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35471 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T15:07:09.920 | 0 | 160 | <p>I want to create a single launcher for Chrome, Banshee,Thunderbird and Gwibber. What is the easiest way to do this? </p>
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35478 | 1 | 35528 | 2011-04-16T15:29:13.037 | 7 | 8064 | <p>How do I mark a file as executable using a graphical interface (GUI)?</p>
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35482 | 1 | 35549 | 2011-04-16T15:42:14.773 | 1 | 1539 | <p>I have made a Guest user account, where Google Chrome launches at startup. But users are still able to browse all applications from the Unity Launcher.</p>
<p>How can I restrict access to all programs. I want to do this in Unity only (to prove to myself if this is even possible), and only let users see Chrome and LibreOffice.</p>
<p>Currently, they can see all programs and even system settings from the top-right power button.</p>
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"body": "<p><strong>Part One</strong></p>\n\n<p>I think you can solve this doing: </p>\n\n<p>1) Install Compiz Settings Manager from the software center or by <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/compizconfig-settings-manager\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">clicking here</a> </p>\n\n<p>2) Launch it from System -> Preferences </p>\n\n<p>3) Uncheck Unity like in this picture: </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Tq2N.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"> </p>\n\n<p>4) Logout and log back in. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Part Two</strong><br>\n<em>Others questions</em> </p>\n\n<p>1) To disable <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F2</kbd>: </p>\n\n<pre><code>gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_run_dialog '' \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>2) To disable the shortcut to open the terminal: </p>\n\n<pre><code>gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_terminal '' \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>3) To add shortcuts to the desktop: </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Right click on Desktop > Create Launcher </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Enjoy!</p>\n",
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"text": "Thanks, I will give this a try. I guess I can place just the Chrome and LibreOffice shortcuts on the desktop. Hopefully my guests won't know how to use Alt + F2 or the terminal!\n\nHowever, this raises another question. Is there any easy way in Unity to add shortcuts to the desktop? In Gnome you can right click a menu item and add to desktop. Can't seem to find an alternative in Unity?",
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35488 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T16:08:01.357 | 137 | 208191 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Please note that right now, most of the information contained below is outdated and cannot be updated. Be careful, most of this won't work on Ubuntu 12.04 and newer.</strong></p>
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<p>Creating a custom launcher for Unity is simple. Quicklists provide an easy and efficient way to quickly access commonly used tasks for a specific application. </p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Starting with Ubuntu 11.10, this popup option has vanished. Launchers can now only be created by editing text files in your home folder.</p>
<p>Creating a custom launcher is easy.</p>
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<li>Right-click on your desktop and click create a launcher.</li>
<li>Edit the .desktop file using a text editor. (More information can be found <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/31427/how-do-i-put-a-web-application-on-the-launcher">here</a> and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/32991/how-do-i-add-a-static-quicklist-that-opens-a-web-page">here</a>.)</li>
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<p><strong>So, which custom launchers do you use on Unity?</strong></p>
<p><em>Note: Please limit yourself to one custom launcher per answer. Also, please provide a screenshot of it in action.</em></p>
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35491 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T16:43:51.593 | 10 | 11161 | <p>How do I change tooltip's background color on Ubuntu desktop "Xfce". I know how to change in Gnome but I can't find out how to do so in Xfce. </p>
<p>Tooltip's background color in Eclipse is black, and font's color is black too. </p>
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35492 | 1 | 35519 | 2011-04-16T16:47:42.527 | 2 | 209 | <p>When working with two displays there is a question of which display is the "primary". In the case of Unity the primary display is the screen on which the launcher appears for instance. This property can be set using <code>xrandr</code>, but the gnome-display-properties utility does not give a GUI way to set this. This bug was also <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588041" rel="nofollow">raised upstream</a>, and was apparently solved for Gnome 3.0. With the Gnome 3.0 vs Unity thing going on, I think that a bug like this should be addressed within Unity as well (and cannot be resolved upstream). I wanted to file such a bug in launchpad, but didn't know where to do this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>
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35495 | 1 | 35580 | 2011-04-16T17:10:32.200 | 1 | 87 | <p>I can get LATEST snapshots with bzr no problem. What I am trying to do is get source snapshots for the installed version of firefox on ubuntu distribution whatever. I googled around a bit and it all comes back to use bzr to get source latest. </p>
<p><code>apt-get source firefox-3.5</code> pulls in something, but it doesn't contain source files. I could be mistaken on this, but I don't see anything other than the debian directory. Any guidance?</p>
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35497 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T17:19:46.743 | 48 | 173377 | <p>When I boot up my my newly installed copy of Ubuntu on my custom rig w/4GB DDR3 RAM and a 3 Ghz Intel Core i7, it takes about a minute and a half at the purple loading screen, and then after logging in it takes a while for the icons to show up on the screen. This computer could run and boot Windows 7 faster, so i have a problem here. </p>
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35500 | 1 | 35505 | 2011-04-16T17:25:19.437 | 4 | 272 | <p>Is there way to do get right click action on unity dash board icon launcher using keyboard shortcut ?. After doing Alt+F1, I could select the application only. </p>
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35506 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T18:01:30.810 | 2 | 1531 | <pre><code>root@ip-10-194-97-94:~# apt-get install uwsgi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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35512 | 1 | 35518 | 2011-04-16T19:42:45.980 | 160 | 134693 | <p>What is the difference between <code>ssh -Y</code> (trusted X11 forwarding) and <code>ssh -X</code> (untrusted X11 forwarding)? As far as I have understood it, it has something to do with security, but I did not grasp the difference and when to use which.</p>
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"text": "I have the same question (why to use `-Y`) and the only case that I understood this may be useful is when the security control on the server side is somehow not implemented/not compatible. I have also read that forwarding X11 is generally a powerful and dangerous tool that should be treated as such.",
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35515 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T20:23:23.413 | 3 | 694 | <p>I have a very old mac from a very long time ago, it looks like this: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/O89ph.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I don't know if this is the exact model but it is the exact color</p>
<p>My question is: is it of any possibility that I install a modern version of ubuntu onto it</p>
<p>PS... It is running os 9.2 if that will help distinguish the model</p>
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35534 | 1 | 35539 | 2011-04-16T22:30:14.793 | 1 | 704 | <p>I am filing tax report in US using <a href="http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf" rel="nofollow">Federal 1040 form</a>. I was wondering if there is some software for tax report, with similar purpose as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboTax" rel="nofollow">turbotax</a>? Thanks and regards!</p>
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35535 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T22:32:18.213 | 0 | 218 | <p>I've notices that the sensors-applet (that measures the temperatures of CPU) is giving me 4 measures and only 2 of theme seems to indicate the work temperatures.</p>
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35537 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T22:50:51.773 | 2 | 784 | <p>I have been using this build (and sleeping it) for months without a problem.
