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4395 | 1 | 5628 | 2010-09-19T21:56:46.927 | 7 | 341 | <p>Having just written my perfect screenshot tool, I've been trying to work out how it should set itself up for use by people who are not me. Screenshots are traditionally taken by pressing the PrtSc key. So, I could do the following things:</p>
<p><strong>As soon as the app is installed, make pressing PrtSc invoke the app</strong></p>
<p>Pros: </p>
<ul>
<li>works immediately, out of the box, as expected. A user installs the app, hits PrtSc, they get the app they've just installed. Hooray.</li>
</ul>
<p>Cons: </p>
<ul>
<li>unconditionally overrides any existing setup you have for PrtSc, which might be annoying</li>
<li>if you uninstall the app, it won't reset PrtSc to what it was before, which is also annoying</li>
<li>problematic for multiple users, because app installation runs under sudo, so how does it know which user's PrtSc setup to override? It's certainly possible to add a gconf key as part of installation, but that may be problematic if two different screenshot apps both try?</li>
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<p><strong>On first-run of the app, seize the PrtSc key</strong></p>
<p>Pros:</p>
<ul>
<li>avoids the above problem of wrongly seizing other users' PrtSc keys</li>
</ul>
<p>Cons:</p>
<ul>
<li>you have to run the app once manually first, which is annoying (and how do you know how to do that?)</li>
<li>will still not restore the old setting if the app is uninstalled</li>
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<p><strong>Have a configuration dialog in the app where you configure it to seize PrtSc</strong></p>
<p>Pros:</p>
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<li>Only seizes PrtSc for people that really want it to</li>
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<p>Cons:</p>
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<li>you have to run the app once manually first, which is annoying (and how do you know how to do that?)</li>
<li>you have to go into a <em>configuration dialog</em> to make the app actually do what it's intended to do; take screenshots when you press PrtSc. Ubuntu is past that <em>configure-everything</em> stage now, surely? How irritating. Not doing this!</li>
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<p><strong>Something else I haven't thought of</strong></p>
<p>A better cleverer approach that just hasn't dawned on me yet.</p>
<p>Suggestions welcomed!</p>
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4396 | 1 | 4404 | 2010-09-19T22:36:36.403 | 28 | 52962 | <p>I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.</p>
<p>How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?</p>
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4398 | 1 | 4598 | 2010-09-19T22:49:02.600 | 13 | 45625 | <p>I have a VMDK disk image that exists as multiple files:</p>
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4400 | 1 | null | 2010-09-19T22:51:55.637 | 15 | 48255 | <p>Is it possible to switch into a Windows environment from Ubuntu without rebooting the computer?</p>
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4401 | 1 | null | 2010-09-19T23:04:41.523 | 19 | 7650 | <p>I'm using the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard" rel="noreferrer">Apple slim aluminum keyboard</a>, which doesn't have the <kbd>SysRq</kbd> key:</p>
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<p>What key(s) should I press for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key" rel="noreferrer">magic SysRq key</a> when I need to type <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#.22Raising_Elephants.22_mnemonic_device" rel="noreferrer">REISUB</a>?</p>
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4402 | 1 | 5109 | 2010-09-19T23:14:13.317 | 2 | 1209 | <p>Hey all, recently I installed the Minecraft .jar and played it. It's a bit of fun, but the coolest thing about it IMO has been the anaglyph 3D option. Yay, a ViewMaster game!
Anyway, I'm looking for other anaglyph 3D games and apps. I understand that there's an anaglyph plugin for Compiz as well, although it apparently is an inactive project since 2008.</p>
<p>An anaglyph interface for Blender would be severely awesome, right?</p>
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4405 | 1 | 4417 | 2010-09-20T01:21:45.123 | 6 | 2544 | <p>I'm using System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layout > Options > Ctrl key position > Swap <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> and <kbd>CapsLock</kbd>, which works great for X.</p>
<p>How can I get the same for virtual consoles (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>, etc.)?</p>
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"text": "This does work, but I am looking for a way to affect only the virtual consoles instead of also all the accounts on the system when using X. (I only have a handful here, so I just reset them after this.)",
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"text": "I see (since /etc/ is an hg repo using etckeeper) this modifies /etc/default/console-setup and /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz. If I was to modify the former myself, what command generates the latter cached.kmap.gz?",
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4406 | 1 | 4541 | 2010-09-20T01:24:25.793 | 5 | 3157 | <p>After upgrading to 10.04, Ubuntu takes a long time (1-2 minutes) to login after typing the credentials. The majority of this time the dialog box says "checking credentials". How do I even go about debugging what is going on here? This is a very snappy system, but apparently something is hanging or not responding during the login.</p>
<p>Here's my :0-greeter.log. Any ideas?</p>
<pre><code>Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/1046b54d5b8b97fbb2128498129581685800000016580008.ms: Failed to open file '/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/1046b54d5b8b97fbb2128498129581685800000016580008.ms': No such file or directory
** (process:1742): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=1742 display=:0.0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-pWDXxn/database
(gnome-power-manager:1745): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x21f5160'
** (gnome-power-manager:1745): WARNING **: Either HAL or DBUS are not working!
** (gnome-power-manager:1745): WARNING **: proxy failed
** (gnome-power-manager:1745): WARNING **: failed to get Computer root object
** (gnome-power-manager:1745): WARNING **: proxy NULL!!
gdm-simple-greeter[1742]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0xe00046 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0xe00046 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
(gnome-settings-daemon:1666): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0xe00046 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't happen!
(gnome-power-manager:1745): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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4408 | 1 | 4412 | 2010-09-20T02:01:27.663 | 754 | 1019747 | <p>All operating systems freeze sometimes, and Ubuntu is no exception. What should I do to regain control when...</p>
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<li>nothing at all responds to mouse clicks or key presses?</li>
<li>the mouse stops moving entirely?</li>
<li>I have an <a href="https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/55844/Bay-Trail#@nofilter" rel="noreferrer">Intel Bay Trail CPU?</a></li>
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<p>In what order should I try various solutions before deciding to pull the power plug?</p>
<p>What should I do when starting up Ubuntu fails? Is there a diagnostic procedure I can follow?</p>
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"text": "In case of temporary hangs when the storge media is being used constantly especially if it is slow (flash card / stick) you can try reducing the memory allocated to dirty bytes to about 4 MB. In /etc/sysctl.conf write vm_dirty_bytes = 4194304 and vm.dirty_background_bytes = 1048576 also reduce waiting time to 3 seconds vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 300 and vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 300 (increasing the buffer makes the freezes longer and less frequent !)",
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"text": "@sam the `S` and `U` in `REISUB` take care that the harddisk write operations get finished before reboot, to avoid inconsistent, half-written data. The harddisk writes could take very long in the case that the system is \"almost hanging\" in some lowlevel way.",
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4410 | 1 | 4440 | 2010-09-20T04:11:44.750 | 7 | 2467 | <p>The only way I've seen how to empty the trash is to use the Empty Trash button that is displayed after choosing Go | Trash in Nautilus. If there are too many items in the trash it can take a long time for the list of files to load, especially when Nautilus defaults to generating thumbnails.</p>
<p>Is there a way to empty the trash that doesn't require opening it first?</p>
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<p>How can I determine when a later beta release is available?</p>
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4419 | 1 | 4618 | 2010-09-20T07:35:05.037 | 3 | 3682 | <p>when I closed the empathy messenger client, a little icon used to show up as a notification. When I got incoming chats, the icon used to start flashing. I reorganized content on my panel and now that functionality is gone! I tried adding "Indicator-Applet" to the panel but all this does is show up an envelope which lights up when there is some activity on empathy. I want to use the Empathy voice bubble icon instead. Any tips appreciated.</p>
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4422 | 1 | 4603 | 2010-09-20T08:46:06.407 | 3 | 698 | <p>I run conky in its own window of type "panel". My conkyrc (configuration #1) is pasted below - this was created with the help of the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/conkywizard/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ConkyWizard</a> application and then tweaked to add a few additional information I needed.</p>
<p>I use <code>own_window_type panel</code> as an explicit setting to avoid maximized windows from overlapping conky. However with the configuration #1 this is not happenning. However, when I use configuration #2 (pasted below configuration #1) then conky starts up in a panel and prevents maximized windows from overlapping it.</p>
