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41116 | 1 | 41117 | 2011-05-08T01:15:57.850 | 0 | 872 | <p>I installed Ubuntu 10.04 about a week ago and have been able to dual boot between it and Windows 7 without any difficulty. A few days ago I went to boot windows and it wasn't in GRUB's menu. Per <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9000/how-do-i-reduce-the-number-of-wait-seconds-grub-waits-before-launching-ubuntu-10/9002#9002">another question</a>, I installed startupmanger, but it
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<p>How do I restore Windows 7 to my GRUB2 menu?</p>
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41118 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T01:22:48.653 | 120 | 412300 | <p>I tried to use my Virtual Box and this is the error I received - (I just updated to the new Ubuntu also) and I am VERY new at this Linux OS.</p>
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<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6nMRu.png" alt="Virtualbox Kernel driver not installed"></p>
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41119 | 1 | 41152 | 2011-05-08T01:24:10.187 | 0 | 2429 | <p>I'm using the GNOME3 PPA. The gnome-font-manager is missing in the new gnome-control-panel. Is this going to be added some day?</p>
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41133 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T00:37:41.830 | 0 | 2155 | <p>I really need to do some system updates because sometimes my S.O Kubuntu 10.10 fails to start, crash down or keeps freezing after I log in. </p>
<p>The problem is, I cannot use KPackageKit because it offers updates for the packages of every application instaled on my computer and I just want to do kernel related updates because my internet connection is to slow and unnestable and I think the downloading would take an eternity in case it doesn't fail.</p>
<p>How could I do that kind of updates using the Aptitude or something like that?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
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41135 | 1 | 41140 | 2011-05-08T02:24:46.647 | 2 | 471 | <p>I have Windows 7 and Natty installed on my computer. There is no problem on Windows 7's side, but whenever I log into Natty, it slows down while using Firefox 4.</p>
<p>I tried it in normal mode using Unity and classic mode. However, the result is the same: it slows down e.g. when I scroll, it takes time to get effect, and also when I click other tabs, it takes time to active them. Moreover I cannot type properly, due to the lag.</p>
<p>I don't know what the problem is?</p>
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41136 | 1 | 41139 | 2011-05-08T02:25:40.350 | 2 | 2763 | <p>When I try to install software like Wine 1.3, I alwasys get something like ... </p>
<pre><code>Err http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ natty/main wine1.3 amd64 1.3.19-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1
The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header
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E: Aborting install.
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<p><a href="http://pastie.org/1876695" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastie.org/1876695</a></p>
<p>When I try from Software Center, within seconds, I get </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NIosu.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>My internet works, tho I'd say its quite intermittent many times, on wireless ... but I am intending to get a USB Ethernet Adapter to go Wired again ...</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
<p>Is this a Wine 1.3 only problem? I managed to install Wine 1.2 tho?</p>
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41145 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T03:45:54.387 | 2 | 1260 | <p>Every once in a while, a process becomes unresponsive for whatever reason. After noticing my laptop fan crying out loud I quickly find and kill the culprit in htop.</p>
<p>My question is: is there a graphical tool for detecting such events? Something similar to Android's "Force quit | Wait" dialog when an app is taking longer than usual.</p>
<p>I've searched for a bit but came up with nothing... maybe I wasn't using the right terms.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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41146 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T04:18:04.053 | 3 | 3352 | <p>I am a left-handed thinkpad user and have grown used to using the trackpoint in its default right-handed configuration. When I use my bluetooth mouse, however, I would like the buttons to have a left-handed layout. In 11.04 (Natty) I can configure this manually using <strong>xinput</strong>, but I would like to have it applied automatically when the mouse is connected. I have followed the xorg documentation by creating <strong>/etc/X11/xorg.conf/99-ms500mouse.conf</strong> and placing the following into it:</p>
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<p>This seems to work initially (GDM seems to be using it correctly), but when I log in and start my X session, the buttons are mysteriously reverted:</p>
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<p>The following is my <strong>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</strong>:</p>
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[ 276.648] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[ 276.649] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 (/dev/input/event14)
[ 276.649] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 276.649] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Applying InputClass "Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 5000 button remap"
[ 276.649] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000'
[ 276.649] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 276.649] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: always reports core events
[ 276.649] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Device: "/dev/input/event14"
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[ 276.670] (--) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Found 8 mouse buttons
[ 276.670] (--) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 276.670] (--) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Found relative axes
[ 276.670] (--) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Found x and y relative axes
[ 276.670] (--) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Found absolute axes
[ 276.670] (II) evdev-grail: failed to open grail, no gesture support
[ 276.670] (II) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Configuring as mouse
[ 276.670] (II) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: Adding scrollwheel support
[ 276.670] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
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[ 276.670] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
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[ 276.671] (**) Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
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<p>As you can see, it appears to apply the button mapping I want (that is, swap buttons 3 and 1 and disable all others), but once the session starts this is gone. How do I make sure these settings stick?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
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41154 | 1 | 41189 | 2011-05-08T04:38:21.163 | 0 | 401 | <p>I remember i had to run a python file a while ago but i can't remember where i have to find and which one i have to run when i get there (i think there were many python files in each directory)</p>
<p>(to make it more specific : for example, how can i run the lyrics screenlet from the terminal?)</p>
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41157 | 1 | 41159 | 2011-05-08T05:07:37.393 | 0 | 1099 | <p><br>
This is probably a duplicate question, but i'm not able to find an answer that i understood. I have just installed Ubuntu on <code>VirtualBox</code> in <code>WinXP</code>. I'd like to improve the screen resolution to <code>1280x800</code> (which is what my host OS uses), but the settings only show up to <code>1024x768</code> in <code>Monitors</code> (also it shows <code>Unknown Monitor</code>).<br>
Thanks for any help,<br>
Rajath</p>
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41162 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T05:38:56.953 | 4 | 13275 | <p>I downloaded a java bin file manually from <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u25-download-346242.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Then I tried to install it using the following commands. But I am not able to install it. Can anybody help me to install manually?</p>
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Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
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Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of
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Unpacking...