Yesterday I upped the RAM from the pre-installed 4gb across 2 sticks to 8gb across 2 sticks....</p>
<p>Machine boots fine and is fast and stable in the OS....</p>
<p>When I now sleep the machine it will go down fine, but on wake it just dies. A reboot is required.</p>
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<p>There is no 'Awake' reference – this is now replaced with the commandline parameters??</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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35543 | 1 | 35550 | 2011-04-17T00:26:14.607 | 5 | 4522 | <p>I have a few CDs lying around that I'd like to rip and encode in MP3 format using Rhythmbox. After installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, one of the options that shows up in Rhythmbox's preferences under "preferred format" is "CD Quality MP3," but from the encoder options it appears that it uses a constant bitrate. </p>
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35547 | 1 | 35554 | 2011-04-17T00:16:42.203 | 6 | 3141 | <p>Is there any applications on Ubuntu that could measure your bandwidth/download speed?</p>
<p>I would like to start a few downloads and use a bandwidth monitor like application that will give me the total download and upload speed in Mbps. There used to be a software like that for windows, I can't recall the name though. </p>
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35551 | 1 | 35563 | 2011-04-17T01:30:51.370 | 3 | 14273 | <p>I'm using the following sites to install and configure Hadoop in Ubuntu 10.10
<a href="http://arifn.web.id/blog/2010/07/29/running-hadoop-single-cluster.html" rel="nofollow">http://arifn.web.id/blog/2010/07/29/running-hadoop-single-cluster.html</a></p>
<p>However, when I try to format the Hadoop file-system, I get the following errors.</p>
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11/04/16 21:23:07 INFO namenode.NameNode: STARTUP_MSG:
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STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode
STARTUP_MSG: host = amathew-Dimension-3000/192.168.1.66
STARTUP_MSG: args = [-format]
STARTUP_MSG: version = 0.20.2
STARTUP_MSG: build = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20 -r 911707; compiled by 'chrisdo' on Fri Feb 19 08:07:34 UTC 2010
************************************************************/
11/04/16 21:23:08 INFO namenode.FSNamesystem: fsOwner=amathew,amathew,adm,dialout,cdrom,plugdev,lpadmin,admin,sambashare
11/04/16 21:23:08 INFO namenode.FSNamesystem: supergroup=supergroup
11/04/16 21:23:08 INFO namenode.FSNamesystem: isPermissionEnabled=true
11/04/16 21:23:08 ERROR namenode.NameNode: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory /usr/local/hadoop-datastore/hadoop/dfs/name/current
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage$StorageDirectory.clearDirectory(Storage.java:295)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.format(FSImage.java:1086)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.format(FSImage.java:1110)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.format(NameNode.java:856)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:948)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:965)
11/04/16 21:23:08 INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG:
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************************************************************/
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<p>Can anyone help with these error messages, namely <code>ERROR namenode.NameNode: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory /usr/local/hadoop-datastore/hadoop/dfs/name/current</code>.</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/hadoop/datastore
$ sudo chown hadoop:hadoop /usr/local/hadoop/datastore
$ sudo chmod 750 /usr/local/hadoop/datastore
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35558 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T03:27:13.907 | 1 | 833 | <p>Is there any? I can't seem to return the network management back to NetworkManager after installnig connman... >_<</p>
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35560 | 1 | 35565 | 2011-04-17T04:54:13.523 | 6 | 5877 | <p>I don't want to update certain packages. But this list of packages appears every time I open update manager. Is there an ignore list feature for packages? So I can add or remove packages from ignore list whenever I want?</p>
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"text": "@user: Thanks. I know that. I just want some shortcut way (as i mentioned before like linux mint update manager) to do that. An update manager which can ignore some packages",
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35575 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T07:12:21.650 | 9 | 7947 | <p>I much like Windows 7's windows explorer's "Send to" menu. It's very useful and I can tweak this for my own need. I see nautilus has the same feature, but I don't know how to tweak this (for example, add or remove extra options). Is there any way to do this?</p>
<p>I have tweaked "Send to" options in windows explorer. See the screenshot below:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QCG09.png" alt="Screenshot of Windows 7' Send to menu"></p>
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35578 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T08:36:42.987 | 2 | 613 | <p>Are there any legal issues with publishing and sharing an application that loads a humanity system icon as default .desktop?</p>
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35579 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T09:04:13.667 | 3 | 3187 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/33605/can-i-move-the-unity-launcher-to-the-bottom-of-the-screen-like-windows-7">Can I move the Unity launcher to the bottom of the screen like Windows 7?</a> </p>
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<p>I was reading the introduction to Unity and it says the launcher was made into a sidebar for convenience on widescreen monitors. Is it configurable, say to move it along the bottom of the screen, for people like me who use a "widescreen" monitor in "Portrait" mode?</p>
<p>If not, this is a dealbreaker for me, I'm afraid.</p>
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35581 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T09:25:44.447 | 0 | 780 | <p>This has happened a couple of times now, the unity menu (when you click on the Ubuntu logo) has all the categories there but when you click on say media apps it will be blank the same for the other options as well. searching for something will also draw a blank =/</p>
<p>any help?</p>
<p>Using Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 32bit</p>
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35587 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T10:05:50.373 | 3 | 990 | <p>I'm not able to obtain sharp (acceptable) fonts, specially in Firefox, in Natty.</p>
<p>In Maverick I've to delete <code>/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-</code> files and set 'hinting full' in gnome-appearance-properties. This solution doesn't works in Natty.</p>
<p>I've tried many combinations linking *.conf files from <code>/etc/fonts/conf.avail</code> to <code>/etc/fonts/conf.d</code>, I've tried to use a custom conf file (<code>.fonts.conf</code>), I've tried modifying dpi, I've tried with various ttf (including Microsoft fonts), but no way. The result is always unacceptable.</p>
<p>So my question is, how can I have the same behaviors of Maverick fonts in Natty?</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong></p>
<p>This seems a problem with (at least) Arial font. If i force Firefox to use a different font (eg Sans)
it's all right, but obviously this is not a solution (i don't want all sites have the same
font). Below an animated gif that show the differences of Ariel font:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DBOmf.gif" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Take a look at "1,a,G" chars (right click on the image and select to view in other tab)</p>
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35589 | 1 | 35615 | 2011-04-17T10:28:05.560 | 2 | 3092 | <p>Is it possible to Download Ubuntu updates via a windows computer?? Actually I have a dial-up connection and I am using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Alpha 3) and I want to upgrade to Beta 2. It takes ages to download that amount of data, but a friend of mine has a broadband connection. So can I use his computer to download updates for my distribution ??</p>
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35592 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T11:02:23.980 | 3 | 1377 | <p>When I resume my computer from suspend it doesn't want to connect to any wireless connection. It looks like it is connecting, but after a while it asks me to retype a password for wireless connection. It connect after I restart it.</p>
<p>I am using Toshiba Satellite A210 and Ubuntu 10.10 (I have the same problem with 10.04 and 11.04 beta2.</p>
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Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7128
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
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<p>Should I file a bug?</p>
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35594 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T11:17:09.167 | 1 | 716 | <p>Hello Id like to run a Windows 7 Virtual Machine on my Ubuntu 11.04.
