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2011-09-11T17:50:42.367
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<p>I have an NTFS drive on PC-A that I would like automatically mounted on PC-B on startup or through a launcher so that I can access through Nautilus etc..</p> <p>PC-A and PC-B are both running Natty Narwhal. PC-A is running openssh-server with public private key authentication with a passphrase.</p> <p>I came accr...
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2011-09-11T21:15:47.360
Auto mount remote NTFS drive on local system
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Quite simple really, I just permanently mounted the NTFS drive on the remote system by editing the <em>fstab</em> file and then mounted it locally using <em>sshfs</em>, now I just need to write a script to automate the local mounting.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [],...
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2011-09-11T18:01:58.857
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<p>I keep getting </p> <pre><code>HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfil the request. </code></pre> <p>Whenever there is something wrong with my php code. I am using ubuntu 11.04 with apache2 and php installed.</p>
24812
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2011-09-12T13:21:25.007
Server error everytime there is a php error
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you're looking to debug your php code you'll want to run <code>tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log</code> this will have detailed information about <em>why</em> the 500 error was triggered.</p>\n\n<p>Here is an example from my error log that recently threw a 500 error</p>\n...
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2011-09-11T18:31:20.693
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<p>Can someone please help me with a complete step by step guide to share my internet connection (which is through a USB modem by ZTE) with my iphone 3G?</p>
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2017-11-24T21:51:24.363
How to share a wired internet connection via Wifi?
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2011-09-11T18:35:31.217
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<p>I have a blue TI-82 that doesn't have a computer input, and there for I have to code every program by hand. And on all tests I have to clear the memory so I don't have any programs installed (I could cheat if I didn't). </p> <p>I really would like to play Blockdude, I haven't played that game in 3 years. </p> <p>...
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2011-09-11T18:56:18.530
2011-09-11T20:20:22.277
Is there a TI-82 emulator?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h2><a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/wxwabbitemu/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">wxWabbitemu</a></h2>\n\n<p>A linux based TI emulator exists that uses the wxWidgets code libraries.</p>\n\n<p>Compile instructions:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install subversion\nsvn checkout http://wx...
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2011-09-11T20:09:33.590
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<p>I have connected my laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 to an external monitor. Since then, I am not able to use my primary display.</p> <p>Primary Display shows only a resolution of 640x480 at the moment. The external display is a 22" Monitor supporting a resolution of 1368x768.</p> <p>Here is the part of xorg.conf </p> ...
21560
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2011-09-22T16:52:48.827
2018-06-01T21:23:23.947
Problem with the Primary Display
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>First up, I'd try removing your <code>xorg.conf</code> file - recent versions of Xorg can generally work out most of your system's configuration automatically. Move it to somewhere safe, so you can restore it if necessary:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf $HOME/xo...
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2011-09-11T20:10:59.127
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<p>I'm toying around with building an application to display messages on the screen on a desired intervals. </p> <p>I want to use cron to achieve that and I am considering my options. The most naive approach would be to print the commands directly into crontab. Is that a bad idea?</p>
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2011-09-11T20:15:48.897
2011-09-11T22:32:32.080
Is it bad to have a long list in my crontab?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>No, it is not bad to have a long list in <code>crontab</code>. <code>cron</code> executes in minutes at the shortest time frame so it is not in real time but you can also have your notices in real time (see below).</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>As an alternative option you can also use <...
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2011-09-11T20:28:53.363
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<p>I have a 16 GB 1.0 USB Stick in titanium with leather bound, which i happen to love. I know it works in Vista (of all things) but in Ubuntu 11.04 (i also have gnome 3, if that may affect, but am fairly certain I tried before) it is not detected. I have also run sudo commands in the terminal to search for it and it d...
24819
24819
2011-09-15T11:46:56.673
2011-09-15T11:46:56.673
Does Ubuntu support USB 1.0?
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2011-09-11T21:04:13.020
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<p>Due to my graphics card being blacklisted, I had to "force" Compiz and Unity to run. After doing so the Ubuntu Classic environment works awesomely (as my card supports it fully), and Unity works very well too-- except that there are no icons on the launcher. I can still run things from it but there are no icons. How...
24822
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2011-09-11T21:07:42.480
Why are there no icons on the Unity launcher?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If your card is blacklisted, there is a good reason. The likely problem here is that your card does not support a feature that Unity needs. I would suggest you report a bug.</p>\n\n<p>For now, you can still enjoy Unity by using Unity 2D. You can even run it under compiz.</p>\...
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2011-09-11T21:50:36.490
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<p>I'm running a vanilla instance of 32bit Ubuntu 11.04 installed on the <a href="http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Versatile_Performance/K53E/" rel="nofollow">k53e</a> laptop. The machine is up to date. I have an external laptop HDD that I'm accessing via the <a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Rocketfish&#153;+-+2.5%2...
24825
24825
2011-09-15T02:19:30.020
2011-09-15T13:23:58.390
Can't mount external laptop HDD on laptop
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Suggested solution:</p>\n\n<p>Try not permitting <em>umount</em> to call smart test for this disc. </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>copy the file <code>80-udisks.rules</code> from the directory <code>/lib/udev/rules.d</code> to the directory <code>/etc/udev/rules.d</code> </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>i.e. </...
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2011-09-11T22:37:10.720
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<p>I'm trying to use <code>~/.XCompose</code> in Qt programs like Anki, but they don't recognize my settings (<kbd>a</kbd> + <kbd>_</kbd> giving <em>ª</em> instead of <em>ā</em>, for example).</p> <p>Most help guides online tell me to set <code>QT_IM_MODULE</code> to XIM, but I also want to use ibus. Is there a way I ...
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2014-01-24T14:19:21.157
2014-01-24T14:37:20.077
How do I get ~/.XCompose to work on QT applications while using Ibus?
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2011-09-11T22:51:48.530
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<p>I keep making this mistake: Adjust the volume using the icon on the task bar, then without clicking somewhere else, try to change desktops (Ctrl+Alt+Right), get 100% volume blaring in my headphones.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to remove the keyboard shortcut for this? It's not under System>Preferences>Keyboard shor...
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2012-03-11T17:25:23.040
2012-03-11T17:25:23.040
Remove shortcut key to increase volume slider
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, then you don't have to open the volume control. You can just hold the pointer over the volume icon and scroll up and down. At least it is that way now. I'm not entirely sure if that was implemented yet in 10.04, but it is worth a try....
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2011-09-12T01:05:24.837
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<p>Ubuntu's Monitor Preferences tool (listed as Monitors in the Dash) is able to orient the screen Left, Right, Normal or Upside Down, but is there a tool that can rotate the screen <em>just a little</em>? My CRT's screen is rotated perhaps 2&deg; counterclockwise and I was wondering if this is something I can fix with...
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2011-09-12T06:13:00.610
2011-09-12T06:13:00.610
Rotate monitor 2° counterclockwise?
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2011-09-12T01:43:29.027
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/656/how-to-move-usr-to-a-new-partition">How to move /usr to a new partition?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I am running 11.04 on my Cr-48 notebook from Google along side of Chrome OS. I have moved my home directory to ...
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2017-04-13T12:24:11.537
2012-02-19T03:12:49.317
Moving the /usr directory to a different partition
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2012-08-13T13:26:18.013
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2011-09-12T04:24:48.720
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<p>I have a <a href="http://j.mp/nf7Leu">Motorola S305</a> Bluetooth headset which I use with my computer often for headphones. I've been using them for a while and have been really pleased with the sound quality, form factor, and battery life.</p> <p>The only thing is that I haven't found a way to use them as a micro...
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2012-05-19T11:32:05.827
Can I use my Bluetooth headset as a microphone?
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2011-09-12T07:35:15.653
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<p>I'm planning to buy a new notebook and among the winners are some with integrated video card.</p> <p>My question is how can I live on Linux with integrated card? I want to use it for mainly programming, photo editing, watching movies and usual office stuff, no games or 3D related stuff. I'm sure I won't have any pr...
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2011-09-12T11:29:07.567
2011-09-12T11:29:07.567
Ubuntu with integrated video card
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I use a notebook (Acer Extensa 5635Z) with an integrated Intel chipset. For my experience the Intel video card always works fine with Linux. They are slow with 3D stuffs (like games) but work well with all the other applications (included Google Earth).</p>\n\n<p>However a quick sear...
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2011-09-12T07:37:04.483
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<p>I have a problem with skype notification icon. It’s similar to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/59964/skype-tray-icon-goes-outside-of-tray-when-clicking-workspace-switcher">this problem</a>, but it’s really bad with multiple display, cause the icon is displayed in wrong place I cannot see the it at all. Is t...
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2017-04-13T12:23:20.487
2011-10-17T19:11:31.893
Skype icon on unity multi-display
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Unfortunately Skype icon is not a true app-indicator for Unity so it can have strange behaviors. You can retry with the last version of Ubuntu (11.10) when it's released. It should resolve this problem.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedD...
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2011-09-12T07:43:07.140
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<p>This question is in continuation to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/59556/814">this question</a>. I download a lot of small files (a few MBs) which I delete after being done with them. So can I make it that all changes to be saved to my filesystem be made in the RAM if it's under certain size? For example, if I set...
