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8385 | 1 | 23154 | 2010-10-20T00:26:57.140 | 2 | 1405 | <p>I have a gamepad that works fine in Ubuntu (from a technical point-of-view), but the slider on the gamepad is malfunctioning. I would like to simply disable the slider globally so that all applications don't see that the slider exists.</p>
<p>Is there a configuration file or something I can edit to do this?</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong> any advice, clues, or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated... (Such as explaining how Ubuntu manages gamepad configurations.)</p>
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8389 | 1 | 8405 | 2010-10-20T00:56:23.500 | 9 | 418 | <p>I used VMware on ubuntu 10.04 for quite a while. When 10.10 was released I did a clean install. I tried to reinstall VMware, but after installing, I wasn't able to compile the modules. Does anybody know how to fix this?</p>
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8390 | 1 | 9171 | 2010-10-20T00:57:15.510 | 2 | 301 | <p>I am not sure this belongs here, if not tell me and I will delete this question, but I was wondering could this be a bug with Yahoo not getting the denial from empathy?</p>
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8394 | 1 | 70014 | 2010-10-20T01:30:22.773 | 2 | 6933 | <p>I'm trying to turn on fix show all users in the gnome configuration editor. All the sites I've found say to go to apps -> gnome-system-tools -> users, only I'm not seeing gnome-system-tools anywhere. Any ideas?</p>
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8400 | 1 | 10372 | 2010-10-20T02:45:45.653 | 4 | 1769 | <p><em>Edit: After discovering some more about the problem (namely that it seems to be caused by waking from suspend) I created a <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10905/why-does-chrome-video-performance-substantially-degrade-after-waking-from-suspend">new question</a>.</em></p>
<p>In Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, I was running the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">latest 64-bit Flash beta</a> with Google Chrome 64-bit (stable) and I was seeing smooth performance (even in full screen), extremely reasonable CPU usage, and no issues with lock-ups. Compared to my MacBook, the experience was remarkably better. It even solved the issue where hitting volume keys would kick me out of full-screen mode.</p>
<p>In 10.10, with (to my knowledge) exactly the same setup, I'm getting ridiculous CPU usage, and full screen performance has gone from perfect to unusable (this is happening because it's flooring a 4-core i5 processor—no small feat). I'm also back to not being able to hit the volume keys without kicking Flash out of full screen and showing a frozen video player until I scroll the window, something that I fixed in 10.04 from overriding the built-in system Flash install (which I think was the 32-bit version with npviewer) with the latest beta.</p>
<p>This is on a completely fresh install on a Lenovo X201 (no proprietary drivers). Anyone have any clue what's going on? This is pure speculation, but it feels like this has something to do with hardware acceleration not kicking in properly (the spike in CPU usage would support this).</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>EDIT: Some more details: I've noticed that embedded YouTube players flicker annoyingly often, even outside of full-screen mode, which doesn't happen on YouTube pages. Also, even HTML5 videos on YouTube, when put into full-window mode, are somewhat choppy. Movie Player doesn't miss a beat when playing 1080p videos, so it's possible that this is a Chrome rendering problem, not necessarily a Flash problem.</p>
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8402 | 1 | 8412 | 2010-10-20T03:37:16.410 | 5 | 36633 | <p>Let's say I went to:</p>
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<p>How can I change Ubuntu's default port for Remote Desktop/VNC?</p>
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8404 | 1 | 718324 | 2010-10-20T03:58:41.427 | 6 | 4668 | <p>Is there a way to encode/decode prores mov files (mostly decode)? I've been playing around with ffmpeg and mencoder/mplayer from the ubuntu repos, but they both report that it's an unknown codec. Totem as well.</p>
<p>I guess it comes down to getting the right codecs in place. Maybe compiling from source?</p>
<p>I have seen a few comments on the internet about getting mplayer/mencoder working with prores files in OS X, but I'm hoping there is a way to do this in Ubuntu.</p>
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8413 | 1 | 8415 | 2010-10-20T04:55:47.893 | 21 | 11013 | <p>When I double-click to select text in GNOME Terminal, the selection stops at spaces but continues over hyphens:</p>
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<p>Is there a way to make double-click selection continue over these characters as well?</p>
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8414 | 1 | 8418 | 2010-10-20T05:01:19.227 | 12 | 3181 | <p>Normally we use a different file to redirect the output.</p>
