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754 | 1 | 782 | 2010-08-04T00:35:52.213 | 7 | 671 | <p>Some programs can only be run from within their own directories. If I go to <code>System --> Preferences --> Main Menu --> Add Item</code> and select the file, it will not work. Similarly, if I right click on the Panel and choose "Add to Panel...", choose "Custom Application Launcher," and then point to the file, it will similarly fail. How can I add a launcher to my panel and an entry in my Main Menu that will successfully launch this kind of program?</p>
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756 | 1 | 758 | 2010-08-04T01:27:52.173 | 7 | 13905 | <p>I was under the impression there was a GUI app for changing the Xorg video driver. If so, where is it? I don't see it in 10.04.</p>
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760 | 1 | 761 | 2010-08-04T01:53:29.300 | 8 | 5323 | <p>I've setup Ubuntu via Wubi recently for a friend and he came back with a complaint: On reboots the Windows partition is always selected by default, figured this was just a need to update Grub but realized that Wubi writes to the Windows Boot Manager and does not use Grub.</p>
<p>Though this is technically a "Windows" question I wasn't able to find a clear answer for this.</p>
<p>How to do I modify the boot/selection order for Operating systems (Mainly Ubuntu via Wubi) on the Windows Boot Manager?</p>
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"body": "<p>The <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How%20do%20I%20manually%20uninstall%20Wubi?\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wubi Guide on the Ubuntu wiki (manual uninstall section)</a> gives some hints on how to edit the Windows Boot Manager boot order in Vista and XP.</p>\n\n<p>In <strong>Windows Vista</strong> you can either use <a href=\"http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">EasyBCD</a> or modify the boot menu via <code>Control Panel (Classic View) > System > Advanced system settings</code>; then choose \"Settings...\" under Startup and Recovery.</p>\n\n<p>In <strong>Windows XP</strong>, edit C:\\boot.ini.</p>\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/wubi\" rel=\"nofollow\">this Wubi HowTo</a>, the default OS can be changed in <strong>Windows 7</strong> by going to <code>Control Panel > Advanced System Settings</code>, and in the Default operating system drop-down selecting Ubuntu instead of Windows.</p>\n",
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765 | 1 | 771 | 2010-08-04T04:06:16.070 | 5 | 272 | <p>When I log into my computer, networking is disabled. I always have to enable it so I can connect to the internet. Does anyone know how to set it to enabled by default?</p>
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766 | 1 | 768 | 2010-08-04T04:30:49.817 | 9 | 1368 | <p>I have a media computer which I recently reformatted to Ubuntu 10.04. I am probably just missing something obvious but I can't figure out how to share folders and files, so that I can browse to them on my Windows computers in order to copy files to/from the computer.</p>
<p>How do I do this?</p>
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767 | 1 | 769 | 2010-08-04T05:08:39.627 | 1 | 2446 | <p>As many of you know by now, I'm building a package :)</p>
<p>I am so close to getting it finished so I can upload it to my PPA, but there is still one slight problem: the shared library (.so file) doesn't want to go into the package.</p>
<p>Okay, here is what I have in my control file:</p>
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Source: jsoncpp
Priority: extra
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Section: libs
Homepage: http://jsoncpp.sf.net
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<p>My updated Makefile is <a href="http://pastebin.com/QWGW765S" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>Please let me know if you need further information.</em></p>
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772 | 1 | 785 | 2010-08-04T07:35:07.433 | 3 | 10026 | <p>I'm trying to move to grub2 and while chainloading from legacy grub works fine, I'm not sure how to move completely. Old grub was installed in boot sector of swap partition, /dev/sda3, and was working fine there. I want new grub to be installed there as well but during <code>upgrade-from-grub-legacy</code> it suggest to install at MBR or at ubuntu root partition, /dev/sda4. How do I force it to install at /dev/sda3? Can I just do <code>grub-install '(hd0,3)'</code> instead of <code>upgrade-from-grub-legacy</code>?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/48535/how-to-customize-live-ubuntu-cd">How to customize live Ubuntu CD?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there any GUI tool for that?</p>