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2017-04-13T12:23:29.370
2011-09-12T11:30:54.317
Save changes to filesystem in RAM, save to HDD on shutdown
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61045
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2011-09-12T07:58:17.033
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/41302/how-to-connect-usb-monitor">How to connect USB monitor?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I've justed returned to my lovely Ubuntu after some years of non-linux OS.</p> <p>Anyhow, I have a Toshiba L630 14C Laptop, U...
24840
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2017-04-13T12:24:29.360
2011-10-02T17:51:40.503
Green screen when using DisplayLink on a Toshiba L630 14C laptop
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2012-04-05T08:32:59.870
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2011-09-12T08:49:56.597
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<p>I am currently ripping my entire CD collection, thus generating large music files. My scenario is:</p> <ul> <li>Rip music to add locally and to iPod <ul> <li>use Sound Juicer pointed to Music folder</li> <li>Music folder is set up to sync with Ubuntu One, </li> </ul></li> <li>Rip music not intended for iPod <ul> <...
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2011-09-13T00:10:31.913
2017-03-21T08:42:34.850
Managing files and sync scenarios
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>From the control panel on the computer with the small disc you tell <code>syncdaemon</code> to no longer sync the folder you need to empty:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/pbOnK.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu One Control Panel “Cloud Folders” tab, with a row highlighted to...
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61055
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2011-09-12T10:05:29.047
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<p>I am dual booting ubuntu 11.04 and windows 7 and I have a bootable usb flash drive. How can I configure grub so it will boot my flash drive?</p>
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2012-07-04T22:26:23.513
How can I boot my usb from grub
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As pointed out correctly by Jo Erland: the method below refers to the old grub.\nI should check how it works with the new grub2.\nHowever, I still think that it is better to start the grub command line and to try booting using that command line than to edit the grub configur...
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61060
1
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2011-09-12T10:41:28.270
1
3578
<p>My laptop has hardware switch for enabling and disabling wireless adapters. This includes both bluetooth and wlan. I rarely use bluetooth and would like to keep it disabled (soft blocked) unless I manually enable it. Is this possible?</p> <p><code>rfkill list</code> when HW-switch disabled:</p> <pre><code>1: tpacp...
20396
null
null
2011-11-25T13:34:52.473
How not to enable bluetooth with hw-wireless switch?
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1
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>To add a soft-block you would use the syntax:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo rfkill block bluetooth\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>To unblock:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Possibly, if the softblock isnt remembered after a reboot I think you can run this...
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61061
1
null
2011-09-12T10:52:52.113
1
63
<p>I would like to try the program <a href="http://billreminder.gnulinuxbrasil.org/" rel="nofollow">Billreminder 0.4.0</a>. But I need a little help with installing it. There doesn't seem to be a .deb package available in the software center or Synaptic.</p>
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2011-09-12T10:59:19.173
2013-03-27T14:59:40.857
How to install Billreminder 0.4.0?
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0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You seem to be right. There is no packages in Ubuntu and they don't appear to have any available for download either. That means you'll have to do it yourself. It may sound complicated, but it really isn't. You will have to read a couple of pages, though: <a href=\"https://he...
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61063
1
null
2011-09-12T11:03:31.727
12
22362
<p>How to share an internet connection from the PC to a Mobile Device (eg: Nokia Phones). I don't have 3G or Wifi enabled on my old nokia phones, only Bluetooth.</p>
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169736
2014-06-02T13:15:21.373
2014-06-02T13:15:21.373
How to share an Internet connection over Bluetooth from the PC to the Phone
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0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I guess this may work for you</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p><a href=\"http://blog.larsstrand.org/2009/04/sharing-internet-connection-over.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.larsstrand.org/2009/04/sharing-internet-connection-over.html</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<hr>\n", "comme...
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2013-03-05T01:43:15.270
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61065
1
62818
2011-09-12T09:58:12.187
5
2867
<p>In an attempt to get CairoPlot to run correctly on my Ubuntu 11.04, I stupidly copied the CairoPlot.py into my <code>/usr/local/bin/python</code> dir. When I realized that this wasn't the way to go, I deleted the file, now running 'python' in terminal just hangs, I have restarted the machine, any ideas?</p>
25546
15811
2011-09-12T11:34:38.710
2011-09-24T16:49:29.403
Python won't run in terminal
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5
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T10:02:29.047", "id": "69844", "postId": "61065", "score": "1", "text": "Try re-installing python (easiest way is Synaptic).", "userDisplayName": "loki2302", "userId": null } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>What worked for me, was to start the </p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get purge python\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>then kill it after a few minutes, then open a new terminal and:</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get --reinstall install python\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "commun...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<pre><code>sudo apt-get --reinstall install python\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This will reinstall python from the command line, if you don't want to use Synaptic like loki2302 suggests. (Synaptic would be fine, of course.)</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { ...
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Kilizo
61071
1
61084
2011-09-12T11:37:23.667
4
1485
<p>I am looking for a way to create appmenu indicator using python3.2 and pyqt4. Please help me.</p>
24851
9781
2011-10-10T19:29:21.527
2011-10-10T19:29:21.527
How to create appmenu in using python3 and PyQt?
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1
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Short: Ubuntu 11.10 ships a patched QT that will make a QSystemTrayIcon create an indicator if possible. In older Ubuntu versions you will need a patched version of Qt, and this will make your program a pain to distribute.</p>\n\n<p>Long: There is a patch provided by Canonical to use...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Short: Ubuntu 11.10 ships a patched QT that will make a QSystemTrayIcon create an indicator if possible. In older Ubuntu versions you will need a patched version of Qt, and this will make your program a pain to distribute.</p>\n\n<p>Long: There is a patch provided by Canonica...
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61080
1
61099
2011-09-12T13:51:41.717
8
13124
<p>How do I copy files to all clients using puppet? I have setup a puppet server and clients and I have tested the connection which was working fine. I am not a puppet expert, I am just a beginner, and I just want to know how to copy files to all clients from the puppet server? I also want to know how to delete files?<...
5691
19490
2011-09-12T14:07:46.047
2011-09-12T16:57:13.033
How to copy file to all clients using puppet?
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1
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T16:58:16.950", "id": "69896", "postId": "61080", "score": "1", "text": "From Jorge in chat: docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html Copied the link in as an answer.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "15811" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>The Puppet File Server</strong></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html\">This guide covers the use of Puppet’s file serving capability.</a></p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>The puppet master service includes a file server for transferring static files. If a ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>The Puppet File Server</strong></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/file_serving.html\">This guide covers the use of Puppet’s file serving capability.</a></p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>The puppet master service includes a file server for transferring static file...
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61082
1
61192
2011-09-12T14:27:06.837
2
723
<p>I have this problem with all of my music player applications Banshee, Guayadeque and Amarok -when I click the Play button nothing happens, i.e. music doesnt start playing or the Play button doesnt change to a Pause button etc... Playback in all of the applications was fine yesterday.</p> <p>Everything is setup as i...
985
985
2011-09-12T17:33:18.500
2011-09-13T11:00:11.663
Audio Playback Problem
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1
3
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T18:30:44.343", "id": "69915", "postId": "61082", "score": "1", "text": "What about sound in webpages such as YouTube? Is this sound problem limited to audio players? If so, does anything suspicious show up in the log if you run Banshee from Terminal with the comma...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I solved the problem thanks to @MichaelMS, -I have my music stored on an NTFS drive which I deciced to permanently mounted (so that I could access it with SSHFS) but with a different path then that used by Ubuntu when... So then none of audio player apps could find the music. </p>\...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I solved the problem thanks to @MichaelMS, -I have my music stored on an NTFS drive which I deciced to permanently mounted (so that I could access it with SSHFS) but with a different path then that used by Ubuntu when... So then none of audio player apps could find the musi...
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61083
1
61085
2011-09-12T14:15:42.020
1
2843
<p>My Ubuntu machine is connected to internet via wifi, and also connected to LAN by ethernet cable. Every time I log on, I have to run these 2 commands in order to set the proper gateway (wlan0 in my case) so that I can access internet.</p> <pre><code>% sudo route del default % sudo route add default gw 192.168.3.1 <...
24203
24203
2011-10-23T04:37:37.187
2011-10-23T04:37:37.187
Ubuntu can't configure proper gateway at boot
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1
4
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ol>\n<li>Click your network icon</li>\n<li>Edit connections. </li>\n<li>Select the first wired connection (eth0)</li>\n<li>Edit</li>\n<li>In the IPv4 settings, click Routes. </li>\n<li>Check the bottom box. </li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>I think that should do it, but I haven't actually tried it m...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<ol>\n<li>Click your network icon</li>\n<li>Edit connections. </li>\n<li>Select the first wired connection (eth0)</li>\n<li>Edit</li>\n<li>In the IPv4 settings, click Routes. </li>\n<li>Check the bottom box. </li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>I think that should do it, but I haven't actually tr...
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IsaacS
61086
1
null
2011-09-12T15:30:45.897
0
218
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/53688/making-ctrlc-copy-text-in-gnome-terminal">Making Ctrl+C copy text in gnome-terminal?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Is there such a terminal where I can edit the text like in usual text area, i.e.</p> <p>Copy - <...
24315
-1
2017-04-13T12:23:45.630
2011-09-12T15:54:06.483
Is there a terminal that behaves like a console from web browsers?
