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46637 | 1 | 46670 | 2011-06-02T20:23:52.550 | 17 | 3055 | <p>Does Unity 2d use fewer system resources than Unity 3d? If it requires less in terms of system resources, would switching to Unity 2d increase the battery life of my Laptop?</p>
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46642 | 1 | 46651 | 2011-06-02T20:34:57.913 | 13 | 2088 | <p>Red Hat/Fedora, GNOME, KDE and others have brought things that can be used in the Linux Community, like NetworkManager, Plymouth Boot Splash, a friendlier desktop system, etc. I would like to know what Ubuntu has brought to the Linux Community.</p>
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46645 | 1 | 46649 | 2011-06-02T20:40:02.653 | 25 | 151045 | <p>I just installed ubuntu on my laptop, everything works fine, but I'd like to use chrome instead of firefox. I downloaded the .deb file from the chrome website, and when I open it, the install buton inside the software center is inactive (I can't click it) and it's telling me <code>dependency is not satisfiable: libc... | 19190 | 8844 | 2012-11-13T17:00:28.930 | 2016-05-29T14:36:52.793 | Installing chrome gives an error: "dependency is not satisfiable" | [
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46646 | 1 | 46647 | 2011-06-02T20:41:06.617 | 40 | 101390 | <p>I am looking for tools for Ubuntu that can be used to <strong>EDIT</strong> ISO Images. Including ISO images that are bootable like Ubuntu and Windows ISOs. Not only edit but save the edited ISO and can still boot when burned on an USB Drive or CD/DVD.</p>
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46654 | 1 | null | 2011-06-02T22:13:09.217 | 7 | 2761 | <p>How do I disable the weather indicator in notification area ? I don't want to uninstall it because some other users need it. But, as I already run another weather application, this one is unuseful for my session.</p>
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46657 | 1 | 46659 | 2011-06-02T22:24:29.293 | 22 | 32146 | <p>Can someone tell me how I can get an overview of all the open windows? Like htting ctrl+s that shows all the desktops, but for the open applications?</p>
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46658 | 1 | 46703 | 2011-06-02T22:31:01.283 | 13 | 3897 | <p>So, I have a folder on my computer which contains these two files (and other files)</p>
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46664 | 1 | 46668 | 2011-06-02T23:33:56.120 | 11 | 4535 | <p>Is there a way to download the Flash plug-in and the Microsoft fonts on one computer, and install them on another offline computer?</p>
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46677 | 1 | 46681 | 2011-06-03T03:38:40.137 | 4 | 7455 | <p>Unable get my wireless network connection when I switched to awesome window manager. However, automatically I get wireless connection under Ubuntu 11.04 classic. Could someone tell me how to get wireless connection under awesome window manager. </p>
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46679 | 1 | 52067 | 2011-06-03T04:01:07.397 | 7 | 2107 | <p>In IBus Preferences, Hindi has 5 different IMEs (Input Method Editors), some of which utilize Anglicized transliteration schemes.. ie. they use the Latin alphabet keys on a US keyboard to represent semi-equivalent sounds between the two languages... Chinese has an Anglicized transliteration system called 'pinyin' wh... | 2670 | 26246 | 2014-03-25T19:11:14.120 | 2014-03-25T19:11:14.120 | Is there an Anglicized transliteration IME for typing Arabic? | [
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46682 | 1 | 94041 | 2011-06-03T06:30:17.327 | 3 | 9464 | <p><a href="http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/tips-tricks/how-to-tether-iphone-3g3gs-over-usbbluetooth-on-3-0-firmware/" rel="nofollow">This Article</a> (the "How to setup Tethering via USB on Windows" section) lists simple ways to share the 3G connection from a tethered phone with other computers.</p>
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46683 | 1 | 46684 | 2011-06-03T06:45:04.007 | 1 | 622 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Thinkpad X300 which is having 64 GB solid state drive. When I used the <code>df</code> command to learn about the free space, I noticed that there is a mount point <code>/var/lock</code> which is having around 2 GB space as shown below. Is it really needed? I would like to use tha... | 101157 | 3037 | 2011-06-03T07:01:19.097 | 2011-06-03T07:01:19.097 | Why does /var/lock reserve 2GB space? | [
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46685 | 1 | 46686 | 2011-06-03T07:20:00.300 | 3 | 3580 | <p>In 11.04, using traditional GNOME (<strong>not</strong> Unity), windows suddenly lose their decorations way too often:</p>
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46687 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T07:33:38.203 | 3 | 1132 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/28099/how-to-restore-a-system-after-accidentally-removing-all-kernels">How to restore a system after accidentally removing all kernels?</a> </p>
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46688 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T07:37:31.073 | 8 | 2770 | <p>I have a Canon LBP2900 printer and Ubuntu Natty 64-bit.</p>