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776 | 1 | 780 | 2010-08-04T08:41:40.390 | 89 | 95859 | <p>How I can limit Download/Upload bandwidth for:</p>
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<li>One network interface.</li>
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"text": "wondershaper isn't working I don't know why (even `wondershaper eth0 1000 1000 `has no internet bandwidth. I need to limit all of the eth0 bandwidth not only specific applications. how can in do that?",
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781 | 1 | null | 2010-08-04T10:32:56.117 | 5 | 2310 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/155679/how-to-enable-numlock-at-boot-time-for-login-screen">How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?</a> </p>
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784 | 1 | 794 | 2010-08-04T11:22:03.123 | 64 | 118332 | <p>I want to keep Ubuntu but remove Windows.</p>
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787 | 1 | null | 2010-08-04T12:35:52.550 | 6 | 1534 | <p>About once a day my gnome-panel freezes.</p>
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<p>My other theory is that I need to do something in my BIOS to make this change, and my third theory is that this is an Ubuntu thing that I need to fix on the software side.</p>
<p>Does anybody know how to figure out why the fans never turn off, or what to do to fix them? They DO turn off when the computer is hibernating, but I don't like doing that because it takes a very long time to boot up from hibernation.</p>
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800 | 1 | 802 | 2010-08-04T19:03:19.647 | 84 | 439429 | <p>I have a script that needs to be run every five seconds. I know that <code>cron</code> can do tasks by the minute, but is there a way to run something every second?</p>
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"text": "Really feels wrong. If you include it in a cron job then you will have overlapping jobs every minute. After an hour 60 jobs will be starting every 5 seconds. If you do not include in a cron job, well, you may not be able to know how to stop it, or even to know it exists.",
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804 | 1 | 807 | 2010-08-04T19:23:38.377 | 65 | 127770 | <p>I was wondering the difference between these text editors and which is best used with Ubuntu?</p>
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823 | 1 | null | 2010-08-04T20:08:25.557 | 7 | 17398 | <p>During the last couple of months I have had major problems playing high-definition videos in Ubuntu. Generally it's 1080p videos that I have problems with, but I do recall having the same kind of problems with a 720p video a while back. This occurs on both my laptop (with an integrated Intel video chip) and my desktop (Nvidia Geforce 250GTS). It's strange, because I don't think I've had this problem in earlier versions of Ubuntu, and it works fine in Windows on the same machine(s).</p>
<p>The problems occur when trying to play a video that has been encoded to/with "avc1" in an mkv container. I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to video codecs and such, but from what I've read, avc1 seems like a pretty old codec. How come I have problems with that, when Xvid works just fine? </p>
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<p>In Ubuntu how do I trace, track, or diagnose these types of crashes? Is there software I can invoke to help diagnose? Can I start OO from a command prompt with debugging of some sort enabled? </p>
<p>Note: if someone could add the tag OpenOffice, I would appreciate it</p>
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834 | 1 | 872 | 2010-08-04T20:34:19.423 | 5 | 1472 | <p>I am unable to get the weather notification that comes with the clock applet to work.</p>
<p>I have it set to Ottawa, Canada. What seems to be the problem.</p>
<p>Canada jokes to the minimum please :)</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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I am using a new and latest installation of Ubuntu, with Gnome desktop in it.</p>
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847 | 1 | 862 | 2010-08-04T20:55:53.233 | 3 | 940 | <p>I would like to have information on my desktop in a very simple text mod or memory usage and processor activity and daily to do lists.</p>