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2
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't know of any. However, you can change the shortcuts manually:\n<code>Terminal &gt; Edit &gt; Keyboard Shortcuts</code></p>\n\n<p>Then set Copy to <code>Ctrl + C</code>, and <code>Ctrl + V</code> for paste. </p>\n\n<p>P.S. how do you get those \"keys\" to show up? [Wh...
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null
2011-09-12T15:57:26.680
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61088
1
61157
2011-09-12T15:34:12.117
4
565
<p>I know the background, just want to know why such decision by Canonical.</p>
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2012-12-01T07:08:25.323
2012-12-01T07:08:25.323
Why is Ubuntu sticking with Plymouth despite the fact that it doesn't work with proprietary drivers?
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2
2
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T16:25:00.813", "id": "69890", "postId": "61088", "score": "0", "text": "Ubuntu switched from Usplash to Plymouth because of various problems with Nvidia and ATI, but apparently, both don't work. Do you know of anything that does?", "userDisplayName": null, "...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Plymouth <em>does</em> work with the proprietary drivers - or at least it should. You generally won't get the same native resolution bootsplash that you'll get with a kms driver, but the bootsplash should work. You can even get a higher-resolution bootsplash with answers from <a hr...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I haven't experienced any problems with it using proprietary drivers. But even if there are a few problems with very old VGAs from manufacturers who doesn't provide proper drivers for their hardware, that cannot hold everyone else back. We wouldn't accept a user interface tha...
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61091
1
null
2011-09-12T15:46:27.910
4
1526
<p>How do I align a Western Digital Advanced Format hard drive using minimal (4K) alignment when installing Ubuntu 11.04? Should I do it before installing via the LiveCD? If so, do I select to "Try Ubuntu" and then launch parted from the terminal? According to <a href="http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/56...
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44179
2014-02-03T23:14:51.783
2014-02-03T23:14:51.783
Advanced Format Alignment using parted
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1
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You don't need to worry about it; it is handled automatically.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-09-13T13:44:58.553", "id": "61220", "lastActivityDate": ...
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61093
1
null
2011-09-12T15:56:24.887
5
157
<p>I'm having issues every time I copy a large sum of files to my External harddrive from my actual harddrive - what happens is that it gets at a certain point in the copying stage then it freezes and my caps lock button blinks.</p> <p>I took a video to show exactly what happened: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch...
24858
6969
2011-09-12T16:11:53.860
2011-09-14T23:48:03.237
Issues when copying data to my NTFS external Terabyte Harddrive - Natty 32bit
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3
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T16:09:26.780", "id": "69889", "postId": "61093", "score": "1", "text": "Sounds like you've had a kernel panic.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6969" }, { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T21:01:12.467", "id": "69957", "postId": "61093", "...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Thats a odd issue it really sounds like that part of your tb drive is bad/corrupt. </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>As fossfreadom had said you may try running chkdsk from windows on that drive . </p></li>\n<li><p>It may be one video it gets hung on try to move 1 movie at a time .</p></l...
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61095
1
95059
2011-09-12T16:19:23.513
18
34772
<p>I'm using CUPS to print on an enterprise network. The job gets submitted fine, but I need to submit it as another username. Now I'm <code>jon</code> but I need to send it as say <code>jonallard</code>.</p> <p>On the command line, one could print as such</p> <pre><code>lp -U jonallard -d printer1 file.ext </code></...
23470
23470
2011-09-17T09:05:56.370
2019-04-02T13:14:11.603
Use different username on CUPS remote printing
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0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The issue has been reported as a bug (<a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/common-print-dialog-gtk/+bug/856776\" rel=\"nofollow\">856776</a>) and is now on the wishlist.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-12-18T11:19:22.540", "id": ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You could use the username in the IPP URI when adding the printer queue, see this document for details:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html</a></p>\n\n<p>Otherwise I can s...
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61100
1
133252
2011-09-12T17:09:00.517
13
13128
<p>Has anyone had luck using Kerberos tickets generated with kinit in Chromium for authenticating to websites?</p> <p>The company I work for supports Kerberos authentication to internal websites, and I'm able to configure Firefox to use generated Kerberos tickets by configuring network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris a...
11409
null
null
2022-09-03T11:09:38.137
Use generated Kerberos tickets in Chromium browser
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2
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2012-04-16T17:28:16.457", "id": "146241", "postId": "61100", "score": "0", "text": "Are you still looking for help or have you solved this problem? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. Thanks!", ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Authentication options of Chromium are described at <a href=\"http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication</a></p>\n\n<p>For Kerberos, you need the command line opt...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Authentication options of Chromium are described at <a href=\"http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication</a></p>\n\n<p>For Kerberos, you need the command ...
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61101
1
61113
2011-09-12T17:12:14.077
5
9900
<p>I want to install PHP 5.2 in Ubuntu 11.04 , I had some script that did that thing good but only on Ubuntu 9, anyone has a script / instructions how to do it?</p>
23751
235
2011-09-12T21:07:45.173
2012-02-08T21:15:08.247
Downgrade PHP to PHP5.2?
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3
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>The first way</strong> is using Andphe's PPA. This method is described <a href=\"http://www.alexweber.com.br/en/tutorials/how-install-php-52-ubuntu-1010-maverick-and-1104-natty\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Uninstall all PHP packages.</li>\n<li>Add the repo by executing <code>...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>The first way</strong> is using Andphe's PPA. This method is described <a href=\"http://www.alexweber.com.br/en/tutorials/how-install-php-52-ubuntu-1010-maverick-and-1104-natty\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Uninstall all PHP packages.</li>\n<li>Add the repo by executin...
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61104
1
61110
2011-09-12T17:30:15.770
48
26534
<p>In Chipaca's answer to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/61050/managing-files-and-sync-scenarios/61052#61052">Managing files and sync scenarios</a> there's a screenshot with certain highlights. The highlights are the following:</p> <ol> <li>A row of a GUI list is highlighted by the other parts of the screens...
19490
-1
2017-04-13T12:23:38.647
2020-05-13T15:40:29.363
How do I create highlights on a screenshot?
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5
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T18:11:59.047", "id": "69909", "postId": "61104", "score": "6", "text": "This should be a plugin request for Shutter ;)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9701" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h1>Here's a guide for <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/gimp\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><strong>The GIMP</strong></a></h1>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/gimp\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-small\" alt=\"Install GIMP\"></a></p>\n\n<h...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can do this in editors such as Pinta, Shutter*, the GIMP, etc.</p>\n\n<p>The process may vary, but one way to do it, would be to place a translucent square/rectangle in a second layer above the image, and then to cut out the part that you want to glow.</p>\n\n<p>Example w...
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61105
1
61126
2011-09-12T17:42:15.177
7
2102
<p>I installed Ubuntu 11.10 beta when it was released a couple of weeks ago. Everything is working fine. </p> <p>Later I installed GNOME shell and then upgraded it from the gnome-shell testing ppa. I also installed and enabled all the gnome-shell-extensions available on the ppa. There is only one problem. When ever ...
24502
480481
2018-10-17T06:39:15.493
2018-10-17T06:39:15.493
Nautilus Menu appearing behind transparent gnome-shell menubar
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2
5
CC BY-SA 4.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T18:11:17.973", "id": "69908", "postId": "61105", "score": "2", "text": "what ppa is that?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T19:35:00.347", "id": "69942", "postId": "61105", "score": "2", "tex...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>That actually happens with the official Gnome Shell packages in Ubuntu 11.10 too (at least for me, at the time I'm posting this answer).</p>\n\n<p>I only know a fix for this: disabling Nautilus from handling the desktop (so using this, you won't have icons on the desktop anymore). To...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>That actually happens with the official Gnome Shell packages in Ubuntu 11.10 too (at least for me, at the time I'm posting this answer).</p>\n\n<p>I only know a fix for this: disabling Nautilus from handling the desktop (so using this, you won't have icons on the desktop anym...
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61112
1
null
2011-09-12T18:58:23.183
6
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<p>I'm trying to come up with a solid font stack that incorporates fonts typically found on an ubuntu install.</p> <p>font-family=serif looks great, but for obvious reasons, this isn't appropriate for other operating systems.</p> <p>What font does "serif" resolve to in the default install? I'm on firefox 6. Edit->Pre...
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2016-02-20T20:29:07.490
What's the default serif font in firefox?
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3
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I believe it will actually use the font called \"Serif\", which is an unbranded version of Bitstream Vera Serif. The sans-serif default I likewise understand to be \"Sans\", an unbranded version of Bitstream Vera Sans. (And by now you've perhaps figured out that \"Monospace\"...
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61118
1
119831
2011-09-12T19:34:19.907
4
3415
<p>I've accidentally formatted one of my partitions with btrfs 0.19 filesystem, on 11.04, kernel 2.6.38-8-generic.</p> <p>The command issued was:</p> <pre><code>mkfs.btrfs -L EADS-old /dev/sdd2. </code></pre> <p>After this I didn't write anything on this disk, it was only mounted few times. And the disk is obviously...
72976
14356
2011-09-12T19:42:50.803
2012-06-24T17:25:53.603
How do I recover a BTRFS partition formatted by mkfs.btrfs?