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<p>PS : My architecture is x86</p>
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41170 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T06:52:03.920 | 0 | 1071 | <blockquote>
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<p>I foolishly upgraded my Ubuntu installation to 11.04. Even with "classic" mode it is dog slow. The GUI is herky-jerky and before it was fine. </p>
<p>I want to go back to what I had before.</p>
<p>Is there a way of rolling back/uninstalling the 11.04 upgrade or do I have to clean install 10.x?</p>
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<p>Is there a systematic way to completely replace Kubuntu <-> Ubuntu, and make sure that the only remaining things are the home partition?</p>
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41178 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T07:31:34.527 | 3 | 1011 | <p>I have three drives in my machine, one SSD with 32GB and two 1TB drives, attached to an <em>Intel 82801JI (ICH10) SATA AHCI Controller</em>. The problem is, that I can access only one of the 1TB drives when the other one is not plugged in. When it is plugged in I see the drives as sda and sdb, but there seem to be no partitions. Looking at these drives with cfdisk, the partitions are there, though.</p>
<p>Both of the 1TB drives are carrying a partition, being part of a software RAID1, created with mdadm.</p>
<p>Before I threw the SSD into the mix, the other two have been working fine.</p>
<p>Any hints?</p>
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41181 | 1 | 41266 | 2011-05-08T07:53:29.277 | 8 | 16670 | <p>I found the following line at the end of my <code>/var/log/messages.1</code></p>
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<p>How can I turn it back on?</p>
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<p>When I make it hidden in gparted my win7 does not boot anymore. Can I make it invisible for Ubuntu but bootable.</p>
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41190 | 1 | 41203 | 2011-05-08T08:30:52.333 | 3 | 14321 | <p>Is there any editor/IDE(or a plugin for an existing editor like Vim or GEdit) that does auto-completion of many languages (not just C++)? Aptana does only HTML/CSS/JS and Code::Blocks does only C++ (I might be wrong on this one. If so, please correct me). </p>
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41197 | 1 | 41201 | 2011-05-08T08:43:40.290 | 1 | 5021 | <p>I'm not sure what is the proper name of this but let me explain,</p>
<p>Bob is logging into ftp, he noticed that he is in his home and also sees <code>somedir</code>, <code>otherdir</code> and <code>somefiles</code> some day he decided to navigate to <code>otherdir</code> and he was not suprised when he seen <code>someotherfiles</code> however he had no idea what was happening behind the scenes, when he gone to <code>otherdir</code> he went from <code>/home/ftp/bob/</code> to <code>/var/magicaldir</code>.</p>
<p>So in short, I want to map a physical directory so it can be accessed by the user as it would be in his home. How should I approach that?</p>
<p>Note: Security is not big concern, I use this as my home test server.</p>
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41213 | 1 | 973273 | 2011-05-08T09:41:16.340 | 29 | 13653 | <p>There is an option to specify a key to be used to access 5th level on the keyboard in <code>gnome-keyboard-properties</code> ("Keyboard" under Hardware in System settings):</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5eRSC.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5eRSC.png" alt="Screenshot of said dialog"></a></p>
<p>But if I set the 5th level to <kbd>AltGr</kbd> and the third level to <kbd>Right Ctrl</kbd> and if I set key 54 as follows:</p>
<pre><code>xmodmap -e "keycode 54 = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8"
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<p>I get following results from pressing different variations: </p>
<pre><code>keycode 54 = 1
keycode 54 + right ctrl = 5
keycode 54 + right ctrl + shift = 6
keycode 54 + shift = 2
keycode 54 + AltGr = 1
keycode 54 + AltGr + shift = 2
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<li><p>So what does the 5th level modifier do?</p></li>
<li><p>How do I set it up so that I can get 5 or six different characters out of a single key (modified by <kbd>Shift</kbd>, <kbd>Alt Gr</kbd> and <kbd>Right Ctrl</kbd> for example)?</p></li>
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"text": "if your level 5 key doesn't work try to configure it from the setting. I'm putting this comment out there I couldn't reach levels 5 to 8 when i configured the level 5 key in the xkb file even though it showed it correctly on the keyboard preview (and it drove me crazy) but from the setting it just worked",
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30072/problem-with-mergelist-error-when-trying-to-do-an-update">“Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update</a> </p>
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<p>When I try to start my update-manager, I get the following message.</p>
<pre><code>An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList / var/lib/apt/lists/dk.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
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<p>Where do I go from here?</p>
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41215 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T09:55:31.860 | 3 | 600 | <p>I recently upgraded to the final release of ubuntu 11.04. Was previously running my laptop on ubuntu 10.04 which was perfectly fine. After the upgrade, I noticed the panels were missing. I did a unity --reset and everything came back. Now the issue is that the panels are not permanent, every time I start my pc, I have to do a unity --reset. Can this be sorted?</p>
<p>Ubuntu Level: Novice </p>
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41218 | 1 | 41278 | 2011-05-08T10:14:16.413 | 2 | 546 | <p>I was in the process of upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 via the update manager. In the midst of the installation process, the system lost power. Now when I boot, the login window shows nothing. How do I fix this?</p>
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41224 | 1 | 41243 | 2011-05-08T10:42:51.870 | 1 | 1880 | <p>Some text editors use <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>H</kbd> while others <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>R</kbd> -- some even know both. Should maybe the Find dialog double as Replace dialog, so <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd> would be another option?</p>
<p>Is there user experience style guide on that? Cheers</p>
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41225 | 1 | 41282 | 2011-05-08T10:45:16.530 | 0 | 616 | <p>I am not able to login to Ubuntu. It is booting like normal but getting hung showing the wallpaper, without any panels loaded. The cursor turns to waiting circle (hourglass equivalent) and nothing happens. How can I troubleshoot. </p>
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Before the restart, I had installed Docky.</p>
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I logged on to console (recovery mode) and removed all startup applications I added from ~/.config/autostart but it didn't help.</p>
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I removed Docky. Still not logging in. Panels are not getting loaded and Alt+F2 doesn't work</p>
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<p>I have added the sources and got a 404 error.</p>
<p>Is there a way of installing XBMC onto Natty?</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
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41227 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T10:55:45.087 | 1 | 1825 | <p>I've installed 11.04 onto a Intel D510MO, everything works except I can't change to resolution to anything better than 1024x768. The monitor is capable of supporting 1280x1024. Can anyone help? Thanks.</p>
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41232 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T07:58:48.023 | 0 | 1128 | <p>I'm using ubuntu 10.10 and now I got in the shell something like that:</p>
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41240 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T11:12:14.970 | 0 | 4371 | <p>When I try running Photoshop CS3 after installing it following <a href="http://maketecheasier.com/install-photoshop-cs5-in-ubuntu-maverick/2010/11/02" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this tutorial</a>, I got </p>