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<p>In this command the contents of first are redirected to temp instead of the standard output.</p>
<p>Then why does it truncates the file if I use the same file name?</p>
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8416 | 1 | 8493 | 2010-10-20T05:05:11.273 | 10 | 328 | <p>A script I am working on is in a folder that is synchronized by Ubuntu One. Every time I edit it from another computer, it looses its executable bit and I must manually reapply <code>chmod +x</code>.</p>
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8425 | 1 | 8427 | 2010-10-20T07:48:09.480 | 57 | 125996 | <p>Just wondering if there a way to temporarily disable PulseAudio as I am trying to run a specific Wine game (Left 4 Dead 2) and it makes the game crash occasionally.</p>
<p>If I kill the process it automatically comes back up. Any suggestions?</p>
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8426 | 1 | 8462 | 2010-10-20T07:55:08.367 | 72 | 61480 | <p>Ok, So I've made my script, I dropped it in <code>/etc/cron.hourly</code> then I <code>chmod 777</code> the file but it won't run (automatically). If I manually run it, it works fine. Do I need to do anything else?</p>
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8434 | 1 | 8439 | 2010-10-20T08:46:42.107 | 10 | 15249 | <p>How can i reestablish a Tunnel if my localhost goes down?</p>
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8437 | 1 | 8711 | 2010-10-20T09:08:45.587 | 12 | 3553 | <p>All the terminal fonts I have tried result in inaccurate rendering of the Devanagari sript (and/or Roman script) in the Terminal</p>
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Here is an example of an as yet unattached vowel: <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/94b/index.htm">VOWEL SIGN O'</a></p>
<p>Proper font rendering does the work of grafting the consonanat to the vowel, and should remove all visible signs of the dotted-circle.... </p>
<p>...but I can't find a Terminal font which renders both the Roman script and Devanagari scripts satisfactorily. Actually, the dotted-circle still shows for <strong>ALL</strong> Devanagari fonts, and the Roman script is not rendered properly for many of those fonts; eg. in the word "Primer", about 40% of the "e" overlaps the "m".</p>
<p>Is there some way around this?<br>
Does anyone know of a suitable font?... Mono-spaced is preferred.<br>
Or is it something to do with the Ubuntu - gnome-terminal setup? </p>
<p><strong>Update 2</strong>:<br>
I tried the same text in <code>openSUSE (gnome-terminal)</code>: it failed worse than Ubuntu.<br>
I tried the same text in <code>Fedora (Konsole)</code>: it rendered <strong>PERFECTLY</strong>!<br>
but that's Fedora, and I'm using Ubuntu :(<br>
okay, then next obvious step:<br>
I installed <code>Konsole</code> in <code>Ubuntu</code>: it rendered <strong>PERFECTLY</strong>!<br>
but that's Konsole, and I'd rather stay in the gnome family... and Konsle's menu doesn't respond to keyboard... and If Ubuntu+Konsole can do it, then there is probably a way Ubuntu+gnome-terminal can...</p>
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As suggeseted, here are some examples.<br>
The Devanagari looks okay here, but <strong>not</strong> in the termainal (the .png below shows the <code>Monospace</code> font) </p>
<pre><code>30 - Uncle moon – चंदा मामा/20081119 Hindi Primer part 30 - Uncle moon – चंदा मामा.nag
31 - Rain Queen - वर्षा रानी/20081124 Hindi Primer part 31 - Rain Queen - वर्षा रानी.nag
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<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zhjhU.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>Actually, <strong>NONE</strong> of the Devanagari-aware fonts render correctly!<br>
...and some of the the Roman script rendering can get pretty whacky. </p>
<p>All entries from the command <strong>$ locale</strong> are set to <strong>"en_AU.UTF-8"</strong>, but even setting everything to <strong>"hi_IN.UTF-8"</strong> makes no difference </p>
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8441 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T09:47:47.000 | 8 | 11142 | <p>I never install 3G mobile broadband inside ubuntu since I'm using lucid and till now, maverick</p>
<p>How to make it run? I've tried so many ways to make it happen but still get the same result.</p>
<p>its only blinking but my ubuntu does detect nothing.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YUQKt.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
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<p>I already install usb-modeswitch, but nothing still happen, the modem isn't being detected at all</p>
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8444 | 1 | 8450 | 2010-10-20T10:07:55.847 | 24 | 7535 | <p>Here's what I want: I have a folder with MP3 files. I would like to play all the files in the folder, alphabetically. And I need a way to pause, skip to next file, and that's pretty much it.</p>
<p>I don't want to use my music player to organize my music library, I don't need connection to network services, and I don't even need ID3 support.</p>