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<p>I would use the VM for converting some files. Then I would like to copy them to my HDD on (ubuntu 11.04). Is this possible ?</p>
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35596 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T11:30:17.910 | 5 | 6988 | <p>On a MacBook with MacOS X, it is possible to <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1490">"calibrate" the battery</a> to optimise its performance and sync up the battery meter with the current battery charge.</p>
<p>I have a Lenovo IdeaPad S10e running Ubuntu 10.10 with the standard GNOME desktop. When my battery is fully charged according to the hardware (i.e. the amber charging LED on the front goes solid blue), the battery meter shows the battery as about 90% full. This is really only a minor annoyance, as the estimated time remaining is reasonably accurate, but I'd like to sync it up. Also, it's possible that my battery has built up a memory so that it is truly not fully charging.</p>
<p>The battery is the standard three-cell LiON battery that ships with the netbook.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> After a full charge, here is what the kernel reports about the battery:</p>
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present: yes
design capacity: 2808 mAh
last full capacity: 0 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 10800 mV
design capacity warning: 280 mAh
design capacity low: 84 mAh
cycle count: 0
capacity granularity 1: 10 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 25 mAh
model number: LE30_S
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battery type: LION
OEM info: Sanyo
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present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charged
present rate: 0 mA
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<p>The fact that last full capacity is reported as 0 mAh is very strange. I'm sure it used to report a number close to the design capacity.</p>
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35599 | 1 | 59232 | 2011-04-17T12:28:35.687 | 6 | 1436 | <p>I created a firefox quicklist as shown below, </p>
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<p>However I would like to also add commonly used websites in that quicklists under a separate group. To present it visually nice I would like to add separators (white lines as seen in the screenshot) to separate that from the other existing commands.</p>
<p>Is there any code or any other way to do this?</p>
<p><strong>How do I add a separator to the quicklists in unity?</strong></p>
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35602 | 1 | 40510 | 2011-04-17T12:52:21.457 | 23 | 7722 | <p>I configured evince to be my default application to open pdf files (using Open with... and clicking on always opening pdf files with this application), but when I type <code>gnome-open foo.pdf</code> instead of evince, I have Nautilus that opens up in the correct folder highlighting the file of my choice. </p>
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35605 | 1 | 35645 | 2011-04-17T12:57:31.030 | 51 | 90383 | <p>What is the fastest and least resource consuming method for splitting an MP4 file?</p>
<p>I tried ffmpeg but got an error:</p>
<pre><code>$ ffmpeg -vcodec copy -ss 0 -t 00:10:00 -i /home/asafche/Videos/myVideos/MAH00124.MP4 /home/asafche/Videos/myVideos/eh.mp4
FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Mar 31 2011 18:53:20, gcc: 4.4.3
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 119.88 (120000/1001) -> 59.94 (60000/1001)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/asafche/Videos/myVideos/MAH00124.MP4':
Duration: 00:15:35.96, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 5664 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 59.94 tbr, 59.94 tbn, 119.88 tbc
Stream #0.1(und): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16
Output #0, mp4, to '/home/asafche/Videos/myVideos/eh.mp4':
Stream #0.0(und): Video: libx264, yuv420p, 1280x720, q=2-31, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
Stream #0.1(und): Audio: 0x0000, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1
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<p>What am I doing wrong and how do I properly split an mp4 file?</p>
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"text": "This worked for me:\n\n ffmpeg -ss 00:05:00 -t 00:16:00 -i largfile.MP4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy smallfile.MP4\n\ncan someone explain why?",
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"text": "I am going to speculate here a bit, but it looks like your source file is encoded with framerate that libx264 does not support, so it skips frames. I think this should work fine, but there might be some mishaps with audio because of this.",
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"text": "Asaf's command worked for me too. It would seem that the codec options should come after the inputfile.",
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35607 | 1 | 35619 | 2011-04-17T13:17:22.653 | 0 | 266 | <p>I tried Test Automatic Connectivity on 11.04 beta 2 and as I try to follow these instructions:</p>
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<li>Ensure that NetworkManager is running (computer icon in the notification area) and that no networks are currently connected.</li>
<li>Click on Ubuntu Logo and search Terminal.</li>
<li><strong>In the terminal, run ifconfig. Verify that only the loopback device ("lo") is listed.</strong></li>
<li>Right-click on the NetworkManager icon and ensure that Enable Wireless is checked.</li>
<li>After approximately 30 seconds, left-click on the NetworkManager icon. Verify that one or more wireless networks are visible.</li>
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<li>In the terminal, run <code>ifconfig</code>. Verify that a new network interface is listed.</li>
<li>In the terminal, run <code>route -n</code>. Note the IP address that is not "0.0.0.0" in the Gateway column.</li>
<li>In the terminal, run <code>ping -c 5 [gateway]</code> where <code>[gateway]</code> is the IP address of the Gateway, above. Verify that the command reports "5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received". </li>
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<p>In my case It is not only loopback listed:</p>
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UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:44 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4496 (4.4 KB) TX bytes:4496 (4.4 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:9e:8e:c8:46
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:9eff:fe8e:c846/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:759864 (759.8 KB) TX bytes:186146 (186.1 KB)
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<p>The same thing with Verify Release of Device test. In instruction it's written to get just "lo" in terminal, but I get also eth0:</p>
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UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:44 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
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UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4496 (4.4 KB) TX bytes:4496 (4.4 KB)
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<p>In instruction it is written, that it should be only loopback. I obviously have more than just "lo". What's the deal with this?</p>
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35608 | 1 | 35610 | 2011-04-17T13:26:31.850 | 11 | 6239 | <p>I just found a good command line calculator program called <strong>bc</strong> and was satisfied with it until I discovered it rounds off fractional values, thus causing loss in precision.</p>
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<p>I thought about using pam_mount but that lacks the nice gnome keyring integration.</p>
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35629 | 1 | 35636 | 2011-04-17T16:31:22.727 | 339 | 174530 | <p>I see a lot of interesting programs out there that can only be obtained by adding a "PPA" to the system but, if I'm understanding correctly, we should stay within the official "repositories" for adding software to our system. </p>
<p>Is there any way for a novice to know if a "PPA" is safe or if it should be avoided? What tips should the user know about when dealing with a PPA?.</p>