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<p>Also I noticed that <a href="http://pastie.org/1877592" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastie.org/1877592</a></p>
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<p><code>jiewmeng@JM:/works/tmp/adobe$
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<p>I am thinking thats a problem?</p>
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41241 | 1 | 41256 | 2011-05-08T11:12:55.847 | 11 | 5165 | <p>When I'm working on my laptop I have periods that I am only using a couple of programs, so the default intellihide setting of the Launcher ('Dodge windows') is very handy. But I also have periods that I have to switch very often between programs, and then I find it very useful (and better for my workflow) that the Launcher doesn't hide. </p>
<p>Now, every time I wan't to switch I have to open CCSM and change the setting (Unity plugin -> Hide Launcher), but it would be easier if I could use a shortcut for it. So my question:</p>
<p><strong>Is there a way to create a shortcut to switch between (or change) the two settings of Compiz?</strong></p>
<p>I thought of command line interface to compiz, but I couldn't directly find something like that.</p>
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41247 | 1 | 41249 | 2011-05-08T11:23:06.080 | 11 | 6264 | <p>One of the programs I use heavily in Ubuntu is Open/LibreOffice as part of my work specifically Draw.</p>
<p>I recently upgraded to Natty 11.04 (clean install) obviously this has meant switching to LibreOffice. I know I can go back to OpenOffice if I want to but Oracle seem to be more interested in lawyers than FOSS and I'm sure LO will be a lot better in a short period of time.</p>
<p>The only problem I have found switching is a strange (irritating) difference which doesn't seem to have a config setting that I can change. In OO When I select an image and insert a new one it will "replace" the original using the same dimensions in LO this is not the case the image is simply added to the page whether you select an image on the page or not.</p>
<p>I did find an OO extension which provides the same functionality</p>
<p>Change picture extension - <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/ChangePicture">http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/ChangePicture</a> </p>
<p>The main issue is the extension doesn't use the "working directory" of LO so you have to navigate to the correct directory each time (censored). As I will be doing this for 4 pictures per document and over 1000 documents and possibly many more in the future my sanity is at stake.</p>
<p>So if any one has any insights on the easiest way to solve this one thanks in advance.</p>
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41258 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T11:58:15.183 | 1 | 1314 | <p>I'm trying to upload a package to ppa, but I get the error message (it is in the end of this post). I've created the ppa and tried to upload a signed package and I got the error. I thought that this is because I don't have my ssh key in the settings, so I've added one. But the problem is still here.</p>
<p>What should I do to upload my package to ppa?</p>
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gpg: Signature made Sun 08 May 2011 01:36:39 PM MSD using RSA key ID 79B2238B
gpg: Good signature from "Ivan Bessarabov "
Good signature on /home/bessarabov/tmp/delete_after_2011-05-08/libsql-easy-perl_0.02-1_i386.changes.
Checking signature on .dsc
gpg: Signature made Sun 08 May 2011 01:36:24 PM MSD using RSA key ID 79B2238B
gpg: Good signature from "Ivan Bessarabov "
Good signature on /home/bessarabov/tmp/delete_after_2011-05-08/libsql-easy-perl_0.02-1.dsc.
Uploading to ppa (via ftp to ppa.launchpad.net):
Uploading libsql-easy-perl_0.02-1.dsc: done.
Uploading libsql-easy-perl_0.02-1.tar.gz: done.
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41259 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T12:03:30.397 | 3 | 8529 | <p>I've seen many owners of Thinkpad Edges which are supposed to be Linux-friendly having problems with wireless adapter.</p>
<p>I've found several links inside askubuntu and in ubuntuforums which have a lot of workarounds for those problems, mine seems to be weird though.</p>
<p>I use my laptop on both my office and at home. At home I have a router which is A/B/G and here at home the wireless connection works just fine, using a WEP key.</p>
<p>But in work I have a B/G/N wireless router and it doesn't work, my guess is that this adapter works with N modes but somehow this is buggy in the bundled driver in natty. I've tried to disable the "N" mode in the router but that didn't work.</p>
<p>Later I went to Realtek website, downloaded their driver and compiled myself, kinda seems to work most of the time but sometimes some websites keep trying to load or load just parts of it and images start to look like their links are broken and so on, much like what you get when you were loading a page and suddenly the connection is lost. This problem, as I said, is only using the realtek driver from their website. <code>dmesg</code> gives me this a lot of these:</p>
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<p>So I thought I might as well switch back to the original driver which seems to work just fine on A/B/G wireless networks but not on N networks so if anybody knows how to disable that mode from within the driver please let us know :)</p>
<p><strong>P.S.</strong> I did find a similar question, <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/28316/wifi-range-issues-and-intermittent-dropouts-thinkpad-edge">Wifi range issues and intermittent dropouts, Thinkpad Edge</a>, and it was answered but let me remind you I'm <em>not</em> using the Intel version of wireless for my Thinkpad but the Realtek (RTL8192SvB).</p>
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41262 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T12:36:55.383 | 15 | 3588 | <p>I'm looking for a simple way to determine the rough amount of time per day I spend on a computer. This can be a difficult task if you try to monitor processes, key presses, mouse clicks and the like, because one can be doing anything from thinking about a coding problem, reading a web article, talking on the phone, or gone off walking the dog. The computer cannot read my mind. Since I leave computers on 24/7 monitoring log-ins won't work. </p>
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<p>The problem is: I don't know how to log when the screensaver turns on and off. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 at the moment on most machines, about to start upgrading to 11.04 on some of them. </p>
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<p>Here is the output it produces after locking and unlocking the screen a couple times:</p>
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<p>The second column is obviously unix UTC in seconds. The missing ingredient is it doesn't identify whether the screensaver is on or off! I suppose I could assume they toggle from the time NameAcquired happens, but it makes me queasy that there might be a missing or extra event I can't anticipate which would throw everything out of sync. </p>
<p>Much obliged for ideas.</p>
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41273 | 1 | 47124 | 2011-05-08T14:06:29.307 | 27 | 251424 | <p>I used to access a remote system via VNC viewer, but when I copy some text from the remote system and paste it in my text editor(local system), nothing happens. Do I need to install any additional packages to achieve this task?</p>
<p><strong>Updates:</strong><br>
There is no such option found in the Real VNC properties. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/spayK.png" alt="Screenshot"></p>
<p>I just get the following output: </p>
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<p><strong>Updated:</strong> </p>
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Warning: karthick:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X1-lock
Remove this file if there is no X server karthick:1
Warning: karthick:2 is taken because of /tmp/.X2-lock
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41276 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T14:27:58.620 | 5 | 4290 | <p>I have been looking all over the place for finger tracking software for my webcam that I have built in to my laptop (for example, when you move your finger around and your mouse follows your finger where ever it goes)</p>
<p>Thanks for the help if you can find something like that.</p>
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41277 | 1 | 42832 | 2011-05-08T14:30:30.717 | 5 | 245 | <p>Is it possible to enable indicator/notification support for the LastFM client? Is there a plug-in or PPA for this?
