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5338 | 1 | 5339 | 2010-10-08T06:01:25.430 | 15 | 14071 | <p>Like Windows, I want to hit <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd> to jump to the desktop or minimize all windows. I don't see command like that in Keyboard Shortcuts. Any idea?</p>
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5342 | 1 | 5343 | 2010-10-08T07:42:37.560 | 2 | 319 | <p>I've been experimenting with the general layout of the desktop, and all was well until I moved the panel to the right-hand side of the screen.
Auto-hide was on at the time.</p>
<p>I've moved it several times before, without a hitch.<br>
The only thing different this time was that I had Skype running in desktop-shar... | 2670 | null | null | 2010-10-08T08:44:30.240 | Where is my "gnome-panel"? It went walkabout when I moved it to the right (auto-hide=on). I haven't seen it since! | [
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5344 | 1 | 5345 | 2010-10-08T09:33:48.290 | 9 | 727 | <p>I already have Ubuntu installed on the machine and a spare NTFS partition.</p>
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5346 | 1 | null | 2010-10-08T12:36:41.577 | 1 | 492 | <p>Setup: Ubuntu 10.04 64bit with dual monitor setup (1 dvi and 1 vga)</p>
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5347 | 1 | 5350 | 2010-10-08T13:04:25.090 | 6 | 127 | <p>Often, I find issues with the internals of Ubuntu and I don't know how to effectively assign the bug to the right project/audience.</p>
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5348 | 1 | null | 2010-10-08T13:19:17.877 | 2 | 1148 | <p>The other day I was doing my backups and I was looking for more space to store my videos. So I formatted one of my harddrives (I have 4 not counting the external I was backing up to), but this harddrive turned out to be the wrong one. It had my Win7 installation and my MBR on it.</p>
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5358 | 1 | 5367 | 2010-10-08T16:53:50.453 | 13 | 6961 | <p>I noticed that when I am running applications such BitTorrent all the other applications have trouble accessing the network. </p>
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5363 | 1 | 5378 | 2010-10-08T17:39:17.367 | 31 | 38383 | <p>Rather than rephrasing my question, let me describe to you the desired user-case:</p>
<p>I create a short shell-script to run command "gnome-terminal --someoptionflagname 'my text to be posted'", and execute this script.</p>
<p>Gnome-terminal pops up, with command-line prompt followed by my text. </p>
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5369 | 1 | null | 2010-10-08T20:35:43.813 | 1 | 908 | <p>By PS3 Media server, I mean the package, rather than an actual PS3. It's a uPnp server. My XBox can see it and stream from it, but the Coherence plug-in of RhythmBox does not seem to be able to. I suspect it may need a new renderer configuration. Has anyone run into this problem and resolved it? I also had the same ... | 1217 | 1217 | 2011-02-21T11:52:35.880 | 2011-02-21T11:52:35.880 | Why can't RhythmBox/Coherence see PS3 Media Server? | [
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5373 | 1 | null | 2010-10-08T21:53:26.097 | 4 | 1394 | <p>I'd like to use an SWF file as screensaver.</p>
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5374 | 1 | 5494 | 2010-10-08T21:55:18.313 | 5 | 3478 | <p>Compcache is a form of compressed ram swap that should improve performance in some circumstances for memory starved machines.