<p>I was wondering what kind of applications are available on Ubuntu for that?</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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"body": "<p>It is theoretically possible to setup portage on Ubuntu or any other linux. However for that to be useful, portage would have to be able to interact with apt somehow (at the very least be able to find packages installed by apt), which it's not. There's also no extension to portage that allows something like that, so this is not a good idea.</p>\n\n<p>And no, apt does not have anything like USE flags, as it uses binary packages so it's too late to specify any compile flags. However sometimes there are multiple packages of the same software with different features enabled. For example there's nethack-console, nethack-x11 and nethack-qt, which in portage are all covered by one package with different USE flags.</p>\n",
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852 | 1 | 865 | 2010-08-04T21:01:52.707 | 35 | 17935 | <p>I've noticed that Flash applications tend to be more sluggish under Ubuntu than they do under Windows on the same machine. This is particularly noticeable when watching HD video or playing graphics/physics-heavy games. Are there any ways of improving the performance of Flash under Ubuntu, or is this just an issue with the Linux version that I will have to live with?</p>
<p>Currently I'm just cutting down on the number of tabs open, blocking flash ads, and closing other programs, but I'm looking for ways to affect Flash itself.</p>
<p>Other things I have already been doing include using Youtube's HTML5 feature and playing videos straight from /tmp in VLC. I was wondering if there was some way of streamlining Flash itself though. Perhaps not.</p>
<p><strong>More Specific Question:</strong> Is there anything I can do in mms.cfg to boost performance?</p>
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855 | 1 | 880 | 2010-08-04T21:07:43.040 | 3 | 642 | <p>I like the <a href="http://www.getsongbird.com/" rel="nofollow">songbird</a> player very much, and it used to be my only choice for all plataforms, but they have discontinued GNU/linux support for some time now, due to lack of people to help with the linux port.</p>
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"text": "Run some basic windows apps using wine to demonstrate that *nix can still run any windows apps they're attached to and don't touch flash video online with a 10ft pole (unless it actually works well on your computer). If you want a safe bet goto YouTube (since it uses HTML5 video).",
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863 | 1 | 33753 | 2010-08-04T21:22:07.410 | 40 | 184401 | <p>How do I change my primary monitor without using the command line?</p>
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867 | 1 | 875 | 2010-08-04T21:28:07.330 | 409 | 672469 | <p>Whenever Ubuntu boots up, a dialogue pops up asking me to unlock my default keyring.</p>
<p>Is there some way this can unlock automatically through PAM or some other magical way?</p>
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"text": "Thank you, @Fanoy go to The Menu and type password & Keys. And delete the Deafult one, after this - it'll ask you a new password . just leave it blank. And Click OK",
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"text": "Sadly doesn't work on 12.10 because of a bug. When you try to change the password it says: `GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Secret.Error.NoSuchObject: The collection does not exist` But it is apparently fixed in the latest version.",
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"text": "in 12.10 did the steps as above (except it's moved to system preferences as Drew says) and now for any admin changes I don't know the password - it's not my old password and it's not nothing. So now I have to find out how to reset my password. Brilliant.",
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"text": "@dez93_2000: The password for \"admin changes\" has nothing to do with the keyring that this answer is about. If an application (e.g. software center) asks for your password to do adminstrative tasks, it is using essentially the sudo mechanism, asking for the password of a user with admin privileges. sudo does not care about the keyrings. So your user password (given that this user has admin rights) should work.",
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"text": "i just click \"Cancel\". There does not seem to be any drawback to clicking cancel instead of entering the password. Ubuntu still asks me for the keyring later during the session for other stuff that needs it.",
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"text": "After a few restarts the popup comes back again.. I have changed the password to blank about 100 times by now.. but after every few restarts this idiotic and annoying popup comes up again.. I hate it..",
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868 | 1 | 900 | 2010-08-04T21:29:16.037 | 30 | 4905 | <p>How would you set up Ubuntu on a computer that will be used as public computer in a library?</p>