If not, is this support being worked on?</p>
<p>As an aside, is the LastFM client open-source... can the community work on this?</p>
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41280 | 1 | 41284 | 2011-05-08T14:56:38.943 | 1 | 3507 | <p>Does Ubuntu 11.04 (unity) not have a systray? I have set <kbd>Show system tray icon</kbd> to <kbd>always</kbd> in Pidgin's preferences, but nothing shows up. And it seems I can't add anything to the panel (is it even a gnome panel anymore?) -- otherwise I would have been able to add the systray applet myself.</p>
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41286 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T15:25:42.017 | 2 | 155 | <p>Using 11.04. When ever Update Manger does updates (have done 2 since install), when I log back in the Appearance Setting change from the default Ambiance settings to Radiance. I have to manually change back to Ambiance, log out, log back in for it to keep the settings.</p>
<p>Is Ambiance the default setting for 11.04?</p>
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41287 | 1 | 41339 | 2011-05-08T15:27:50.690 | 10 | 62128 | <p>My external 1TB hard drive is connected to the front USB2.0 socket on my 11.04 box. When copying files I have a very slow data transfer rate rate of approx. 12 MB/sec maximum even though from the hard disk utility it says it is connected at high-speed USB (480 MB/s):</p>
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<p>This the output of <code>lsusb</code>:</p>
<pre><code>Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046a:010a Cherry GmbH
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1058:1001 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. External Hard Disk [Elements]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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<p>This is the output of <code>hdparm</code>:</p>
<pre><code>~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1:
Timing cached reads: 1904 MB in 2.00 seconds = 952.06 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 96 MB in 3.06 seconds = 31.35 MB/sec
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<p>With this rate it takes hours to backup my frequently edited large video files. This it makes it almost unusuable, even more so because I know it could perform much better.</p>
<p>Changing the USB port to another one on the back of the computer and changing the cable to a brand new one did not make any change.</p>
<p>Is there any setting I need to make in addition to defaults of my still quite vanilla but update 11.04 here?</p>
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41289 | 1 | 41300 | 2011-05-08T15:42:40.187 | 16 | 19430 | <p>I am trying to use the <code>beep</code> command, but it doesn't beep any sound.</p>
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<p>Is there a way to fix it or an alternative to <code>beep</code>?</p>
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41290 | 1 | 41292 | 2011-05-08T15:50:34.930 | 10 | 1017 | <p>I don't want to upgrade to the new release, and I don't want to have the notification icon about the upgrade (red triangle with exclamation mark in it) sit on the tray constantly. </p>
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41297 | 1 | 42626 | 2011-05-08T16:06:41.763 | 7 | 439 | <p>Well, what the title says : is there any way to integrate Dropbox in the messaging menu like ubuntu one ?</p>
<p>Edit: Below is an image showing where Ubuntu One is on the messaging menu
That is where I ask if I can put dropbox, NOT on the panel itself.</p>
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41302 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T17:00:19.700 | 2 | 3045 | <p>I have a Mimo monitor and it runs USB. I tried and failed and I don't know what to do......All i get from the USB screen is just a green screen. Anyone could help me?</p>
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41303 | 1 | 41446 | 2011-05-08T17:15:16.847 | 2 | 1827 | <p>I was a similar situation to this user: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30063/dual-boot-10-10-and-11-04-cant-boot-into-10-10-after-an-update">Dual Boot 10.10 and 11.04 can't boot into 10.10 after an update</a>
Only many more GRUB entres. </p>
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41306 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T17:23:10.630 | 0 | 685 | <p>The Natty indicator-datetime widget is a HUGE downgrade. It doesn't show a visual indication of time-of-day on the alternate timezones; it doesn't show my upcoming appointments; and it requires me to enter my password just to switch timezones (!!!).</p>
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41307 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T17:26:14.643 | 0 | 398 | <p>I have a two hard drive system with a Vista disk that won't boot, and Ubuntu 10.04 on the other drive. I've tried to restore vista with a bootable repair disk, but I get an error saying drivers are missing. I downloaded drivers from the Gateway site, but none of them appear to work. After spending the last two days trying to restore vista, I'm thinking I might as well install Win 7, after I copy all my personal files from the vista drive. Vista drive is still accessible from the ubuntu side that boots just fine (gotta love linux).</p>
<p>My bios boot order is cd as #1, ubuntu (currently sdb) #2, then vista (currently sda, this disk unable to boot). Grub2 is on sdb #2. AND on sda - I think, that's what the original config was - BestBuy guys did it. But I installed grub2 on sdb yesterday, and changed the boot order. </p>
<p>Will I just be able to pop in the Win7 install disk, and point it to the correct drive, or is it more complicated than that? I'd prefer not to mess with detaching cables inside the machine if I can. Thanks.</p>
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<p>I've found that it's not just them Banshee and Rhythmbox, no sound works. Also, it only stops working with Unity on -- it works fine with Ubuntu Classic.</p>
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41313 | 1 | 41323 | 2011-05-08T18:12:00.513 | 1 | 1698 | <p>I was trying to fix the boot loader because it was showing the processes as I shut down my laptop as well as fix the problem of the Ubuntu logo with the loading dots because it was off center and usually in a very small font size. So I followed <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/how-to-fix-the-plymouth-boot-screen-when-using-proprietary-graphics-drivers/" rel="nofollow">these steps</a> on a post on OMG Ubuntu and now things are completely screwed up. </p>
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<p>So what I'm asking is how do I restore things back to before I installed the "fix?"</p>
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"text": "For step 3. The file is opening up as read only. Don't know why it's doing that. As for step 2. if my laptop monitor's resolution is 13668x768 should I change it to that or what you posted?",
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41325 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T18:36:08.177 | 1 | 431 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/37434/how-do-i-add-applications-to-the-launcher">How do I add applications to the launcher?</a> </p>
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<p>i have installed 11.04 i want to know whether i can add custom icons on launcher or not</p>
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41329 | 1 | 48931 | 2011-05-08T18:50:04.047 | 17 | 50323 | <p>Libreoffice keeps on crashing randomly. It will do this when I am typing and when I am switching desktops or anything. There is no patter to it. I need some help here. Anyone had this problem or problem similar to it? Anyone have found a fix. Also it seems to happen especially prominently after my screensaver has started. I would say it happens about 97% of the time after that. This is an annoying bug and is keeping my productivity low.</p>
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41330 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T18:51:26.087 | 14 | 15666 | <p>I have some X client program which needs access to an X server. It is only able to access the X server by TCP, not by other methods like unix domain sockets. It will run on the same host as the server, to make things easy.</p>
<p><strong>So, how can I make my Xorg server to listen on TCP port 6000, but only for connections from localhost?</strong></p>
<p>I found <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/34657/11138">How to make X.org listen to remote connections on port 6000?</a>, which explains how to enable access for remote hosts, but I don't really want remote access (for security reasons, mainly).</p>
<p>I thought about somehow forwarding the default transport to TCP, but I didn't really find information about what the default transport is.</p>
<p>(I'm using kdm as my display manager here, but I think I can transfer solutions for either display manager, or even switch the display manager.)</p>
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<p>This is on 11.04 on a mixed Kubuntu-Ubuntu-XUbuntu installation (originally Kubuntu, but I added ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop. On boot it is now saying Xubuntu 11.04). I'm now using the gnome-classic desktop, I think, from KDM.</p>
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41332 | 1 | 41334 | 2011-05-08T19:25:16.720 | 574 | 1165872 | <p>I downloaded and installed Ubuntu from the official site.