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46702 | 1 | 46704 | 2011-06-03T09:22:07.807 | 17 | 13662 | <p>Suppose, we've built some package from sources (<code>configure make install</code>).<br>
May we remove sources directory after successful building? Or it depends? On what, then?</p>
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46709 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T10:17:43.210 | 5 | 1300 | <p>How do I switch the keyboard layout in Ubuntu 11 so that the Apple key is <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> and the <kbd>~</kbd> works correct?</p>
<p>This is the specific keyboard I'm talking about:</p>
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46712 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T11:00:15.763 | 2 | 2347 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/45666/is-it-possible-to-skip-releases-during-an-upgrade">Is it possible to skip releases during an upgrade?</a> </p>
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46713 | 1 | 47600 | 2011-06-03T11:00:32.113 | 2 | 234 | <p>Whenever I have a dual monitor setup on my Laptop, one screen is the laptop display and the other the external monitor, I get into trouble with the X server framebuffers.</p>
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46715 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T11:36:36.433 | 2 | 252 | <p>I am facing a problem where the microphone is recording audio only when it's called by one process. i.e.</p>
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46716 | 1 | 46726 | 2011-06-03T11:36:43.080 | 3 | 6507 | <p>How can I restrict user from deleting files? </p>
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46723 | 1 | 46727 | 2011-06-03T12:07:09.600 | 3 | 19698 | <p>I installed postfix freshly as satellite system. I need to authenticate on my mail providers smpt. There postfix needs to build a sasl database from my sasl-passwd file. But it fails to do just that. How do I fix this error (last line)?:</p>
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46724 | 1 | 46725 | 2011-06-03T12:13:46.187 | 2 | 971 | <p>I have all my music in all partitions; so that Windows Vista has one, Ubuntu has one and my music, videos and more have one and so that the operating systems have their music video whatever on the same location.</p>
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46730 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T13:19:25.020 | 2 | 5539 | <p>I have a Macbook Pro 5,5 running Ubuntu 11.04 Natty amd64. It performs like a dream, but in ubuntu (both 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04), I have had problems getting the correct keyboard layout.</p>
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46737 | 1 | 46755 | 2011-06-03T14:00:31.317 | 5 | 1378 | <p>I can open software center and the main page with a list of categories comes up but when i click on an icon or type anything into the search box the loading screen comes up and it just stays like that. Running 11.04. Anyone know how to fix this? </p>
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46738 | 1 | 49884 | 2011-06-03T14:20:10.700 | 1 | 360 | <p>I've recently installed Kubuntu 11.04 and it is running on my dual screen setup. I have Nvidia video card and TwinView is working perfectly after I switched to the nvidia driver, and I saved the settings to <code>xorg.conf</code> so the second screen would automatically be in use on start up .</p>
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46739 | 1 | 46741 | 2011-06-03T14:21:36.550 | 5 | 9604 | <p>When installing Ubuntu, we're restricted to lower-case usernames. But recently I registered for a shell based on Ubuntu and logging in is done by the username registered to sign in to that site. The username starts with upper-case letter, and when logging using SSH, I need the letter in uppercase to log in - it refu... | 814 | null | null | 2011-06-03T16:52:03.910 | Case-sensitivity of account usernames | [
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46746 | 1 | 46750 | 2011-06-03T15:11:44.253 | 18 | 2186 | <p>I'm getting serous with a project of my own and need a good documentation on the appindicator module for python. What I've found so far:</p>
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46748 | 1 | 46752 | 2011-06-03T15:17:11.603 | 4 | 1076 | <p>I am working with a Gumstix computer running a console-only version of Ubuntu (courtesy of the Linaro project, which is quite fantastic), and when I boot the computer while connected to it over a serial console (ttyUSB) it automatically launches as root. I think this is a terrible idea. I'd rather it login as the ... | 16807 | null | null | 2011-06-03T15:47:25.577 | Automatic login on Headless, console-only computer | [
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46751 | 1 | 46754 | 2011-06-03T15:37:32.167 | 3 | 9539 | <p>I want to set up a system for testing where I can boot into Ubuntu 8, 9, 10, and 11. </p>
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46761 | 1 | 47191 | 2011-06-03T16:35:32.530 | 5 | 3944 | <p>How do I get the strings I can insert instead of 'gtk-execute'?</p>
