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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>
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35488 | 1 | null | 2011-04-16T16:08:01.357 | 137 | 208191 | <blockquote>
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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. Th... | 4442 | 235 | 2011-04-16T20:59:57.733 | 2011-04-16T20:59:57.733 | Where can I file a bug for having a "primary" display checkbox in gnome-display-properties? | [
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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>
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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 h... | 14418 | null | null | 2017-07-18T19:58:28.540 | How to fix very slow Ubuntu booting? | [
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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
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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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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>
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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>
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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... | 9660 | null | null | 2012-12-21T01:34:00.590 | How can I use Rhythmbox to rip high-quality VBR MP3s | [
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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>
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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
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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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35566 | 1 | 331871 | 2011-04-17T05:27:11.843 | 33 | 81415 | <p>I am trying to manually set the computer's time in VirtualBox but it always resets itself to what it was before I changed it. How can I disable ntp and tell the system what time I want it to be?</p>
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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>
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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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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>
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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>
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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 up... | 14318 | 3037 | 2011-10-09T21:25:20.870 | 2011-10-09T21:25:20.870 | Download ubuntu updates via a windows computer | [
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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>
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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.
But is there a solution to transfer files from the VM to the hostsystem (in my case ubuntu 11.04).</p>
<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>
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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>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hr8g0.png" alt="enter image description here"></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>
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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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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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35623 | 1 | null | 2011-04-17T15:27:43.453 | 9 | 1614 | <p>Is there a way to attach gvfs mount to a custom directory?
So instead of <code>~/.gvfs/sftp for leon on filezzzz.tim-online.nl/</code> something like: <code>~/mounts/filezzzz.tim-online.nl/</code>?</p>
<p>I thought about using pam_mount but that lacks the nice gnome keyring integration.</p>
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35625 | 1 | 35630 | 2011-04-17T15:51:59.457 | 13 | 5857 | <p>When i log out and then log in again, the applications shown in Unity launcher are the default applications, neither can i add an application nor can i hide a default application. How to make Unity remember my apps?</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>
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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>
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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>
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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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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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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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"body": "<p>How about Blender? <a href=\"http://www.blender.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.blender.org/</a></p>\n",
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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>
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"body": "<p>If you do not mind running wine you can try the free PDF-Xchange viewer from here; \n<a href=\"http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer\">http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer</a></p>\n\n<p>This works great under wine, and you can use it to upda... | [
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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>
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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 t... | 2664 | null | null | 2011-08-02T14:19:37.567 | Is there a vertical clock applet? | [
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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>
| 12943 | null | null | 2015-11-10T08:06:30.770 | How can I copy a gtk theme? | [
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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>
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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>
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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>
<pre><code>man command_name
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35691 | 1 | 99197 | 2011-04-18T02:54:29.663 | 3 | 626 | <h1>Overview</h1>
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35693 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T03:24:27.777 | 1 | 1148 | <p>the update manager isn't picking up 11.04</p>
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35697 | 1 | null | 2011-04-18T04:04:15.117 | 1 | 649 | <p><strong>commands</strong>: </p>
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35700 | 1 | 38777 | 2011-04-18T04:07:19.583 | 2 | 5191 | <p>I want to delete GTK themes which come by default in ubuntu 10.10. As I open appearance, theme delete button is shown disabled for me. How I can delete theme by using Appearance instead of going to command line?</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 fi... | 1012 | 2647 | 2011-05-08T14:39:19.107 | 2011-05-08T14:39:19.107 | Read character encoding with sed | [
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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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<li>What are the pros and cons of updating kernel?</li>
<li>After updating kernel, should I keep older kernel version?</li>
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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>
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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>
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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>
<p>There is one file with the name: <code>install-f-prot.pl</code>. It is a perl file.</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 -... | null | 235 | 2012-12-24T21:20:53.347 | 2013-05-26T10:49:36.353 | Kubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot, clock time changes automatically | [
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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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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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<li>50GB (ext4) File System Mount Point <code>/</code> </li>
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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>
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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>
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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 De... | 13003 | 13003 | 2011-04-26T18:37:30.880 | 2013-04-10T22:22:51.080 | How do I set another search directory for wallpapers? | [
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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 ... | 12955 | 169736 | 2014-01-08T23:10:26.953 | 2014-01-08T23:10:26.953 | Are there any existing apps similar to GNOME 3's chat popup/respond box? | [
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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>
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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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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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35779 | 1 | 35780 | 2011-04-18T15:11:02.220 | 476 | 1307132 | <p>I've issued the following command:</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>
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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>
<p>Is there any way for do it?</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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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>
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35802 | 1 | 35865 | 2011-04-18T17:05:14.370 | 2 | 3432 | <p>Ubuntu 10.04 LDAP Replication - please help</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>
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35813 | 1 | 35819 | 2011-04-18T18:55:57.183 | 3 | 3102 | <p>I'm having a problem. I have set an environment variable in <code>/etc/environment</code> using <code>BOOST_LIBRARYDIR="/usr/local/lib/boost/release"</code>.</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>
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"body": "<p>I dont think there is a direct way to disable and re-enable the notifications. </p>\n\n<p>However you could write two scripts which you could have on your desktop or a dock such as awn/docky etc. The scripts would remove the execute permission from the executable that is run to dis... | [
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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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"body": "<p>(<a href=\"https://superuser.com/questions/125990/how-to-increase-disk-space-in-wubi-ubuntu-via-windows\">answer taken from SuperUser</a>)</p>\n\n<p>According to this <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%20do%20I%20resize%20the%20virtual%20disks?\" rel=\"nofollow n... | null | null | 2013-11-14T00:44:05.527 | null | user14540 |
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>
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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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