However, I don't know if I installed the 32-bit or 64-bit version.</p>
<p>In Windows 7 I could right click <em>My Computer</em> and it listed which version it was.</p>
<p><strong>Is there an easy way to check in Ubuntu?</strong></p>
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"text": "Method 2, which consists of \"sniffing\" the (binary) content of a widely available executable, is quite indirect and awkward. While it works for most setups, the mere *presence* of a 64bit executable should not be a reliable way of detecting the *running* OS architecture. Specially when you consider `multiarch`, `ia32_libs` and, specially in your `init` example, `upstart`",
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"text": "it is 32 bit, I have used the second method, but the first did't show me anything that looked like `i386` :) but your answer helped. thanks a lot",
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"text": "To method 1: You get the item highlighted with bold letters also by just running `uname -i` or `uname --hardware-platform`. No need for `uname -a` with lots of confusing stuff. The other i686 items are displayed by `uname -m`/`uname --machine` (first item) and `uname -p`/`uname --processor` (second item), but I don't know how their meaning differs from each other. On my machine, all of the three display \"i686\"...",
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"text": "Exactly, uname shows only one i686 on my 10.10 system, then i686 for all three fields after upgrading to 14.04 (I didn't check anywhere in between). Whereas, I think checking `/sbin/init` is guaranteed to work (at least while we still have it--I'm thinking that goes away with systemctl). If init is 32-bit, you have a 32-bit system.",
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41337 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T19:33:03.450 | 6 | 3695 | <p>After a fresh install of 11.04 I have a script that does a few useful things.
Is there a way to remove the LibreOffice, Ubuntu One etc icons from the Unity launcher using command line so I can put it in my script?</p>
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41338 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T19:33:14.873 | 6 | 662 | <p>I have a dual monitor setup going. I want to play a video (using SMplayer) on the second screen while using applications on the first screen. I have it working except for one annoying thing. When ever I switch focus from SMplayer to a different application on the other screen the Unity panel shows up above the video. </p>
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41341 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T19:40:58.437 | 17 | 108516 | <p>Can I use Thunderbird to access Microsoft Exchange server?
Evolution works ok, I am just looking for an alternative.</p>
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41345 | 1 | 41560 | 2011-05-08T19:53:10.013 | 6 | 8722 | <p>I've installed ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 desktop version, which defaults to Xorg login</p>
<p>I want to <strong>temporarily</strong> switch this machine to server mode, basically i <em>"suspect"</em> this entails setting to runlevel 3 and headless mode somewhere</p>
<p>what are the details of this? Also very important is how do i re enable desktop mode again?</p>
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41347 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T20:01:53.710 | 2 | 228 | <p>I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed. Everything works fine. Especially, I am happy that most of the time my computer has wlan connection 10 sec after waking up from sleep. But as I said most of the time. Does anybody have an idea why the behavior is not consistent? My wireless card is a broadcomcard</p>
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41348 | 1 | 41357 | 2011-05-08T20:06:41.150 | 18 | 15165 | <p>How come the maximum volume on the sound menu isn't actually the maximum volume possible?</p>
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41350 | 1 | 41353 | 2011-05-08T20:21:38.997 | 1 | 3647 | <p>I am using Ubuntu Natty on my laptop. While unplugged screen fades out, gets a little bit darker. It is great for the battery. </p>
<p>The question is how I can adjust the time before the fades out. Now it is something like 5 seconds.</p>
<p>When I read I must hold my finger on the touchpad in order to be not annoying of the brightness shifts every time. </p>
<p>1 or 5 minutes should be better.</p>
<p>I looked for it in Compiz configuration with no success....</p>
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41356 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T20:38:34.857 | 1 | 3511 | <p>I just installed Ubuntu for the first time dual boot so I get to choose Ubuntu or windows. I then changed the setting where is doesn't ask for my password when booting up. I then installed Edubuntu desktop package. I then hit system and logged out that way i could be at the loggin screen that also lets you select the desktop environment. Edubuntu was not there but User defined session was so i clicked that thinking that might be Edubuntu and logged in. Now im totally stuck. Only walpaper on the screen as i realize now that is normal for user defined session but there is no log out button to change desktop environments now and since I set it to not ask for password at boot up there is no option to change it at start up. If i hit ctrl+alt+del it only lets you shutdown, restart, suspend, or hybernate.... no logg out. I have hit every key on the keybourd hoping something will pop up. I thought this must be a simple noob mistake that there must be endless artiles about this so did searches on google and forums and was shocked to find nothing about this. My next step unless someone can help is to uninstall and reinstall.</p>
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41359 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T20:44:57.537 | 0 | 611 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25466/how-do-i-access-my-windows-partition-using-the-command-line">How do I access my Windows partition using the command line?</a> </p>
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<p>I have Ubuntu 11.04 on Windows 7, both sit on Macbook Pro 13, 5,5. Is it possible to 'see' Windows files?</p>
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41361 | 1 | 41424 | 2011-05-08T20:51:38.857 | 20 | 8711 | <p>About 3 to 4 hours after turning on my PC, compiz 'memory usage' rose from <strong>300MB</strong> up to <strong>1.5GB</strong>!<br>
What is happening? What is wrong?</p>
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41363 | 1 | 41371 | 2011-05-08T21:06:53.140 | 4 | 15879 | <p><strong>UPDATE 1:</strong></p>
<p>The problem is not a monitor refresh rate flickering problem, as then the whole screen would be flickering. For me, only the application windows flicker in and out of view, then most of the time, when there do decide to show themselves, they only partly show themselves, like just top half, bottom half, left half, corner missing, window disappears when you try moving it or mouse over it even etc etc.</p>
<p>I know it is a visual effect problem as I know my computer cannot handle visual effects and for some reason when the windows do appear partly, I can see the shadows behind the windows. Those shadows are part of the visual effects which are turned on by default for some reason.</p>
<p>I get the same problem with 10.04, but can quickly turn off the visual effects by right clicking the desktop, selecting change background image, and in the visual effects tab, I can click on none, which stops all the visual problems.</p>
<p><strong>ORIGINAL QUESTION:</strong></p>
<p>I am having problems with 11.04 on my computer. For some reason it is enabling visual effects by default in the live cd when it should not be as my computer cannot support such effects. My computer cannot support Unity either, but it defaults to standard gnome with visual effects for some reason. It should be defaulting to standard gnome with no visual effects. THerefore, all I get is a very flickery live cd which makes it very difficult to see anything.</p>