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46766 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T17:11:51.693 | 3 | 249 | <p>When I browse through a long list of events and then double-click an event to view its photos, how do I get back to where I was in the list of events so I can continue browsing?</p>
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46773 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T18:15:21.317 | 0 | 2191 | <p>I own a technology blog and I received a question via e-mail asking how to get a Winbond wireless card to work on Linux (preferably Ubuntu). I don't personally have any experience getting Winbond cards up and running on Linux and a search of the internet didn't seem to turn up any results. </p>
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46774 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T18:16:45.370 | 2 | 504 | <p>How do I enable the overlay-scrollbars in GNOME3?</p>
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46775 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T18:22:57.703 | 0 | 8262 | <p>I have Windows installed on my Acer Laptop and recently installed Ubuntu (using their installer for Windows) so there are now 2 OS's installed. Ubuntu was unable to connect to the Wifi, so I can only get internet on it when plugged in. </p>
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46779 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T18:49:00.480 | 7 | 900 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/72452/how-to-turn-off-compizs-drag-to-maximize-behaviour">How to turn off Compiz's “drag to maximize” behaviour? </a> </p>
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46781 | 1 | 46782 | 2011-06-03T19:01:41.290 | 1 | 575 | <p>I have a flash drive that I am considering installing Ubuntu on. However, I would also like the contents to be accessible in Windows. Is this possible?</p>
<p>Some further details:</p>
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46783 | 1 | 46790 | 2011-06-03T19:15:20.180 | 12 | 121044 | <p>Long time i am searching for this, i would like to know is it possible to pass passwords in a shell script? Many of the answers returned with no. Recently i read an article stating that how to pass passwords in a shell script. I have tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. This is the <a href="http://bash.cyberciti... | 5691 | null | null | 2020-10-20T04:52:37.093 | Is it possible to pass passwords on a shell script? | [
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46784 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T19:19:14.203 | 1 | 3021 | <p>I tried to print the test page, but I got this error message. I installed the LPR driver first, then the cupswrapper from this site: <a href="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#MFC-6890CDW" rel="nofollow">http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/downl... | 19249 | 332494 | 2015-10-06T04:04:00.017 | 2015-10-06T04:04:00.017 | Error "Printer 'MFC6890CDW' may not be connected." | [
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46785 | 1 | 46801 | 2011-06-03T19:19:55.650 | 0 | 297 | <p>A few years ago, there was an OpenGL greeter (GDM Facebrowser), which would narrow down the user list as you type the user name.</p>
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46786 | 1 | 46834 | 2011-06-03T19:22:58.447 | 2 | 1148 | <p>OK, I have a shell application running on Ubuntu 11.04 which must use a Verizon Wireless Modem to stay connected. I can't figure out how to invoke this application from the shell, but can do so from the gui.</p>
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46788 | 1 | 46798 | 2011-06-03T19:25:27.910 | 28 | 21405 | <p>I'm being hit (quite often) by that bug where you can't click on some indicators. It's easy to fix by restarting unity, but that usually also means running to the risk of upsetting some window on re-parenting (rare, but I'd rather avoid any such problems).</p>
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46800 | 1 | 46805 | 2011-06-03T20:46:47.680 | 1 | 3355 | <p>I have recently bought a new pc and installed Ubuntu (as you do) all works well but my tv tuner isn't being detected.</p>
<p>The model is a SAA7231, can someone please help me install it. What steps do I need to take firstly to give you all the correct info?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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46803 | 1 | 46808 | 2011-06-03T21:00:10.783 | 1 | 1629 | <p>I just want to deny VNC access to particular IP addresses. Is it possible? If yes how to acheive this task?</p>
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46804 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T21:00:34.857 | 12 | 3948 | <p>Is there a way to print the comments that are associated with a pdf on the linux version of Adobe Acrobat 9? Both acroread and evince <em>display</em> the comments just fine, however the linux version of the reader lacks the button in the print dialogue to enable printing comments.</p>