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5
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-12T19:47:02.460", "id": "69945", "postId": "61118", "score": "0", "text": "Not confident enough for giving an answer to this as I've never used BTRFS and don't know how widely supported. But have you tried RIP Linux? Mayhaps it has more up to date support for newer fil...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try <a href=\"http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec\" rel=\"nofollow\">PhotoRec</a> but seen the date of your question you probably removed more/all data in the mean while. PhotoRec does not explicity support BTRFS, but it works filesystem agnostic.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try <a href=\"http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec\" rel=\"nofollow\">PhotoRec</a> but seen the date of your question you probably removed more/all data in the mean while. PhotoRec does not explicity support BTRFS, but it works filesystem agnostic.</p>\n", "commentCoun...
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61119
1
61120
2011-09-12T19:44:33.447
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<p>I have a bcm4312 wireless card (Dell Inspiron 1545). I have suddenly lost my wireless card! Well, not literally, its still in my laptop, but Ubuntu denies all knowledge of it even existing! I've tried <code>lspci</code> - not there, I've <code>grep</code>'d the <code>lspci</code> to be sure I'm not just crazy, it's ...
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2011-09-12T20:51:55.060
2011-09-12T20:51:55.060
Suddenly lost my wifi card?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>First, check that removing and reinserting brings the card to life.</p>\n\n<p>I would boot from a live USB/CD and check <code>lspci</code>. If it still reports that the card is not available then the card has most probably died.</p>\n\n<p>I've just checked ebay - lots of dell inspir...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>First, check that removing and reinserting brings the card to life.</p>\n\n<p>I would boot from a live USB/CD and check <code>lspci</code>. If it still reports that the card is not available then the card has most probably died.</p>\n\n<p>I've just checked ebay - lots of del...
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61122
1
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2011-09-12T20:21:43.423
3
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<p>I'm running a large number of Ubuntu desktops for a school. We use ldap and somehow gnome-keyring always gets out of sync and starts prompting for passwords. Eventually it seems to sync again, but I get calls all the time because of a mysterious password box showing up.</p> <p>I know how to set it to unsafe storage...
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2011-09-13T18:30:49.053
gnome-keyring use unsafe storage for all users
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There is already a bug report for this:\n<a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/322827\" rel=\"nofollow\">322827</a></p>\n\n<p>But it hasn't seen much action.\nUnfortunately, the old password needs to be known to remove it.</p>\n", "comment...
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61136
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2011-09-12T22:39:14.680
1
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<p>on my machine running 11.04, I somehow managed to remove the partition which was used as swap, while I was repartitioning the hard drive. I then turned off swap and tried to reconfigure it with a different partition. (I had wanted to do that anyway.) "/etc/fstab" contained the following line:</p> <pre><code>/dev/ma...
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2011-09-13T07:14:50.177
2011-12-24T22:59:34.600
How can I check if I messed up my encrypted Swap configuration?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If <code>/dev/sda2</code> has been properly formatted as swap, that change should be all that is needed. If <code>free -m</code> and <code>swapon -s</code> report the swap partition you can assume it is working.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "commun...
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61138
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2011-09-12T23:26:50.733
23
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<p>GNOME Shell doesn't have an option to hibernate in the session menu. I checked the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet">GNOME Shell Cheat Sheet</a> but hibernate is not mentioned there.</p> <p>How can I hibernate my machine from within a GNOME Shell session?</p>
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2018-10-16T23:20:11.197
2021-07-07T19:11:37.007
How can I hibernate from GNOME Shell?
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[ { "creationDate": "2017-10-24T04:48:32.780", "id": "1550671", "postId": "61138", "score": "0", "text": "suspend: https://askubuntu.com/questions/236922/how-do-i-get-back-my-suspend-option-in-gnome-shell", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "52975" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't think it is possible to manually hibernate in GNOME Shell (I could be wrong). There is an extension that adds extra options for power management, but having not had sucess installing extensions myself, I cannot tell you for sure how to install it.</p>\n\n<p>For now, y...
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61141
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2011-09-13T00:26:37.777
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<p>I followed <a href="http://kresimirbojcic.com/2011/05/14/installing-command-t-ubunutu-11.04-ruby-1.9.2.html" rel="noreferrer">this blog post</a> to compile gvim with ruby support. However, when I <code>make</code>, I get this error:</p> <pre><code>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby-static collect2: ld returned 1 exit ...
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2011-09-13T00:31:15.850
2018-12-10T03:26:27.650
Compiling vim-gnome with ruby support
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Compiling things which link to <code>something</code> usually requires <code>something-dev</code> package installed. Do you have <code>ruby-dev</code> installed?</p>\n\n<pre><code>apt-get install ruby-dev\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>should do the trick</p>\n", "commentCount": "0...
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61144
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2011-09-13T00:58:58.083
15
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<p>Recently I've bought my dream's notebook, a Dell XPS 15 but since then this dream became a kind of endless nightmare.</p> <p>I'm almost getting crazy to make my graphic card driver work properly, but it seems to be just impossible. Yes, I have a <strong>2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 540m (Optimus)</strong> in it! It simpl...
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2012-01-04T00:18:27.057
2014-09-19T23:22:45.623
How do I get HDMI output working on a Dell XPS 15 L502x?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have the same problem (XPS 15 L501). My shortcut (because it is not a solution!) was to use the mini display port output. With it, you can use the second monitor (projector, etc.).\nI tried also Bumblebee and Ironhide, but the problem is still there.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/844307\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/844307</a></p>\n\n<p>I've filed a bug reagarding this issue.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", ...
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61146
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2011-09-13T01:43:33.100
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<p>I installed supertuxcart and can't figure out how to launch it or how to get Unity to point to it.<br> (My system is AMD 939 4400x2, overclocked@2600mhz, DFI LANParty UT expert motherboard, 2x1Gig khx 400-xfx 7600 512mbx2 SLI, sata1 320Gig root sata1 400Gig, both Seagates.)</p>
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2011-09-13T03:01:25.307
2011-09-13T03:01:25.307
I installed supertuxcart and can't figure out how to launch it
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Pressing <code>Alt-F2</code> and starting to type \"supertux...\" should show it in the search results.</p>\n\n<p>Alternatively, you can right-click on the Applications button (a magnifying glass icon, third from the bottom), select Games category and click on Show all result...
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2011-09-13T02:36:34.340
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<p>Any command-line download accelerator/manager recommendations for Ubuntu 11.04? I tried some programs like </p> <ol> <li><a href="http://wilmer.gaa.st/main.php/axel.html" rel="noreferrer">Axel</a> </li> <li>wget/curl</li> </ol> <p>I wanted to know if there are any command-line download managers which have a "resum...
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2011-12-31T19:35:37.063
2011-12-31T19:35:37.063
Any recommendations for a command-line download manager?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><code>wget</code>, that is installed by default, has such a feature through the <code>-c</code> option:</p>\n\n<pre><code> -c\n --continue\n Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This is useful when\n you want to finish up a download started by a prev...
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2011-09-13T03:04:24.310
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<p>My laptop's specs:</p> <ul> <li>Lenovo IdeaPad Z570</li> <li>Intel Core i5-2410M @ 2.3Ghz</li> <li>6 Gb RAM DDR3</li> <li>640 Gb ATAPI Hard-disk Drive @ 5,200 RPM</li> <li>NVIDIA GeForce G520M with Optimus switching technology</li> <li>Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter</li> <li>REALTEK soundcard</li> <li>Windows 7 H...
35831
35831
2011-12-06T17:42:24.033
2012-01-08T11:30:45.377
Blank screen after GRUB (64 bit) - cannot install Ubuntu
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-13T07:56:53.387", "id": "70010", "postId": "61155", "score": "0", "text": "Dowoad the alternate cd, ans try to install with that one, then you can search on synaptica for the ubuntu studio meta packages.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4203" }, { ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I've bought brand new z570 with 6GB RAM and 750GB HDD and managed to install Kubuntu 11.10 x86_64. Here is some tips:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>I've seen distorted text in grub menu only if bios boot menu appear before you get to GRUB. I advice you to adjust boot priority and put C...
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2012-03-05T17:58:04.777
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2011-09-13T05:12:54.653
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<p>I'm currently using Natty. I've used adobe's version of flash found on their website, the one found in the depository, and finally the one from sevenmachines ppa. All the flash plugins have the same issue: the video on youtube and the playback controls fail to load. The audio works just fine, as does the html page i...
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2014-03-16T20:49:08.993
2014-03-16T20:49:08.993
Youtube fails to load video
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-13T06:01:27.383", "id": "69998", "postId": "61160", "score": "1", "text": "Please look at this thread at [ubuntuforums.org](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515470)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "18887" }, { "creationDate": "2011-09-13T1...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>While nitstorm's answer might fix your problem temporarily, I suggest going another route:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://chrome.google.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Chrome</a> has its own built-in, auto-updated version of chrome. Might be worth a look.</p>\n\n<p>Also, if it's ju...
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2014-03-17T03:25:01.407
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61161
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2011-09-13T06:13:57.440
1
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<p>Someone has shared a Picasa web album (Limited, anyone with the link), but I can't download it to Picasa. The following alert appears:</p> <blockquote> <p>Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (picasa) isn't associated with any program.</p> </blockquote> <p>I have Picasa 3.0.0 ins...
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2011-09-13T06:30:07.570
2011-12-03T21:56:42.797
Can't download web photo albums to Picasa
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-14T19:30:34.957", "id": "70363", "postId": "61161", "score": "0", "text": "Reinstalling the Picasa application did not help...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11301" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-23T13:44:19.513", "id": "80973", "postId": ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I added a new mimetype to make it works</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.ajopaul.com/2011/08/07/ubuntu-fix-for-firefox-to-download-picasa-albums/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ajopaul.com/2011/08/07/ubuntu-fix-for-firefox-to-download-picasa-albums/</a>\nWorked for me :)</p>\n\n...
