Whenever I open a mate-terminal, I get Superfluous text.
It's the same text every time. ?
Is there a way to stop it?
Hi @fixit7 
I think its something that you have inside your .bashrc file.
You can try to dig searching ffmpeg inside this file :
cat ~/.bashrc | grep ffmpeg
ffmpeg -loglevel quiet
Nothing about ffmpeg in .bashrc.
No change in the mystery text.
installed ffmpeg on um20.04 (sudo apt install ffmpeg)
run ffmpeg, shows helpful text
run ffmpeg with -loglevel quiet ... no text
You have version 3.4.6, I got 4.2.2
Is this happening at each terminal opening or after each command ?
I tink the solution is already made evident. Clearly there is an older version of ffmpeg in use which doesn't respect the -loglevel quiet flag where upgrading will resolve.
Only at each terminal opening.
This is what I now have.
ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 4.3-2~18.04.york0 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)
Sorry but even with the newest version, the problem still exists after a reboot.
Andy
Your first post (the screenshot) shows 3.4.6, seems you have a PPA and installed it from there.
(after some research) ... That's the ppa, matches what you typed, ffmpeg version 4.3-2~18.04.york0
So, ffmpeg on bionic is version 3.4.6 but you decided to upgrade to 4 using a PPA.
Ok.
My problem is not all that bad.
I have a clear screen alias, so cl clears the screen.
I am so happy I got my menus back.
I have been using Clonezilla for backing up my hard drive.
Is there a more efficient method?
I supect that some of the updates I get can sometimes mess some things up.
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By the way: Mate terminal is capable of running a command on its opening. You might want to have a look at menu Edit > Profile Preferences > Title and command tab.
can you give us the .bashrc
cat .bashrc | nc termbin.com 9999 and give us the link
at .bashrc | nc termbin.com 9999
syntax error. Last token seen: .
Garbled timeOk, I will look at it.
cat not at, I think my post says cat (short for concatenate, reads data from a file and provides contents as output.)
thank you, I do not see any issues. Still don't know why ffmpeg gives you output.