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<li>Only Firefox, Chrome and OpenOffice should be available for the guest user.</li>
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<p>Any guidelines on how to set up something like this? Is there perhaps a remix of Ubuntu created for this exact purpose?</p>
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889 | 1 | 905 | 2010-08-04T22:27:19.783 | 4 | 3396 | <p>I accidentally deleted the default <strong>top panel</strong> in ubuntu 10.04. </p>
<p>How can I <strong>restore</strong> it without completely re-building it one panel object at a time?</p>
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894 | 1 | 895 | 2010-08-04T22:38:58.410 | 3 | 641 | <p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansa_Fuze" rel="nofollow">Sansa Fuze</a> mp3 player can only play videos in its own special format, how can I convert videos to this format using Ubuntu?</p>
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897 | 1 | 3836 | 2010-08-04T22:42:51.290 | 58 | 76270 | <p>Fonts look bad and blurry in Ubuntu. When I compare a site in Ubuntu and Windows the Windows font look much more readable even after I import all of my Windows fonts. How can I change this?</p>
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906 | 1 | 913 | 2010-08-04T23:14:11.160 | 5 | 1867 | <p>I have recently installed VLC. I have found that when I play videos on VLC, the hue of the color of the video is off. I have to constantly readjust it. </p>
<p>Also how can I make VLC my default player for <code>*.avi</code> files?</p>
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908 | 1 | 911 | 2010-08-04T23:24:04.143 | 101 | 60516 | <p>How can I get the middle mouse button to behave correctly in Ubuntu? Clicking the middle button does not show the arrow which allows me to scroll the page by moving the mouse.</p>
<p>Information:</p>
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915 | 1 | null | 2010-08-04T23:46:54.573 | 11 | 2752 | <p>I've got a friend who wants to try Ubuntu on his netbook, but doesn't have a USB drive he can use, and of course the netbook doesn't have a CD drive. Is it possible for him to install Ubuntu?</p>
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916 | 1 | 921 | 2010-08-04T23:49:14.540 | 5 | 703 | <p>One of the reasons we use Windows in the office at work is Active Directory. It makes it a piece of cake to bring up a new workstation and have a new or existing user login and do their work. Once all the Applications are installed, a user can login on any workstation and have all their documents and settings available to them.</p>
<p>Is there any way of doing this on Ubuntu?</p>
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<p>It would also be useful if this applied to servers as well, so a user can SSH into a server and have the same files as on their desktop in their home directory.</p>
<p>Does this sort of ability existing in Ubuntu currently?</p>
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933 | 1 | 944 | 2010-08-05T00:32:01.607 | 42 | 23380 | <p>Having installed various Linux distros for tinkering, I'm puzzled by the installers offering partition layouts - for an easy way out I just use the whole available disk space.</p>
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943 | 1 | null | 2010-08-05T01:05:25.643 | 4 | 1596 | <p>I've installed the Server on a desktop with two network cards.
I've installed dnsmasq, squid, shorewall, ssh, and dansguardian.</p>
<p>how do I get this device to talk to DSL modem and my network (through my router)</p>
<p>I've configured the network cards to separate networks.
I've set up the DHCP/DNC settings (I did not install dhcp3-server, using dnsmasq).</p>
<p>I've tried following these instructions as guide line.
<a href="http://taksuyama.com/?p=16" rel="nofollow">http://taksuyama.com/?p=16</a></p>
<p>Any help would be great. These are great devices when they work for homes with kids! </p>
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953 | 1 | null | 2010-08-05T02:44:23.763 | 2 | 1785 | <p>I'm setting up a transparent proxy/filter server, I've encountered many issues.</p>
<p>My Question. With a PPPOE DSL modem how do I negotiate a connection from my server.
I am putting the server between the modem and the router (now just a switch and wifi AP)</p>
<p>The router did the PPPOE login for me. </p>
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954 | 1 | 956 | 2010-08-05T02:58:33.190 | 3 | 550 | <p>I wish to occasionally use my ubuntu computer as a television. I am in the US and would like to watch over the air (HD)TV shows. The ideal situation would be the TV show in one window with some mouse & keyboard controls for volume & channel. I do not want or need a "from the couch" remote driven interface.</p>
<p>What hardware will I need to buy?