<p>So my question is, how do I disable the visual effects from the live cd?</p>
<p>To put it simply, the live cd flickering is so bad, that I had to log back into my standard 10.04 install just to write this question, as I just couldn't see enough of the screen because of the flickering in 11.04 to even get to askubuntu.com...</p>
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"text": "Have you confirmed with a different installation/version that everything looks fine when visual effects are disabled? Are you sure that it is visual effects, and **only** visual effects, that are causing the problem? Screen flickering is often related to an incorrect refresh rate. Is the screen a CRT or LCD type?",
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"text": "Yes, I have tried downloading the cd twice and get the same issue. When I turn visual effects on in 10.04 it goes crazy, just as it is going crazy with the live cd of 11.04. As soon as I turn off visual effects on 10.04, all it back to normal. I cannot figure out how to turn off visual effects in 11.04. It is not a refresh rate problem. It is a different type of flickering e.g. where the menu bar disappears and the windows disappear and reappear only partly, but the background always remains as is. So I am sure that the problem will be solved as soon as the visual effects are turned off.",
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"text": "There is no option on the F4 boot menu for \"safe graphics mode\"?",
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"text": "@oshirowanen: Please try the F4 option before continuing the discussion here, as this may solve your problem. By posting comments here it implies that you have tried that solution and that it has not worked.",
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"text": "@oshirowanen: Then try adding `xforcevesa` or the longer version as detailed my other answer. I'm puzzled as to why Compiz is enabled if the hardware can't support it. In my experience, all visual effects are turned off if the hardware is unable to support it.",
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"text": "That works, but it's just giving me 800x600 resolution. On 10.04, I am getting 1280x1024.",
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"text": "@oshirowanen: If that works, then disable visual effects (while at 800x600 resolution) and then restart normally. If you are wanting to disable visual effects on the Live CD, then this will not work. You could trying creating a Live USB version with persistent storage and then disabling the visual effects and then restarting normally.",
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"text": "@SabreWolfy, when i press F6 and select nomodeset, it goes into gnome with no visual effects at 800x600 resolution. How do I disable visual effects before restarting into normal mode on a normal installation. Not a livecd.",
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41364 | 1 | 41391 | 2011-05-08T21:07:22.493 | 2 | 414 | <p>I was thinking whether it is a good idea to backup of all directories starting with dot in my home folder, so that all settings can be restored if anything goes wrong. I just had an instance when I had to clear the home folder as Ubuntu was not logging in.
As my home folder is huge, I don't want to backup the entire thing. </p>
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<li>How can I backup just the .folders. </li>
<li>Will there be any permission issue when I restore.</li>
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<p>Is this a good backup option.</p>
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41376 | 1 | 41471 | 2011-05-08T22:38:43.400 | 2 | 1646 | <p><strong>Background</strong>:</p>
<p>My last upgrade was from 9.04 to 9.10, and it did not go well. I lost a lot of my settings and spent way too much time reinstalling packages that I though I already had. Last April, I was very busy and didn't feel like spending all my time restoring the settings on my system again. By this time I'd installed by hand some newer versions of software that where not on 9.10 (Ruby 1.9.2, MongoDB, Haskell 7.03 for example). By the time life settled down it was September and I though I'll just wait for 10.10... You see where this is going.</p>
<p><strong>Question</strong>:</p>
<p>I have a Lenovo Core 2 Duo happily running Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit. I would like to upgrade to 11.04 (64-bit if it is possible). What do I need to do to make this as smooth a transition as possible?</p>
<p>An ideal answer would be a checklist with links to <code>askubuntu</code> question that describe how to do that step.</p>
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41380 | 1 | null | 2011-05-08T22:47:04.887 | 1 | 547 | <p>This occurs in Maverick and Natty. Single screen is fine, mirror of single screen is fine. If the mirror box is unchecked and the second monitor is turned on to extend the desktop then all windows are greyed out (like they do when a process has timed out and is unresponsive) and pop up menus are greyed out but icons, panels and background are fine and the windows do operate (just can't see them well enough to use)</p>
<p>I have a D620 with intel graphics. This machine did work with dual monitors at some time in the past, however I have been using another machine, a D630 with nvidia and it works fine. Yes, there have been any number of updates. I also upgraded from Maverick to Natty to see if it would go away. No joy.</p>
<p>Also, the D620 has a dual boot windows system and the windows xp system works fine with daul monitors</p>
<p>There is a forum thread that goes into more detail and there are a number of users experiencing this problem.</p>
<p>Thread: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1719178" rel="nofollow">greyed out windows</a></p>
<p>Thanks for reading</p>
<p>paula_ke</p>
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41385 | 1 | 49547 | 2011-05-08T23:03:05.957 | 8 | 15819 | <p>I installed 11.04 on a WeTab (although wetab os is now gonne, only 11.04 now). I use the eGalax Inc. USB TouchController device driver. I want to calibrate the screen using Touchscreen Settings, but I get the following errir message:</p>
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<p>This is annoying because the calibration is slightly wrong, meaning I can't reach the right of the screen including shut down/log out etc.</p>
<p>Is there a fix for this, or a way to manually change the calibration settings?</p>
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41387 | 1 | 41812 | 2011-05-08T23:16:01.393 | 2 | 3727 | <p>Avi files placed in the Video folder show up almost immediately, but for some reason, mp4's do not. </p>
<p>Movie Player will play the mp4's, so I don't think it is a gstreamer situation.</p>
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41390 | 1 | null | 2011-05-09T00:14:59.170 | 12 | 1923 | <p>Nautilus by default uses some kind of "natural" sort order which appears to target a use case like this:</p>
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<p>Can I do this in Nautilus? Where is the setting that controls this?</p>
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41392 | 1 | null | 2011-05-09T00:54:46.203 | 18 | 384 | <p>So, I do know that it is fairly easy to customize application shortcuts (launchers) by editing the respective .desktop file. But, is it possible to create custom quicklists to the removable drives' launchers? E.g. a "Format" option or "Properties" would be really useful.</p>
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41393 | 1 | 41511 | 2011-05-09T01:14:13.600 | 3 | 7975 | <p>First, I know this may be just an issue with Windows, but I guess people on the Ubuntu/Linux side may know this kind of issue better.</p>
<p>I just did a full system reinstall with new partitioning. I first wiped the disk during Windows XP install and gave 20GB to XP, the remaining space unpartitioned. Later I installed <em>Ubuntu 11.04</em> and did some more partitioning: 145 GB unpartitioned (it had no NTFS support during installation), 15GB for root, 64GB for <code>/home</code> and 5GB for swap (all of these are an extended partition.</p>
