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59355 | 1 | 59387 | 2011-08-31T01:23:46.047 | 1 | 1015 | <p>I sometimes find that when I run a process that I know uses up a great deal of system resources, it terminates unexpectedly. Is this because it becomes unresponsive, or is it because Ubuntu can't cope with the demands? Is there a way to circumvent this, for example, by increasing the virtual memory? If so, how?</... | 23773 | null | null | 2011-08-31T08:22:33.763 | Premature Termination of Processes | [
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59356 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T01:52:45.087 | 57 | 289413 | <p>How do I configure Ubuntu to input Chinese?</p>
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59358 | 1 | 59398 | 2011-08-31T02:28:40.043 | 1 | 2827 | <p>Due to some issues I've had with VirtualBox, I recently switched to using Qemu, with the Qemulator GUI, and all has been well when playing with Linux virtual machines.</p>
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59359 | 1 | 59376 | 2011-08-31T02:42:01.333 | 2 | 1589 | <p>I tried to dual boot Ubuntu and fedora, but now I am unable to boot into my Ubuntu installation. Here is the situation
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59360 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T03:09:54.753 | 2 | 878 | <p>I think that I would prefer to use Unity 2d. Is there a way during a clean install to choose 2d instead of the 3d even though my hardware would support 3d? My main applications that I use are for graphic design and photography and need all the resources I can when working with large files and/or large number of phot... | 24158 | null | null | 2011-10-23T00:17:10.410 | Install Unity 2d as default to save much needed resources | [
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59364 | 1 | 59367 | 2011-08-31T04:56:20.853 | 23 | 22892 | <p>I have one admin account and recently I have accidentally added myself to a single group (<code>usermod -G</code> without <code>-a</code>). </p>
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59366 | 1 | 59406 | 2011-08-31T05:33:32.403 | 6 | 1123 | <p>Recently, one of my ISPs DNS servers got into trouble. To quote the support desk personnel it "wasn't completely down so connections were just infinitely slow". My application was down for a couple of hours, as it couldn't connect to critical services on other machines.</p>
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59369 | 1 | 60654 | 2011-08-31T05:56:59.070 | 2 | 3035 | <p>I bought a new desktop and installed Windows 7 first. I am now trying to instal Ubuntu 11.04, but it doesn't see my partions corectly.</p>
<p>Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.</p>
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59370 | 1 | 86037 | 2011-08-31T06:07:34.763 | 1 | 461 | <p>When I'm specifying arguments to the <code>mv</code> or <code>cp</code> commands at the command line and I hit <code>tab</code> to autocomplete the argument, it lists the argument without special characters escaped. For instance, it lists <code>ajax-loader(1).gif</code> literally when it should list it as <code>ajax... | 640 | 640 | 2011-08-31T06:16:53.313 | 2011-12-08T01:39:04.350 | Command line autocomplete no longer escapes special characters on certain operations | [
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59372 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T06:33:21.740 | 1 | 3975 | <p>My wireless USB keyboard is not recognised by GRUB loader, but I use to wait for 10 seconds and Ubuntu was started since it is default in the boot menu.</p>
<p>This morning, no 10 seconds countdown was performed and I was unable to boot, I just stuck in the GRUB menu.</p>
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59375 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T06:38:43.553 | 2 | 781 | <p>I see a lot of material about it, but mostly very much outdated regarding a Tracker plugin for Thunderbird. There definitely does not seem to be anything official.</p>
<p>What is the best/recommended way, if there is any, to get Tracker to search my Thunderbird mail?</p>
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59381 | 1 | 105464 | 2011-08-31T07:23:31.847 | 4 | 2126 | <p>My home directory is encrypted with <code>ecryptfs</code>. I booted and logged in straight into root. Root see my home directory before I log in, but it shouldn't, and it wasn't that transparent.</p>