<p>On Windows, WinAmp 2 did what I wanted. What's my best option on Ubuntu?</p>
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8445 | 1 | 8876 | 2010-10-20T10:08:10.543 | 0 | 1720 | <p>I have a computer that once I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 the splash screen hangs. I had this issue on another machine that I simply boot into recovery mode and reinstalled the nvidia drivers (both have nvidia cards).</p>
<p>The thing is, on the machine I'm presently having issues with, when I select recovery mode, the monitor tells me "No Signal"</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is a friend's laptop needed for University.</p>
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8447 | 1 | 9738 | 2010-10-20T10:09:54.897 | 6 | 5415 | <p>I get the following error during boot up. But this error doesn't get written to boot.log, as it happens in early boot stages.</p>
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<p>I found this code in /etc/init.d/umountfs file (there is an entry for /dev/pts in it)</p>
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<p>The file /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh also has a similar entry. So if I remove the entry /dev/pts will it solve my issue (the mount error getting displayed at boot up).</p>
<p>Here are the contents of mtab file:</p>
<pre><code>/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
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none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
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none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
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binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
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8452 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T10:42:40.123 | 47 | 39572 | <p>I have a huge font collection and would like to be able to view them
in an efficient manner rather than opening a file one by one.</p>
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8454 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T10:59:35.743 | 3 | 529 | <p>I installed 10.04 a couple of weeks ago. My primary OS is Windows and i could not install Linux up until very recently because of lack of hardware support for my notebook. </p>
<p>10.04 is the only distribution that i managed to get to install on my notebook, but my problem is, that even though i set the volume at a low level, every time after booting and login into Ubuntu, the sounds will play at the highest volume. The volume indicator will still show the low volume setting, but sounds play at the highest volume until i click the volume setting again manually</p>
<p>Is there a config-file i need to update to fix this, or is it a known bug?<br>
Anybody had the same problem?</p>
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8456 | 1 | 8465 | 2010-10-20T11:12:48.317 | 9 | 10772 | <p>My collection of music files has grown organically over the years, and
it has no consistent tags nor file names. Especially, older files may
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<li><p>It can populate tag values from the filename or the containing folder name (e.g., for files organized like <code><album>/<track no.> - <song name></code>)</p></li>
<li><p>It can detect whether there are inconsistencies between ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags (e.g., the song title is different in the two versions)</p></li>
<li><p>It lets me search for songs on CDDB or MusicBrainz and then use the fetched metadata to populate the tag values.</p></li>
<li><p>Bonus points if it has a two-step approach: first populate tag
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8458 | 1 | 8551 | 2010-10-20T11:17:58.427 | 8 | 113820 | <p>How to update Ubuntu terminal?</p>
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"body": "<p>I would use Synaptic if you're a beginner (I actually use apt-get but that's been covered above). Open Synaptic and search for the terminal program that you want to update. Check the box next to it and save your configuration. It's very easy to manage packages with Synaptic. Try things out and read the help files and you'll be an expert in no time.</p>\n\n<p>Also, the Update Manager should run at startup and check for updates. You can run the update manager by itself and it will upgrade all of the packages on your system (or even upgrade to a new distribution). </p>\n\n<p>Synaptic and Update Manager should give you what you need.</p>\n",
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8467 | 1 | 8479 | 2010-10-20T12:16:01.993 | 5 | 11774 | <p>I'm setting up a PC for a very specific purpose. It's going to do some stuff deep underwater... round about 3km. We don't fear fish hijacking the box locally ;).</p>
<p>I'm trying to set up a login: no Xserver. Works well... I edited gdm.conf not to start. Great: that's how Linux is supposed to be in the first place. </p>
<p>Now my next and last task is: get the login. I googled upstart, event.d - my 10.4 distribution I recently installed doesn't have this or it doesn't work like I expect. I want the box to boot and to provide a local root shell. Just that...</p>