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46807 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T21:14:43.760 | 1 | 344 | <p>Is it possible to play a sound file which is in my ubuntu system but to the windows speaker? I am runnning ubuntu 10.04 with IP i.e 172.29.32.10 and the speaker is connected to Windows XP Professional with IP say 172.29.32.15. What i want to acheive it i just want to play a sound file in ubuntu using the windows sp... | 5691 | null | null | 2011-06-04T01:56:47.160 | How to access windows speaker from ubuntu? | [
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46814 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T22:06:50.123 | 2 | 436 | <p>"Create Folder" and "Create Document" worked well. But nothing happened when click "Create Launcher". It's annoying to create launchers in Terminal. so what can I do?</p>
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46817 | 1 | 100208 | 2011-06-03T22:15:19.030 | 3 | 2979 | <p>When I boot, I often encounter this warning. How can I get rid of this?</p>
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<p>The panel encountered a problem while loading
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Do you want to delete the applet from
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<p>I use ubuntu 11.04.</p>
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46819 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T22:33:37.053 | 6 | 6635 | <p>How do I delete one item from the list of 10 "recent documents" in LibreOffice Writer?</p>
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46820 | 1 | null | 2011-06-03T23:04:47.310 | 3 | 2390 | <blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<p>After "sudo apt-get update" in terminal, I get:</p>
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46826 | 1 | 46936 | 2011-06-03T23:36:52.983 | 2 | 3577 | <p>How do I install the final version of LibreOffice 3.4 in Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04 and the latest version of 11.10</p>
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46833 | 1 | 46838 | 2011-06-04T00:31:43.537 | 29 | 5924 | <p>Just did a live usb of Linux Mint 11 (DVD edition) and couldn't find major differences bar unity in 11.04. Are there any major differences?</p>
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46837 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T01:06:39.950 | 2 | 462 | <p>Today, maybe after some automatic updates, my audio stopped to work... Doesn't work anymore both with ALSA (the default one) and Pulseaudio.. So I've tried to install also OSS (doesn't work so I've removed). What can I try to do? :(</p>
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46840 | 1 | 53040 | 2011-06-04T01:44:43.687 | 9 | 3458 | <p>I have a bunch of pendrives with live Linux ISOs loaded onto them and I would like to check one if it is persistent. Rebooting is not an option right now (system rescue).</p>
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46842 | 1 | 46843 | 2011-06-04T02:05:49.907 | 0 | 83 | <p>How to get the sum of each column from file like:</p>
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43 11 0
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<p>and give the result as:</p>
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<p>in a simple command?</p>
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46848 | 1 | 46913 | 2011-06-04T04:42:45.677 | 8 | 6326 | <p>Am looking for an all-round Messenger for Ubuntu, especially one that supports Webcam, Voice Chat, Microphone, Drag/Drop support, File sending and other normal operations a messenger should have. I have tried Amsn, Kmess, Emesene, Pidgin and I am currently using Emesene. What messenger client would you recommend and... | 7035 | 25863 | 2012-01-26T15:24:43.787 | 2023-02-25T11:54:34.187 | Available instant messaging clients | [
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46849 | 1 | 107672 | 2011-06-04T04:55:21.333 | 3 | 4442 | <p>How to install the latest version of the Mumble Server in Ubuntu Server 11.04 and configure it correctly. I have tried several times and it didn't work out properly.</p>
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46856 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T07:11:10.370 | 1 | 195 | <p>Has anyone lost his/her data or OS while installing Ubuntu (not accidentally by clicking "erase the whole driv
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46861 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T08:57:33.467 | 2 | 374 | <p>I would like to highlight parts of emails, without having to print them out and use a highlighter pen. I also want to add notes. I ideally want to see the highlights appear when I view an email a second time, so simply forwarding the email to myself and adding let's say a line of stars is not ideal - I'm looking for... | 5729 | 3037 | 2011-06-04T09:14:50.323 | 2011-06-04T10:49:22.217 | How can I highlight paragraphs in emails and add private notes to them? | [
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46863 | 1 | 46866 | 2011-06-04T09:25:35.920 | 7 | 14302 | <p>Hello can someone give me short tutorial how to:</p>
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<li>Let me use free space as new partition for data (so I don't need to extend Ubuntu itself here)</li>