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<li><p>I encrypted my swap with ecryptfs, but sometimes when I boot during the splash screen it says the swap is not encrypted, then it disappears. How can I check if it is encrypted?</p></li>
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59383 | 1 | 59388 | 2011-08-31T07:36:24.653 | 134 | 141670 | <p>If I have a video, normally avi, but could be any, and I want to create another one in the same format but just a part, the position <em>i</em> seconds to <em>f</em> seconds into the video, what is the one-line command to do this?</p>
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59384 | 1 | 59403 | 2011-08-31T07:42:51.793 | 7 | 2679 | <p>Is there any advantage in converting all mp3 to ogg, besides ogg being an open format? Any disadvantages? Is all metadata kept during conversion?</p>
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59386 | 1 | 59529 | 2011-08-31T07:55:21.017 | 2 | 534 | <p>I'm using Oneric and I was rather impressed by the Unity modal dialog addon. After a few upgrades it was gone. Where did it go? Or is there any way of getting it back?</p>
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59389 | 1 | 59394 | 2011-08-31T08:33:41.343 | 49 | 54709 | <p>How can I extract text from images?</p>
<p>I am not talking about scanned files, but garden variety images, such as when you take a high-def picture of a blackboard at class, and it is nicely handwritten; or when you photograph a page from a recipe book and want the recipe in text format.</p>
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59390 | 1 | 59397 | 2011-08-31T08:45:26.207 | 1 | 2765 | <p>Short and precise: I would like to install and activate the most recent proprietary NVIDIA drivers from the repositories without using Jockey. How can I do that?</p>
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59391 | 1 | 59400 | 2011-08-31T08:46:45.373 | 4 | 18484 | <p>Some audio bitrates go as high as 256kbps. But I have listen to very very clear music with 92kbps. I became suspicious that beyond a certain bitrate of x kbps the average human ear cannot tell the difference at all. What is x? </p>
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59392 | 1 | 59410 | 2011-08-31T08:52:24.403 | 4 | 4721 | <p>I can save space by reducing bitrates of songs to x*, the value beyond which humans don't discern any difference. If so, how to reduce the bitrates with CLI:</p>
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2. during mp3 to ogg conversion
3. ogg to ogg conversion
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59404 | 1 | 59405 | 2011-08-31T10:00:29.767 | 2 | 6239 | <p>I am trying to run a test case via automation testing (sahi) , so I am running it repeatedly after 1 hour (via crontab).<br>
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59408 | 1 | 59412 | 2011-08-31T10:37:24.403 | 2 | 1620 | <p>I have workstation with 160GB HDD capacity.<br>
I have partitioned it with: </p>
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<li>80GB -- for all other (public) data. </li>
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<p>I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on 1st partition. </p>
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59409 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T10:41:50.153 | 2 | 3026 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/58767/keyboard-sticks-randomly">Keyboard sticks randomly</a> </p>
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<p>My laptop keyboard has gone crazy. When I type something on it, it's like I hammered the keys.
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59411 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T11:34:12.810 | 1 | 866 | <p>I want to add a starter for the <em>gnome-control-center in Docky</em> (This is possible in Linux Mint by default. The gnome-control-center behaves like an app.)</p>
<p>However, I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.3 & Docky v2.2.0. I can only open the gnome-control-center via terminal.</p>
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59416 | 1 | 59417 | 2011-08-30T11:35:27.563 | 3 | 84 | <p>I have a low-end PC am tired of Windows so I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on my system. I really don't know what's wrong.</p>
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59419 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T12:47:04.387 | 1 | 1203 | <p>I am trying to change the path in whole lot of m3u files.