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/compcache/">http://code.google.com/p/compcache/</a></p>
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5377 | 1 | 5382 | 2010-10-08T23:02:24.360 | 2 | 707 | <p>The versions of libatlas available on <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/libatlas-base-dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Debian</a> and/or <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/epel/5/i386/atlas-sse2-3.8.3-1.el5.i386.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fedora</a> are much more up to date (as in more than a year if not... | 2413 | 527764 | 2022-04-06T06:13:13.840 | 2022-04-06T06:13:13.840 | Why is the version of libatlas on Ubuntu so old? | [
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5379 | 1 | null | 2010-10-08T23:25:47.917 | 2 | 187 | <p>Skip this section, unless you want to read some really boring background. </p>
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<p>I often prefer to navigate via the keyboard, and I typically launch my most frequently used apps via a system-wide hot-key. </p>
<p>For less frequtnely used ones I had developed my own quirky menu-navigation system (in Window... | 2670 | 6005 | 2012-06-12T19:13:17.733 | 2012-06-12T19:13:17.733 | Main Menu keyboard navigation does not restart at the first typed letter. Is this a bug or a tweakable feature? | [
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5380 | 1 | 5385 | 2010-10-08T23:29:56.330 | 5 | 28745 | <p>The java/flash plugin support in the browsers seems a little iffy (not to mention hard to configure.) My specific question is, is it possible to kill the flash/java PID and restart the process? Anyone know how to ID these plugin processes? I've closed out the browser and reopened, it doesn't seem to die with them. ... | 2367 | null | null | 2010-10-09T01:15:57.410 | how to restart java/flash from command line? | [
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5394 | 1 | 5398 | 2010-10-09T06:49:53.500 | 8 | 7231 | <p>I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10 (amd64).
Even though the Postgresql (8.4.5) server and client are installed, the postgresql directory in /etc folder is missing.</p>
<p>Any clues what could be cause of this problem.</p>
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5396 | 1 | null | 2010-10-09T08:32:31.963 | 5 | 410 | <p>The Bazaar DVCS seems to be left far behind Git and Mercurial, at least in terms of adoption and overall mindshare in the VCS space. AFAIK the only high profile projects using bzr are
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5397 | 1 | null | 2010-10-09T09:25:45.123 | 3 | 830 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3222/my-webcam-wont-work-how-do-i-debug">my webcam wont work - how do I debug?</a> </p>
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<p>Hi, basically I have installed Ubuntu Netbook (10.04) on my Dell Mini 10v (Inspiron 1011) and the webcam does... | 2702 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:32.903 | 2010-10-10T07:39:09.233 | Webcam not recognized in Dell Mini 10v on Lucid Lynx. How to troubleshoot? | [
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5399 | 1 | 5747 | 2010-10-09T12:21:48.887 | 2 | 1709 | <p><strong>Background</strong> </p>
<p>I am trying to configure NFS on my Windows Server 2008 with UNIX Extensions to be able to connect to Ubuntu. However in 2008 you need AD to activate User Profile Mappings. Windows can however connect to a Identity Manager Service to retrieve this information from another machine... | null | null | 2010-10-11T16:01:42.663 | 2010-10-11T16:01:42.663 | Ubuntu and Windows Server 2008 NFS | [
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5401 | 1 | null | 2010-10-09T13:22:13.083 | 19 | 53514 | <p>I'm searching for a tool to backup a whole ext4 partition to an image. I tried the latest version of mondo, which is not working. What are good alternatives?</p>
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5403 | 1 | 5412 | 2010-10-09T13:44:42.417 | 6 | 2689 | <p>I've added the am-monkeyd PPA and upgraded my system. Yet, there's no sign of elementary in my fresh Maverick RC install. Have I done anything wrong?</p>
<p>The PPA upgrades the default nautilus package and there is no separate "nautilus-elementary" package as of now.</p>
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5416 | 1 | 6858 | 2010-10-09T17:11:32.790 | 9 | 2952 | <p>I have encountered a bug relating to stock kernel 2.6.32 in lucid, so I want to upgrade to 2.6.35. What is the simplest way of doing that?</p>
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5417 | 1 | 5419 | 2010-10-09T17:14:28.850 | 385 | 1952688 | <p>I'm looking for a command that would give me the same info as:</p>
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<p>Except for the GPU (type of the chip and memory, frequency).</p>
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5418 | 1 | 5457 | 2010-10-09T17:22:34.377 | 2 | 3471 | <p>I try to change the appearance of the login screen in ubuntu 10.10 with</p>