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46864 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T09:27:00.497 | 3 | 12517 | <p>I've recently installed Ubuntu 11.04, which I'm unfamiliar with. I think the language package is installed correctly but there is no layout switching by using <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd> combination. Tried to look for a solution. Have not found any instructions that work.</p>
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46871 | 1 | 67824 | 2011-06-04T10:11:02.687 | 16 | 37062 | <p>If I don't want to install a GUI, just install a minimal Ubuntu amd64.</p>
<p>Ok, but: I heard that I can still run e.g.: Firefox in a "framebuffer" (?), so I'm asking, that how can I run e.g.: a VLC media player through a framebuffer under console, without "GUI"?</p>
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46876 | 1 | 46880 | 2011-06-04T11:18:23.200 | 1 | 963 | <p>I've just recently started to get errors when starting up, which vanish from the screen too quickly for me to note down, lots of disk activity during normal use for no readily apparent reason. I have studied other questions on this site and so used <code>sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda</code> and the results include sever... | 1093 | null | null | 2011-06-04T12:25:44.047 | Errors on hard drive: should I do anything about these? | [
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46878 | 1 | 46879 | 2011-06-04T11:28:25.443 | 2 | 1525 | <p>I have Windows 7 installed on a Notebook. Because I wanted to experiment with Ubuntu without loosing my Windows 7 configuration I installed the Wubi Version of Ubuntu inside of Windows 7. Since things seam to work out well with Ubuntu and my harddisk space is very limited, I want to make Ubuntu my only operating sys... | 15245 | 3037 | 2011-10-09T21:23:38.283 | 2011-10-09T21:23:38.283 | Parallel Installation of Ubuntu, Wubi and Windows 7? | [
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46883 | 1 | 46884 | 2011-06-04T12:40:17.557 | 6 | 433 | <p>I installed Gnome 3 using Ricotz's PPA. Then all windows using <code>sudo</code> and <code>gksu</code> is looking like its running under windows 98.
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46885 | 1 | 46895 | 2011-06-04T12:55:39.970 | 10 | 16832 | <p>I've got a laptop with 2 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0 ports and I would like to know how many USB hard drives I could plug into it. Is there a hard limit in the Linux kernel? </p>
<p>On the performance side, what is the speed shared across the drives plugged into the port?</p>
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46891 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T13:52:14.033 | 2 | 257 | <p>I use U1 on Ubuntu 11.04 with no problems until today.</p>
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46896 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T14:50:09.870 | 2 | 201 | <p><strong>Shotwell rocks</strong> ! Congrats to Yorba and his team. </p>
<p>I have a small issue with Shotwell 0.9.3. When selecting specific "<em>Events</em>" or "<em>Tags</em>" (in the left bar), the photo's appearing in the main window do correspond with the selection <strong>but</strong> are no longer ordered i... | 19291 | 235 | 2011-06-04T17:33:49.627 | 2011-07-09T11:29:14.013 | Photos not ordered when selecting events or tags | [
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46903 | 1 | 46912 | 2011-06-04T15:57:21.850 | 1 | 2007 | <p>If I type the following:</p>
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<p>I get <code>1110 history</code>.</p>
<p>Why does clearing the command history not reset the counting to 1 and how can I reset the count?</p>
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46904 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T15:57:28.480 | 0 | 1593 | <p>I am very interested to learn creating templates for power point presentations. Could someone tell me if there is any other nice tool available for Ubuntu for creating high quality ppt templates? (other than LibreOffice).</p>
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46905 | 1 | 46919 | 2011-06-04T16:03:54.043 | 4 | 3700 | <p>I have a bat file that I want to be able to call from everywhere, by simply calling it's name. In windows I simply had to add the folder where the .bat file is located, to the windows PATH. I have no idea how to do this in Ubuntu though. I'm guessing there's something similar..</p>
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46908 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T16:12:23.737 | 3 | 597 | <p>I was running ubuntu 11.04 and my boot drive has become corrupt. This has stopped me from accessing my raid5 array.</p>
<p>The array was set up in MDADM and called MD0 i think. Can I install ubuntu 11.04 on a new os drive and pull back my array? If so what would I need to do?</p>
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46917 | 1 | 46920 | 2011-06-04T16:31:08.637 | 16 | 37809 | <p>I used to close a running application by pressing <kbd>ALT</kbd>+<kbd>F4</kbd>. But, I realised that the application is still running and the correct way to close (quit) it is the combination of <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Q</kbd> keys.</p>