I know I can do it with regexxer f.e. but I'm trying to learn bash.</p>
<p>This is the command I figured out, but it is not working.</p>
<p><code>grep -lr -i -e 'M:\\' * | xargs -0 sed -i 's/M:\\/T:\\/g'</code></p>
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59425 | 1 | 59453 | 2011-08-31T14:08:32.340 | 11 | 10807 | <p>I'd like to use <code>badblocks</code> to check my new drive for bad blocks, but I'm not sure how to choose the values for block size and number of blocks to test in parallel. The man page just says:</p>
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Specify the size of blocks in bytes. The default is 1024.</p>
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59426 | 1 | 59430 | 2011-08-31T14:22:47.967 | 3 | 2356 | <p>I've had a problem for quite some time now. When I boot up my Ubuntu 11.04 it just won't load X. It works when I first load in failsafe mode and then restart X, however this is a quite annoying procedure to go through every time I start my computer. </p>
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59431 | 1 | 61133 | 2011-08-31T15:07:58.983 | 2 | 313 | <p>Half of the time when I boot up my laptop it enters Gnome Classic fallback mode and all 3d graphics are disabled. If I log out and log back in, then it will enter Unity properly and 3d effects will be returned to normal. </p>
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59432 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T15:39:38.563 | 11 | 49187 | <p>I have a file containing my personal details (.txt). How can I via the terminal copy only a few details from the file and put those into a new <code>.txt</code> file?</p>
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59434 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T15:50:25.613 | 1 | 108 | <p>With sudden failure of power supply in the remote machine makes the local machine desktop to a complete dead state, meaning I'm not able to kill the current remote desktop connection that was established from local machine. I believe the connection is no more, but the fullscreen mode prevents me to do any other task... | 23706 | -1 | 2020-06-12T14:37:07.210 | 2014-06-27T01:52:12.817 | Failure of Power Supply during Remote Desktop Connection makes the local Machine unusable? | [
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59439 | 1 | 59464 | 2011-08-31T16:43:45.403 | 1 | 499 | <p>Ever since I installed Ubuntu 10.10 I've been getting this error when trying to install ANYTHING via software center and have only been able to install software via Synaptic and apt-get. I 'm sure neither Synaptic or aptitude are running. What is this?</p>
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59443 | 1 | 229663 | 2011-08-31T17:17:54.973 | 24 | 8510 | <p>I mistakenly enabled the <em>Pre-release updates (natty-proposed)</em> repository and then upgraded all packages.</p>
<p>How can I undo this?</p>
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59444 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T17:18:20.030 | 4 | 1004 | <p>Everytime my gpu crash and i have to reboot, after the boot appears:</p>
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59446 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T18:11:03.287 | 3 | 731 | <p>I have a remote worker who's got a Ubuntu 10.04.3 machine, running KDE. She was using KVPNC until she did an update over the weekend (I don't have the details on the update, she may have been using an older version of Ubuntu). Now KVPNC doesn't work - I've checked logs on our end and it isn't connecting to our VPN s... | 24198 | 235 | 2011-08-31T18:13:30.937 | 2012-04-30T12:12:58.180 | What's the preferred method for connecting to a PPTP VPN under KDE? | [
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59449 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T18:23:33.493 | 10 | 939 | <p>I use Ubuntu Oneiric and I would like to know what is the account named Other for? It does not appear in the user manager. How can I remove it?</p>
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59450 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T18:27:31.353 | 5 | 523 | <p>While writing reports for school (using Writer or Impress), I often play a playlist of instrumental music in the background. It is distracting to have the NotifyOSD pop up every time the song changes. NotifyOSD pops up to show the Artist, Song, etc. It distracts me from my work. I'd like for the playlist to play wit... | 24200 | 24200 | 2011-08-31T19:19:28.563 | 2011-08-31T19:27:26.120 | How do I turn off NotifyOSD display of music information? It distracts me from my work | [
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59454 | 1 | 59465 | 2011-08-31T19:00:02.077 | 2 | 277 | <p>I installed updates, GNOME3, xampp, netbeans and a set of drivers. I went to restart the machine, and when coming back on, it hangs on a purple screen trying to turn back on. When I try to tap escape in order to get into the "safe" mode, it still hangs on the purple screen then eventually displays <code>^[^[^[^[</co... | 13358 | 3037 | 2012-01-26T17:34:21.950 | 2012-01-26T17:34:21.950 | Went down for restart, won't come back up | [
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59458 | 1 | 59517 | 2011-08-31T19:09:43.280 | 965 | 1417662 | <p>When I run <code>sudo</code> the terminal is stuck for a few seconds and then outputs an error message. My terminal looks like this:</p>
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<p>What can I do to solve it?</p>