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959 | 1 | 960 | 2010-08-05T04:11:31.853 | 4 | 1815 | <p>Please explain to me why it was choosen,</p>
<p>was it due to ubuntu copying Mac OS X or some other factor(s)?</p>
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962 | 1 | 964 | 2010-08-05T04:27:00.763 | 5 | 1056 | <p>are there any paid subscriptions available for Ubuntu One?</p>
<p>What additional features does it have?</p>
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974 | 1 | 1002 | 2010-08-05T06:12:25.523 | 304 | 660041 | <p>I have a friend who has got a computer that is not connected to the Internet. Is there any way to install software offline easily?</p>
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991 | 1 | 997 | 2010-08-05T07:35:50.147 | 3 | 617 | <p>I want to start developing for it. I could <code>easy_install</code> or <code>pip install</code> but I'd prefer a proper repo.</p>
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992 | 1 | 995 | 2010-08-05T07:51:59.587 | 19 | 1172 | <p>Also,how can I become one? </p>
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993 | 1 | 1010 | 2010-08-05T07:54:12.780 | 2 | 4180 | <p>Since GParted does not support RAID, what tools can we use to create a RAID drive (0,1,5 etc) and then install Ubuntu onto that drive? Assume we are starting on fresh system with no OS.</p>
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1004 | 1 | 1008 | 2010-08-05T08:35:47.613 | 4 | 1494 | <p>What does it do?</p>
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1006 | 1 | 1009 | 2010-08-05T08:37:58.903 | 21 | 1969 | <p>The One Hundred Paper Cuts project says it will fix 100 'paper cuts' in each release cycle. What is the definition of a paper cut?</p>
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1007 | 1 | 1011 | 2010-08-05T08:41:02.843 | 0 | 740 | <p>I downloaded the latest Netbeans installer (6.9) which is not yet available on 10.04. </p>
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Searching for JVM on the system...
Extracting installation data...
Running the installer wizard...
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1020 | 1 | 1021 | 2010-08-05T09:17:10.643 | 22 | 2911 | <p>what is the meaning of SABDFL?</p>
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1026 | 1 | null | 2010-08-05T09:32:20.420 | 4 | 552 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25961/how-to-install-a-tar-gz-file">How to install a .tar.gz file?</a> </p>
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<p>please explain in an easy way.</p>
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<p>There used to be a KDE trick to make any window (not just a terminal!) transparent, thereby allowing me to make one map semi-transparent and place it on the window of the other mapping software. Is there a similar trick for Gnome?</p>
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1042 | 1 | 1058 | 2010-08-05T10:38:31.633 | 1 | 199 | <p>I fiddled about with pulseaudio, I think in my config files. Now i can't play 2 things one after each other from 1 window ton another. E.g. on Rhythmbox when i listen to a song then switch to youtube, youtube won't have any sound, and when i do it the otherway round rhythmbox won't play at all, its playback slider doesn't move.</p>
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<p>What will be its features?</p>
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1050 | 1 | 1592 | 2010-08-05T11:14:06.307 | 2 | 688 | <p>Using an arbitrary web browser, e.g. firefox, you can save a web page (complete web page), for which it saves the html file, say n.html, and web page elements in a corresponding directory, n_files.</p>
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1057 | 1 | 20122 | 2010-08-05T11:24:43.030 | 47 | 33030 | <p>How does one refresh thumbnails in nautilus? In my videos folder I have some MKVs and only half of them have the movie border and a excerpt from the movie and the others (also MKVs encoded in the same way) just have the ordinary film icon.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/615/whats-the-difference-between-wubi-and-a-regular-installation">What's the difference between Wubi and a regular installation?</a> </p>
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<p>Which process does it use to install Ubuntu inside Windows?</p>
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File "/usr/bin/ubiquity-dm", line 476, in <module>
dm = DM(vt, display, username)
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I really need this to work as soon as possible!</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
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<hr>
<p>Linked Question</p>
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1086 | 1 | 1119 | 2010-08-05T12:28:33.753 | 15 | 4152 | <p>I use both GNOME and KDE SC. In GNOME, I use Docky but I do not use it with KDE. So, I would like Docky to start up only when I login into GNOME not KDE. In KDE, there is an option to make a program autostart only in KDE. But I cannot find any such option in GNOME. </p>
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1095 | 1 | null | 2010-08-05T12:46:40.270 | 7 | 4473 | <p>Ok, So I’ve always had trouble with enabling 5.1 in Ubuntu.
Running <code>alsamixer</code>:</p>
<p>I have: Master, Headphones, PCM, Front, Front Mi, Front Mi, Surround, Center.