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46925 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T17:07:43.110 | 3 | 589 | <p>I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed on my computer. The other day I learned about <a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu One</a> and signed up for the service. I placed a couple of files into my Ubuntu One folder and they were loaded to the web (which I logged into and saw). I then created a folder, place... | 19302 | 18612 | 2011-06-05T01:11:11.040 | 2011-06-05T01:11:11.040 | Problem with Ubuntu One (syncing) | [
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46928 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T17:17:51.657 | 3 | 194 | <p>Just a few months back, I discovered <code>gnome-do</code>. I have heard that its a great tool for ubuntu. However, I haven't been able to use it except for starting/running applications like firefox, thunderbird, gedit etc. </p>
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46929 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T17:24:30.180 | 2 | 212 | <p>I was running Unity in Natty when I tried to activate the Rotate and Cube effects. That broke Unity and I had to restore the Unity original configuration by invoking</p>
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46930 | 1 | 46935 | 2011-06-04T17:24:47.077 | 311 | 453401 | <p>I want to be able to login to a remote via ssh without having to enter the password all the time.</p>
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<li>How do I set it up?</li>
<li>Is a different command required to execute a password-less session?</li>
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"body": "<h3>Answer</h3>\n<p>Execute this command (if you already have an SSH key, you can skip this step):</p>\n<pre><code>ssh-keygen\n</code></pre>\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/4830/easiest-way-to-copy-ssh-keys-to-another-machine/4833#4833\">Then you'll need to copy the new ke... | [
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46931 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T17:29:11.303 | 1 | 711 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/40427/do-do-i-change-the-trash-keyboard-shortcut">Do do I change the trash keyboard shortcut?</a> </p>
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46937 | 1 | 46958 | 2011-06-04T17:37:37.103 | 1 | 1593 | <p>Softwre center does not start on my 10.10.It used to work before. I noticed this recently. On clicking Ubuntu Software center in the Applications menu, I can see the Starting Ubuntu Software center button in the taskbar, which disappears after a while, but the software center does not appear. I cannot install deb fi... | 6661 | 6661 | 2011-06-04T17:45:34.857 | 2011-12-18T01:29:00.953 | Ubuntu Software Center does not start on 10.10, Cannot upgrade to 11.04 | [
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46942 | 1 | 50607 | 2011-06-04T17:52:27.120 | 16 | 32298 | <p>My ethernet-based network connection doesn't stay up consistently. I'm running a ping against the gateway and it will:</p>
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"body": "<p>Download the official realtek driver.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=5&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&... | [
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46946 | 1 | 46949 | 2011-06-04T18:35:58.950 | 13 | 4148 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BUJxM.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></p>
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46952 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T19:24:27.477 | 1 | 130 | <p>I am trying to edit the .desktop files for my docked apps such as:</p>
<pre><code>~/.local/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop
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<p>However, I can't get permission for to edit the file. How do I change these permissions? </p>
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46953 | 1 | 47012 | 2011-06-04T19:30:31.763 | 5 | 13124 | <p>I want add commands to my startup list that needs admin privileges, how do I go about it? Obviously there's no chance of me typing in the password when the computer is starting up.</p>
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46957 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T19:59:48.687 | 7 | 2726 | <p>Is there a way to setup a web kiosk that uses the Opera browser, and is self resetting so that there isn't any chance that someone could hijack it?</p>
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46960 | 1 | 46978 | 2011-06-04T20:15:57.077 | 2 | 669 | <p>Why do various application bars like the menu bar look obsolote in Natty+GNOME 3 compared with Fedora ? See the difference between window panels in F15 Gnome <a href="http://www.yorkim.be/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fedora-15-gnome3.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and a screenshot from my desktop:
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46964 | 1 | 58423 | 2011-06-04T20:30:40.920 | 23 | 10104 | <p>At our university, our section had a grant of several old P4 computers. We decided on using them to create a 3x3 grid, which would function as a medium for our off-hand processing work. However, as of now, this is all we have done :</p>