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The chances you have on using THAT PPA are null. Why?. Because the package dependencies that PPA needs are very old and maybe the updated ones change so much code that they wont work with the PPA and possibly break your system if you install any of the packages of that PPA to your system.</p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>How updated a PPA influences the decision to use it if he/she wants to use THAT PPA. If not they would rather go look for another one more up to date. You do not want Banshee 0.1 or Wine 0.0.0.1 or OpenOffice 0.1 Beta Alpha Omega Thundercat Edition with the latest Ubuntu. What you want is a PPA that is updated to your current Ubuntu. Remember that a PPA mentions for what Ubuntu version is made for or multiple Ubuntu versions was made for.</p>\n<p>As an example of this here is an image of the versions that are supported in the Wine PPA:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/1M5XT.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<p>Here you can see that this PPA is supported since Dinosaurs.</p>\n<p>One BAD thing about how updated a PPA is, if the PPA maintainer tends to push into the PPA the latest, greatest and cutting edge version of a specific package. The down side of this is that if you are going to test the latest of something, you ARE going to find some bugs. Try to stick with PPAs that are updated to a stable version and not a unstable, testing or dev version since it might/will contain bugs. The idea of having the latest is also to TEST and say what problems were found and solve them. An example of this are the daily Xorg PPAs and Daily Mozilla PPAs. You will get about 3 daily updates for X.org or Firefox if you get the dailies. This is because of the work the put in there and if you are using their daily PPAs it means you want to help with bug hunting or development and NOT for a production environment.</p>\n<p>Basically stick with this 3 and you will be safe. Always look for the maker/maintainer of the PPA. Always see if many users have used it and always see how updated the PPA is. Places like <a href=\"http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">OMGUbuntu</a>, <a href=\"http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Phoronix</a>, <a href=\"http://linux.slashdot.org/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Slashdot</a>, <a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The H</a>, <a href=\"http://www.webupd8.org/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">WebUp8</a> and even here in AskUbuntu are good sources to find many users and articles talking about and recommending some PPAs that they have tested.</p>\n<p><strong>Stable PPA Examples</strong> - LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Banshee, Wine, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, PlayDeb, GetDeb, VLC are good and safe PPAs from MY experience.</p>\n<p><strong>Semi Stable PPA</strong> - X-Swat PPA is a in the middle PPA between bleeding edge and stable.</p>\n<p><strong>Bleeding Edge PPA</strong> - Xorg-Edgers is a bleeding edge PPA although I should mention that after 12.04, this PPA has become more and more stable. I would still mark it as bleeding edge but it is stable enough for end users.</p>\n<p><strong>Selectable PPA</strong> - Handbrake offers <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/%7Estebbins\" rel=\"noreferrer\">here</a> a way for the user to choose, do you want a stable version or do you want the bleeding edge (Also referred to as Snapshot) version. In this case you can select what you want to use.</p>\n<p>Note that in the case of using for example the X-Swat ppa with the Xorg-Edgers PPA, you will get a mixed between the two (With priority towards Xorg-Edgers). This is because both are trying to include almost the same packages, so they will overwrite each other and only the most updated one will show in your repositories (Except if you manually tell it to grab the package from X-Swat).</p>\n<p>Some PPAs might update some of your packages when you add them to your repository because they will overwrite with their own version a certain package to make the PPA software work on your system correctly. This might be some code packages, python versions, etc.. Other like the LibreOffice PPA will remove all existence of the OpenOffice from your system to install the LibreOffice packages there. Basically read what other users have commented about a specific package and also read if the package is compatible with your Ubuntu version.</p>\n<p>As the comment below suggest by Jeremy Bicha, some bleeding edge (PPAs that stay very up to date including adding Alpha, Beta or RC quality software in the PPA) could potentially damage your whole system (In the worst case). Jeremy mentions an example of many.</p>\n",
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"text": "Is this true for the multitude of PPA's that you need to install to get themes like equinox, elementary etc?",
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"text": "Yes. It applies to any PPA. Remember that a PPA its just an easy way to update a program or group of programs via someone that takes it into their time to have them upgraded. So it is a place where someone dedicates his or her time for something to be updated or compatible with the latest/older system. But since it is a human that is doing it, there might be mistakes on the way.",
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"text": "@mathmaniage The source code has to be uploaded and built by the system, so the source code is available to check at any time.",
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"text": "@damien and others wondering: see [this answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/1398569/538283) for an example on how to do it.",
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"text": "@damien I have edited the answer to add information about number of users. Check out PPA Stats. https://ppa-stats.sheth.io",
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"text": "Re: check #2: How many users have used SolarWinds Orion Platform infected by the Russian RAT? 18k. Safety in numbers anyone?",
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35637 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T17:58:57.803 | 1 | 210 | <p>I open several text files in gedit. But when switching to view different text files, the file name shown in the headline of gedit is messed up. So I was wondering if it is a bug and how to solve this problem? Thanks and regards!</p>
<p>For example, when I switched from file1 to file2 by clicking the tab of file2, the main window shows the content of file2, while the headline of gedit shows "file1". If wait 15 seconds or so, the headline will change to "file2".
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rXTxF.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>P.S. My gedit is gedit 2.30.3 and OS is Ubuntu 10.10</p>
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35638 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T18:22:58.350 | 2 | 336 | <p>Many times, I will go to right click on something in Firefox 4, and the context menu will disappear the second I move my mouse. I can use the arrow keys to select.</p>
<p>This comes and goes. When I was running Maverick, and switched to Minefield, and it began to happen, I wondered if it was something to do with all my customisations and Compiz, but now it is happening in my fairly stock Natty amd64 install.</p>
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35640 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T18:25:26.263 | 2 | 2224 | <p>I'm trying to create a link that will run a command (more specifically, open an ebook). Is there a way to do this?</p>
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35641 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T18:41:44.537 | 7 | 7599 | <p>I have a CAF server on my Ubuntu 9.10 server and I need to convert them to MP3 or WAV. I have already tried with pacpl and ffmpeg, but it didn't work (I don't have the right encodings in Ubuntu).</p>
<p>Does anyone know how to convert the CAF file in Ubuntu?</p>
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<p>The output of the pacpl command (<code>pacpl input.caf -to mp3</code>) is: </p>
<pre><code>Converting: [test.caf] -> [mp3] decode failed with exit status: 256 Total files converted: 0, failed: 1
pacpl 6a27cb1fcd120491531eb8b984c536bd.caf -t wav Perl Audio Converter - 4.0.5
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35642 | 1 | 35675 | 2011-04-17T18:58:30.320 | 4 | 2844 | <p>I have the following line in do_start() of my custom init script that starts a java application:</p>
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<p>when expanded, becomes:</p>
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<p>The log files created are owned by user root, group root. I'd expect they are owned by the user I set with --chuid, because from the manpage, everything after -- are passed unmodified.</p>
<p>My question is, are all redirects from start-stop-daemon owned by root, and is there a way to change that?</p>
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35647 | 1 | 35661 | 2011-04-17T20:06:33.563 | 31 | 60496 | <p>Goal: I want to be able to securely use the internet via my home PC while my notebook is connected to an open hotspot/access point.</p>
<p>I <em>do</em> know that I can use a SSH tunnel/SOCKS proxy, but I don't want to fiddle around with applications (making them use it, if even possible). I guess what I need is an OpenVPN setup, so I'm looking for a detailed guide on how to:</p>
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"text": "What is the server configuration for username/password based login, where my client do not have knowledge to setup the vpn client all i want him to use server ip, username, password.",
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"text": "@YumYumYum No idea how to use username/password, have a look at the manual page of openvpn (`man openvpn`). Recent versions of openvpn have the ability to embed certificates and key files, so perhaps it is even easier to provide that single configuration file with instructions to the user.",