<p>How is this possible?</p>
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possible tags: headless, auto-login. Can't set that....</p>
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8469 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T12:16:52.720 | 5 | 2169 | <p>I recently upgraded to Maverick and X stopped working. I used to run NVIDIA-96, but now when I <code>modprobe nvidia</code> I'm getting the following error:</p>
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<p>Graphics card details are:</p>
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<p>Is there any PPA with updated driver?</p>
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8470 | 1 | 8921 | 2010-10-20T12:31:23.247 | 6 | 1301 | <p>Since upgrading to 10.10 none of evince, okular or xpdf recognise up/down, pageup/pagedown keys when working as a pdf reader embedded in firefox.</p>
<p>I had this problem before (10.04) with okular, which was part of the reason I switched it back to evince (I also don't like the KDE save file thing in okular). But now I have the same issue in evince as well even after switching back to evince. [Why does ubuntu insist on making okular the default, even on gnome?]</p>
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8471 | 1 | 8476 | 2010-10-20T12:37:33.307 | 13 | 2805 | <p>I want to transfer Ubuntu from a VirtualBox Guest 'appliance' to a <strong>real</strong> (metal and chips) computer? </p>
<p>Can this be done, and what steps are involved? </p>
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"text": "... a bit more (I tried to edit this into my previous comment, but the edit was disallowed!?.. another minor mystery): . . . VirtualBox's shared folders seem to rely on the Addons which aren't present in a Live-CD run, because it requires a reboot.",
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"text": "you could dd to a network folder, I did this last week and it was like 30MB/s. If you set a shared folder in your live-cd environment/windows/linux and activate bridged network for the VM this should work.",
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"text": "btw: it's possible to copy an entire Linux-Partition with cp (+ some arguments to keep the permissoins! Very important! I think it was -p or --preserve=all). I did this once to copy back an image after resizing a partition (so I mounted the dd-Image file and did cp)",
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"text": "Sorry to be so dumb about this, but I must be missing some incredibly simple point... Everything I read seems to imply that NAT allows the Guest to access the Host by **default** (a connection in the other direction needs Bridging).. Okay I've had my three guesses (more like thirty!). I've successfully accessed VBox's Shared Folders **only** when Guest Addons are installed. I can't install these Addons in a LiveCD run, so I'm stuck again. How do I access the NAT connected Host's file sysem from the Guest (no Addons)? I suppose I need to do something on the host, but I don't knwow what it is?",
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"text": "you could also install Ubuntu on a second disk, then install everything as you want (vbox etc.), then dd the hdd of the other vm with this installation.",
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"text": "Yes, thanks.. but for this **adventure** I want to work on both systems at the same time.. My *live* version, and a \"VM version which I will slowly rebuild to be the same as my current one, but without the dross I've generated along the way..... I think I finally solve my \"major\" simple problem: To share a folder on the network, I first have to **click the share button** in Nautialus.. Duuurrrr! :) I think this nut is now cracked!... and yes, as you indicated, dd is fast: I clicked 107 MB/s while writing 0's to a Sata drive, and I don't have the latest hardware, let alone solid state drives.",
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8474 | 1 | 8480 | 2010-10-20T12:51:12.583 | 16 | 11736 | <p>I have Compiz enabled and use the 3D desktop cube with rotation as long as various cool minimize animations.</p>
<p>Recently when I boot the computer, Docky has been telling me to 'enable compositing'. I don't know what compositing is! Docky is working fine as it always has been though, so I don't know why it is suddenly asking me this (I'm guessing it is confused and that it is actually enabled but I'm not sure).</p>
<p>So what is compositing and is it enabled because I am using Compiz or is it something different?</p>
<p>What does 'compositing' mean exactly?</p>
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8478 | 1 | 8491 | 2010-10-20T13:42:51.083 | 7 | 8598 | <p>A couple of times a day, I'll be typing something and realise I can't type spaces. Usually the cursor will flicker instead when I press the spacebar, and I can type all other letters as far as I can tell. If I'm in a terminal the cursor turns from a solid square to an empty square until I release the spacebar.</p>