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61162
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2011-09-13T06:22:13.917
1
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<p>How to Configure/Install <a href="http://hotspotshield.com/" rel="nofollow">HotSpotShield</a> under Ubuntu 11.04; </p> <p>Are there any other OpenSource VPN <strike>thru which we can see sites like <a href="http://www.hulu.com" rel="nofollow">www.hulu.com</a> which are restricted outside of USA especially thru ubu...
23706
6005
2012-02-29T13:08:09.530
2012-11-25T16:43:45.463
How to Configure/Install HotSpotShield?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't think you will find many good free proxies/VPN servers that aren't blocked by Hulu. You may want to consider a paid VPN service. HotSpotShield is also not the best choice espessialy on a non-Windows computer.\nYou should also consider that you are violating the Hulu T...
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61166
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2011-09-13T07:13:06.297
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<p>I have ubuntu 11.04 on my Dell Inspiron</p> <p>I did an upgrade using following commands</p> <pre><code>apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade </code></pre> <p>Now on restarting the system, the latest kernel version does not boot up, leaving me with blinking caps light. It seems like system just hang...
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2011-09-18T05:37:17.290
2011-09-18T05:37:17.290
kernel update failed using apt-get dist-upgrade
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>According to the picture the system can't boot because the kernel is unable to mount the root filesystem on sda7.</p>\n\n<p>The most likely cause is that grub isn't properly configured for the new kernel. Boot from the old kernel, open a terminal and type:</p>\n\n<pre><code>s...
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2011-09-13T07:20:43.910
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<p>I know that launchpad has the policy of only allowing upload of source packages on PPA's (as also explained <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/13956/2952">here</a>).</p> <p>Yet, a python .deb package has all the source in it and it seems silly that one cannot use the <a href="https://github.com/astraw/stdeb" rel="nof...
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2017-04-13T12:24:00.547
2022-04-12T19:32:56.397
How to use stdeb with Launchpad?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-14T20:30:08.963", "id": "70377", "postId": "61168", "score": "0", "text": "Another option is [pkgme](http://jameswestby.net/weblog/tech/23-pkgme-handles-packaging-for-you.html); don't know much about the pros and cons.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1116...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Looking at the README for that package, it supports building a Debian source package from your Python package via either the <code>py2dsc</code> utility or the <code>sdist_dsc</code> distutils command.</p>\n\n<p>Once you've got a Debian source package, you should be able to u...
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2011-09-13T09:13:26.317
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<p>The best I could find via Google/<code>man ls</code> was:</p> <pre><code>ls -l | grep -v '^total' </code></pre> <p>Is there something I'm missing in the flags to <code>ls</code>?</p> <p><del>Also, why is the total size in kb, regardless of the -h flag?</del> scratch that, seems like it does, not sure what I was s...
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2011-09-18T09:57:03.493
2023-07-12T05:33:39.017
What's the easiest way to remove the "total <size>" line from the output of ls -l?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Looking in the source code of <code>coreutils</code>, I found out that <code>total</code> will always be displayed when using the <code>-l</code> option on <em>directories</em>.</p>\n\n<p>Using the <code>-d</code> option to list entries instead of directory contents hides <code>total...
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61179
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2011-09-13T09:22:27.803
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<p><strong>If I want to find the latest file (mtime) in a (big) directory containing subdirectories, how would I do it?</strong></p> <p>Lots of posts I've found suggest some variation of <code>ls -lt | head</code> (amusingly, many suggest <code>ls -ltr | tail</code> which is the same but less efficient) which is fine ...
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2014-01-17T02:10:34.487
2015-03-11T14:50:58.467
Find the latest file by modified date
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You do not need to recur to external commands (as <code>ls</code>) because <code>find</code> can do all you need through the <code>-printf</code> action:</p>\n\n<pre><code>find /path -printf '%T+ %p\\n' | sort -r | head\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { ...
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2011-09-13T10:05:22.127
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<p>The playback speed reverts to 1x with every new video in a playlist, however, this isn't the behavior I want. Is there a way to make a selected playback speed persist throughout an entire playlist without re-encoding all the media?</p>
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2011-09-13T10:12:32.287
2011-09-13T12:22:25.737
Persisting increased playback speed between videos in VLC
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Follow these steps to get it done.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>open vlc.</p></li>\n<li><p>in the menu select tools -> preferences</p></li>\n<li><p>Scroll down and select the all button under \"Show Settings\"</p></li>\n<li><p>Click the \"Input/ Codecs\" and then scroll down</p></li>\n<li><p>...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Follow these steps to get it done.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>open vlc.</p></li>\n<li><p>in the menu select tools -> preferences</p></li>\n<li><p>Scroll down and select the all button under \"Show Settings\"</p></li>\n<li><p>Click the \"Input/ Codecs\" and then scroll down</p></li>\...
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61231
2011-09-13T10:20:29.033
1
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<p>I want to change the startup parameters of tomcat6 on ubuntu, running as a service. I want to give it more memory.</p> <p>What is the best way to do this?</p>
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2011-09-13T14:58:47.777
How to configure tomcat6 service
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The answer <a href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/286007/how-to-tune-tomcat-5-5-jvm-memory-settings-without-using-the-configuration-progra\">here</a> worked for you according to the comments.</p>\n\n<p>I would normally include the essential parts of the answer to avoid linkrot...
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2011-09-13T11:28:33.617
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<p>From what I read, when mounting a network share via nautilus or <code>gvfs-mount</code> the mount point should be in <code>~/.gvfs</code>. This seems not to be the case for me: I tried mounting both an FTP and SMB share via both nautilus and <code>gvfs-mount</code> under both Ubuntu Maverick and Natty and in none of...
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22375
2012-12-21T21:16:49.130
2016-09-28T02:03:10.887
Why do my gvfs mounts not show up under ~/.gvfs or /run/user/<login>/gvfs?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-13T13:51:57.920", "id": "70077", "postId": "61196", "score": "2", "text": "Can you show the output of `mount | grep gvfs`?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2647" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The <code>~/.gvfs</code> directory should be a FUSE mount handled by the <code>gvfs-fuse-daemon</code> process. If the directory appears to be empty, it would indicate that <code>gvfs-fuse-daemon</code> did not start correctly.</p>\n\n<p>You could try starting it manually with the f...
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2011-09-13T12:16:13.800
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<p>How can I make my grub screen look like that of Ubuntu Light. I would like to have a GRUB menu similar to this picture:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oxo1y.jpg" alt="http://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/UbuntuLight1.jpg"></p>
24871
18612
2011-09-13T12:22:48.703
2011-09-13T12:22:48.703
How to have a grub like in Ubuntu-Light?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>That looks like a <a href=\"http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/beautiful-burg-boot-loader-gets-ubuntu-11-04-ppa/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BURG</a> theme. I'm not sure where you could get the theme itself, but you could probably find something at <a href=\"http://gnome-look.org\" re...
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61208
1
61314
2011-09-13T12:56:58.633
2
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<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/61026/moving-the-usr-directory-to-a-different-partition">I was able to move <code>/usr</code>to an external harddrive</a>. In fstab I mistakenly mounted the drive with <code>nosuid</code>. Now I can't use <code>sudo</code> or <code>su</code>. I can't edit the <code>fstab</cod...
24832
-1
2017-04-13T12:24:49.590
2011-09-14T08:13:26.453
how to recover from mounting /usr/ nosuid
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I'm probably late to the party, but recently I learned that having <code>/usr</code> on a separate partition is not such a good idea anyway - some things during the early Linux boot expect <code>/usr</code> to be available - so generally there will be silent failures unless you also ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I am exactly not sure if I understood you right but I think you may could reboot your machine and go in grub in the recovery mode and create a new user or use your normal user and give him back his admin/sudo permissions but I may understood your wrong. Just a question at las...
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61212
1
61223
2011-09-13T13:15:36.637
3
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<p>Im trying to configure my Lucid 10.04.03 in order to work with Sip phones;</p> <p>Actually, Ekiga and <a href="http://jitsi.org/" rel="nofollow">Jitsi</a>* works fine, except for the call transfer/forward, <strong>that is very important for me</strong>.</p> <p>With Ekiga, i press first H to hole, then T to transfe...
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2014-12-24T21:49:02.547
2014-12-24T21:49:02.547
Call transfer/forward with Ekiga/Jitsi?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I didn't try the others recently but I have twinkle working very well here with call transfer since 2007 on many machines. Does your PBX (or sip provider) is configured/allow call transfer?</p>\n\n<p>Update:</p>\n\n<p>Transferring with twinkle:</p>\n\n<p>1) Attended transfer:</p>\n\n...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I didn't try the others recently but I have twinkle working very well here with call transfer since 2007 on many machines. Does your PBX (or sip provider) is configured/allow call transfer?</p>\n\n<p>Update:</p>\n\n<p>Transferring with twinkle:</p>\n\n<p>1) Attended transfer:...
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61217
1
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2011-09-13T13:34:10.490
1
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<p>I need to access my files on my NAS.</p> <p>Specifically how do I access my NAS from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/54502/how-do-i-install-sheetmaker">Sheetmaker</a> - I need to access the movies' folders through the home network ? </p> <p>That's not a problem for Thumbgen in Windows, but Sheetmaker hasn...