<h2>Configuration #1</h2>
<pre><code># Generated with Conky Wizard
# Copyright (C) 2010 José David Abad GarcÃa
# GPL Version 3
#
# WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost if the program runs again!
# Default Fonts
use_xft yes
xftfont Droid Sans:size=9
override_utf8_locale yes
# Performance Settings
update_interval 1.5
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes
net_avg_samples 2
text_buffer_size 1024
# Size and position
minimum_size 210 779
gap_x 1
gap_y 21
alignment br
# Window Settings
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
# Change this to override to make this a background window
own_window_type panel
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Window border
draw_borders no
draw_shades no
# Default Color
default_color E0DFDE
# Color Title.
color0 DD3A21
TEXT
${image ~/.ConkyWizardTheme/pix/background.png -p 0,0 -s 256x779}
${GOTO 36}Kernel:${GOTO 120}${kernel}
${GOTO 36}CPU 1:${GOTO 120}${cpubar cpu1 10,75} ${cpu cpu1} %
${GOTO 36}CPU 2:${GOTO 120}${cpubar cpu2 10,75} ${cpu cpu2} %
${GOTO 36}Load:${GOTO 120}${loadavg}
${GOTO 36}CPU Graph:${GOTO 120}${cpugraph -t 10,75 B7B2AD B7B2AD}
${GOTO 36}RAM:${GOTO 120}${membar 10,75} ${memperc} %
${GOTO 36}SWAP:${GOTO 120}${swapbar 10,75}
${GOTO 36}Uptime:${GOTO 120}${uptime}
${GOTO 36}${font Droid Sans:bold:size=12}${color0}Disks${font}${color}
${GOTO 36}System (/):${GOTO 120}${fs_free /} free
${GOTO 36}${GOTO 60}${fs_bar 10,100 /}
${GOTO 36}Home (/data):${GOTO 120}${fs_free /data} free
${GOTO 36}${GOTO 60}${fs_bar 10,100 /data}
${GOTO 36}${font Droid Sans:bold:size=12}${color0}Network${font}${color}
${GOTO 36}Upspeed:${GOTO 120}${upspeedgraph wlan0 10,75 B7B2AD B7B2AD}
${GOTO 36}Downspeed:${GOTO 120}${downspeedgraph wlan0 10,75 B7B2AD B7B2AD}
${GOTO 36}Uploaded:${GOTO 120}${totalup wlan0}
${GOTO 36}Downloaded:${GOTO 120}${totaldown wlan0}
${GOTO 36}Local IP:${GOTO 120}${addr wlan0}
${GOTO 36}Public IP:${GOTO 120}${execi 10000 ~/.ConkyWizardTheme/scripts/ip.sh}
${GOTO 36}${font Droid Sans:bold:size=12}${color0}Temperatures${font}${color}
${GOTO 36}CPU 0:${GOTO 120}${execi 4 sensors | grep -A 0 'Core 0' | cut -c15-18} ºC
${GOTO 36}CPU 1:${GOTO 120}${execi 4 sensors | grep -A 0 'Core 1' | cut -c15-18} ºC
${GOTO 36}Hard disk:${GOTO 120}${execi 4 sensors | grep -A 0 'temp1' | cut -c15-18} ºC
${GOTO 36}${font Droid Sans:bold:size=12}${color0}Time and date${font}${color}
${font Droid Sans:bold:size=9}${GOTO 36}${time %H:%M:%S} ${time %d/%m/%Y} ${time [%y%V.%w]}$font
${GOTO 36}${time %A}, ${time %d} ${time %B} ${time %Y}
${GOTO 36}${font Droid Sans:bold:size=12}${color0}Top Processes${font}${color}
${GOTO 36}Top CPU Users PID CPU%
${GOTO 36}${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}
${GOTO 36}${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}
${GOTO 36}${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}
${GOTO 36}${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}
${GOTO 36}${font Droid Sans:bold:size=12}${color0}AT Queue (${execi 30 atq | wc -l} Jobs)${font}${color}
${GOTO 36}${execi 30 for w in `atq | cut -f1` ; do echo $w `at -c $w | tail -2 | fold -w35 | tail -2`; done | sort | head -5}
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<h2>Configuration #2</h2>
<pre><code>alignment mr
background no
double_buffer yes
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no # Amplifies text if yes
draw_shades no
# Use Xft ?
use_xft yes
xftfont Droid Sans Mono:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
# Change this to override to make this a background window
own_window_type panel
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.5
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
use_spacer right
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no
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${font size=10}${time %b %d %k:%M:%S %y%V.%w} $font
$sysname $kernel
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime_short ${freq}MHz
Load: ${loadavg} Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax$alignr - $memperc%
${color #D47D4E}${membar 4}$color
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax$alignr - $swapperc%
${color red}${swapbar 4}$color
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
${color orange}FILE SYSTEMS ${hr 2}$color
${color grey} Root: $color${fs_free_perc /}% ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey} sda7: $color${fs_free_perc /data}% ${fs_bar 6 /data}
${color orange}NETWORK ${hr 2}$color
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}IP address: $alignr ${addr wlan0}
ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid wlan0}
Connection quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%
${wireless_link_bar wlan0}
${downspeedgraph wlan0}
DLS:${downspeed wlan0}/s $alignr total: ${totaldown wlan0}
${upspeedgraph wlan0}
ULS:${upspeed wlan0}/s $alignr total: ${totalup wlan0}
${color orange}TOP OF THE TOPS ${hr 2}$color
${color orange}Top CPU Users PID CPU%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}
${color orange}Top Mem Users PID MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem mem 4}
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<h2>Screenshot with Configuration #2 (desired behaviour)</h2>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2xE6z.png" alt="Desktop screenshot showing maximized window and conky"></p>
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4428 | 1 | 4430 | 2010-09-20T11:59:15.137 | 642 | 550289 | <p>How can I record my screen on Ubuntu? </p>
<p>The app I'm looking for has ideally all of these features:</p>
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<li>Can record in a format that can be played back easily on any platform and/or accepted by YouTube or another popular video site</li>
<li>Can record just a window (instead of the whole screen), possibly selecting it with a mouse click</li>
<li>Can start recording after a configurable delay (e.g., I launch the app and have time to do arrangements to my desktop/window before actual recording starts)</li>
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"text": "Thanks for these two suggestions! I've tried them both, but could get neither to do what I need: `gtk-recordmydesktop` insists on recording the whole virtual screen (3200x1200), which is way too large... `xvidcap` lets me select a rectangular area of the screen to be recorded, but then wants to place its control buttons on top of it (and moves the area if you move the controls), which doesn't work for recording a window almost as tall as the screen (I'm using a tiling window manager).",
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"text": "@RiccardoMurri: `gtk-recordmydesktop` does allow you to record only a selected screen area. Just drag a rectangle in the preview area.",
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"text": "gtk-recordmydesktop gets Linux-screenrecording crappiness to a new level. It actually recorded different parts at different FPS :D Audio syncing (which of course fails) is REALLY hard after this.",
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4434 | 1 | 22756 | 2010-09-20T15:29:44.663 | 35 | 39246 | <p>I've got several Ubuntu machines on my network at home, but the DNS is provided by a windows server (2K). When I ssh to them from another , if I ssh to them as "machine" I can't connect, but if I connect as "machine.local" I can connect.</p>
<p>I think similarly, I can't connect from a windows client (like putty).</p>
<p>What's going on here? - it's clearly an Ubuntu thing.</p>
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4443 | 1 | 4488 | 2010-09-20T16:42:09.030 | 9 | 16082 | <p>I have ffmpeg install from apt (version <code>4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1</code>). I have a video that is up-side-down, so I want to flip it vertically. The <a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC61">ffmpeg documentation says to use the <code>-vf</code> option</a> (which I see was recently renamed from <code>-vfilters</code>). However that just doesn't work for me. I get an error like: <code>ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-vf'</code>.</p>