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"text": "Note that newer versions of Ubuntu ship with OpenSSL 1.0.1, and running the `. vars` command above may [generate an error](https://www.google.com/search?q=openssl.cnf+file+could+be+found+further+invocations+will+fail) that \"openssl.cnf file could be found\n Further invocations will fail\". You need to `sudo -s; cd /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/; ln -s openssl-1.0.0.cnf openssl.cnf`, *then* run `. vars` and the other commands.",
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"text": "@DanDascalescu The script `whichopenssl` locates the `openssl-1.0.0.cnf` file correctly for me (easy-rsa 2.3.2, OpenSSL 1.0.1e)",
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"text": "Very informative, thorough answer. Could you answer [this question](http://superuser.com/questions/746888/openvpn-to-stream-media-to-android)?",
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35650 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T20:21:40.403 | 2 | 491 | <p>In these release notes (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4#GUI) it reads that the gtk-integration should be improved. Does it look completely native now?</p>
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35654 | 1 | 35658 | 2011-04-17T20:50:01.873 | 1 | 682 | <p><s>Since I upgrade to 11.04, the new Ubuntu One daemon (syndaemon) is using 100% at somewhat random intervals. I'm not updating any files in the folder to my knowledge, so it's a bit confusing as to why it would do this.</s></p>
<p>Is this normal behaviour? If it is, then I understand, (only, when it uses so much CPU, my system becomes almost unusable!) :)</p>
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OOPS! It wasn't actually Ubuntu-one (I had problems with it in the past and got the process name mixed up in my head/memory). Chipaca's answer is accurate for me.</p>
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35655 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T20:52:07.073 | 4 | 528 | <p>I have several remote servers (without gui). I am using vim as my editor. On my desktop I sync my vim files (.vimrc .vim/plugins etc) with Ubuntu One. So I can use vim files on other desktops. But I want to use them also on my servers.</p>
<p>Can I use Ubuntu One without installing (apt-get install ubuntuone-client) 154 newly packages with 49.9MB of archives?</p>
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35666 | 1 | 35747 | 2011-04-17T23:05:06.973 | 4 | 778 | <p>I want to create a video. The idea is to make a large (fixed) image where camera is flying above. I am familiar with Inkscape so I would prefer to make the image with it.</p>
<p>I need a program to move the camera across the image and save it to a video file. Alternatively I need another program to create and animate the video.</p>
<p>Does somebody have an idea? A couple of years ago I worked with Fireworks, but I don't have a Windows system or a Fireworks license here.</p>
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"text": "That is a very good idea. I'll create that image with Inkscape an move the camera with Blender. Thank you!",
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35671 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T23:29:39.050 | 1 | 316 | <p>There are wallpapers in a root directory.
I need to set to some user that I choose a wallpaper from that directory.</p>
<p>How can I do that? Thank you.</p>
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35673 | 1 | 35679 | 2011-04-17T23:51:52.230 | 9 | 19164 | <p>I am filing tax report for Maryland state using <a href="http://forms.marylandtaxes.com/current_forms/502.pdf" rel="noreferrer">Form 502</a>.</p>
<p>If I use evince 2.32.0 using poppler/cairo (0.14.3), it will recognize the forms and no way I can fill in anything.</p>
<p>If I use Adobe Reader 9, I can fill in the forms, but the software says there is no way to save the inputs unless print out.</p>
<p>So I was wondering what ways can I use to fill in the forms in the pdf file and still am able to save the input and the forms without printing.</p>
<p>Thanks and regards!</p>
<p>P.S. My OS is Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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35674 | 1 | 35677 | 2011-04-17T23:53:31.000 | 0 | 311 | <p>I followed the instructions shown for downloading (I'm on Maverick) at the launchpad site for this main menu replacement:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/cardapio" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/cardapio</a></p>
<p>It indicates that once you do this, it should show up in the Add to Panel list of applets, but I'm not seeing it. This is the first time I've installed a new applet; do I need to restart my session to see it?</p>
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35676 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T23:57:25.630 | 2 | 775 | <p>I want to keep my panels down to one, running vertically along the left side of my screen. I'm using the DockBarX applet for launchers and open application access, and have an applet main menu replacement that shows just an icon to save space. However, the date/time isn't customizable, and it shows up sideways. Is there a clock replacement applet that will display the date and time in a vertical format?</p>
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35681 | 1 | 35686 | 2011-04-18T01:39:07.563 | 3 | 2207 | <p>Suppose I am trying some distro (with Gnome) and I like some theme. How can I copy for installation in another computer?</p>
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35682 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T01:49:09.437 | 8 | 13531 | <p>Calculator is opening multiple times automatically during normal operation and while idle.</p>
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35683 | 1 | 35795 | 2011-04-18T01:49:52.423 | 1 | 133 | <p>When clicking on a mountable unit on the Desktop on Ubuntu 10.10 the first double click mounts the unit while the second one tells nautilus to show the user what is inside the mountable unit. I want to find out how to make it so a double click will do both, mount the unit and show it.</p>
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35684 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T02:06:50.000 | 0 | 287 | <p>I live in China and now want to download skype from skype.com, but the web cannot open. I have tried many websites to download the package but none of them worked. It seems that skype is not popular with u-know-who...WHO CAN SEND ME A PACKAGE BY EMAIL!HELP![email hidden]. THANKS!</p>
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35685 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T02:13:52.820 | 2 | 1241 | <p>I've followed all the instructions for getting differents wallpapers for each desktop. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. I've installed compiz-fusion-plugins-extra to add Wallpaper plugin on my Compiz Settings Manager (ccsm). </p>
<p>But unfortunaly I cannot get my wallpapers working properly. I follow these instructions <a href="http://ubuntuguide.net/different-wallpapers-on-each-workspace-in-ubuntu" rel="nofollow">http://ubuntuguide.net/different-wallpapers-on-each-workspace-in-ubuntu</a> and I just get a black background.</p>
<p>Everything works fine after I press Win+P (I don't know what is this shortcut, refresh output I guess) or switch between ttf1 and ttf8 (ctrl+alt+f1 and ctrl+alt+f8). I tried reboot but the problem persist. What can I do to resolve this issue ?</p>
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35688 | 1 | 38252 | 2011-04-18T02:37:57.160 | 32 | 10699 | <p>First, I've tried searching several threads to find the answer, but I couldn't find one that solved my problem, so I'm opening a new one here. </p>
<p>I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 with the new Unity desktop, and I'm trying to change the key binding of <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>t</kbd> from Open Trash (which I don't have much use for) to Open Terminal (which I use all the time). I tried running "Keyboard shortcuts" and changing the binding in there to "Mod t," but that didn't work and it seems to get overridden by something else. </p>
<p>So then I installed <code>compiz-config-settings-manager</code> and I looked for a keybinding in there for <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>t</kbd>, but I couldn't find any. In fact, I even tried changing a random feature in ccsm to <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>t</kbd> hoping that it would tell me there was a conflict with that binding and I could locate it there. But instead it let me use <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>t</kbd>. Sadly, after I changed it, I pressed <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>t</kbd> and it still opened the trash. </p>
<p>Is there another place that I can change the key bindings of <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>t</kbd>?</p>
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35689 | 1 | 35730 | 2011-04-18T02:46:24.840 | 8 | 3922 | <p>Is there a way to "colorize" manpages output?