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"body": "<p>Put some sort of distributed computing client on there and donate your unused cycles to science.</p>\n\n<p>Maybe something like\n<a href=\"http://folding.stanford.edu/\">http://folding.stanford.edu/</a></p>\n",
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46965 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T20:27:35.573 | 2 | 400 | <p>I have Ubuntu 8.04 and I am trying to use "update manager"
to upgrade to 8.10. The upgrade fails because of some problem
related to network/internet setting. The error I get is discussed
and a solution by hyperion is posted at:
<a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/50648" rel="nofollow">https://ans... | null | 235 | 2011-06-05T01:28:59.857 | 2011-06-05T01:28:59.857 | How do I upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10? | [
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"body": "<p>You can download an Ubuntu alternate <a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download\" rel=\"nofollow\">iso</a> then mount it. Go to the mounted iso directory and run the install script. </p>\n",
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46967 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T21:16:31.957 | 6 | 1241 | <p>What I want to do is open some programs in the boot sequence so Ubuntu loads them into memory. I'm already using the preload package and it's not helping in that part. Thanks.</p>
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"body": "<p>It should be possible to force <code>ureadahead</code> to load the programs during boot. Do achieve this:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Delete the .pack files in <code>/var/lib/ureadahead/</code>:<br><br><kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F2</kbd> → <code>gnome-terminal</code> → <code>sudo rm /var/lib... | null | null | null | null | null |
46968 | 1 | 46971 | 2011-06-04T21:34:40.343 | 1 | 951 | <p>HI, I have a spare nvidia graphics card I would like to use towards a dual monitor set up but the GPU in my pc is an ATI, would it cause issues if these were installed side by side?</p>
<p>Also am I correct in assuming I need two cards for a dual set up?</p>
<p>I am using Pinguy 11.04.</p>
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"body": "<p>You would only need one card if the card has both a VGA and a DVI input like the one in the image.</p>\n\n<p>Red arrow points to VGA and the black arrow points to DVI input</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/nZKkI.png\" alt=\"Graphic Card\"></p>\n",
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46976 | 1 | 46993 | 2011-06-04T22:16:35.733 | 1 | 24177 | <p><strong>IMPORTANT NOTE</strong>: Radeon HD 6xxx cards <a href="http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu#Unsupported_adapter" rel="nofollow">are not currently supported</a>. To avoid a wrong purchase (like I did) be aware of this. Also read <a href="http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Features#Switchable_Graphic_Chips_Wa... | 72540 | 169736 | 2014-03-13T14:11:51.690 | 2014-03-13T14:11:51.690 | ATI Catalyst Control Center gives error (Radeon HD 6470M) | [
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"body": "<pre><code>sudo apt-get remove fglrx \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>then for newest ati driver:</p>\n\n<pre><code>wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-5-x86.x86_64.run\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><em><strong>If you have a 64 bit system, then install this before anything:</em><... | [
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46977 | 1 | 46981 | 2011-06-04T22:21:05.697 | 2 | 606 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/45523/change-keybinding-to-show-unity-sidebar">Change keybinding to show Unity Sidebar</a> </p>
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<p>So I really, really don't want to have to un-learn all of my "Win/Super" key bindings. And it occurre... | 14143 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:49.720 | 2011-06-04T22:32:09.117 | Can I bind the Unity dock to the Caps Lock key? | [
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"body": "<p>Yes, you can. Start CompizConfig Settings Manager, go to Ubuntu Unity Plugin and change the key under \"Key to show the launcher\". CompizConfig Settings Manager is available from the Ubuntu Software Center.</p>\n",
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"body": "<p>Yes, you can simply install CompizConfig and change the key for reveiling the launcher as described <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/45523/change-keybinding-to-show-unity-sidebar\">here</a>.</p>\n",
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46990 | 1 | null | 2011-06-04T22:51:20.763 | 3 | 2318 | <p>I just started using Ubuntu instead of Windows, my initial reaction was "omg this is awful", but after a while it grew on me, and I don't plan on going back to Windows. However I have an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse" rel="nofollow">Apple Mighty Mouse</a> which I was given today, and the b... | 19324 | 235 | 2012-04-23T19:27:13.230 | 2020-10-16T17:48:01.790 | How do I remap the buttons on an Apple Mighty Mouse? | [
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