Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Fixes and Tweaks

I'm a little late to the party here, it's soon Ubuntu 26.04 LTS time marking my 20-year Ubuntu anniversary!

1. 32bit Wine

After installing Wine, 32bit Windows programs might fail with:

it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32:i386"

The solution. After that run:

sudo apt install wine32
rm -rf ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine wineboot

2. Shift+3 shortcuts not working or keyboard repeating keys

ibus exit

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/18kl6fz/need_help_issue_with_shift_3_key_combination_in/

3. Increase timeout for "app is not responding" dialog

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1068921/how-to-disable-the-window-not-responding-dialog

4. Wifi issues

• https://www.linux.org/threads/problem-with-wifi-failing-to-reconnect-automatically-in-xubuntu-ubuntu-24-04-solved.49961/
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/95676/a-tool-to-measure-signal-strength-of-wireless

Closing

Maybe, I'll give Bluefin a try instead of updating to the next Ubuntu LTS, since I moved on from tinkering with my OS a few years ago.