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59459 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T19:12:56.787 | 0 | 23947 | <p>I am trying to implement account lockout in ubuntu using pam_tally. I have tried adding the follwing lines in <strong>/etc/pam.d/common-auth</strong> </p>
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59468 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T20:01:20.087 | 2 | 765 | <p>My laptop has integrated Mobile Broadband so it can get internet from cell phone waves when I'm away from home. It also has WiFi so it can get internet by connecting to my wireless router when I'm at home.</p>
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59474 | 1 | 61607 | 2011-08-31T20:19:31.967 | 8 | 16549 | <p>The title says everything about what I'm looking for. Basically it should be an software that collects all styles of a website so I can edit them and save them.</p>
<p>Please read the question carefully, because I want all mentioned conditions to be met.</p>
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59475 | 1 | 387271 | 2011-08-31T20:20:42.740 | 11 | 20631 | <h1>Hardware</h1>
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<li>Asus K8N4-E Deluxe Mobo</li>
<li>Sil 3114 fake raid, onboard</li>
<li>2 Seagate 250 gb hd, hosting my /home</li>
<li>A backup on a separate hard disk of /home</li>
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59477 | 1 | 59482 | 2011-08-31T20:32:37.903 | 4 | 19471 | <p>So, I was trying to add a repository using add-apt-repository and I got this error:</p>
<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gijzelaar/opencv2
[sudo] password for foo:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 8, in <module>
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59480 | 1 | 77288 | 2011-08-31T21:30:01.757 | 4 | 2779 | <p>Further, if it is available, will it be integrated into the indicators by default?</p>
<p>I need my google calendar offline, so is it back to evolution?</p>
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59485 | 1 | 59521 | 2011-08-31T21:59:52.237 | 3 | 5644 | <p>I'm trying to use SLiM instead of GDM as a login manager, but I fail miserably when creating the proper .xsession / .xinitrc file needed by SLiM.</p>
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59486 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T22:03:46.180 | 0 | 1270 | <p>I have a problem here with mouse sensitivity. I open mouse settings to increase the sensitivity to maximum and the mouse is slower. I make it minimum sensitivity (through the slider) and the mouse is incredibly fast.</p>
<p>Is this a bug or do I just not get it?</p>
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59487 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T22:21:24.177 | 24 | 69915 | <p>I have recently installed ubuntu server 11.04 with the full lvm encryption(installed from the setup) . I wish now to use a key file to do automatic unlock. I have tried to follow this guide <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837416">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837416</a></p>
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59488 | 1 | 59495 | 2011-08-31T22:24:18.200 | 1 | 1102 | <p>I have installed two Ubuntu partitions and they appear to be using two different swap partitions. Is this a safety thing or is it a waste of space? If the latter, how do I set up one Ubuntu to use the other's swap partition?</p>
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59489 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T22:26:09.903 | 9 | 24530 | <p>I have a Samsung NP-QX411. It has two graphics cards, Intel and nVidia. The Intel drivers were quickly found and is fully functional. But nVidia, I have tried installing several drivers in different ways. But I can not run it without success. I do not understand how Ubuntu has by default the switch Hybrid Graphics o... | 18161 | 169736 | 2014-03-16T13:00:47.650 | 2014-03-16T13:00:47.650 | How to switch between hybrid Graphics Intel/nVidia? | [
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59490 | 1 | 59508 | 2011-08-31T22:29:40.800 | 4 | 1991 | <p>I'd like to have this as my homepage: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OlUd1.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Do I have to replace some files or link to a page, could anyone please tell me?</p>
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59493 | 1 | 59496 | 2011-08-31T22:46:32.397 | 3 | 2238 | <p>With GDM removed in Oneiric, what command can I replace from the old command?</p>
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<p>I need to install an nvidia .run file and cannot figure out how to stop the server.</p>
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59494 | 1 | 89483 | 2011-08-31T22:54:13.770 | 9 | 7704 | <p>I recently got some FLAC files with embeded cue sheet. Though, the info of the sheet file doesn't seem to show up in Rhythmbox; Banshee; Amarok or Audatious. Which media players support this kind of file?</p>
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59502 | 1 | null | 2011-08-31T23:29:07.287 | 4 | 164 | <p>I'm writing an application that potentially uses quite a few windows. It would be nice if I could make at least some of those windows get their own Unity launcher entries. How do I do that? </p>
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59519 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T04:56:24.633 | 13 | 23741 | <p>I have a laptop (Dell Inspiron 11z) and and SSD (Samsung 128GB) on order.
On my current laptop, I have a spinning HDD and use LVM and LUKS encryption.</p>
<p>I would like to use LUKS on the SSD but from doing a bit of research I am not sure if this is desirable/possible.