<p>I know there are all kinds of legal reasons why ffmpeg is not the full options, but surely flipping a video should be OK? There are many guides for ubuntu and ffmpeg which advise to recompile it yourself. e.g. <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095">the number 2 hit for "ubuntu ffmpeg" is a guide on ubuntu forums on recompiling ffmpeg yourself</a>.</p>
<p>I don't want to recompile it myself. I am a fan of package managers and "doing things the right way". There should be a way to get this functionality in the packaged version, otherwise there is a bug in the packaged version.</p>
<p>How can I get the -vf/-vfilter option in ffmpeg? (If I can't get it, why not?)</p>
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4447 | 1 | null | 2010-09-20T17:42:22.477 | 1 | 1224 | <p>My ThinkPad X60 doesn't have a floppy drive. What is this "floppy0" icon for?</p>
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<p>I am <strong>not</strong> looking for a way to just make this icon go away. I want to understand why it is here.</p>
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4448 | 1 | 4449 | 2010-09-20T17:44:53.157 | 5 | 500 | <p>I read about the 64 bit kernel vulnerability in the linux kernel today (9/20) <a href="http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9574" rel="nofollow">Link to article</a><br /><br>
I have an ubuntu server 10.04 and 8.04 in my organization. My question is could I just use the apt-get utility or the aptitude safe-upgrade to patch these kernels - but is the 64 bit kernel patch included in those updates I would download? </p>
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4452 | 1 | 4453 | 2010-09-20T18:57:47.907 | 1 | 1666 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3205/higher-screen-resolution-in-virtualbox">Higher screen resolution in VirtualBox?</a> </p>
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<p>I believe I've successfully got Ubuntu 10.04 installed as the guest OS with Vista as host on my laptop. But I have been unable to get it to use the entire monitor. In Ubuntu and using the System-> Monitor Preferences, I have one monitor "Unknown" with a resolution of 800x600 and haven't found out how to change it to use the full 1920x1200 of my laptop.</p>
<p>I'm using Oracle's VM VirtualBox.</p>
<p>I am new to ubuntu (and *nix in general), so I could be missing something easy.</p>
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<p>The description for package <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/console-setup" rel="nofollow noreferrer">console-setup</a> does give its basic purpose, but am I missing documentation on how to use it?</p>
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4467 | 1 | 4472 | 2010-09-21T01:12:09.513 | 19 | 31156 | <p>Poll on best VNC / remote desktop software for assisting others on Windows/Mac machines from Ubuntu? </p>
<p>I've heard good things about TeamViewer and Fog Creek Copilot, but I'm wondering if the included GNOME Vinaigre VNC client is good enough for this.</p>
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<li><p>See #1.</p></li>
<li><p>Works cross-platform</p></li>
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4473 | 1 | 4480 | 2010-09-21T03:16:54.170 | 29 | 61347 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 10.04, fully updated, from an external USB hard drive.
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<p>The Keyboard Preferences are set for Generic 105-Key (Intl) PC.
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4474 | 1 | 12195 | 2010-09-21T03:29:16.650 | 82 | 384356 | <p>I have one computer running Ubuntu 10.04, and is running <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Servers#vino">Vino</a>, the default VNC server.</p>
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<p>On the Ubuntu host, is there a way for me to enable VNC connections from the Ubuntu commandline?</p>
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<p>As @koanhead says below, there is no man page for <code>vino</code> (e.g. <code>man -k vino</code> and <code>info vino</code> return nothing), and <code>vino --help</code> doesn't show any help).</p>
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4476 | 1 | 4754 | 2010-09-21T05:42:46.687 | 1 | 591 | <p>I am setting up an Ubuntu server with nginx, php and mysql.</p>
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<p>The second option is to use the dotdeb packages and use php5-fpm (<a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-php-5.3-nginx-and-php-fpm-on-ubuntu-debian" rel="nofollow">installation instructions</a>)</p>
<p>Which one shall I choose? Are there any difference in processor usage?</p>
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4477 | 1 | 4478 | 2010-09-21T06:02:38.927 | 96 | 287016 | <p>After doing a <code>man apt-get</code> and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using <code>apt-get</code> (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro).</p>
<p>I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an inherited system used for some random work), so no GUI.</p>
<p>Anyone have quick advice here?</p>
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<p>I can't find any options for that, is there any way to do it?</p>
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4487 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T09:23:06.967 | 7 | 11486 | <p>My Lucid (10.04) installation recently started warning me that the updated packages were unauthenticated. For instance, if I open Update Manager and click the "Install Updates" button, it warns me that <em>You are about to install software that <strong>can't be authenticated</strong>! Doing this could allow a malicious individual to damage or take control of your system.</em></p>
<p>I don't remember seeing this before. I guess it looks like I don't have the right keys to verify signatures.</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Update</strong> with more information:</p>
<p>I get the warning for <em>all</em> packages, including apt and linux-image.</p>
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<p><strong>update 2:</strong></p>
<p>Whatever it was that was wrong, it is no longer wrong, so I won't be able to verify any suggested solutions.</p>
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4489 | 1 | 4493 | 2010-09-21T09:55:53.653 | 37 | 9723 | <p>Ubuntu seems expensive to develop and maintain. Bandwidth, development, marketing, and maintenance all cost money, and since Ubuntu is free to download and use, I don't see who pays for it all.</p>
<p>I ask because I'm a happy Ubuntu user since 2006 and wonder how sustainable the project is.</p>
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"text": "Javier Rivera:> But can a credible business rely on voluntary payment as a mean of subsistence (the often commented failure of Radiohead's last album suggests to me this is a precarious business plan).",
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4497 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T11:14:24.217 | 21 | 2069 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/75998/is-it-possible-to-have-a-different-background-for-each-workspace">Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace?</a> </p>
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<p>Is it possible to get a different wallpaper for each workspace using Compiz? I've found a tutorial telling me to find the Wallpaper option in CompizConfig, but it wasn't there.</p>
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4498 | 1 | 4505 | 2010-09-21T11:41:50.190 | 22 | 14736 | <p>Beagle was my favorite. But it is not maintained anymore, afaik. And it does not work reasonably; it stops working spontaneously and does not return any result. How can I correct this problem and if it is not possible what alternatives are available?
Thank you.</p>
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4499 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T13:02:56.407 | 45 | 48779 | <p>I'm hitting a problem whereby X prevents processes from creating windows, uttering something like the following into <code>~/.xsession-errors</code>:</p>
<pre><code>cannot open display: :0.0
Maximum number of clients reached
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<p>Searching around there are lots of examples of people facing this problem, and sometimes people identify which program they are running is using up all the client slots. See e.g.