<p>Under Ubuntu, used Disk Utility to format the 145GB as two NTFS partitions. Everything is nice on the Linux side, and I keep both NTFS partitions as shared data location.</p>
<p>I just went back to Windows to try some stuff, and found out that it does not see the two NTFS partitions at all. I found a post of people with the similar issue, but they have no "solution".</p>
<p>What can I do to make XP "see" my partitions? Is it some compatibility issue?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<hr>
<p>Edit: ok, I guess I found the reason. The NTFS partitions on Disk Utility say "Type: NTFS", but <code>Partition Type: Linux (0x83)</code>. Edit Partition button let me change the type, which I suppose should be <code>HPFS/NTFS (0x07)</code>. I tried to change it, but then I get a spinning progress bar indicator that never disappears. I tried it also with unmounted partition and with sudo, but it never finishes the job. Every time I tried something I had to restart the system, but at least my partition is ok and usable (or so it seems).</p>
<p>So, if this is the culprit, how can I fix this partition type? Thanks again!</p>
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41397 | 1 | 41460 | 2011-05-09T01:58:09.963 | 18 | 152533 | <p>Given the number of questions ive seen about slow usb transfer speeds I have to wonder what speeds should one be expecting for a 'typical' usb2 and usb3 hard drives?</p>
<p>A side question would be what would be considered a proper way to test these speeds.</p>
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41399 | 1 | 41401 | 2011-05-09T02:08:39.090 | 1 | 615 | <p>According to the output below, I can't run Unity on my laptop.</p>
<p>However, what is not clear from searching Google and Ubuntu Forums is whether or not the problems are fixable.</p>
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41402 | 1 | 42270 | 2011-05-09T02:16:46.967 | 5 | 4219 | <p>I'm trying to get started with the Point Grey Firefly-MV USB camera in Ubuntu. I have followed the instructions from Point Grey, and got completely black images (Yes, the lens cap is off). Does anybody have a good idea of how to get up and running with the Firefly MV in Ubuntu? Any demonstration code would be helpful as well (display the image feed from the camera in a gui).</p>
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41407 | 1 | 41408 | 2011-05-09T02:35:54.260 | 12 | 13835 | <p>I've used only VMWare on my Windows 7 machine, but I'd like to use something on Ubuntu.</p>
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41409 | 1 | 41420 | 2011-05-09T02:58:22.487 | 0 | 1995 | <p>I mostly use Banshee.
Once I have imported a CD on my computer , it's not user friendly at all to simply copy it to my Creative Zen. I get error message ("Argument cannot be found").</p>
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41411 | 1 | 41442 | 2011-05-09T03:03:05.060 | 1 | 257 | <p>The best login screen ever was the one for 9.04, I can best describe it as one text field and you entered in your user name then pushed enter then it asked for your password. Was a little more secure locally and the background image for the login screen was also pretty rad. Anyone know how to change it?</p>
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41413 | 1 | 41630 | 2011-05-09T03:15:52.197 | 9 | 2132 | <p>I just upgraded to Natty and trying to start using Banshee instead of Rythmbox.</p>
<p>I noticed that Banshee put downloaded podcost under Podcast folder. I have a bunch of previously downloaded podcasts by Rythmbox which I would like to keep. I can move those files easily into Podcast folder for Banshee, but how can I associated those file to Banshee so Banshee recognized it as downloaded podcast?</p>
<p>I don't mind going down to nitty gritty changing config/meta file or database update if Banshee use database to store those info.</p>
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41416 | 1 | 41458 | 2011-05-09T03:22:18.103 | 3 | 1111 | <p>I now have Unity 2D running on my laptop, and the jury is still out as to whether or not I keep it or go back to Gnome.</p>
<p>One thing that is throwing me off is that I don't have the same notification icons in the top panel that I like to have.</p>
<p>One is a CPU monitor. My laptop is a little older, so I keep an eye on the CPU usage to know when one process is done and I can start a new one without slowing things down.</p>
<p>The other is UIM. I switch between Japanese and English input, and the UIM indicator applet in Gnome let me know which input mode I was in.</p>
<p>Right now, only my Dropbox icon has carried over (I upgraded from 10.10).</p>
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"text": "This refers to the \"useful quickinfo\" - there's no way to get this info into the unity panel (because you can't rightclick - add applet to panel anymore, like you did in 10.10). this is why those indicators are needed. add them by executing the relevant command, in this case hit alt-F2, enter \"indicator-multiload\". many indicators are automatically added to the startup applications, for others you have to do it manually.",
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41418 | 1 | 41425 | 2011-05-09T03:30:35.770 | 2 | 2903 | <p>I want to add/remove items on the Launcher. I'm using Unity 2D.</p>
<p>Of course I looked it up on Google, and I saw instructions that said when I have an application open, I can right click on it and a menu option will appear to say I can make the icon permanent.</p>
<p>However, when I right click on the icon for an open application, all I see is an option to close the application, nothing else.</p>
<p>Also, right clicking on any of the permanently available default icons does nothing. I want to remove some, for example the software center icon.</p>
<p>How do I customize Launcher in Unity 2D?</p>
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41421 | 1 | 52028 | 2011-05-09T03:52:58.640 | 17 | 4340 | <p>I have ubuntu (11.04) running on a recent macbook pro. I use both the built in keyboard and an external keyboard. I want to remap capslock on both keyboards to super, and I want to swap left-alt (mac option) and left-super (mac cmd) on the built in (apple) keyboard only.</p>
<p>Xmodmap can't configure multiple keyboards differently, so thats out. </p>
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<p>If I have to, I can run this as a startup application, but I would really like to know if there is a configuration file I can add these settings to instead. </p>
<p>It looks like I should be able to add an option (XkbOptions) to the inputdevice section of my xorg.conf, but when I tried this, the settings had no affect (perhaps gnome overrides the X settings?). I also tried adding a new inputclass to xorg.conf but that didn't work either. </p>
<p>What is the correct place to configure multiple keyboards with different key bindings?</p>
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41430 | 1 | 41433 | 2011-05-09T05:15:07.807 | 15 | 27523 | <p>If I wanted to have traditional indentation in vi / vim, I would enter these commands:</p>
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41431 | 1 | 41435 | 2011-05-09T05:15:53.367 | 6 | 15959 | <p>I set the wrong keyboard layout while installing ubuntu and now it reverts back to English every time I reboot. </p>
<p>I heard this is normal behaviour, but I want to change the default layout from English the German. I found that I have to edit etc/X11/xorg.conf, BUT that file does not exist on 11.04. </p>
<p>Can someone guide me to the file that initiates this ? </p>
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41440 | 1 | 42677 | 2011-05-09T06:25:48.053 | 2 | 2906 | <p>Old title : Wireless connected, but no internet until I re-add network</p>
<p>Every time I boot my Laptop, it doesn't connect to Internet. </p>