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59520 | 1 | 59522 | 2011-09-01T05:26:09.187 | 20 | 22417 | <p>How to convert wav to ogg and to mp3 with VBR and excellent end quality?</p>
<p>If possible, using <code>soundconverter</code> or <code>ffmpeg</code>.</p>
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59524 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T07:02:04.710 | 2 | 7087 | <p>I've heard that if there are computers interconnected via LAN (as we have in our college labs), I can chat with other friend of mine, who is probably 2-3 rows ahead of me. </p>
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59530 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T08:14:13.180 | 2 | 172 | <p>My prefered way to launch programms in Natty was to hit Super+a and type a few letters. This does not work in Oneiric anymore. I have to use the mouse which is really cumbersome.</p>
<p>Alt+F2 is not a good replacement. Is it possible to activate the Super+a shortcut or will it be back until Oneiric release?</p>
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59531 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T08:15:34.387 | 0 | 187 | <p>ubuntu-bug warns me about including gdm log files since they may contain sensitive information. Can you be more specific what kind of sensitive information these files may contain?</p>
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59534 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T08:21:33.423 | 3 | 786 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/32667/how-do-i-configure-unity-2d">How do I configure Unity 2D?</a> </p>
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<p>Is it possible to resize the Unity 2D launcher?</p>
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59535 | 1 | 59561 | 2011-09-01T08:36:07.573 | 1 | 1065 | <p><strong>tl;dr</strong> </p>
<p>Installing Wubi 11.04 over Win7Pro (64-bit) on a Dell Latitude E5520 has now taken over an hour to reach the halfway mark in the "Copying files..." stage. The hard drive appears inactive for long periods No network connection, Wifi is on and networks available, system is responsive. B... | 24226 | 24226 | 2011-09-01T08:55:03.667 | 2012-02-29T20:41:03.307 | Why is Wubi copying files so slowly, mostly with no hard drive activity? (11.04) | [
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59537 | 1 | 65374 | 2011-09-01T08:51:18.760 | 2 | 21742 | <p>I have an Ubuntu 11.04 install for which I can't seem to get the correct (UK English) keyboard mapping set on. Running setxkmap produces an error: </p>
<p>"<em>XKB extension not present on :10.0</em>".</p>
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59539 | 1 | 104770 | 2011-09-01T09:29:44.143 | 36 | 17624 | <p>I'm working on a desktop machine with plenty of screen real-estate, so I don't need my windows' title bars to merge with the global menu bar when the windows are maximised. Moreover, I'm working on a dual-screen set-up, so the fact that a window is maximised doesn't mean that it's the only window visible.</p>
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59540 | 1 | 59544 | 2011-09-01T09:35:18.027 | 26 | 16982 | <p>Sometime I need to run an application from terminal for debugging. If I am sure the bug will occur short after launching the application, I can run this application from the Terminal.</p>
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59546 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T10:05:25.497 | 17 | 17326 | <p>I know you can't use Quick filter in Synaptic after purging apt-xapian-index, but is there something more severe?</p>
<p>I know there are some performance issues, when you have it:</p>
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59547 | 1 | 59549 | 2011-09-01T10:19:51.373 | 3 | 6717 | <p><code>echo "xxx" >> file_a</code> is similar to what I want.</p>
<p>But it always attach string with a new line.</p>
<p>If I just want to attach string without a new line,</p>
<p>How to do it?</p>
<p>Thank you~</p>
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59551 | 1 | 60430 | 2011-09-01T10:47:03.750 | 254 | 1085003 | <p>I want to burn a Windows ISO to a USB device in Ubuntu. How do I do this? </p>
<p>I know how to burn a Ubuntu ISO into a USB device, but with a Windows ISO it's not the same.</p>
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59556 | 1 | 59602 | 2011-09-01T11:30:45.360 | 11 | 9645 | <p>I've got an Ubuntu installed on an USB-drive for portable use. It's a regular install and not a live USB. Needless to say, it's a Flash-based storage and only 16 GB. What can I do to extend its life?</p>
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59559 | 1 | 59569 | 2011-09-01T11:58:41.117 | 17 | 19165 | <p>I have moved from Maverick to Oneiric and my workspace configuration changed from one row of five workspaces to two rows of two workspaces each.</p>
<p>It looks like in Oneiric there was a migration for gconf since gconf-editor is not installed.</p>
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59560 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T12:28:39.133 | 3 | 1434 | <p>I'm trying to install an FTP server on Ubuntu 11.04. I've installed vsftpd, but I had no success in getting it to work with virtual users. I want to be able to have give fake users and direct them to some directory.</p>