<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/70872">LP 70872</a> (Firefox),
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/263211">LP 263211</a> (gnome-screensaver).</p>
<p>For what it's worth, I run gnome-terminal, thunderbird, chromium-browser, empathy, tomboy and virtualbox nearly all the time, on top of the normal stuff you get with the GNOME desktop, and occasionally some other bits and pieces.</p>
<p>However my question is not "which of my programs is causing this problem" but rather, how can one go about diagnosing this problem?</p>
<p>In the above (and other) bugs, forum reports, etc., a number of tools are suggested:</p>
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<li><code>xlsclients</code> - lists the client applications for the given display, but I don't think that corresponds to 'X clients'</li>
<li><code>xrestop</code> - a top-style X resources tool, one row per X client. Lots of '' clients, not shown in <code>xlsclients</code> output</li>
<li><code>xwininfo -root -children</code> lists X window objects</li>
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<p>From what I can gather, the problem might not be too many clients at all, but rather resources kept around in the X server for clients who have long-since detached. But it would also appear that you cannot (easily?) relate X resources back to their client. Can one effectively diagnose this issue once it has started to occur, or is a tedious divide-and-conquer approach for the apps I run the only approach open to me?</p>
<p>Update Jan 2011: I think I have resolved this issue. For the benefit of anyone stumbling across this, nautilus and/or compiz or something in that chain of software was segfaulting due to a wallpaper I had. I had chosen an XML file as my wallpaper, which defined a rotating gallery of images. It was hand-made, but based on /usr/share/backgrounds/contest/background-1.xml or similar. Disabling the wallpaper and I have not had a crash since.</p>
<p>I'm not marking this as answered yet, since the actual specific problem was not my question, but how to diagnose it was. Unfortunately this was mostly trial-and-error which sucks.</p>
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4502 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T13:19:44.423 | 21 | 1132 | <p>How can I find out why a particular package was installed?</p>
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<li>Is it part of the default installation?</li>
<li>Was it specified manually, or was it chosen automatically to meet dependencies?</li>
<li>Which packages are dependent on it?</li>
<li>When was it installed?</li>
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4507 | 1 | 61882 | 2010-09-21T15:26:23.397 | 234 | 182832 | <p>Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?</p>
<p>I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into the text. I lose quite a lot of credibility when I send a file to someone else that has random text snippets pasted all over it.</p>
<p>I have seen a <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Example%3a%20Disabling%20middle-mouse%20button%20paste%20on%20a%20scrollwheel%20mouse">solution</a> that goes by mapping the mouse's middle button to a non-existant mouse button, but that implies getting rid of the middle mouse button altogether (i.e. no tab-closing, opening links into a new tab automatically, etc.). I'd like to keep my middle mouse button active, just disable the pasting behavior.</p>
<p>This also happens when I scroll text with my touchpad (accidentally hit two-fingers without moving, bam.) </p>
<p>So the problem will not be fixed just by changing for a new mouse (in fact I believe it happens more often with my touchpad than with my mouse).</p>
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This is probably counterintuitive to many (users coming from Windows, perhaps), and therefore some may view it as more user-friendly to disable the "inconsistent" or unexpected behavior.</li>\n<li>Some may accidentally paste text using the middle mouse button, and want to avoid that.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>A bit of background regarding the XA_CLIPBOARD and XA_PRIMARY clipboard:\nThe XA_PRIMARY clipboard is used mostly for storing selections. Whenever you select some text in for example the GNOME Text Editor (gedit), this text is copied to the XA_PRIMARY clipboard. This text is <em>not</em> pasted when you use the 'Edit -> Paste' menu item, only when you click the middle mouse button. The XA_CLIPBOARD clipboard is mostly used when one uses the general 'Copy/Paste' functionality (through keyboard shortcuts, such as CTRL+C and CTRL+V, or through the menu items 'Edit -> Copy' and 'Edit -> Paste').</p>\n<p>Perhaps a patch of this sort (or more drastic changes to the X clipboard and/or how libraries/applications use it) could some day become standard in Linux. I realize opinions on this differ greatly. However, for people who seek to minimize the chances of accidentally pasting some random text, the patch can be pretty useful. For example, with the patch, you can't accidentally paste (at least, with the middle mouse button) text into a document you are editing, or into a web page, or into an instant message, etc.</p>\n<p>The guide is for Debian or Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint.</p>\n<p>What follows are terminal commands with a brief description of what they do (the lines starting with # are comments, which contain these descriptions). You should start a terminal and enter the commands one by one, after carefully reading the descriptions.</p>\n<pre><code># This is a small guide that explains how to patch GTK so that the middle mouse\n# button doesn't paste text anymore.\n\n# NOTE:\n# The below instructions are for GTK2. However, they should be easy to adapt\n# for GTK3 (at the time of writing, the patch works fine for GTK3 too).\n\n# First, update the system by first synchronizing the package index files, and\n# then upgrading the packages.\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get upgrade\n\n# Get the build dependencies and essential packages needed in order to compile\n# code and create packages.\nsudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0\nsudo apt-get install build-essential\n\n# Create a temporary directory, in which we will store the GTK sources and\n# later on the packages.\nmkdir /tmp/gtk\ncd /tmp/gtk\n\n# Download the actual patch that will disable the 'middle mouse button paste'\n# functionality (it should be stored in the directory '/tmp/gtk', and will be,\n# if you indeed executed the command 'cd /tmp/gtk').\nwget http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch\n\n# Retrieve the GTK sources.\napt-get source libgtk2.0-0\n\n# You should adapt this line so that it changes to the correct directory (the\n# name of the directory that I used here will probably not match the name of\n# the directory that was created during 'apt-get source libgtk2.0-0', as it\n# contains a version number that often changes). You can find out what the\n# correct directory is by entering 'ls -d */' (without the quotes) and looking\n# at the names of the directories that it shows.\ncd gtk+2.0-2.20.1\n\n# Apply the patch that we downloaded earlier.\npatch -p1 < /tmp/gtk/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch\n\n# The output of the previous command should be:\n# patching file gtk/gtkselection.c\n# If it wasn't, then something went wrong. Maybe you mistyped something, maybe\n# the current directory isn't the correct directory, maybe the GTK sources\n# were changed and the patch doesn't work anymore, etc.\n\n# Build the package (you may have to be patient, this may or may not take a\n# while).\ndpkg-buildpackage -uc -us --source-option=--auto-commit\n\n# You should adapt this line so that it installs the correct package. The\n# package that we want to install is the package containing the GTK library,\n# thus _not_ the 'bin', 'udeb', 'common', 'dev', or 'doc' package. To find out\n# what the exact package is that you should install, try to find the package (a\n# file with a name ending in '.deb') which is closest to the example filename I\n# used here (the packages are stored in '/tmp/gtk', and you can list the\n# packages using the command 'ls /tmp/gtk/*.deb' (without the quotes)).\nsudo dpkg -i ../libgtk2.0-0_2.20.1-2_i386.deb\n\n# And lastly, to make sure that only the patched library is in use, you should\n# either log out and back in, or restart your computer.\n# And then, the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality should be disabled.\n# To test whether it is, try selecting some text in the GNOME Text Editor, or\n# in a GNOME Terminal, and then press the middle mouse button while the cursor\n# hovers over some place where you can normally type text. If indeed no text\n# appears, then it appears that the patch worked.\n# If however, the patch did not work, try to re-read this document, to see if\n# you made any mistake. And if you did, you may want to either start all over\n# again (should be fail-safe), or continue with the guide from the point where\n# you made a mistake.\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Or, more directly, <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20211025212948/https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slipstream/patches/gtk_disable_middle_mouse_button_paste.patch\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">here's the patch</a> to disable the 'middle mouse button paste' functionality in GTK:</p>\n<pre><code>diff -ur gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkselection.c gtk+2.0-2.20.1-patched/gtk/gtkselection.c\n--- gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkselection.c 2010-05-01 22:14:29.000000000 -0500\n+++ gtk+2.0-2.20.1-patched/gtk/gtkselection.c 2011-09-17 10:45:37.000000000 -0500\n@@ -1065,6 +1065,24 @@\n display = gtk_widget_get_display (widget);\n owner_window = gdk_selection_owner_get_for_display (display, selection);\n\n+ if (selection == gdk_atom_intern("PRIMARY", TRUE)) {\n+ GtkSelectionData selection_data;\n+\n+ selection_data.selection = selection;\n+ selection_data.target = target;\n+ selection_data.type = gdk_atom_intern("STRING", TRUE);\n+ selection_data.format = 8;\n+ selection_data.data = (unsigned char *)"";\n+ selection_data.length = 0;\n+ selection_data.display = display;\n+\n+ gtk_selection_retrieval_report(info, selection_data.type,\n+ selection_data.format, selection_data.data,\n+ selection_data.length, time_);\n+\n+ return TRUE;\n+ }\n+ \n if (owner_window != NULL)\n {\n GtkWidget *owner_widget;\n</code></pre>\n",