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5423 | 1 | 5424 | 2010-10-09T18:18:28.860 | 2 | 847 | <p>I've neither installed, nor upgraded, any packages for a couple of days, yet today Rhythmbox is reporting that it was 'unable to activate plugin Desktop Art.' It worked before I left the computer (at around 03:00), but when I restarted this afternoon it either couldn't or wouldn't.</p>
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5425 | 1 | 5428 | 2010-10-09T18:56:12.277 | 10 | 10319 | <p><strong>Scenario</strong></p>
<p>I have a headless Ubuntu 10.10 RC box running a few service applications on my home network. I have a Windows 2008 Server hosting all my network shares and hard drives. I am currently mounting the network drives at boot-up using FSTAB with the following options set:</p>
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5431 | 1 | 5439 | 2010-10-10T00:38:35.707 | 34 | 87436 | <p>Is it possible to email attachments from the command line?</p>
<p>If possible, I'd like something as simple as:</p>
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5432 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T00:51:54.213 | 3 | 2690 | <p>I want to back up a user's home folder by making the entire content into an archive document and storing it on an external ext3 (or ext4?) hard drive. I'll want to keep all the file attributes. Is this a good command? Any particular advice? Does line 4 has any redundancies? </p>
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5433 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T01:22:59.463 | 7 | 950 | <p>At what time will be Ubuntu 10.10 will be released , in UST or IST ?</p>
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5435 | 1 | 5436 | 2010-10-10T01:35:55.430 | 20 | 28541 | <p>I am planning to upgrade from 8.10 to 10.04. But I am wondering whether there will be data loss during the upgrade.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
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<li><p>Will the applications that I have installed on 8.10 still be there after upgrade?</p></li>
<li><p>Will the settings of application such as the bookmarks for Firefo... | 1471 | 527764 | 2016-08-28T09:20:35.503 | 2018-05-14T07:54:40.093 | Will there be data loss if I upgrade? | [
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5437 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T02:10:00.230 | 5 | 266 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3375/how-to-change-time-zone-settings-from-the-command-line">How to change time-zone settings from the command line</a> </p>
</blockquote>
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5440 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T02:42:59.807 | 6 | 450 | <p>I have to install some packages in 5 Ubuntu system in my office. There, bandwidth is limited. So, is there any way to install it in one system & copy to other, so that all works fine? All systems are fresh install.</p>
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5444 | 1 | 5447 | 2010-10-10T03:00:04.713 | 200 | 597768 | <p>What is the command to find out how much disk space is being used/remaining?</p>
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5458 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T04:25:20.660 | 5 | 1161 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/48535/how-to-customize-live-ubuntu-cd">How to customize live Ubuntu CD?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm planning to run an Ubuntu event in my office in which I have to distribute a modified version of Ubuntu which co... | 2736 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2011-01-31T04:00:03.743 | How can I easily remaster Ubuntu? | [
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5459 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T04:26:43.470 | 22 | 4321 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/56104/how-can-i-install-oracle-java-jre-7">How can I install Oracle Java JRE 7?</a> </p>
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5466 | 1 | 5471 | 2010-10-10T05:42:24.343 | 104 | 48989 | <p>Is it better to install Ubuntu completely new or is the upgrade process just as good? In other words, will my computer run just as problem-free and efficiently when I upgrade as opposed to a fresh install?</p>
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5470 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T05:47:05.710 | 6 | 575 | <p>Time, when notification is shown is too much. How can I cut it?</p>
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5474 | 1 | 5658 | 2010-10-10T05:49:47.157 | 2 | 1301 | <ol>
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I do want to keep the dual boot, and I do not want to keep the Mint.</p></li>
<li><p>I have Burg controlling the boot - will that cause any problems with Ubuntu installation/Upgrade?</p></li>
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5482 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T06:13:26.173 | 0 | 742 | <p>Can I make a Home partition on my drive and move my home folder there without reformatting my entire disk? </p>
<p>I am booting my system off a USB stick and running Gparted. I can change the size of the partition and add another but I don't know how to set the file structure to recognize it as Home.</p>