20809
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2017-04-13T12:24:49.590
2012-06-05T20:30:00.340
How do I access my NAS from an application?
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61221
1
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2011-09-13T13:48:58.847
2
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<p>Yesterday I bought a new laptop with 4GB RAM. When I installed Ubuntu 11.10 (beta) it is showing 1.5GiB (2GB-512MB graphics) ignoring the 2GB.</p> <p><code>uname -a</code>:</p> <pre><code>Linux js 3.0.0-11-generic-pae #17-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 9 19:38:01 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux </code></pre> <p><code>dmi...
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19490
2011-09-16T08:35:27.400
2011-09-16T10:55:33.743
Why is my system showing Less Memory (RAM) than is actually installed?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Check in the BIOS if it recognizes those 4GB, if not, then you have to check if they are right in the memory slot, and check if those memories are indeed 4GB in total (could be just one or two memory cards).</p>\n\n<p>If BIOS recognize 4 GB then.. are you using a 32 or 64 bit...
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2011-09-16T14:54:39.843
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61222
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2011-09-13T13:51:43.940
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<p>I created a public/private key to authenticate myself to my web server via ssh, and that seemed to work fine at the time.</p> <p>Since, every time I try to log on via ssh I have a heart attack because I get the infamous "Permission denied (public key)" message. I can try as many times as I like, but it does not log...
24921
235
2011-10-01T14:41:43.980
2011-10-02T02:40:31.810
Why does rsa key authentication only work when samba access is made?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This seems like it is an issue with your home directory being encrypted. ssh cannot read your key when the home directory has not been decrypted. When you log in from a local terminal (or samba) it decrypts your directory. The same is true with logging in with ssh using passw...
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61224
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2011-09-13T14:18:05.377
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<p>Are there ways to keep this at a minimum or to limit it to only when necessary?</p> <p>This is from <code>powertop</code>.</p> <p>I suppose with Firefox there is not much that can be done unless history/cookies/cache/etc are set to never be saved.</p> <pre><code>The program 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'webap...
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2012-11-21T22:21:44.370
2012-11-21T22:21:44.370
How to limit apps from writing too often and logging too much to disk?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think if the app haven't got a option for this you only can remove them on your own I would recommend a logrotate script or did I understand your question wrong? With a logrotate script you could automate this. If I am wrong please correct me.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2...
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61228
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2011-09-13T14:32:45.187
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<p>This problem has me stumped, but I am sure someone out there has some ideas...</p> <p>On my desktop machine, I have 2 DVD drives. Both are ATA drives. One is a DVD-RW DL; the other is just a DVD ROM. Under both Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 I am seeing the same symptoms from both drives.</p> <p>When I first boot the s...
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2011-09-15T01:29:07.577
2011-09-15T01:29:07.577
DVD Drives Slow Down after Machine Runs for Several Hours
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If no one know the solution I think that maybe doing the following ones when the dvd drive is fast and ones when the dvd drive is slow maybe helps you:<br>\n<code>sudo hdparm -i /dev/sr0</code></p>\n\n<p>It could also not help you. We will see. :)</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "co...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If no one know the solution I think that maybe doing the following ones when the dvd drive is fast and ones when the dvd drive is slow maybe helps you:<br>\n<code>sudo hdparm -i /dev/sr0</code></p>\n\n<p>It could also not help you. We will see. :)</p>\n", "commentCount": ...
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1
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2011-09-13T15:04:56.160
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<p>To be able to boot Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.10 in my new Lenovo L5210 with Intel Sandy Bridge I need to set <code>GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text</code> in grub options. Otherwise I only get a black screen with a cursor in the upper left corner.</p> <p>When I set <code>GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text</code>, instead of the cursor ...
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34756
2019-07-17T22:00:01.830
2019-07-17T22:00:01.830
What exactly does GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text do?
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/gfxpayload.html\"><strong>13.1.9 gfxpayload</strong></a></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>If this variable is set, it controls the video mode in which the Linux kernel starts up, replacing the ‘vga=’ boot option (see <a hre...
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61235
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2011-09-13T15:11:53.917
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<p>What are the known issues when setting GRUB to boot with <strong>noapic</strong>? How does the setting affect the system or programs in it?</p> <p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/52096/what-do-the-different-boot-options-mean-i-e-acpi-off-noapic-nolapic-etc">This quick answer</a> explains what <strong>noapi...
24793
-1
2017-04-13T12:24:49.530
2013-04-24T19:11:36.677
How GRUB setting noapic affects the system?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Varies from system-to-system. Some reports of USB issues have been made.</p>\n\n<p>Have you tried booting with <code>apic=debug</code> and posting the logs and <code>dmesg</code> output etc?</p>\n\n<p>Upgrading the BIOS might provide a fix to the issue that causes apic to fa...
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61236
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2011-09-13T15:16:39.170
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<p>I've been looking around and following guides to get it working, but haven't gotten anything that works.</p> <p>Here's some information:</p> <p><code>lsusb</code>:</p> <pre><code>Bus 003 Device 003: ID 056a:006a Wacom Co., Ltd </code></pre> <p><code>dmesg | tail</code> (disconnecting and reconnecting the tablet...
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2012-10-28T01:06:43.083
2012-10-28T01:06:43.083
Installing a Wacom Bamboo One Pen (CTE-460)
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-13T20:39:15.520", "id": "70149", "postId": "61236", "score": "0", "text": "I take it you're using Ubuntu 11.04, right? Have you had a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom/LatestDriver?", "userDisplayName": null...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Your tablet isn't supported in 11.04. Both the kernel wacom module and the x11 input driver are missing references to the model of wacom you've shown. If the kernel module ws working for this device you'd see somrthing like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>[420349.922] (II) config/ude...
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2011-09-13T15:25:31.493
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<p>I bought 20+ GB of extra storage on Ubuntu-one. Ubuntu-One CP on my laptop correctly shows the storage available, but then the UbuntuOne folder on my home shows only 3,6Gb available, this creates an error if I try to upload my 10Gbs of data through the Ubuntu-One folder. Anyone can help me out?</p>
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2011-09-13T16:10:23.510
25 GB available not shown in UbuntuOne home folder
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This means that there is 3.6 GB available locally, on the partition where a copy of your cloud-stored files is stored. So to actually use these 20 GB of space you have on the cloud, you need 20 GB of free space on the partition where Ubuntu One keeps your local copy of your c...
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61240
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2011-09-13T15:41:00.190
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11993/how-do-i-install-bcm4312-wireless-drivers">How do I install BCM4312 wireless drivers?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/MasterMode" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WifiDo...
24276
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2017-04-13T12:23:44.520
2012-01-03T23:42:30.633
How to set master mode on BCM4312 to share internet from 3G USB modem
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2012-03-02T18:09:34.553
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2011-09-13T16:09:44.560
0
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<p>I'm using Tera Term, a Windows virtual terminal emulator with Wine due to a legacy application. Everything else works wonderfully, but for some reason the window requires two clicks to gain focus. After being minimized it at first comes to the foreground and only becomes focused when its "tab" is pressed again on th...
10667
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2011-09-13T17:57:34.733
2011-09-13T17:57:34.733
Wine application in Gnome requires an extra click to become focused
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CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-13T17:33:20.697", "id": "70120", "postId": "61242", "score": "0", "text": "can you explain why you need tera-term - there are better linux based terminal emulators such as Putty - what doesnt work when you use a linux based terminal emulator?", "userDisplayName": n...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This could between wine and compiz. Wine doesn't get along with compiz very well. You could switch from compiz to metacity. I don't know what exactly you are doing but you could use another terminal program like mincom. Here the source for the problem: </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"ht...
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2012-03-06T15:56:14.347
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61245
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61247
2011-09-13T17:03:40.693
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<p>In Unity, when running an application as a superuser, the menu is in the old-style. It's not integrated in the global menu. Why?</p>
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2011-09-13T17:09:22.667
2011-09-13T17:48:50.073
Why superuser don't have global menu integration?
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2011-09-13T17:57:19.967
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61248
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2011-09-13T17:53:22.500
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<p>I want to add a couple of blogs (mainly blogspots) to evolution. I already installed the RSS plugin and looked up what url I need to give in for the rss feed (via <a href="http://davesaunders.net/2009/01/how-...-blogger-blog/" rel="noreferrer">http://davesaunders.net/2009/01/how-...-blogger-blog/</a></p> <p>In this...
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2011-09-13T17:58:50.290
2021-06-07T18:24:20.470
How do I add an RSS feed in Evolution?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You might be the victim of <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-rss/+bug/773763\" rel=\"nofollow\">this bug</a></p>\n\n<p><em>A short excerpt of the bug summary:</em></p>\n\n<pre><code>I use ubuntu 11.04.\nThe version of evolution is : 2.32.2-0ubuntu7\nThe ve...
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61254
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2011-09-13T18:22:24.590
23
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<p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit with <code>gcc 4.4.3</code> currently installed on it. I want to upgrade it to <code>gcc/g++ 4.7</code> (I am looking for C++ 0x support)</p> <p>How to update using Ubuntu Package Manager:</p> <pre><code>apt-get upgrade/install ?? </code></pre> <p>As a second option I downloaded the lat...