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"text": "I tried this solution, every command was successful, but after a reboot I still have the middle click paste! :( libgtk version 2.24.23-0ubuntu1.4 Any suggestions?",
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"text": "@lolmaus: Your problem may well be due to GTK+ 3 being used by programs, so the programs processing your middle click are not using the code that you're patching. That is, unfortunately, installing and patching GTK+ 2 doesn't help, which is what you seem to have done.",
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"text": "For Gnome use TWEAK > Keyboard and Mouse > Middle Mouse Paste ( OFF ) -- ubuntu x64 on gnome3",
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"text": "@JREAM it works, but unfortunatelly it back pasting again after restart. and cannot be disabled again",
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"text": "This seems to be the only answer actually answering the question. And unfortunately it seems outdated. Any fix that currently works? (Universally I mean. The tweak tool can turn it off in some programs like Gedit, but not in the majority of programs.)",
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"text": "@Kvothe: I would always prefer a solution that is provided by the system and try to avoid patching the system. In the past it probably was not possible to deactivate this function without patching, but now it is (like described in Sunny127's post). The fact, that the patch doesn't work for newer versions of ubuntu should be reason enough. But Jelle's solution deserves respect. It is well described and elaborated and was probably the best solution at it's time.",
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"text": "@jottbe The point of my comment was that no other answer actually answered the question including Sunny127's post. Note that his solution only turns of the middle button paste in a few programs. System wide it is left untouched (as you notice as soon as you use something else than Gedit or a few lucky other applications). By the way I found the following solution on unix stackexchange, https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/277488/288916, that did work. (I also wrote up an answer here with a bit more explanation of what I had to do to make that solution work.)",
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"text": "@Kvothe: thank you for the clarification. Didn't know that. I hope it works at least for `spyder` (python development environment), than I already would be happy.",
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4508 | 1 | 4514 | 2010-09-21T15:28:52.140 | 18 | 15746 | <p>I have an USB drive which I know is virus infected (an anti-virus on my friend's machine detected it). Unfortunately neither of us know the virus name and I don't want to take the risk of plugging it to my Windows box again.</p>
<p>Of course, in all probability the virus affects only Windows. (But I'm not sure)
I want to know if I can safely plug the USB into my Ubuntu Lucid laptop and copy the stuff I need from the drive. If there are some precautions I need to follow what would they be?</p>
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"text": "Javascript in HTML files can *not* harm your system because they can't access anything outside of a browser. The worst that can happen is that there is an intentional infinite loop that eats CPU (then you just close the browser).",
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"text": "@dv3500ea that's not entirely true. The JavaScript could execute an exploit in an number of softwares other than the browsers (Flash, Java, etc) that ends up infecting a computer. However - the likelihood of it being an infection for Linux computers is very slim. Linux has the mantra \"Security through obscurity\". With such a relatively small market share most viruses are produced for Windows machines not Linux.",
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"text": "@dv3500ea: for an example how java-script can harm you - check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting and get scared ;) Sure, your system is not necessarily harmed, but perhaps some homebanking data is transfered ...",
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4526 | 1 | 4557 | 2010-09-21T20:20:50.913 | 4 | 425 | <p>Somehow, I managed to break my ATI drivers by trying to install a new driver from AMD's website. I tried uninstalling (amdcccle,fglrx and pretty much everything that seemed related to ATI in Synaptic) / reinstalling many times but I keep getting crashes and my Hardware Drivers utility doesn't even detect the presence of my ATI card anymore.</p>
<p>Is there any way to repair my ATI drivers or will I have to reinstall Ubuntu? I've already spent many hours on this and I'm starting to believe reinstalling will be the easiest.</p>
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4527 | 1 | 4533 | 2010-09-21T20:25:57.210 | 5 | 4346 | <p>I want something that runs on my computer that somehow interrogates X and tells me <em>exactly</em> the font, not a guess.</p>
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4529 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T20:40:36.827 | 4 | 1035 | <p>I'm using <strong>Ubuntu 10.04</strong> and have an issue with <strong>Movie Player Totem</strong>. Recently I got a great movie. For those who know <em>"Wall Street" 1987</em>. So I was watching it and for no reason totem shut himself down.</p>
<p>Did any of you have such issue?<br>
Is there any solution for that?</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>UPD:</strong></p>
<p>When I execute totem from command line as root it gives me such message:</p>
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<p>But will I start it as root or just as user doesn't matter it shuts down without any error message in terminal.</p>
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4530 | 1 | 4531 | 2010-09-21T21:02:16.623 | 7 | 486 | <p>I do know there are questions and good answers, what to do if Ubuntu just hangs (like this one: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4408/what-should-i-do-when-ubuntu-freezes">What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?</a>). My problem is that such a hang occurs so seldom for me, that I don't remember most of the answers at that time and I have no second machine to ask the Internet while my main system hangs.</p>
<p>I always remember how to open the console using some Ctrl-Alt-Fx combination. So is there a possibility to <strong>have some lines of "intro text" in that console</strong>, which tell me directly after switching to the console how to kill hanging processes and how to properly reboot? Think of it as a "reminder to self".</p>
<p>DOS had the ability to change the prompt in a console to arbitrary output. Maybe something similar can be done here to get me remember at least the basics?</p>
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4535 | 1 | 4542 | 2010-09-21T22:52:08.103 | 1 | 1214 | <p>Is there a way to disable compiz effects for just one window type or application?</p>
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<p>Anyways is there a way to do it?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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4538 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T00:20:05.307 | 2 | 423 | <p>I've tried Evolution 2.30.3 from Jacob's ppa on Lucid and the version of 2.30.3 in Maverick beta, they differ and both have significant shortcomings. You can't right click on an email and create a meeting, event or task, for example. Some settings don't work in the Maverick version -- (un)compress weekends in month view, for example. No alarms for events just adds to its woes.</p>
<p>If evo is not working reliably in Maverick, I'll stick with 2.28.3 in Lucid.</p>
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4546 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T04:22:23.180 | 15 | 62744 | <p>With the purchase of an Intel SSD and 85WHr Li-ion battery and the linking of wifi and bluetooth to my laptop's wireless switch, extensive Intel PowerTop usage, switching from compiz to metacity, stopping of the desktop-couch daemon, removal of Ubuntu One and several other services from my startup, disabling of everything possible in my BIOS, and physical removal of my optical drive, I've gotten my battery life up fairly high, but I think there's still more to be done. Specifically, when I'm in class taking notes, I want to temporarily but <em>completely</em> power down:</p>
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sound card</p>
<p>How do I tell Linux to disable and power down these devices? Is it true that any PCI slot can be physically powered down?</p>
<p>My current idle power consumption is 7.9 watts plus the screen. (10.0W at min. brightness)</p>
<p>Also, how do I set the screen timeout to ten seconds? gconf editor isn't honoring it when I set it to that. Will switching from nVidia to Nouveau save any significant amount of power?</p>
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4550 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T08:56:50.823 | 2 | 2316 | <p>I'm trying to use a Java-based application that requires sound in Ubuntu 10.04 using sun-java from partner repos . However, the sound is way too fast. It seems like a chipmunk got into my speakers. :)</p>
<p>Is this happening to anyone else? Any ideas on how to fix it?</p>
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4552 | 1 | 4573 | 2010-09-22T09:14:08.337 | 2 | 598 | <p>Installed Ubuntu on my friends laptop. Notifications are showing in the old style, the stock gnome support. notify-osd is installed. </p>
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4555 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T10:20:54.380 | 10 | 2852 | <p>I've recently enabled Ubuntu's encrypted /home/ directory features and I was asked to remember a passphrase in case I would need to recover the data manually. </p>