<p>Although upon boot it does say "Connected to ", but when I try to browse any webpage, it doesn't load. So everytime upon boot, I have to go to the Network manager -> remove the wireless network -> then again add the Wireless network, to find that Internet is connected finally.</p>
<p>I also use my Desktop, which with the same settings, does get connected to the Internet without any issues.</p>
<p>Please note that I am connected to the Broadband modem via a Wireless router and the Wireless network SSID is hidden for presumably higher security. Please help to solve this issue.</p>
<p>EDIT 1 : I have now unchecked the Hidden option of the SSID to make it a broadcast SSID. So its's no longer hidden now. But still the problem persists.</p>
<p>EDIT 2 : In search of a solution, I have now started using the indicator-network applet, which has installed connMan. Now the problem is everytime upon boot/reboot, I have to type in the wireless network name and security from the others option and press connect. Then it gets connected. </p>
<p>It would be very helpful, if connman can automatically detect my already added wireless network. Does anyone help me with a suggestion on how this can be done?</p>
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"text": "@fossfreedom: I have one more question here. I have a pptp VPN connection which I need to use at times. As because there seems to be no option of graphically connecting via VPN, I had to install the Network Manager. My question is, whether there is any way to connect to the VPN with WiCD? If yes then I guess I can remove network manager because that might be causing the initial disconnection of the wireless network.",
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"text": "@fossfreedom: Thanks for your help. This seems to solve the long standing problem of adding the network everytime I boot both my PC and router. I now have one more problem of Internet getting disconnected when using VPN. I want to access both VPN and public sites. In this regard I have a detail question here : http://askubuntu.com/questions/39894/connecting-to-vpn-is-not-allowing-me-to-open-public-sites-simultaneously . May I request you to please look at the above thread and if possible suggest a solution.",
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"text": "ok - will look at that issue and will reply if I have any ideas - however, as you might have guessed, its not wise to run both network manager and wicd - they will be both competing to do the same stuff - hence could possible cause issues such as disconnections.",
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"text": "Thanks fossfreedom. I want to remove the network manager since I have wicd. But how do I connect to my VPN connection? There seems to be no option of getting connected to an existing VPN connection.",
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"text": "wicd FAQ is here - some ideas there how to do. http://wicd.sourceforge.net/moinmoin/FAQ",
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"text": "It seems VPN support is not yet there for wicd. Can you suggest any other way that I can connect to the VPN.",
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"text": "I just tried again now by restarting both the system and router. I confirm that the original issue of \"Wireless connected, but no internet until I re-add network\" looks like solved. Now I do not have network manager or indicator-network and only using wicd. Although initially a message shows as \"<network name> connected\" then it shows \"Disconnected\" then again it shows \"Connected\" and stays as connected. So leaving that minor issue (not sure why it is behaving like that), the actual problem is no longer there.",
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"text": "Can I suggest a new question something like \"What user-friendly VPN software is available\"",
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"text": "I should have already posted it. Thanks for your suggestion fossfreedom. Here is the new question : http://askubuntu.com/questions/42779/what-user-friendly-vpn-software-is-available-for-natty",
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41451 | 1 | 41452 | 2011-05-09T08:34:11.250 | 1 | 1186 | <p>When I press Super + W in Unity I get a nice expose type display of the currently open applications. I can then use the cursor/arrow keys to choose a window and hit enter to select it.</p>
<p>The problem is that it is difficult to tell just what you have selected. There is no highlighting of the current window thumbnail. When pressing the Alt + Tab there is a border that appears to clearly show the active one.</p>
<p>Is it possible to some how have a highlight of some kind on the spread mode screen?</p>
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41453 | 1 | 41455 | 2011-05-09T08:52:23.933 | 2 | 477 | <p>Can the workspace switcher be changed so that it works like it used to in 10?</p>
<p>When switching workspaces in Unity you need to use both the horizontal arrow keys, but if you want to get to workspace 3 and 4 then you must use the vertical arrow keys. This is annoying.</p>
<p>Can I change it so that I can access all workspaces by hitting the horizontal arrow keys only?</p>
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41466 | 1 | 41512 | 2011-05-09T10:26:32.227 | 0 | 198 | <p>I have the proprietary ATI driver, which breaks plymouth. I would rather see the whole console output on the full resolution of my screen while booting.</p>
<p>How can I do that?</p>
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"body": "<p>Removing \"quiet splash\" options from kernel command line, obtained modifying <code>/etc/default/grub</code> and executing <code>sudo update-grub</code>, should make you see booting messages.</p>\n\n<p>The console switches to hires mode after start of upstart job <code>console-setup</code>.</p>\n",
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41469 | 1 | null | 2011-05-09T10:47:36.207 | 2 | 4331 | <p>I have fresh install the ubuntu 11.04 but still unlucky to install appropriate driver for my ATI Radeon 9100 IGP (built-in graphic card on Asus Motherboard), because of this UINTY is not working on my system. System switch me to classic mode.</p>
<p>I have tried many method but no success.</p>
<p>Please help me to resolve the issue.</p>
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41470 | 1 | null | 2011-05-09T10:59:04.323 | 0 | 342 | <p>first sorry but my english is very bad. I have a problem, when I try to connect to ubuntu one, the application says same all time:</p>
<p>"La información no se puede recuperar. ¿Puede que su conexión a Internet esté caída?" "Error en la sincronización de archivos. (auth failed (AUTH_FAILED))"</p>
<p>I use ubuntu 11.04, in my office and at home. At home I updated from 9.04 to 11.04 and can connect whithout any problem. In my office I re-installed Ubuntu 11.04 and there I can not connect.</p>
<p>What does this happen? Can you help me? Thanks!</p>
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41472 | 1 | 82301 | 2011-05-09T11:02:22.643 | 0 | 306 | <p>I tried to report a bug but ubuntu-bug directed me here so here we go:</p>
<p>I recently installed Natty (new install with an old /home partition) and started to use Unity (have not used it before). Unity works fine for me except the fact that after some time, top panel stops responding to grabbing and double and middle clicking. The time it takes to stop responding varies and I have not been able to figure out what triggers it.</p>
<p>Global menu works, as well as indicators and launcher, I can acces the top panel with F10. I am not even sure it is a Unity and not a compiz bug. Has anyone encoutered this? Have you any idea if something in my configuration might be using it? Right after logon, the panel works as expected.</p>
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41473 | 1 | 42561 | 2011-05-09T11:06:28.337 | 5 | 522 | <p>I've created a small time-lapse animation film using <code>gphoto2</code> and <code>ffmpeg</code>. The film would look way better if I could run a GIMP effect on all images - say, the cubism effect.</p>
<p>Is there a convenient way to do this?</p>
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