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5484 | 1 | 5488 | 2010-10-10T06:25:22.080 | 27 | 32867 | <p>I have a wonderful running Maverick Meerkat install going on right now. I want to move my <code>/home</code> to another partition as per many suggestions. </p>
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5486 | 1 | 7393 | 2010-10-10T06:39:44.077 | 0 | 706 | <p>I'm still at the "figure out what the problem even <em>is</em>" stage of troubleshooting.</p>
<p>The symptom: Amarok is skipping every few minutes in an up-to-date installation of Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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5490 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T06:46:58.773 | 3 | 635 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/42895/is-there-a-tool-to-update-my-ppa-sources-list-entries-after-upgrading">Is there a tool to update my PPA sources.list entries after upgrading?</a> </p>
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5495 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T07:00:08.577 | 7 | 2966 | <p>Is there a speech recognition API for Ubuntu/Linux? I have a school project and I need to transform speach to written text. The programming language isn't a problem. I've tried cmu-sphinx but haven't had much luck with it, meaning it didn't really recognize much of what my defined grammar or it just mixed up words. ... | null | null | null | 2010-10-10T12:39:59.127 | Speech Recognition API | [
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5506 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T07:14:44.613 | -2 | 595 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5433/when-will-ubuntu-10-10-be-released">When will Ubuntu 10.10 be released?</a> </p>
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<p>What time does Ubuntu 10.10 come out
10.10 can't wait!</p>
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5517 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T07:54:01.103 | 45 | 6125 | <p>The dialog box in question here is the one you get with the context menu option "open with other applications". Wine seems to have inserted more than a dozen or so entries for each application I install, which makes it a pain to find the correct application: </p>
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5521 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T08:03:57.017 | 2 | 334 | <p>I mean what's keeping ubuntu from being as user-friendly as win7 in that regard. In win7 i can set up my laptops monitors and it remembers everything and undocking works etc etc. What technical problems(i assume its mostly technical) are there that are stopping this from happening in ubuntu? Whys an X restart needed... | 2829 | null | null | 2010-10-10T09:36:32.453 | Whats the main problem with getting good multiple monitor support in ubuntu? | [
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5522 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T08:05:14.067 | 3 | 1282 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/131/which-computers-are-guaranteed-to-work-with-ubuntu">Which computers are guaranteed to work with Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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5527 | 1 | 5554 | 2010-10-10T08:16:27.623 | 35 | 34032 | <p>I was wondering since in Ubuntu 10.10 I have the ability to create both xz and lzma archives. Should I switch to xz?</p>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzma">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzma</a></p>
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5533 | 1 | 8432 | 2010-10-10T09:01:55.330 | 3 | 888 | <p>Well, I have this problem for a while now. When my computer start the mic seem to work but it's like it's muted. I have to go to a terminal and type <code>alsamixer -c 1</code> and then I set up <code>PCM Capture Source</code> on <code>Line</code> and set up it back to <code>Mic</code> to get the mic actually workin... | 2834 | 3037 | 2011-01-03T15:10:05.913 | 2011-01-03T15:10:05.913 | How to get the mic on the Creative X-Mod soundcard working correctly? | [
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5536 | 1 | 5730 | 2010-10-10T09:19:34.737 | 2 | 1674 | <p>Why playing Games in Ubuntu 10.04 using Wine makes my CPU Temp & GPU Core Temp 85C+ , also using flash player or browsing sites that use shock-wave flash plug in leads to the same problem "CPU Temp & GPU Core Temp 85C+". I tried to use Lightspark instead of flash player but it still has many bugs.</p>
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5537 | 1 | 11818 | 2010-10-10T09:21:12.120 | 17 | 2386 | <p>I need to synchronise my iPod Nano (5th generation) with music and podcasts (video and audio).
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5539 | 1 | 5548 | 2010-10-10T09:23:32.087 | 1 | 7217 | <p>In 10.10 Ubuntu Netbook edition the panel is even more locked down than in 10.04. Is it possible to unlock it so that one can add/remove things from it? Will the 10.04 method of unlocking work with 10.10?</p>
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5551 | 1 | 5627 | 2010-10-10T09:52:31.407 | 4 | 6511 | <p>I have the same situation with this one.