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59562 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T12:31:49.237 | 3 | 483 | <p>I have been using my USB Headset with no problems up to about a week ago.</p>
<p>Ubuntu registers that the device is plugged in and I can select it in the sound menu for output or in PulseAudio Volume control, However I hear nothing.</p>
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59563 | 1 | 59659 | 2011-09-01T12:39:14.390 | 7 | 19327 | <p>The default python version on my ubuntu system is 2.7, but 2.6 is still present.</p>
<p>I've installed headers (<code>apt-get install python-dev</code>), since it's needed to compile and install python packages, for current version.</p>
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59567 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T12:46:35.143 | 3 | 4158 | <p>I have a Samsung N150 Netbook and I try Ubuntu 11.10. In Natty backlight changing does not work at all. In Oneiric it does, but I can only switch between 100% and minimum.</p>
<p>If I boot in battery mode the backligth is "blingking" continously. </p>
<p>How can I fix that?</p>
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59585 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T15:07:50.543 | 8 | 11943 | <p>No player seems to support the Real Media codecs I need. I have even tried VLC and movie player, both of which failed.</p>
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59587 | 1 | 59596 | 2011-09-01T15:09:57.857 | 4 | 3545 | <p>I have Ubuntu 11.04 on Thinkpad X41 and have been using it for a couple of months. From time to time System Update used to run and show me a list of recommended updates. Finaly, yesterday I accepted all of them and after some time I had it all 'updated'. </p>
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59594 | 1 | 59674 | 2011-09-01T15:57:42.647 | 5 | 3880 | <p>I know there is a command line solution here: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10622/how-can-i-enable-ctrlaltbackspace">How can I enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace?</a></p>
<p>However, I am looking to enable it the way you used to on previous versions (the settings are not there in GNOME 3.2 it seems).</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/196136/what-is-a-good-mongodb-gui-client">What is a good MongoDB GUI client?</a> </p>
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59600 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T17:26:00.430 | 2 | 3375 | <p>I'm trying to install a game for Linux called Myth 2. Autorun doesn't run when I insert the CD. When I double-click or right-click and the select "Open" on the Setup file, a box appears saying that it's an executable file, and what I want to do. I click on "Run", but nothing happens after that. I checked the permiss... | 22645 | null | null | 2012-04-03T23:21:33.300 | Double click executable file and nothing happens | [
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59603 | 1 | 61009 | 2011-09-01T17:57:30.503 | 4 | 2543 | <p>I have just downloaded the latest version of Blender from the website on to my Xubuntu machine, when I open it, I get this:
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59606 | 1 | 59688 | 2011-09-01T18:23:20.377 | 5 | 3113 | <p>What are some of the benefits of installing Squid Proxy in an Ubuntu Server that is sharing its Internet connection to a group of PCs in a LAN.</p>
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59611 | 1 | 59730 | 2011-09-01T19:42:45.173 | 6 | 3283 | <p>I am wondering if there's any kind of predefined or downloadable themes or templates for text formatting styles (Default, Heading 1/2/etc), predefined colors (palettes), bullet styles, etc., in LibreOffce.</p>
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59612 | 1 | 110006 | 2011-09-01T19:54:32.127 | 1 | 480 | <p>I have Ubuntu Lucid with kernel 2.6.35 on a Thinkpad T61. In the power management settings I set it up to blank the display after 2 minutes. This works right after I log in, but after a few hours of active use, closing applications and then walking away from the computer, the display won't ever blank until I log out... | 3559 | 235 | 2012-03-07T23:03:46.493 | 2012-03-09T14:29:34.193 | Display does not blank on a Thinkpad T61 | [
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59621 | 1 | 88499 | 2011-09-01T20:52:17.760 | 31 | 161635 | <p>How do I change the monitor's refresh rate in Oneiric? </p>
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59623 | 1 | 74727 | 2011-09-01T20:57:38.500 | 1 | 7068 | <p>I've got a Dell Latitude E6520 and I'm using the E Port dock to get a DisplayPort output to plug into a Dell U2711 monitor.</p>
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59629 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T21:22:59.737 | 4 | 3363 | <p>I've made impulse to correct my speakers response, and would like to use it in my Ubuntu 11.04.</p>