I mean - the output of for example:</p>
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35691 | 1 | 99197 | 2011-04-18T02:54:29.663 | 3 | 626 | <h1>Overview</h1>
<p>I have a set of duties I must schedule employees for. The duties recur weekly over a two-month period. There are a number of constraints that define a good schedule. (See below for examples.) In the past, I've made the schedule by hand, but doing it by hand is time-consuming and virtually guarantees a buggy schedule.</p>
<p>I'm looking for software that will make the schedule for me. I've tried TaskJuggler, but I'm not sure whether it's even capable of doing what I want (the documentation is unhelpful and the folks on the mailing list merely tell me to read the documentation--which I've done without conclusive results).</p>
<p><em>Can anybody recommend something?</em></p>
<h1>Details</h1>
<h2>Example schedule</h2>
<p>Here's an example schedule. Note that since this one was handmade, it contains an error or two.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BrhW9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BrhW9.png" alt=""></a></p>
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<p>Here are some of my constraints:</p>
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<li>All scheduled duties must be able to be manually-specified.</li>
<li>Each teacher must have exactly two weekends off. Some weekends are defined as mandatory working weekends; no teacher may have those weekends off. Other weekends may be mandatory off weekends; such weekends have no scheduled duties and count toward each teacher's two weekends off. Finally, there may be other weekends which have no assigned duties but nevertheless don't count toward teachers' two weekends off.</li>
<li>Duties should be assigned as evenly as possible. This means that so far as possible, each teacher must have a given duty the same number of times, have each different duty an equal number of times, and have an equal weight of duties on a given weekend (see below for weighting duties). Where this is not possible, the surplus duties should be balanced between teachers. Ideally, surplus duties should be scheduled taking into account each teacher's preferred duties; thus, a teacher who prefers the children's story might get it an extra time instead of one who really doesn't like it.</li>
<li>No teacher should have the same duty on consecutive weeks.</li>
<li>No teacher may be scheduled on their weekend off.</li>
<li>No teacher may have simultaneous duties.</li>
<li>The major duties are TGIF and the sermon.</li>
<li>No teacher should have another duty on the same day as they are scheduled for a major duty.</li>
<li>No teacher should have more than one major duty per week.</li>
<li>If possible, no teacher should have a major duty on consecutive weeks. This, however, is not a particularly high-priority constraint.</li>
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35697 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T04:04:15.117 | 1 | 649 | <p><strong>commands</strong>: </p>
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<p>There are several pics on the link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen_University" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen_University</a>,
after the download process,what i get is all those junk jpg files which could not open by my gnome imgae viewer.</p>
<p>so,what is the reason ?<br>
<strong>thanks in advance</strong></p>
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35701 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T04:08:53.170 | 4 | 2159 | <p>My built in cam works fine in cheese. However in skype it doesn't show me at all. In test skype show myself view doesn't work either. How to solve this problem? Thanks!</p>
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35708 | 1 | 35755 | 2011-04-18T05:52:42.217 | 1 | 2737 | <p>I'm trying to write a bash script to convert all special characters inside a file (é, ü, ã, etc) into latex format (\'e, \"u, \~a, etc). Usually, this stuff is really easy to do with <code>sed</code>, but I'm having trouble at getting sed to recognize the special characters. How can I tell the command to read the file using iso, or UTF-8 encoding?</p>
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35711 | 1 | 35714 | 2011-04-18T06:21:33.707 | 6 | 2782 | <p>Ubuntu frequently show kernel update in update manager. My question is, I have fully working system. Now</p>
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35713 | 1 | 274616 | 2011-04-18T06:24:05.223 | 7 | 7928 | <p>I guess this is a related question to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10597/can-i-use-gnome-applets-in-unity">Can I use GNOME applets in Unity?</a> (moved by suggestion of @<a href="https://askubuntu.com/users/235/jorge-castro">Jorge Castro</a>)</p>
<p>I'd like to use <code>stickynotes_applet</code> in Unity.. Now in Gnome, this applet gets added to a bar, then I have to click it to create a new note, and I can call preferences to have the notes stick on the desktop - which is all I need. </p>
<p>Obviously, as mentioned here, it will not be possible to use this applet directly in Unity; but basically, all I'd need to do is to raise the Preferences window (so as to make the notes stick), and to somehow issue a command for a new note (which would otherwise be performed by a click on the applet icon in the Gnome bar). </p>
<p>I have tried running '<code>/usr/lib/gnome-applets/stickynotes_applet</code>' and seemingly it runs, although no applet icon is shown (which is expected), and no any other windows either (which I otherwise hoped will show :) ). </p>
<p>So I was wandering - given that this applet doesn't (seem to) have anything special related to desktop - is there a <em>command line</em> way to basically run this applet, issue a 'Show Preferences' command to it, and issue a new note command to it within a Unity environment (<em>currently I can call <code>tomboy</code> from command line and it works - but its windows are too clunky for my taste</em>)? </p>
<p>(and bonus question - how would you start an applet related window only from the command line in classic Gnome?)</p>
<p>Desktop integration doesn't matter all that much to me - I'd run this manually from the command line gladly, as long as I get small compact notes that stay on the desktop (as long as the process is active).. </p>
<p>Thanks for any comments,<br>
Cheers!</p>
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35715 | 1 | 35756 | 2011-04-18T06:33:16.300 | 7 | 3797 | <p>Up until last week, I had both Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.0 installed, which was good for testing web applications.</p>
<p>But now the nightly channel contains Firefox 6 instead of Firefox 4. I tried using the stable channel, but that replaced Firefox 3.6.</p>
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35719 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T06:44:09.833 | 6 | 14269 | <p>I guess this question is pretty much the same as <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/21586/how-to-configure-dbus-to-allow-ssh-user-to-suspend-server">How to configure dbus to allow ssh-user to suspend server?</a>; except I wanted to formulate it better. </p>
<p>Assume I have an Ubuntu server running nonstop, let's call it <code>MyServer</code>. Let's say then, I have another PC on the same local network as <code>MyServer</code>, let's call it <code>MyLocalPC</code>. </p>
<p><code>MyLocalPC</code> is then kept in suspend, unless it is turned on via <code>wakeonlan</code> by <code>MyServer</code>. This part of the process works perfectly for me: I can log in via <code>ssh</code> to <code>MyServer</code>, and on the <code>MyServer</code> ssh prompt I can issue <code>wakeonlan</code>, and <code>MyLocalPC</code> wakes up - great. </p>
<p>Then, however, as soon as I'm done working with <code>MyLocalPC</code>, I'd like to put it into suspend again. The problem is as follows - I can put the machine in suspend easy, if I ssh into <code>MyLocalPC</code> first via <code>ssh</code>:</p>
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<p>This will suspend <code>MyLocalPC</code> - but will also block the <code>ssh</code> exiting properly, and eventually the <code>ssh</code> to <code>MyServer</code> ends up frozen. I try to get tricky and issue something like this: </p>
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Failed to open connection to "session" message bus: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
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<p>Then I read somewhere <code>DISPLAY</code> variable should be defined - but that fails too: </p>