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4119/upgrade-from-kubuntu-9-10-to-ubuntu-10-04">Upgrade from Kubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04</a>.</p>
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5558 | 1 | 5565 | 2010-10-10T10:06:35.580 | 33 | 109715 | <p>I have tried many tutorials but none of them are clear enough. I have also tried installing it using Wine but it won't update and Wine goes gray and stops working.</p>
<p>Does anybody know an easy way to install Minecraft though the Java file without using Wine?</p>
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5560 | 1 | 5593 | 2010-10-10T10:11:29.823 | 3 | 345 | <p>Closing a tab in firefox or chrome using the middle-mouse button is, for me, a great feature.</p>
<p>How can I make this work with applications in Ubuntu and the opened application panel?</p>
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5571 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T10:35:56.710 | 9 | 5165 | <p>I've just upgraded my Ubuntu Desktop from 10.04 to 10.10 on my netbook.</p>
<p>How can I install Ubuntu Unity for my notebook ?</p>
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5573 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T10:41:30.003 | 24 | 20870 | <p>I have been searching for a way to disable the "hot corner" feature of the Activities button in Gnome Shell. I would prefer it to require a click such that I don't keep accidentally activating it upon mouse over.</p>
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5574 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T10:43:30.840 | 2 | 454 | <p>Does GNOME have a feature that allows me to hover over a window on the taskbar and select it without clicking? Thanks!</p>
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5575 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T10:44:42.687 | 2 | 965 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4942/remove-the-anchor-icon-in-docky">Remove the Anchor icon in Docky</a> </p>
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5586 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T11:06:01.167 | 1 | 1683 | <p>My Windows drives were set to be automatically mounted in Ubuntu 8.10 when installed more than one year ago. Today I failed to creat a directory on one of the Windows drives, which rarely happened before:</p>
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5590 | 1 | 5594 | 2010-10-10T11:16:24.270 | 2 | 235 | <p>I have both KDE and Gnome installed on my desktop. If I upgrade to 10.10 will both desktops, KDE and Gnome, be upgraded too?</p>
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5596 | 1 | 5610 | 2010-10-10T11:22:36.947 | 13 | 11479 | <p>My home directory is getting huge (100GB plus). When backupping it I notices that there are quite some caches there.</p>
<p>Which important caches are there in my homedir and how should I clean them?</p>
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5603 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T11:41:34.287 | 3 | 854 | <p>How can ubuntu light be installed?</p>
<p>Or is Ubuntu Light only available to OEM's ??</p>
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5612 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T12:32:43.353 | 6 | 587 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/42340/how-to-delete-apps-and-files-folder-lenses-icons-from-launcher">How to delete Apps and Files & Folder (lenses) icons from Launcher?</a> </p>
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<p>Is it possible to remove the "Deleted Items", ... | 2921 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2010-10-11T16:44:18.657 | How can I remove the "Deleted Items", "Applications" entries from the netbook launcher? | [
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5614 | 1 | 5618 | 2010-10-10T12:40:11.613 | 1 | 979 | <p>I've been looking at purchasing MarbleBlast Gold from <a href="http://www.torquepowered.com/products/marbleblastgold" rel="nofollow">Torque</a> and a game called Orbz and one of the requirements is glibc2.2+</p>
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5615 | 1 | 5639 | 2010-10-10T12:47:27.333 | 6 | 10504 | <p>When I try to update my Ubuntu 10.04 installation to 10.10 I get the following error.</p>
<pre><code>Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
Trying to install blacklisted version 'blcr-dkms_0.8.2-13'
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5620 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T12:57:34.207 | 2 | 7507 | <p><strong>Ubuntu 10.10 Live usb not booting in Lenovo Ideapad s10-3</strong>. I install ubuntu desktop edition in my pen driver using "Startup Disk creator". But this live usb is not booting on my netbook(Lenovo S10-3).</p>
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5623 | 1 | 5625 | 2010-10-10T13:11:27.440 | 4 | 397 | <p>I tried to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 - now that Ubuntu 10.10 is finally released. I used <code>update-manager -d</code> and the first window after pressing the upgrade button says that it is still a development release.</p>