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59631 | 1 | 59684 | 2011-09-01T21:52:04.247 | 3 | 1242 | <p>In my infinite wisdom, during a system upgrade, I somehow managed to remove 'ubuntu-desktop' and several other key packages. As a consequence, my desktop is now gone - I only see a standard X terminal window on login.</p>
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59634 | 1 | 59682 | 2011-09-01T22:15:49.107 | 3 | 9953 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/41407/what-virtualization-software-can-i-use">What virtualization software can I use?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Well as the title reads, are there any other virtualization softwares in the mould of virtualbox be it... | 12846 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:23.123 | 2011-09-02T06:21:54.707 | Any alternatives to Virtualbox for virtualization | [
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59635 | 1 | null | 2011-09-01T22:26:57.263 | 2 | 7185 | <p>I've searched the posts and can't find the exact answer I need. I've installed Ubuntu to my hard drive completely, and wiped my Windows 7. I do not want Ubuntu anymore; I want Windows 7 back. But when I put in my CD to reinstall Windows 7, it said my disk partition needed to be in ntfs format. I can't format my driv... | 24265 | 1992 | 2011-10-27T00:13:13.643 | 2015-07-28T09:16:41.140 | Can't format hard drive back to Windows 7 after fully installing Ubuntu | [
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59638 | 1 | 74896 | 2011-09-01T22:36:20.473 | 8 | 1332 | <p>I am setting up a light weight VM, following the guide in the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems" rel="noreferrer">Ubuntu Documentation</a></p>
<p>What I want to be able to do is launch a GUI application. I don't need / want anything on the desktop.</p>
<p>First I installed xo... | 2487 | null | null | 2011-11-02T18:49:09.407 | Do I need a desktop to run a GUI? | [
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59640 | 1 | 59711 | 2011-09-01T22:44:03.977 | 27 | 90103 | <p>I wanted a window manager, so I installed xfce4. I used </p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get install xfce4
</code></pre>
<p>to do this. To remove it, I used</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get remove --purge xfce4
</code></pre>
<p>which didn't work, and neither did</p>
<pre><code>sudo dpkg purge xfce4
</code></pre>
<p>as ev... | 2487 | -1 | 2016-01-07T05:22:08.837 | 2023-03-24T05:57:40.613 | Why removing the xfce4 package doesn't remove the XFCE desktop environment? | [
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59641 | 1 | 59644 | 2011-09-01T22:46:17.200 | 4 | 1043 | <p>Can someone please tell me how I can establish connection to my WiFi network from the command line? (My desktop GUI <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/59631/how-to-recover-from-uninstall-of-ubuntu-desktop">is fried</a>.)</p>
<p>I've tried the following:</p>
<pre><code>sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid NETWORK_NAME
s... | 24262 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:49.530 | 2013-12-24T18:53:44.967 | How to establish wireless connection from command line? | [
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"body": "<p>I can connect with this command even from the true (not emulated) terminal: </p>\n\n<pre><code>nmcli con up id 'my.net.work'\n</code></pre>\n",
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59651 | 1 | null | 2011-09-02T00:22:23.720 | 3 | 791 | <p>First off I did something stupid. I downloaded a Nvidia driver even though I have an integrated chipset. After installation my unity was still working. However, when I restarted my computer I got an error message saying that I can't run unity. </p>
<p>I uninstalled the Nvidia driver.</p>
<p>I restarted my computer... | 24270 | 235 | 2011-09-02T00:26:11.967 | 2012-01-28T15:45:48.567 | How do I get Unity working again after installing the wrong video driver? | [
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59660 | 1 | 59661 | 2011-09-02T00:57:53.127 | 5 | 664 | <p>So this is the first version of Ubuntu that stops the sound from coming out of my speakers when I plug in headphones. Unfortunately it also stops the sound altogether... I would like to submit a bug report but I can't remember how, nor what program I should submit it for?</p>
| 3889 | 169736 | 2014-05-27T01:15:41.110 | 2014-05-27T01:15:41.110 | How to report a bug for no sound through headphones? | [
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"text": "I have the same problem and the bug is reported in here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/868915",
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59663 | 1 | 61004 | 2011-09-02T01:47:36.200 | 13 | 16373 | <p>I asked <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14202/how-to-use-an-input-language-different-from-the-keyboard-layout-country-and-from">the same question when I used Maverick Meerkat</a> but I can't make that solutions work on Unity. I want to use the keys <kbd>´</kbd> followed by <kbd>c</kbd> and the output should... | 2677 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:55.970 | 2024-03-26T15:48:24.253 | How to type "ç" when using USA intl as the keyboard layout? | [
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