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Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PowerManagement was not provided by any .service files
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<p>So does anyone know how can I issue a suspend to <code>MyLocalPC</code>, without the <code>ssh</code> connection to <code>MyServer</code> freezing?</p>
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35722 | 1 | 35723 | 2011-04-18T06:55:16.173 | 57 | 48484 | <p>I just completed an OS course. I heard the phrase <strong>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_panic">kernel panic</a>"</strong> a lot. Can you explain </p>
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35725 | 1 | 35731 | 2011-04-18T07:26:16.990 | 5 | 4911 | <p>I downloaded the free-edition of F-Prot Anti-Virus for Linux. I am new to Linux and not following how to initiate the installation process. I have extracted the F-Prot files in a folder on my desktop.</p>
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35738 | 1 | 35740 | 2011-04-18T10:24:04.220 | 7 | 603 | <p>As I understand it, packaging recipes are a way to automate packaging into a PPA from a bzr branch. What I'm not sure of is how to go about setting one up. I have read the documentation but for some reason it still leaves me a litte confused about what to do.</p>
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35742 | 1 | 38711 | 2011-04-18T11:03:51.120 | 6 | 1170 | <p>I installed covergloobus in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. But when I start covergloobus. It is handled like an opened appliciation. </p>
<p>There is still a titlebar. How can I disable the gtk-theme ?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iqLPA.png" alt="Covergloobus"></p>
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35743 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T11:09:53.470 | 4 | 7009 | <p>I had windows 7 installed, and I set my PC clock to a specific time. It worked fine but then i also installed Kubuntu (now its a dual boot). Whenever I run Kubuntu my clock changes time by -4 hours and when I again run Windows its time too has changed. So every time i set my clock in windows, Kubuntu changes it by -4hrs and this also effects my windows clock any help?</p>
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35744 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T11:18:46.277 | 7 | 8494 | <p>Within my python3 software I need to check to see if git is installed. I know that from the terminal I can type:</p>
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<p>From there, how would I get python to see if git is installed? Or is there an easier way?</p>
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35745 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T11:41:17.113 | 2 | 1001 | <p>I have a question: Is there a "correct" way to configure the partitions on my hard drive for an Ubuntu installation?</p>
<p><strong>I have a 250GB disk and now I have the following partitions:</strong> (Partitions in this order on my HDD.)</p>
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<p>I have a Toshiba A200-21T Laptop and I would like to have the best performance and stability possible with Ubuntu. So far, I have no grievances with the installation I have, but, I'm a new Ubuntu user and I wonder if this hard drive configuration is correct.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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35757 | 1 | 35762 | 2011-04-18T13:23:42.613 | 1 | 91 | <p>When a new edition is coming out, I always find the new features in detail.
Not only there is Unity and cloud support, in much more detail, like sometimes Fedora used to tell when a release coming out.</p>
<p>New softwares, new services, solutions, many things what is changed or debut in that particular release. </p>
<p>I search it on www.ubuntu.com, and other sites, but didn't found.
Is there any detailed announcement about new features ?</p>
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35758 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T13:44:49.420 | 4 | 4609 | <p>I wanted to ask that I used the netboot image from the ubuntu 10.04 server for PXE Booting ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition as I didn't find the netboot folder in the ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition </p>
<p>The netboot image boot normally retrieves and parses the unattended file but later go in error while trying to download installer component.</p>
<p>Also can anyone post a link where I can find the netboot folder for ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition?</p>
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35759 | 1 | 37178 | 2011-04-18T13:46:22.293 | 13 | 13038 | <p>I keep all my documents on a separate drive from my ubuntu installation, and I have a folder full of nice wallpapers on that drive. How can I make ubuntu automatically search this directory so wallpapers show up in the wallpaper changer dialogue, reached from right clicking on the desktop and selecting <em>Change Desktop Wallpaper</em>?</p>
<p>Edit: I've tried putting a symlink in the <em>/usr/share/backgrounds</em> folder to the other drive and that didn't work.</p>
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"text": "May be I havent been clear - sorry about that. For example, if your new wallpaper folder was in /media/<somedrive>/<somefolder> then sudo ln -s /media/<somedrive>/<somefolder> backgrounds would list all your new wallpapers. If you wanted also the standard wallpapers, then I would just copy the current backgrounds folder contents to your new wallpaper folder. I've just tested this on Natty - when I choose \"new backgrounds\" from right clicking the desktop, it displayed the contents of the new folder wallpaper without \"importing\"",
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35761 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T13:58:07.223 | 2 | 134 | <p>In Ubuntu 11.04, in workspace when I press super W shortcut, I get to multiple I opened in a workspace, when I am moving over from one window to other, how do I know the title very clearly</p>
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35764 | 1 | 36680 | 2011-04-18T14:06:11.533 | 12 | 1576 | <p>In general, I prefer Unity to Gnome Shell, but the latter's chat popup and inline responder thing (video here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepXx1kDelo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepXx1kDelo</a>) is more or less a killer app for me and is the only thing preventing me from switching to Unity. </p>
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35770 | 1 | 35775 | 2011-04-18T14:30:50.210 | 12 | 3793 | <p>Is there a way to <em>force</em> all applications to use the Natty overlay scrollbars? </p>
<p>Examples: Chrome doesn't use it, neither does Firefox, gnome-terminal or a host of other applications. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZrL9e.jpg" alt="Google Chrome scrollbars"></p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LDnbS.jpg" alt="gnome-terminal scrollbars"></p>
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35777 | 1 | 53794 | 2011-04-18T14:51:47.673 | 1 | 1043 | <p>I need a simple server setup for a client, and have used Ubuntu for them for some years as a simple combined login server and fileserver.</p>
<p>We now need to change to using two separate servers. so was wondering what the process was to have a setup where:</p>
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<li>They can map a drive to a share on an Ubuntu server without logging on again</li>
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<p>What I think I need is a couple of pointers to the types of tech I'm looking for here - I'm currently only using pure SAMBA for the PDC behaviour.</p>
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35778 | 1 | 35785 | 2011-04-18T15:08:57.900 | 15 | 17993 | <p>I'm running both Ubuntu (10.04) and WinXp on the same machine, thus using the same keyboard. On Windows I have selected "United States (International)" as my keyboard setting.</p>
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<p>When I press the <kbd>"</kbd> -key (or the <kbd>'</kbd>-key) in <strong>Windows</strong>, the resulting character depends on the next typed character. For example I can get foreign characters like <code>é</code> and <code>ë</code>.</p>
<p>When I press the <kbd>"</kbd> -key in <strong>Ubuntu</strong>, it just displays a <code>"</code> character, thus not allowing me to get special characters.</p>