All are at 100%</p>
<p>Card:HDA Intel</p>
<p>Chip:Realtek ALC888 (This is my onboard sound, Its a dell studio, with 7.1 integrated sound)</p>
<p>Running <code>speaker-test -c6 -twav</code> I only get the front 2 speakers (Right/Left) making any noise. The others make no noise at all. </p>
<p>I have no other sound card to use as all my PCI slots are used up.</p>
<p><code>Daemon.conf</code>:</p>
<pre><code>; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
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; system-instance = no
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1097 | 1 | 1434 | 2010-08-05T12:54:27.540 | 3 | 10702 | <p>I have a DAAP server with multiple VLAN interfaces. I would like to get traffic forwarded on all of the VLANs. Forwarded from eth0 to eth1.010* I've got the switch configured to be a trunk port with the correct VLANs, and I enabled <strong>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward</strong></p>
<p>But that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.
Is there anything else I need to do? </p>
<p>Here is my ifconfig results, as you can see the VLAN interfaces aren't really getting any traffic:</p>
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inet addr:192.168.1.20 Bcast:172.21.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:264232 (258.0 KiB) TX bytes:37425 (36.5 KiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xe000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:31:28:22
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:303 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:225213 (219.9 KiB) TX bytes:47118 (46.0 KiB)
Interrupt:17
eth1.0101 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:31:28:22
inet addr:172.17.1.20 Bcast:172.17.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:9076 (8.8 KiB)
eth1.0102 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:31:28:22
inet addr:172.18.1.20 Bcast:172.18.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
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eth1.0103 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:31:28:22
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UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
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collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
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eth1.0104 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:31:28:22
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UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
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collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
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eth1.0105 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:31:28:22
inet addr:172.21.1.20 Bcast:172.21.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:9076 (8.8 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20777 (20.2 KiB) TX bytes:20777 (20.2 KiB)
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<p>Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file:</p>
<pre><code># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# Automagically configured network interfaces
auto eth0
auto eth1.0101
auto eth1.0102
auto eth1.0103
auto eth1.0104
auto eth1.0105
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.20
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 192.168.1.3
network 172.21.0.0
broadcast 172.21.255.255
iface eth1.0101 inet static
address 172.17.1.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
iface eth1.0102 inet static
address 172.18.1.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
iface eth1.0103 inet static
address 172.19.1.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
iface eth1.0104 inet static
address 172.20.1.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
iface eth1.0105 inet static
address 172.21.1.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
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<p>Thank you for any help, I've been working on this for quite a while.</p>
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1099 | 1 | 1111 | 2010-08-05T12:56:27.223 | 6 | 15263 | <p>I am working to get Mongodb running on a Ubuntu server install. In reviewing the <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart+Unix" rel="nofollow">instructions</a> I needed to create a "\data\db" directory in the root drive. At which point I needed to alter the owner using the CHOWN command as follows:</p>
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1102 | 1 | 1108 | 2010-08-05T12:57:38.173 | 5 | 495 | <p>Since years there are rumours that Rhythmbox will be replaced by Banshee as default application in the next Distribution-Release. Are there any plans for it to be replaced? The information that I have found is ambiguous.</p>
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<p>The external monitor works after full cycle of <kbd>Function</kbd>+<kbd>Monitor</kbd>keys pressing, but the extended is not working properly.</p>
<p>Anything I should try?</p>
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1126 | 1 | 1173 | 2010-08-05T13:40:11.880 | 4 | 345 | <p>In a script I play a sound ( <code>.ogg</code> file) using <code>/usr/bin/play</code>. The sound is played fine, but there is an annoying delay of a couple of seconds after the sound has been played before the program (<code>play</code>) terminates. Why is that, and can it be fixed? </p>
<p>The script is a git-commit hook. It just calls p<code>lay -q filename.ogg</code>. I have the same experience from the command line. </p>
<p>I'm on 10.04 if that’s relevant. </p>
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1132 | 1 | 1240 | 2010-08-05T13:57:23.703 | 11 | 5130 | <p>I would like to set up a home network with the various Ubuntu machines I have at my home. They are all running 10.04. It would have to be able to share files and maybe even chat. :)</p>