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5634 | 1 | 9119 | 2010-10-10T13:59:42.183 | 10 | 4870 | <p>This question pretends to be a central place where people share info about compiling the latest and greatest GNOME-Shell environment in Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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5636 | 1 | 5637 | 2010-10-10T14:08:34.320 | 174 | 48791 | <p>For a specific package, can I find out why it is installed?</p>
<p>So, can I see or it's manually installed, or that it is installed as a dependency of another package? Or that it is installed as part of the distro?</p>
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5642 | 1 | 5648 | 2010-10-10T14:30:24.163 | 2 | 156 | <p>I would like to make a clean install in my computer, but I play a lot of with Kblocks (KDE Tetris game on GNOME) and If it possible I would like to copy the highscore to the new (Maverick) system too.</p>
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5643 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T14:31:27.123 | 4 | 2164 | <p>The item in the messaging menu (<code>indicator-applet</code>) related to Evolution program disappeared after reinstalling Evolution. How to I re-add it back?</p>
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5644 | 1 | 11743 | 2010-10-10T14:34:45.163 | 6 | 611 | <p>I currently have the Maverick countdown widget on my site and was wondering if there are any widgets available now that it's fully released with which to replace it.</p>
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5647 | 1 | 5663 | 2010-10-10T14:55:06.553 | 2 | 539 | <p>I tried to upgrade 10.04 to 10.10 and got an error: 'E:Couldn't configure pre-depend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a dependency cycle.'. Can I fix this and finalize the upgrade?</p>
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5649 | 1 | 5666 | 2010-10-10T14:58:07.810 | 6 | 2341 | <p>I'm planning to reinstall my OS by not formatting my root partition (I only use a single partition) as this will preserve the contents of my home directory, but the problem is that when I've done it in the past, it's wiped all my third party applications, and I was wondering if there was a way I could back up and re... | null | null | null | 2010-10-10T19:30:24.747 | Backing up third party apps before reinstalling Ubuntu | [
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5651 | 1 | 22433 | 2010-10-10T15:03:46.367 | 5 | 7096 | <p>I installed ubuntu netbook edition on my netbook* expecting to get the best performance out of it, but apparently, that didn't turn out.<br>
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5669 | 1 | 5672 | 2010-10-10T16:06:21.733 | 14 | 9665 | <p>How can I remove this shadow: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3scJC.png" alt="panel with shadow"></p>
<p>from gnome-panel?</p>
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5675 | 1 | 5678 | 2010-10-10T16:30:40.487 | 63 | 14464 | <p>I installed an Ubuntu alpha or beta and have been keeping it up to date. </p>
<p>So, Should I presume that my system has automatically updated to the next alpha or beta, and will be running the official release when it's finished?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5458/how-to-easy-remaster-ubuntu">How to easy remaster ubuntu?</a> </p>
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5691 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T17:28:38.257 | 7 | 1676 | <p>Something I seem to be missing is when I press backspace the page doesn't go back to the last page as it did in Windows, does anyone have any ways around this?</p>
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5692 | 1 | 6026 | 2010-10-10T17:30:10.203 | 2 | 221 | <p>I'd like my Desktop to have dynamic wallpaper which change after every few minutes.</p>
<p>I use <code>wally</code> to achieve this. No doubt <code>wally</code> is great in its work, but one thing that I don't like is the <code>wally</code> icon in the notification area which is useless for me.</p>
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5699 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T18:05:40.987 | 3 | 2018 | <p>When running UNE 10.10 I often have several applications running which on a traditional GNOME desktop environment would be running purely in the background and would only be visible from the system tray. Good examples would be tomboy when hidden or <a href="http://jonls.dk/redshift/" rel="nofollow">redshift</a>.</p... | null | 866 | 2010-10-29T13:29:07.100 | 2011-01-15T13:57:54.210 | Can I hide running applications from the unity launcher? | [
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5700 | 1 | 5719 | 2010-10-10T18:09:30.743 | 2 | 488 | <p>I wonder if I can manually install Software Center and indicator-sound packages from Maverick to Lucid?</p>