24932
15811
2011-09-13T18:45:46.140
2020-11-28T15:14:39.657
How to update gcc to the latest version(in this case 4.7) in Ubuntu 10.04?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<h2>12.04</h2>\n<p>Add the toolchain ppa test repository, then do apt-get update, and apt-get dist-upgrade</p>\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install g++-4.7 c++-4.7\n</code></pre>\n<p>This is only available in ...
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61271
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2011-09-13T19:50:05.477
1
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<p>First off I'd like to say that I am sort of new to Linux in general. I recently bought a new Sony Vaio laptop (model VPC-EG16FM/B) and I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on it but I am having problems enabling the wireless in Ubuntu and when I did a wired connection to look for a proprietary driver to enable the wireless Ubu...
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2011-09-13T20:11:29.543
2011-09-13T20:15:33.250
Wireless doesn't work on a Centrino Wireless N chip in a Sony Vaio VPC-EG16FM/B
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>According <a href=\"https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/168481\" rel=\"nofollow\">to this</a> you need to blacklist the acer-wmi module, first edit the blacklist file with a text editor:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist...
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61276
1
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2011-09-13T20:31:06.133
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<p>I think the title sums up the question. I want to install Ubuntu via EFI, but I don't want to eliminate the OSX partition either (and I'd still like to be able to boot either).</p>
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2012-04-28T22:58:53.557
Can you dual boot OSX and Ubuntu if Ubuntu is Installed via EFI and not something like rEFIt?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) supports booting from EFI as explained by this <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu community wiki</a>.</p>\n\n<p>\"From Ubuntu 11.04 onwards (x86_64 only), the ISO CD supports UEFI booting and the Ubuntu insta...
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61279
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61327
2011-09-13T20:36:37.273
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<p>I would like to have an application (most likely AWN or Docky) start only on XFCE, and not on KDE or Unity/GNOME. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about doing that?</p>
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2011-09-14T04:20:42.413
How do I make an application start only in XFCE?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Write the following script, replacing <code>launch_app</code> with the command that launches the application you want to launch at session start.</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\nif [ \"$DESKTOP_SESSION\" = \"xfce\" ]; then\n launch_app\nfi\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Give the script execu...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Write the following script, replacing <code>launch_app</code> with the command that launches the application you want to launch at session start.</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\nif [ \"$DESKTOP_SESSION\" = \"xfce\" ]; then\n launch_app\nfi\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Give the scri...
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2011-09-13T20:42:00.663
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<p>This question has already been asked and answered for GTK-2.0 here ( <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29209/disable-resize-gripper-in-windows">Disable resize gripper in windows?</a> ) but I couldn't find a way to achieve this on GTK-3.0 (on Oneiric Ocelot).</p> <p>I've seen the answer on the above link wher...
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2017-04-13T12:24:49.590
2012-12-14T19:53:07.540
How to remove the resize grip in gtk3 windows?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I could disable the resize grips by putting into <code>~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css</code> the following code:</p>\n\n<pre><code>* {\n -GtkWindow-resize-grip-default: false;\n}\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>or similarly to .gtkrc-2.0</p>\n\n<pre><code>* {\n -GtkWindow-resize-grip-height: 0...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I could disable the resize grips by putting into <code>~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css</code> the following code:</p>\n\n<pre><code>* {\n -GtkWindow-resize-grip-default: false;\n}\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>or similarly to .gtkrc-2.0</p>\n\n<pre><code>* {\n -GtkWindow-resize-grip-h...
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2011-09-13T20:49:47.193
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<p>Via command line, I have a log file I'd like to keep track of.</p> <p>What I want is to have, basically, a <code>tail</code> that refreshes when the log is updated making the text scroll upwards as new lines are appended to the log file.</p> <p>Is there anything out there that does that without having to write som...
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2011-10-08T16:52:57.897
2014-01-18T11:40:06.853
Displaying a "scrolling" log file
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>tail</code> has the <code>-f</code> option:</p>\n\n<p><sub>From the <code>man</code> page:</sub></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>-f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]\n output appended data as the file grows; -f, --follow,\n and --follow=descriptor are equivalent</p>\n</bl...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>tail</code> has the <code>-f</code> option:</p>\n\n<p><sub>From the <code>man</code> page:</sub></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>-f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]\n output appended data as the file grows; -f, --follow,\n and --follow=descriptor are equivalent</...
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61284
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2011-09-13T20:51:04.627
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<p>When I view <code>http://localhost/</code> in Google Chrome, it tries to download the homepage as a file, and doesn't display it. I tried <code>http://localhost/</code> in Firefox 4 and it works fine. </p> <p>In Chrome though, loading <code>http://127.0.0.1</code> displays my website [which is PHP btw]. </p> <p>1...
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2011-09-13T22:56:44.163
2011-09-13T22:56:44.163
PHP scripts are being downloaded from localhost instead of displayed
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This actually isn't anything <em>wrong</em> with the browser, per se. As I suspect, you created a php file - went to run it form the browser and it downloaded. So you went off, installed <code>php5</code> and <code>mod_php5</code> (and various other php packages) then tried again and...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This actually isn't anything <em>wrong</em> with the browser, per se. As I suspect, you created a php file - went to run it form the browser and it downloaded. So you went off, installed <code>php5</code> and <code>mod_php5</code> (and various other php packages) then tried a...
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2011-09-13T21:17:06.500
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<p>I have installed 11.04 Ubuntu. I can play music i can listen. But i cant use the microphone input, i tried with alsamixer + pavucontrol+(arecord -d 10 /tmp/test.wav), pavumeter (apt-get install pavumeter), also tried with all related settings. But microphone audio does not get captured.</p> <p>What can be the issue...
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2011-10-19T19:30:07.197
2011-10-19T19:30:07.197
How to verify if my microphone input is dead or ubuntu not detected it yet? I can hear music but i cant record audio
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To test the microphone, you can plug the speaker in the mic input, maximize the input volume and see if you get something with audio preferences on the input tab (input level bar). Most speaker will work as a very bad microphone.\nIf you don't get anything, probably your input is not...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To test the microphone, you can plug the speaker in the mic input, maximize the input volume and see if you get something with audio preferences on the input tab (input level bar). Most speaker will work as a very bad microphone.\nIf you don't get anything, probably your inpu...
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2011-09-13T21:25:33.340
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<p>I have tried as following:</p> <pre><code>1. Turn off: export DISPLAY=:0.0 &amp;&amp; xset dpms force off 2. Turn on: export DISPLAY=:0.0 &amp;&amp; xset -dpms </code></pre> <p>Which works but that is a temporary solution, which does not fix my problem yet. When i reboot system it start again and again the same a...
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2011-09-18T09:04:41.190
2017-07-04T11:23:06.157
How to permanently disable monitor power saver using the command line?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<pre>#!/bin/bash\nexport DISPLAY=:0.0\n\nif [ $# -eq 0 ]; then\n echo usage: $(basename $0) \"on|off|status\"\n exit 1\nfi\n\nif [ $1 = \"off\" ]; then\n echo -en \"Turning monitor off...\"\n xset dpms force off\n echo -en \"done.\\nCheck:\"\n xset -q|grep \"Monitor is\"\nelif [ $...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<pre>#!/bin/bash\nexport DISPLAY=:0.0\n\nif [ $# -eq 0 ]; then\n echo usage: $(basename $0) \"on|off|status\"\n exit 1\nfi\n\nif [ $1 = \"off\" ]; then\n echo -en \"Turning monitor off...\"\n xset dpms force off\n echo -en \"done.\\nCheck:\"\n xset -q|grep \"Monitor is\"\n...
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2011-09-13T21:48:27.093
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<p>I use cacoo.com that is developed in Flash (a tool to make diagrams).</p> <p>Running it in Windows works fine. But in Ubuntu, it seems that it can't access the system clipboard, blocking actions like <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Z</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd>,<kbd>V</kbd>, etc., which I believe need to access the ...
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2011-10-16T04:40:03.323
2013-07-25T10:25:17.743
Allowing Flash to access the clipboard
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2011-09-13T22:32:16.233
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<p>I find that a lot of the time if I copy some text for example and then close the window being copied from, the paste function does not paste anything.</p> <p>I've noticed this in Ubuntu 9.04 right up until present version. Is there a work around for this? Is there any reason why the developers are not looking into ...
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2012-05-10T02:22:15.640
2012-11-24T12:39:25.100
Why is Ubuntu's clipboard so hit and miss?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You may want to review the Ubuntu Wiki's article on <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence\">clipboard persistence</a>, as it discusses the problem and how to get around it using clipboard managers.</p>\n\n<p>This issue also happens to be a well-known, 7-year-old <a h...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You may want to review the Ubuntu Wiki's article on <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence\">clipboard persistence</a>, as it discusses the problem and how to get around it using clipboard managers.</p>\n\n<p>This issue also happens to be a well-known, 7-year-...
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2011-09-13T22:41:52.590
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<p>How do I check my whether my Ubuntu is 32-bit or 64-bit and whether or not it is using full RAM? I'm concerned that because my system is 32-bit it isn't using the maximum OS-supported RAM. It says my PC has 8GB RAM, but how do I verify it is using or detecting this as 8GB RAM?</p> <p>Regarding Sotanaht's answer: t...