<p>For some reason, restarting compiz with alt-F2 <code>compiz</code> fixes it, until it next occurs.</p>
<p>I can still copy and paste spaces from sources that already have them, and I can still insert spaces with ctrl-shift-u, 20, enter.</p>
<p>This has been happening for a while, since before I upgraded to maverick, but it feels like its beceoming more frequent. There really doesn't seem to be any kind of a pattern to it.</p>
<p>I'm using 64 bit ubuntu 10.10 on a system76 panp7 laptop.</p>
<p>Any ideas how I might troubleshoot?</p>
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<p>using <code>xev</code>, normally a spacebar registers as:</p>
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XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (20) " "
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<p>But when it's stopped behaving a press of the spacebar instead gives the three events:</p>
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FocusIn event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x5600001,
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<p>FURTHER EDIT:</p>
<p>Ok, so I think I've solved the problem, and by that I mean I now know which package to file a bug against.</p>
<p>I have a hot corner which initiates a window picker, and I've customised the window picking so that left click goes to a window, right click closes one and <em>spacebar</em> zooms in on one. When I go to this hot corner, compiz must take control of my spacebar, and clearly isn't giving it back when I leave the window picker.</p>
<p>So I'll be filing a bug against compiz.</p>
<p>reported:<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/664273" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
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<p>and on this site the output is exactly what i want (move your mouse over to see group matches) <a href="http://regexr.com?2sd12" rel="nofollow">http://regexr.com?2sd12</a></p>
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8485 | 1 | 16741 | 2010-10-20T14:04:23.013 | 2 | 762 | <p>Just installed Kubuntu and corrupted application icons appear randomly on my task bar. Does it happen to anyone else?</p>
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8494 | 1 | 8497 | 2010-10-20T14:51:15.360 | 31 | 13513 | <p>I'm using Maverick with Compiz enabled.</p>
<p>I've searched AskUbuntu and Google. AskUbuntu doesn't have anything on this topic and everything Google turns up is a couple years old.</p>
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<p>Does anyone know of a way to prevent an app from stealing focus when it is opened? I'd rather have the taskbar flash at me or something to get my attention.</p>
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8498 | 1 | 8519 | 2010-10-20T15:09:33.727 | 47 | 16135 | <p>When you want to resize a window in gnome (as well as in other systems) you can click-and-hold at the window's border and than drag it. The problem is (and do correct me if I'm wrong here) that the draggable border is just a couple of pixels thick in gnome. That tends to be a little frustrating, and contributes to my wrist pains from using the mouse, as it requires very careful movement of the mouse.</p>
<p><strong>How can I change the thickness of the area I can click in order to resize a window?</strong> I don't want to increase the appearance of the window border, I'm not talking about eye candy here. I want to fine tune this functionality where I can resize a window by dragging its border.</p>
<p>Is there a setting somewhere that will change this?</p>
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"text": "As Matthew says, there are some answers. The other two questions on the same topic are merged on this question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/4109/increase-resize-margin-on-windows I'm deleting my answer because there are better answers on that thread.",
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<p>What can I do to help him? Should I have him run Adobe's Flash installer? I think, (but am not sure) that I did that on my machine, previously. Does <a href="http://www.hulu.com" rel="nofollow">hulu.com</a> even use Flash? One point to mention is that he is running on a laptop, and I am running from a desktop.</p>
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8505 | 1 | 8520 | 2010-10-20T15:41:36.427 | 3 | 1620 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 on an <strong>hp dv4</strong> and my wifi was working just fine(except the wifi led blinking) till yesterday. Now when I touch the wifi button it just won't switch ON!!! :o I didn't make any changes yesterday but updated my system today.</p>
<p>I have no idea what happened. Any clue???</p>
<p>I ran the command <code>sudo lshw</code> and got its output as:</p>
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description: Wireless interface
product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
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<p>The network is disabled?!? :o i tried to enable it by right clicking on network manager but the <code>Enable wireless</code> button has been greyed out.</p>