<p><strong>I prefer the Windows version, but don't know how to get this done in Ubuntu.</strong> </p>
<p>Here's a few screenshots to show you in case I failed to explain:
Windows:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYXH4.png" alt="Windows"></p>
<p>Ubuntu (same key sequence):</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WOnN8.png" alt="Ubuntu"></p>
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"text": "thanks, tbh I didn know what was meant by dead keys. I changed it from 'altgr dead keys' to 'with dead keys' and now has the desired effect. wóót ;). Also whether or not it's superior, depends on what language you speak. I have a US laptop but I write in dutch, french, Icelandic, ... all of which ocassionally use accents and even though type ['] is more common, going to character map everytime you are typing a text is a LOT more cumbersome. Thanks so much!!!",
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35779 | 1 | 35780 | 2011-04-18T15:11:02.220 | 476 | 1307132 | <p>I've issued the following command:</p>
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<p>When I do this, I start getting the following messages:</p>
<pre><code>cp: omitting directory `Tag'
cp: omitting directory `Test'
cp: omitting directory `Text'
cp: omitting directory `TimeSync'
cp: omitting directory `Tool'
cp: omitting directory `Translate'
cp: omitting directory `Uri'
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<p>and so on...</p>
<p>Why do I get these messages ?</p>
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35783 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T15:24:45.790 | 11 | 1653 | <p>I'm trying to get rid of the <kbd>Caps Lock</kbd>key and give it a better use. Since I constantly use the <code>run</code> command <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>, I'd like to make Caps Lock trigger that action.</p>
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35787 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T15:49:11.797 | 2 | 494 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/34182/can-i-edit-which-icons-appear-in-the-unity-dash">Can I edit which icons appear in the Unity dash?</a> </p>
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<p>how pin your favorite apps to the dash?</p>
<p>eg replacing Firefox - explore the web ("explorar la web") with opera in the initial dash
(when pressing the Super key - Windows key)</p>
<p>yet it must be officially implemented in natty help text appears in gray: Desktop Help »Overview> Applications and windows" "Pin your favorite apps to the dash"</p>
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35788 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T15:56:11.430 | 5 | 1226 | <p>In Gnome you can right click a menu item and add to desktop. Can't seem to find a just-as-simple alternative in Unity? Anyone know?</p>
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35789 | 1 | 40758 | 2011-04-18T16:02:49.207 | 6 | 5161 | <p>As we have to have active compiz with Unity, I can't change the color, size, etc. of the cursor.</p>
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35797 | 1 | 38050 | 2011-04-18T17:01:20.420 | 5 | 1341 | <p>I'd like to create custom tasks for <code>tasksel</code> - is there any way to do this, like creating a package for Ubuntu, only it's for tasksel?</p>
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35798 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T17:05:11.540 | 1 | 3697 | <p>My PC has two audio 3.5mm audio outputs:</p>
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device product: N10/ICH 7 Family High
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<p>This was very convinient because I didnt always have to shut down the speaker system if I only wanted to use headphones. Any idea what caused this change and how to fix it?</p>
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35800 | 1 | 35804 | 2011-04-18T17:13:40.870 | 2 | 242 | <p>Imaging I have three opened documents in Openoffice Writer and I want to go to one of them, in stardard gnome I would have three applications in the bottom panel each with their correspondent name. </p>
<p>In dockbarx, hovering the mouse would show me each of the three documents. Now in Unity if I click in the launcher will take me to one of the documents, I suppose is taking me to the last one I was editing or reading, and then I have to click in the Window Menu to choose a different document (this workflow is very inefficient).</p>
<p>I wasn't able to figure out the way of going to a specific document.
Could somebody help me?</p>
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"text": "Thanks, Javier, that's what I was looking for. When all the documents are shown I realized that I can move though all of them with the cursor key which is good but as I move the doc should change the brightness or something like that because the only way to know in which doc I am is looking at the title that is shown in the panel. Another thing is that every window should have a small close button like the ones that are shown in html overlays so we can close one document directly, otherwise we have to choose that document and then close it.",
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"text": "The way DockbarX does it isn't a selection list _instead_ of opening the last used window on click. The list is shown on hovering and you can set clicking behavior to open the last used window (multiple clicking will then cycle through the windows of the app in the order they were last used). Default behavior is to bring up all windows of the app when clicked.",
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35802 | 1 | 35865 | 2011-04-18T17:05:14.370 | 2 | 3432 | <p>Ubuntu 10.04 LDAP Replication - please help</p>
<p>I was trying to setup <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html#openldap-server-installation" rel="nofollow">LDAP Replication</a>.</p>
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SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
SASL SSF: 0
modifying entry "cn=module{0},cn=config"
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<p>The <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dvorak-qwerty/" rel="nofollow">dvorak-qwerty program</a> is supposed to do this, but does not work for me.</p>
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35811 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T18:46:08.267 | 2 | 247 | <p>my database is in .odb format, and it does not work in 9.1, 10.04, 10.10, openoffice OR 11.04 beta libreoffice but works in xp, w7 and fedora 14</p>
<p>The biggest issue i'm facing is that it takes minutes to move from one record to another
spiking the processor at 100%. I tested this on 3 different machines and they exhibit the same behavior.</p>
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35815 | 1 | 35840 | 2011-04-18T19:00:28.223 | 1 | 943 | <p>I was wondering if it is possible to make an shortcut to hide all those Notify Bubbles (libnotify) for some time. Why I'am ask this? Because sometimes I want to see something, read or even show and page for someone and those bubbles bother a little bit. So if it is possible, will be really cool :)</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
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35820 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T19:35:44.123 | 0 | 1086 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 inside windows from Ubuntu CD with 12 GB space. How could I increase the disk space to 20 GB with out reinstalling Ubuntu ?</p>
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35824 | 1 | 35848 | 2011-04-18T20:22:50.160 | 1 | 1237 | <p>I've dragged the application launcher from main menu to the docky panel. Now, I want to change the command that starts the application (I need to add some arguments). I can change it the main menu using editor. </p>
<p>How to change it in the Docky launcher? Does Docky store the launcher files somewhere so they can be edited?</p>
<p>I am using Docky 2.2.0 (bzr docky r1807 ppa) on Ubuntu 10.10</p>
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35828 | 1 | 35829 | 2011-04-18T21:28:54.290 | 1 | 443 | <p>Can I get the ip from another computer connected to my ubuntu one account? I know that I can have this with dyndns but being able to get the ip of every computer connected to my ubuntu account is easier than creating one more account on another site and configuring yet another daemon....</p>
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