<p>What is the best way to store this passphrase without compromising security?</p>
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4559 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T11:39:06.900 | 2 | 3223 | <p>How can I run a VPN connection on a non-standard port? I have set up a VPN on my router running DD-WRT which I connected to my main router. I have forwarded the port to port 90 and can not connect to the VPN with the Network Manager. If I change the port back to 1723 (the default port) I can connect just fine. Does anybody know how to fix this?</p>
<p>Here are the relevant IP addresses:</p>
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<p>But it will only work like this:</p>
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4564 | 1 | 4566 | 2010-09-22T14:33:21.923 | 16 | 40665 | <p>My microphone doesn't work in Ubuntu. I have a Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. </p>
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4571 | 1 | 4607 | 2010-09-22T16:34:06.867 | 22 | 8585 | <p>I've recently started to systematically hibernate my laptop instead of shutting it down. </p>
<p>The main reason I chose to do this is that I use one of my workspace as a highly customized dashboard. It's a bunch of windows spatially arranged in a specific way. Of course, I could do a bunch of startup scripts to get the same effect, but it would take long to do and be difficult to manage.</p>
<p>Another reason is that one of my workspaces is a virtualized Windows OS which takes some time to load.</p>
<p>Are there any drawbacks to systematically hibernating instead of powering down? All I can think of is potential memory leaks, but it doesn't seem to be a problem so far.</p>
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4572 | 1 | 4578 | 2010-09-22T17:01:08.233 | 41 | 42533 | <p>I use NFS to share media to computers around my house. Unfortunately one of the machines is on a slow wireless link, is there a way to cache network shares on the local disk for performance?</p>
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"text": "Be aware that there is a bug which can cause the `cachefilesd` daemon to run at 100% CPU: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cachefs/2014-February/msg00001.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485314",
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"text": "At least as of Ubuntu 14.04, rw,hard are default, and intr is deprecated. So the only option you're using that has effect these days is fsc",
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4575 | 1 | 4580 | 2010-09-22T17:12:30.990 | 6 | 6502 | <p>My terminal is all black and white. :P
No colours. Terminal output is highlighted by different colours to represent data. Like if we do ls, folder and files have separate colour but my terminal shows only one colour.</p>
<p>I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 using gnome-terminal</p>
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4577 | 1 | 4593 | 2010-09-22T17:32:32.293 | 6 | 1871 | <p>I am setting up an ubuntu server to be used for experimentation, testing and learning. Basically with LAMP and then setting up WordPress and most likely Drupal. I also plan to experiment with setting up a home intranet. This system will not be serving over the Internet.</p>
<p>My desktop has a fairly standard /, swap, /home partitioning scheme. Would this be an adequate scheme for the server as well? Or would it be beneficial to do something fancy like creating separate partitions for /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home? </p>
<p>I'll probably wind up doing things like corrupting MySQL and having to start over while on my learning curve. Also, I have 2 drives and plan on setting up with software RAID0 if that matters. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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4581 | 1 | 4596 | 2010-09-22T18:27:17.097 | 3 | 1310 | <p>Last night I was trying to make it so my iPod Touch would interface with my Kubuntu machine, and somehow I ended up doing something very, very wrong. Now, whenever the computer starts up, before GRUB even loads, I get a few strange error messages:</p>
<pre><code>[drm] Nouveau - Couldn't find matching output script table.
GPU Lockup
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<p>(Those aren't the exact errors, I had to shorthand transcribe the gist). Not only do those errors (and others that are mostly identical) occur, but part of the way through the boot process my screen turns to this (and is afterward useless until the power is hard-reset :/):</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ajHev.jpg" alt="What the donkey. :("></p>
<p>Does anybody have any idea as to what I did? I've been trying all day to get anything working using a Xubuntu LiveCD, but to no avail. I even erased all of my data trying to perform a clean install from the disc.</p>
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4584 | 1 | 4670 | 2010-09-22T19:27:18.923 | 5 | 3658 | <p>I made an image of my NTFS partition before I formatted, but now it won't mount. I'm pretty sure I've mounted this image before.</p>
<pre><code>root@z:/var/backup# mkdir Storage-disk
root@z:/var/backup# mount Storage-disk.img Storage-disk
ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read vcn 0x2: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/var/backup/Storage-disk.img': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
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<p>I've tried running ntfsfix on the image, but no dice.</p>
<pre><code>root@z:/var/backup# ntfsfix Storage-disk.img
Mounting volume... pread: Input/output error
Failed to calculate number of free MFTs: Input/output error.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
pread: Input/output error
Failed to calculate number of free MFTs: Input/output error.
Remount failed: Input/output error.
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<p>Needless to say, I really want this backup to work :-( Please help!</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> <code>ntfsmount</code> says this:</p>
<pre><code>root@z:/var/backup# ntfsmount Storage-disk.img Storage-disk
pread: Input/output error
Failed to calculate number of free MFTs: Input/output error.
Failed to mount '/var/backup/Storage-disk.img': Input/output error.
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
made to NTFS by this software.
Mount failed.
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<p>How do I run <code>chkdsk /f</code> on an image? Do I have to create a partition and write the image on it? How do I do that?</p>
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"text": "@Znarkus: You could try to move it to a partition from which you can access it in Windows and using something like DaemonTools to mount the image.",
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"text": "NICE! Installed a nifty application (evaluation) called Mount Image Pro. It could mount the partitions images without any problem :-)",
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"text": "Hm. But I can't seem to access some of the files. How do I mount a dd image with Daemon tools, or do you have any other suggestion?",
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4586 | 1 | 23947 | 2010-09-22T20:04:30.110 | 31 | 23901 | <p>I am interested in trying out the Blender 2.54 beta, but don't have the time or patience to download and install all of the dependencies for it and compile it myself.</p>
<p>Is there a PPA somewhere that I can use to obtain a pre-compiled package for it?</p>
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4590 | 1 | 4594 | 2010-09-22T20:43:01.280 | 6 | 717 | <p>I have the hard disk icon for each of my partitions on my Gnome desktop.</p>
<p>I want a clean look, how do I hide them?</p>
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4606 | 1 | 6268 | 2010-09-23T08:14:02.707 | 1 | 3261 | <p>I want to use the newest version of nginx, so I wanted to add the nginx/stable ppa</p>
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<p>I use Ubuntu server 10.04 Lucid</p>
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Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 8B3981E7A6852F782CC4951600A6F0A3C300EE8C
gpg: requesting key C300EE8C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key C300EE8C: "Launchpad Stable" not changed
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nginx:
Installed: 0.7.65-1ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.7.65-1ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.7.65-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
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4609 | 1 | 4656 | 2010-09-23T08:56:09.333 | 3 | 352 | <p>I just noticed that ubuntu one is available for Windows if you subscribe.</p>
<p><a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/plans/" rel="nofollow">https://one.ubuntu.com/plans/</a></p>
<p>Why is it limited? </p>
<p>It would be great advertising, and help the migration.</p>
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4612 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T09:30:21.123 | 5 | 14823 | <p>I've installed the latest ubuntu release (10.4) on my HP mini 110, the installation went smoothly but I don't have any wireless connection. (it says wireless disabled)</p>
<p>I installed ubuntu side by side with an already existing windows XP, on windows wireless works fine.</p>
<p>I tried both ubuntu desktop edition and netbook remix, but same problem on these two modes.</p>
<p>It happens both when I run ubuntu from the USB and when it's installed on the hard-drive.</p>
<p>I found many articles about the broadcom network card issues this netbook has, but they all suggest to run: </p>
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<p>however this doesn't seem to solve my problem.</p>
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4614 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T09:37:18.477 | 4 | 194 | <p>A couple of days ago, when I came back to my computer after a couple of hours, the following window was on my desktop:</p>
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<p>The title bar said "gnome-screensaver-dialog". That's it. I just clicked OK, and went on.
