacked lines) and go to Preferences
  3. Click on Shortcuts on the left pane; ensure the Enable shortcuts box is checked
  4. Click on Edit → Copy, press Enter (the shortcuts changes for New accelerator...) and then press on the Ctrl and Insert keys
  5. Define all your favorite shortcuts: Paste/li>, Select all
  6. Close the menu for saving

Mouse wheel for scrolling

By default, the mouse wheel scrolls into my command history instead of scrolling the screen.

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