<p>Any information on how to set this up would be beneficial.</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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1136 | 1 | 1140 | 2010-08-05T14:06:17.833 | 6 | 439 | <p>I want to record a radio webcast which does not offer MP3. The easiest way to do it seems to be recording all system sounds, playing the webcast and saving as MP3.</p>
<p>This is legal, by the way - I want to record a radio show in which my friend was interviewed. This is permitted by the radio station (and fair use according to Israeli law AFAIK).</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
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<p>Which ways always work? How can I be sure something was uninstalled?</p>
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"text": "+1 for Ramen. That one is new to me. I would also throw Blender into the mix. While it's better known as a 3d animation tool it also includes a node based compositor and NLE.",
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"body": "<p>There's PiTiVi which is included by default. And there is <a href=\"http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=208\" rel=\"nofollow\">LightWorks</a> which is opensource.</p>\n",
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1147 | 1 | 1153 | 2010-08-05T14:38:19.363 | 14 | 5190 | <p>which of the two it is?</p>
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"body": "<p>Both.</p>\n\n<p>In every Ubuntu release, there's an initial import from Debian unstable for many packages in <code>main</code>. After 9 weeks or so, that process is frozen and the versions are <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze\" rel=\"noreferrer\">locked down</a>.</p>\n\n<p>However, there is still tracking done by the MOTU team for universe. Many packages come across from testing. (Many packages are also wholly original too.)</p>\n\n<p>For both sets of packages, bug tracking is done on Launchpad and custom patches will be introduced or backported from the previous Ubuntu release.</p>\n",
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1148 | 1 | 1157 | 2010-08-05T14:42:44.097 | 276 | 195961 | <p>Occasionally I install applications manually, rather than using <code>apt</code> or another package manager. </p>
<p>What location (<code>/usr/</code>, <code>/usr/local/</code>, <code>/opt/</code>, <code>/home/</code>, etc.) is suggested by "best practices" for the installation of user applications?</p>
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"body": "<p>That depends, really. If the application has a makefile, or for example for Python apps if the application uses <a href=\"https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\">distutils</a> (e.g., has a <code>setup.py</code> file), or a similar build/install system, you should install it into <code>/usr/local/</code>. This is often the default behavior.</p>\n<p>From what I understand, <code>/usr/local/</code> has a hierarchy that is similar to <code>/usr/</code>. However, directories like <code>/usr/bin/</code> and <code>/usr/lib/</code> are usually reserved for packages installed via <code>apt</code>. So a program expecting to get "installed" into <code>/usr/</code> should work fine in <code>/usr/local/</code>.</p>\n<p>If you just need to extract a tarball and run directly (e.g. Firefox) then put it into <code>/opt/</code>. A program that just needs one directory and will get all files/libraries relative to that directory can get one directory for itself in <code>/opt/</code>.</p>\n<p>For reference, see the <a href=\"https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\">FHS</a>.</p>\n",
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"text": "Make a symlink from /usr/bin or add it to PATH in ~/.bashrc",
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"text": "What about `~/.local/share` ? @Marco",
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"text": "You can install things inside `~` (your home directory), but that will make an application accessible only to one user. Other users on your system will have to install and maintain their own installations of that software. As for best practices on installing applications install your home directory, I believe there aren't as strong guidelines because you won't interfere with system packages.",
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"text": "Is it wrong to install apps that are 'unzipped from tar' under /home/ubuntu/myapp - what diff does this made compared with /opt/myapp?",
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"text": "@JARC, that would only be available to one user on the system (in your case the \"ubuntu\" user).",
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"text": "For programs used by only the specific user, [systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#Home%20Directory) and [XDG](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/) recommend `~/.local/bin`. See the answers [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36871/where-should-a-local-executable-be-placed) and [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316765/which-distributions-have-home-local-bin-in-path) for more.",
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1158 | 1 | null | 2010-08-05T14:54:52.620 | 57 | 57320 | <p>I want to tell compiz, metacity, the gnome-terminal or whoever is in charge to open the terminal window maximized by default.</p>
<p>How can I do that?</p>
<p>EDIT for the future: most of the answers were upvoted in older ubuntu versions, since 17.10 and on the most upvoted solutions do not work.</p>
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