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<p>Please note, I just have the plain blank screen as the screen saver.</p>
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<p>What software could I install on my laptop to play the same content from my PC?</p>
<p>Totem does not appear to have a browse option.</p>
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4620 | 1 | 4629 | 2010-09-23T11:58:49.140 | 8 | 2870 | <p>How do I share a folder with a friend with Ubuntu One?</p>
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4621 | 1 | 4742 | 2010-09-23T12:13:59.210 | 6 | 438 | <p>I have an upstairs and downstairs computer; I'd love to know how to create a shared folder between the two (through a wireless network)</p>
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4625 | 1 | 4627 | 2010-09-23T12:54:12.823 | 19 | 22235 | <p>Is there a GUI utility to mount remote filesystems over SSH (SSHFS)?</p>
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4645 | 1 | 4687 | 2010-09-23T19:00:23.530 | 12 | 21137 | <p>So, I've been having trouble finding a definitive answer on how to do this. I've compiled and installed a window manager that is not available in the ubuntu package repositories, and now I'm attempting to add it to the gdm options menu. What's the "Ubuntu" way to do this? I'm sure there must be a 'most correct' approach. Anyone have any clues, or links to websites? I've seen a few answers in the ubuntu forums, but no-one really had a clear, "This is the right way to do it" that I found. </p>
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4652 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T21:37:17.213 | 4 | 3895 | <p>I'm using ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. It started to revert the refresh rate of my monitor to 60hz, each and every time I log on. I change it back in nvidia panel, save it to X config file, but it just doesn't last. Oh, I set every time to 85hz. As noted below, this is the part in my x config file</p>
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4653 | 1 | 4821 | 2010-09-23T21:43:36.937 | 33 | 60360 | <p>I have a USB drive (SanDisk SDCZ40-016G) that mounts in a way I've never seen before. When inserted, two items appear in Places -> Computer:</p>
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"body": "<p>The solution came from <a href=\"http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/\">u3_tool</a> (<a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/u3-tool\">universe</a>), which can:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>uninstall the U3 software</li>\n<li>reclaim the CD-ROM disk space</li>\n<li>run on Ubuntu</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I ran <code>sudo u3-tool -p 0 /dev/sdb</code> and then repartitioned the drive. Now it mounts like a \"normal\" USB drive.</p>\n",
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4658 | 1 | 4659 | 2010-09-23T22:42:28.607 | 10 | 32397 | <p>When I installed Arch Linux, it detected my video card and monitors correctly "out-of-the box". Now I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" and it has not. </p>
<p>How do I configure Ubuntu to use correct Intel driers with a "Intel 82852/855GM" graphics card? </p>
<p>(I use a Toshiba L10 Intel Centrino laptop.)</p>
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"text": "Marco, YOU are da' man. I have a 915 and ever since Kernel 2.6.37 went into RC, i haven't been able to boot without a monitor connected. Bunch of people have that problem. and now, (almost in tears j/k), i added the PPA as mentioned, added nomodeset to grub, and it works.",
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4660 | 1 | 4705 | 2010-09-24T00:42:50.853 | 1 | 3035 | <p>I've requested my ISP to dedicate me a second Internet IP address and have got it. Now I need to configure it (I've never had any experience with using multiple IP addresses on one network interface) on my Ubuntu 10.04 server so that it will be a public address of a VirtualBox (VBoxHeadless) machine (running Ubuntu 10.04 Server as well). Would you be so kind to tell me how can I do so, or at least what docs to read and what specific subjects to google for?</p>
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4661 | 1 | 4664 | 2010-09-24T00:51:44.863 | 6 | 2779 | <p>Today I was setting up an ubuntu server and while partitioning for RAID0 I wound up setting /home as a logical partition. Basically the partitioner defaulted to that option and I hit return and the system was off on the installation.</p>
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"text": "But if it does not exist, should I really create it? Where are X settings stored by default? Maybe It's better to use the way which is meant to be an actual standard?",
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"text": "If X is now meant to auto-detects the settings, can I just tune it up to auto-detect my hardware correctly? In Arch while I had Xorg.conf, I was not to edit it, as X autodetection tool has autodetected everything correctly (from which I conclude it is possible) and generated correct Xorg.conf.",
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"text": "I am unsure, as I have not messed with it much myself. Though I did once do the auto generation, and added a simple config to enable an intel graphic feature. and everything worked well even though I only put a few things in the conf.",
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"text": "Thank you. I've done just 2 things exactly as written: 1. installed the driver as written here: http://bit.ly/aBZuAx (which itself is not enough) 2. Created xorg.conf as you wrote (and had nothing to change there). And it works perfectly now. I just wonder why standard boot-time autodetection fails if \"X -configure\" autodetection works perfect.",
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4665 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T02:06:31.350 | 5 | 447 | <p>I recently upgraded my VMWare Fusion from 2.x to 3.1 and was running Ubuntu 10.04. I had not problems until the upgrade at which point the sound is not working at all. It was fine in VMWare 2.x. I installed the VMWare Tools but it did not fix it. I would appreciate if someone could throw light on the issue.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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4667 | 1 | 4668 | 2010-09-24T03:39:43.073 | 69 | 145344 | <p>What are correct places for:</p>
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<li>Global environment variables meant to affect all users?</li>
<li>User-specific environment variables?</li>
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4672 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T04:45:00.807 | 2 | 3012 | <p>I was messing with by profile and ended up deleting <code>/usr/share/vim</code> folder and everything in it. How can I get this folder back?</p>
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<p>sudo aptitude reinstall vim</p>
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<p>did not help</p>
<p>basically I would want vim and gvim to be back to 'factory settings' ...for this i'll need original <code>.vimrc</code> as well</p>
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4675 | 1 | 4698 | 2010-09-24T08:00:09.963 | 13 | 13451 | <p>Is there a GUI for selecting which folders are shared via NFS?</p>
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4677 | 1 | 4684 | 2010-09-24T08:45:19.943 | 7 | 4365 | <p>When I try and upgrade I get packages that are kept back, when I use dist-upgrade they will be upgraded however I get this warning:</p>
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will@will-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
libdrm-nouveau1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libkms1{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2
5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/245kB of archives. After unpacking 2,077kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libdrm-nouveau1: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (< 1:0.0.16) but 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
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<p>I don't know whether to upgrade or not, looks like it might break my video</p>
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4678 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T08:51:44.803 | 4 | 697 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4743/how-do-i-replace-the-memenu-username-with-my-actual-name">How do I replace the MeMenu username with my actual name?</a> </p>
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<p>My user name takes approximately as long as would 6 icons. I don't need to see my username, I am the only user of my computer. How can I remove it?</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The <strong>answer</strong> found:</p>
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gconftool -s /system/indicator/me/display --type int 0
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<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Unfortunately the solution doesn't work any more. Now it totally removes the instant messaging menu (including the icon) instead of just removing a name.</p>
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4679 | 1 | 19537 | 2010-09-24T08:57:27.807 | 10 | 9916 | <p>I'd like to remove a keyboard icon, so replacing "[###] USA" as keyboard layout indicator to just "En", an English or American flag, or "USA" at least. How can I achieve this?</p>