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2013-03-21T05:50:55.943
2013-03-21T12:37:36.180
How do I check how much physical RAM I am using in GB or MB format?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>PAE means your kernel is 32-bit but it's configured to use Physical Address Extension so the whole OS can use all your physical memory. The limitation of PAE, however, is that no application alone can use more than 4Gb of memory.</p>\n\n<p>See the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
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2011-09-13T23:36:55.267
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<p>After the installation of electricsheep, the screensaver won't work: it starts fading to black then, when it should display the screensaver, it suddenly goes back to desktop. I read that disabling compiz should fix this behaviour but I don't want to go 2d-unity. I'm using Natty. Any suggestion?</p>
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2012-02-02T03:39:17.627
electricsheep screensaver won't start
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I found a whole lot of posts talking about this kind of problem: it doesn't seems to be related to electrisheep but to gnome-screensaver itself.</p>\n\n<p>I tried with some stock screensavers experiencing the same behaviour: I then installed XScreenSaver and it works like a charm (go...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I found a whole lot of posts talking about this kind of problem: it doesn't seems to be related to electrisheep but to gnome-screensaver itself.</p>\n\n<p>I tried with some stock screensavers experiencing the same behaviour: I then installed XScreenSaver and it works like a c...
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2011-09-14T00:44:59.553
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<p>Occasionally, when I recover from s2disk, I get stuck with the following image being displayed on the monitor:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeD9Z.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>The only way out seems to be power cycling the machine.</p> <p>It's an ASUS K42Jr laptop running Ubuntu 10...
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2011-09-14T14:03:54.510
Problem recovering from s2disk
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you can go to a command line using <kbd>Alt</kbd>-<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>F1</kbd> then restart X. Else rebooting is the only options.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-09-14T15:46:12.127", "id": "70289", ...
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2011-09-14T01:52:51.577
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<p>Why <code>CharMap</code> in Ubuntu 11.04 for lydian not showing up the correct character set. I checked couple of different character sets(Javanese), its showing up the same boxed hexdecimal values.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhGT2.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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2014-01-24T20:43:00.973
2014-01-24T20:43:00.973
Why CharMap in Ubuntu for lydian not showing up the correct character set
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Obviously your font has no support for this codepoint. The site <a href=\"http://fileformat.info/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">FileFormat.info</a> is a good resource to find information about Unicode characters and fonts. If you look up the <a href=\"http://www.fileformat.in...
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2011-09-14T02:38:59.460
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<p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 in Toshiba NB255-SP1002M 32 bits mini-notebook. I have installed Webex and its plugging sun java 6k and another utilities, following the next indications: </p> <p><a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/webex-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/" rel="nofollow">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/201...
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2011-09-14T03:19:51.217
I request any troubleshooting for the audio in Webex
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>A first step to diagnose this would be to start the application from console, something like </p>\n\n<pre><code>java -jar WhateverTheNameOfTheApp.jar\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>try to use it and see what messages are printed when the error occurs. </p>\n\n<p>This may be a bit trick...
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2011-09-14T03:22:11.723
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<p>I have recently <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence#Why_does_this_happen.3F" rel="nofollow">read about how Xorg is to blame</a> for the <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/11334" rel="nofollow">infamous bug</a> in which a user cannot copy and paste from a window after they have closed i...
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2012-05-10T02:37:14.350
2012-05-10T02:37:14.350
Will the switch to Wayland fix not being able to paste from closed windows?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Well, I don't think it's a bug as such, it's rather a feature which has some unintended consequences :) Moreover, my understanding is that other \"clipboard managers\", i.e. in <a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms649029%28v=vs.85%29.aspx\" rel=\"nofoll...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Well, I don't think it's a bug as such, it's rather a feature which has some unintended consequences :) Moreover, my understanding is that other \"clipboard managers\", i.e. in <a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms649029%28v=vs.85%29.aspx\" rel=...
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2011-09-14T03:59:10.560
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<p>I've set up both mediatomb and minidlna on my ubuntu 10.04 PC. They both stream media perfectly to my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) and Google TV (Logitech Revue) using UPNP. Yet my laptop (Ubuntu 11.04), does not see my PC's services on the network.</p> <h2>Update</h2> <p>Forgot to mention that, on my laptop, I...
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2011-09-14T09:54:54.447
2014-09-27T15:43:19.227
Problems streaming UPNP/DLNA from Ubuntu machine
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>What software are you using as a client? Or are you looking for a software recommendation?</p>\n\n<p>If you are after a software recommendation, Ubuntu's default movie player (Totem) can act as a DLNA player if you install the <code>totem-plugins-extra</code> package. Once ...
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2011-09-14T04:09:50.763
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<p>My University is using a WPA2 Enterprise network, it has these properties:</p> <p>Authentication: <code>PEAP (Version 0)</code><br /> Inner Authentication: <code>MSCHAPv2</code></p> <p>Connecting to the wifi is almost impossible all the time. But sometimes it does connect. But only stays connected for 20-30 minute...
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2012-02-27T04:11:12.187
2012-02-27T04:11:12.187
Difficulty connecting to a WPA2 Enterprise network, then disconnects after 20-30 minutes
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2012-04-02T15:49:32.027
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2011-09-14T05:52:34.807
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<p>I'm <a href="https://launchpad.net/unity-mail" rel="nofollow">Unity Mail</a> developer and I wonder if it's possible to add a shortcut to Messaging Menu from within the application (it's written in Python).</p> <p>I need to connect it's <code>user-display</code> to a function in the application. For example, this i...
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9781
2011-10-16T10:10:21.327
2011-10-16T10:10:21.327
Dynamic shortcuts for Messaging Menu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Yes, though the hand built bindings don't expose it, you'll have to use the GObject Introspected bindings to do it. Unfortunately, there isn't a tutorial that uses those yet.</p>\n\n<p>To do this you'll need to get your IndicateServer and call set_menu on it. Which takes as a param...
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2011-09-14T06:23:16.807
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<p>I'm running Oneiric 64-bit, and since I've upgraded I notice Synaptic has split the repositories into 64-bit and 32-bit, but it's downloading archive lists for both of them, taking twice the time as before. Can anyone explain why this is and whether I can stop it?</p>
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2011-10-20T22:56:10.407
2015-09-13T07:29:08.707
Why is synaptic downloading packages for both amd64 and i386?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>oneiric now has support for multi-architecture packages. So, even though you are using a 64-bit system, you can now install 32-bit packages on it. Earlier, this was not possible. Currently, this support is also available in Debian Wheezy, which will be released sometime in 2012-2013....
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>oneiric now has support for multi-architecture packages. So, even though you are using a 64-bit system, you can now install 32-bit packages on it. Earlier, this was not possible. Currently, this support is also available in Debian Wheezy, which will be released sometime in 20...
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2011-09-14T06:52:06.837
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<p>I installed KDE desktop on my Ubuntu: </p> <pre><code>root@DESKTOP:/var/log# dpkg -l|fgrep -i kde-plasma-desktop ii kde-plasma-desktop 5:63ubuntu16 the KDE Plasma Desktop and minimal set of applications root@DESKTOP:/var/log# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are avai...
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2012-05-04T18:56:10.330
What is the screen locking mechanism under KDE?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>For systems running KDE 4.x that will be</p>\n\n<pre><code>qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>For Ubuntu / Gnome: <code>qdbus org.gnome.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock</code></p>\n\n<p>Qdbus as written above, just sends a message on the mes...
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<p>I've installed the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAP" rel="nofollow">headless 11.04 variant</a> of Ubuntu on my pandaboard. Most things seem to work correctly, but when I launch screen bash seems to hang and I must kill it using ctrl-z kill %1 in order to continue.</p> <p>Has anyone been able to use screen ...
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GNU screen hangs on the pandaboard
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<p>Sometimes I clicked this network button:</p> <p><a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/15716721-6fa" rel="nofollow">http://www.divshare.com/download/15716721-6fa</a></p> <p>Why it doesn't work (just like I haven't clicked it)? </p> <p>When it failed, only when I reboot,it works again.</p> <p>Sometimes it fail...
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Why network button not working when I clicked it
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try this when it doesn't work - <code>sudo service network-manager restart</code> . That will restart the network-manager applet. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-09-14T10:11:09...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try this when it doesn't work - <code>sudo service network-manager restart</code> . That will restart the network-manager applet. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2...
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<p>I would like to run Windows 8 within a virtual machine under Ubuntu. <br>My quick attempt with VMware failed. <br>Has anyone reached to run Windows 8 on Ubuntu?</p> <p>ps: Microsoft just released a public preview of Windows 8 -- see <a href="http://dev.windows.com">http://dev.windows.com</a></p>
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How do I run Windows 8 via virtualization?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Virtualbox didn't work for me, but VMWare did.<br>\nSee <a href=\"http://www.mywindowsclub.com/resources/5081-Install-Windows-VMWare-Workstation.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mywindowsclub.com/resources/5081-Install-Windows-VMWare-Workstation.aspx</a> <br>\nmake sure to enable h...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try qemu with 512 MB ram.. by the way before going further check MD5 sum matches the checksum provided by Microsoft. There is a probability that the iso you downloaded is corrupt. </p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-09-14T...
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/17299/color-meanings-in-terminal">Color Meanings in Terminal</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>When I run the</p> <pre><code># ls </code></pre> <p>command, a list of files and folders are returned.</p> <p>Some of them a...
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What do each of the colors of files/folders returned from running the ls command mean in gnome terminal?
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