<p>I don´t want to upgrade the whole system, because I´m satisfied with Lucid, but it would be nice to have Maverick Software Center and indicator-sound on Lucid. </p>
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5705 | 1 | 5709 | 2010-10-10T18:34:01.500 | 2 | 3943 | <p>After upgrading to 10.10, I can't login anymore. The problem seems be related to graphic card (computer is Lenovo S10e) and new unity interface. I wonder if anyone have similiar problems and if some solution exists.</p>
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5707 | 1 | 5757 | 2010-10-10T18:36:52.467 | 0 | 3248 | <p>Is there a way to install the pre-10.04 style Notification thing for Rhythmbox and ensure that it doesn't show up in the Indicator Applet?</p>
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5708 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T18:53:36.070 | 1 | 1751 | <p>Ubuntu Unity on the Ubuntu netbook edition installs without a problem but when I log in though, where the panels are, there is just blank area with a shadow effect style thing on it. I can open apps but the Window buttons and the global menu are not visable. </p>
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5710 | 1 | 5712 | 2010-10-10T19:01:03.450 | 4 | 829 | <p>I have two monitors set to TwinView in Nvidia's settings. When I run Boxee it expands over both of them. Is it possible to run it in just one of them?</p>
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5715 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T19:09:57.423 | 2 | 340 | <p>I was wondering if anyone can recommend me a 5.1 soundcard that is relatively easy to get working on Ubuntu 10.10 </p>
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5720 | 1 | 5722 | 2010-10-10T19:22:16.650 | 0 | 1134 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5435/will-there-be-data-loss-for-upgrade">Will there be data loss for upgrade ?</a> </p>
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<p>If I want to install 10.10 replacing 10.04 and I select overwrite existing linux distro, will it keep my /ho... | 3044 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2010-10-10T20:17:07.313 | If I install Ubuntu 10.10 over 10.04, will all my programs be erased? | [
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5724 | 1 | 5737 | 2010-10-10T19:28:26.903 | 13 | 9734 | <p>I recently ran the iTunes 10 installer in Wine and everything seemed to go well. Then, when I tried to run it, it would constantly crash/and the appearance would be glitchy. After looking at the Wine website, it turns out that iTunes 10 has a 'garbage' rating of Wine compatability.</p>
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5726 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T19:30:56.180 | 0 | 1333 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2194/how-can-i-improve-overall-system-performance">How can I improve overall system performance?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm looking for some tricks to improve the performance of my laptop. </p>
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5728 | 1 | 5777 | 2010-10-10T19:37:22.673 | 7 | 2216 | <p>I've learned that I can switch between virtual consoles by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1–F12</kbd>, and I've found that the graphical interface was usually running at either <kbd>F7</kbd>/<kbd>F8</kbd> (<a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/292076/349837">now on <kbd>F2</kbd></a>).</p>
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5734 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T19:55:32.687 | 0 | 1332 | <blockquote>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/852/why-are-flash-applications-so-sluggish-in-ubuntu">Why are Flash applications so sluggish in Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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5735 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T19:57:56.687 | 1 | 483 | <p>Tweetdeck is nice, but it doesn't fit to the look of the Radiance theme …</p>
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5739 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T20:04:08.863 | 8 | 20401 | <p>I wonder and I needed it sometimes. Some time we install many themes and it gets worst. </p>
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5744 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T20:12:23.593 | 2 | 468 | <p>I have an HP Pavillion dv4-2165dx that has the following specs:</p>
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5745 | 1 | 5752 | 2010-10-10T20:12:34.063 | 7 | 909 | <p>Sometimes icons don't draw successfully in the GNOME panel and a <code>killall gnome-panel</code> is a good quick fix. Is there an equivalent in Unity?
I'm specifically having issues with the Dropbox icon.</p>
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