<p>UPDATE: When I've clicked to remove e-mail icon from the bar, keyboard language indication has disappeared also, and now I only see that useless keyboard icon, and don't see what language is selected now :-(</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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4680 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T09:00:31.640 | 2 | 1111 | <p>Is there a dock, that works as a gnome panel applet, so I can put it into a panel alongside with other applets and indicators in one line?</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10</p>
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4681 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T09:02:56.427 | 2 | 1614 | <p>How do I enable a mac-style global application menu in classic desktop edition of Ubuntu 10.10?</p>
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4683 | 1 | 4686 | 2010-09-24T09:06:32.147 | 13 | 29883 | <p>Does gnome support desktop widgets? Any analogue to KDE plasmoids, Vista/Win7 sidebar/desktop widgets, Mac OS X dashboard widgets, etc.</p>
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4690 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T10:55:45.200 | 1 | 1488 | <p>I've setup a simple Ubuntu 10.04 file server and want to have a handful of users attach from windows machine to a Shared drive and to private Home directories on a per machine basis.</p>
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<p>If I then disconnect from the Home and Shared drive and reconnect then everything work fine, until I have to reboot the machine again!</p>
<p>Any ideas why this is happening and how I can get round it?</p>
<hr>
<p>OK so I've made a little progress. If instead of mapping to the \Server01\homes directory I map to the \Server01\username directory, then I don't get the error message like before. However it does say:</p>
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<p>If I enter the exact same password as before then I connect fine, but I'd rather not have to force my users to enter a password each time the machine is started.</p>
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4691 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T12:15:48.620 | 6 | 1987 | <p>i'm going to create a Catalog for one of our proposals... as i've recently migrated to Ubuntu, i don't know tools to do such a job. In windows i might do this with <strong>MS PowerPoint</strong> or <strong>Adobe InDesign</strong>. here i just know <strong>OpenOffice Presentation</strong>.</p>
<p>I wanna create a <strong>simple</strong> and <strong>official</strong> catalog. and i want to have a wast range of available <strong>free templates</strong> to choose among. </p>
<p>what's the best tool to create a <strong>fast</strong>, <strong>well-looking</strong> PDF catalog?</p>
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4694 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T12:54:43.067 | 53 | 183380 | <p>I have all images of Debian, Ubuntu and Ubuntustudio as <code>.iso</code>. How can I use them as repository to install my desired packages with <code>sudo apt-get install package-name</code>?</p>
<p>I easily mount the <code>.iso</code> file with <strong>Archive Mounter</strong>, but when adding CD-ROM in <strong>Software Sources</strong> it says <em>Please Insert CD-ROM</em>. </p>
<p>How should I do this without burning them to disk?</p>
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4697 | 1 | 4716 | 2010-09-24T15:27:01.903 | 3 | 6414 | <p>I do my coding work on an Ubuntu machine at work, but I keep a laptop running windows with outlook for the corporate email. I don't really want to fight with Evolution and get it to work with the corporate setup, but I'd like something that could let me know on the Ubuntu machine if I got a new email in outlook/exchange. Does such a thing exist?</p>
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4699 | 1 | 4701 | 2010-09-24T15:45:13.423 | 14 | 2700 | <p>There is a specific wireless network I connect to that requires me to use vpnc to access the internet. If I make a script to do this, is there a way to set it up so every time I connect to this network, the script is run? To be clear, I don't want this script run with most wireless connections, just one specific one.</p>
| 1809 | null | null | 2010-11-20T09:20:23.633 | Is there a way to run a script every time I connect to a specifc wireless network? | [
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4702 | 1 | 4715 | 2010-09-24T16:48:52.390 | 5 | 855 | <p>Whenever I log out from a Gnome session (by clicking on the "power" button in the top panel and choosing "Log out...", I have to answer the "Are you sure..." question. How can I configure my system to avoid this question?</p>
<p>Since I already have performed two actions (clicking on the panel button, and selected the "Log out" item), it is quite probable that I actually <em>want</em> to log out. :)</p>
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4709 | 1 | 4725 | 2010-09-24T19:15:27.160 | 7 | 316 | <p>As far as I can remember, on some of even pretty old cellphones it was possible to say a name to be dialled. From this I conclude that it is possible and not very complex to implement. So, do such a system exist, which listens to voice commands, converts them to console commands according to a predefined map and executes?</p>
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4710 | 1 | 4713 | 2010-09-24T19:16:44.710 | 15 | 1641 | <p>I was working on developing my command line skills last night and ran into an issue where when I used sudo, I got an error message that said 'permission denied'. However when I used 'sudo su' and became root the command worked. </p>
<p>Why didn't sudo work in the first instance?</p>
<p>It was:</p>
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<p>From the Linux Bible 2010 edition in the section on setting up a LAMP server.</p>
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4717 | 1 | 4724 | 2010-09-24T20:37:20.917 | 5 | 267 | <p>On my laptop (hw info below) I currently run Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). The computer has been my work computer since 2006.</p>
<p>I am considering doing a reinstall to get something more recent.</p>
<p>What can I expect, perfomance-wise?</p>
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4719 | 1 | 4720 | 2010-09-24T20:46:24.280 | 2 | 1040 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1743/is-aptitude-really-better-than-apt-get">Is aptitude really better than apt-get?</a> </p>
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<p>To install a package I can "apt-get install" or "aptitude install", to search - "apt-cache search" or "aptitude search". I find these things pretty similar. So what are benefits of aptitude?</p>
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4727 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T23:41:36.217 | 2 | 3496 | <p>The only thing really missing from this install is this issue with the sound. I've searched all over the forums and i found one thing where you get the model and codecs and write them to a file, however, I can't seem to find what my "model" is because none of the postings have anything about Lenovo laptops. Here is the command they all asked for: Code:</p>
<pre><code>cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Realtek ALC269
Codec: Intel G45 DEVIBX
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<p>With that info, how do I get the model, and how do I get my speakers to stop playing when headphones are plugged in. Also, if i manually change the output device to headphones itll play just headphones in the sys prefs... so it CAN work, but it doesn't.</p>
<p>I have a Lenovo ThinkPad L512 as well.</p>
<p>Thanks so much to whoever can answer this...</p>
<p>The Ubuntu forums are nearly useless... ive never gotten a correct answer back on that site.</p>
<p>Also, i've filed a bug report and i know it's the ALSA plugin, i don't know how to fix it though.</p>
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4729 | 1 | 4730 | 2010-09-25T01:09:20.007 | 3 | 208 | <p>As the title suggests, I want to use the About Me section under System>Preferences without using evolution. (I don't have evolution installed on my computer as I handle email/calendering etc via google apps)</p>
<p>As it stands I get an error message unless evolution is installed which means I can't establish a profile properly on the Indicator Applet Session as it seems to pull from 'About Me'</p>
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4731 | 1 | 4739 | 2010-09-25T04:20:42.580 | 11 | 1340 | <p>Is there a way I can use Thunderbird to access and modify my desktop calendar (Or anything other than evolution for that matter)?</p>
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4732 | 1 | 4745 | 2010-09-25T04:40:47.900 | 6 | 10666 | <p>I imported my Google calendar into Evolution and now I can't find a way to delete the calendar. How can I delete it?</p>
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4733 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T05:59:07.273 | 1 | 357 | <p>My Acer Aspire Laptop is unbootable.</p>
<p>I'm trying to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04.1. Boot options accessible OK via F2.</p>
<p>In fact, it still leads me into the olg grub2 menu, but I can't use any of the options because of corrupted installations on the various partitions (hence my wish to reinstall). Any type of LiveCD hangs in the middle of the installation.</p>
<p>With ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i385.iso (MD5Sum checked), the installation seems to hang at "Running /script/casper-premount" (when run in non-quite mode), (and nothing seems to happen from there).</p>
<p>I tried various other installations (via UNetBootin eg RescueCD on USB stick etc)... The laptop seems to access both USB and CDROM ok...</p>
<p>My laptop has become totally unusable? What can I do? Is the 'c' option at the old GRUB2 menu of any use?</p>
<p>Any help would be much appreciated - I'm rather desperate to get my laptop working again!</p>
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