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<p>I tried to change <code>WirelessEnable=false</code> to <code>WirelessEnabled=true</code> but after reboot it resumed back to the same state.</p>
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8506 | 1 | 12230 | 2010-10-20T15:43:05.877 | 53 | 49393 | <p>I've got a USB mouse attached to my Ubuntu notebook. This mouse is (unfortunately) really sensitive, and so it sometimes gets hard to hit small icons with the mouse pointer. This is really a hardware issue, it's not a bug and it's not Ubuntu's/gnome's fault. Still, I would very much like to this issue through software (solving through hardware would imply buying a new mouse).</p>
<p>Back in Windows, if I set the sensitivity as really low it was comfortable enough. In Ubuntu, even the lowest sensitivity and acceleration available (in the <em>System>Prerences>Mouse</em> menu) is still frustrating. <strong>How can I decrease it below the default minimum?</strong></p>
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<p>Are there codecs that I can use to get mp3pro sounding less horrible or an alternative music player that supports the format? Alternatively, does Rhythmbox already support the format and I'd just not realised how bad it sounds before?</p>
<p>Obviously I'll re-rip it if it comes to that, but it's a hassle I'd rather avoid. (especially since I have quite a few of them)</p>
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8518 | 1 | 8527 | 2010-10-20T16:20:22.550 | 1 | 2211 | <p>Evert time the kernel is updated by apt-get upgrade, I can see the following among the output:</p>
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* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 2.6.35-22-generic
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8536 | 1 | 8537 | 2010-10-20T18:39:41.010 | 2 | 408 | <p>any ideas that might help me?</p>
<p>When I go to create a new account I select Exchange under the server type. I am not sure which plugin this is using, I do know what it has worked in the past though... So as far as I know the server should be set up to work.</p>
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8539 | 1 | 8559 | 2010-10-20T19:08:20.007 | 8 | 5518 | <p>I have an install of Ubuntu server, I was recently fooling around with it, and as all learning processes do, I messed a few things up. </p>
<p>I would this box to be secure and reliable in the future, So I have decided to do a clean install of the system. Is there a way I can do it over the network (PCs and a router) without having to connect a monitor, and burning the cd?</p>
<p>Basically a network install after I completely remove the previous copy of Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
<p>Thoughts? Please and thank you.</p>
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8544 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T19:34:47.357 | 1 | 277 | <p>I've been trying to identify a kernel change that has killed hibernate on my Dell Inspiron 600m and I've made some good progress by checking out the kernel source from the git repository and rolling a kernel that does not have this bug (version 2.6.28-18.60). I'm now trying to compile the next kernel in the change log (version 2.6.28-19.61) but the build is failing with the error message:</p>
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<p>I've been using the instructions for rolling a kernel <a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/09/08/how-to-compile-a-kernel-for-ubuntu-jaunty-revised/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and I can compile the first version but I get a failure when I try to switch to the next branch and compile from there. Is there a "make dep" or a "make clean" that I might be missing in the build process?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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8545 | 1 | 8555 | 2010-10-20T19:36:24.873 | 2 | 1855 | <p>I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 6 months ago and then I've added a lot of packages. Now i upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and i want to remove all the packages in order to revert to the original ubuntu 10.10 fresh install package-set.How to do that???</p>
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8546 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T19:37:49.467 | 1 | 4480 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/146425/how-can-i-install-and-download-drivers-without-internet">How can I install and download drivers without internet?</a> </p>
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<p>(This is related to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/8344/package-dependency-problem-offline-install-of-wireless-drivers">my other question</a>; my approach there didn't work.)</p>
<p>My friend has (I'm quite sure) a Broadcom wireless chipset. However, he doesn't have any wired internet access on the machine, so his only option is to boot into Windows (he is using Wubi) and download packages there.</p>
<p>This means we can't use the Hardware Drivers dialog to install the drivers. He can't fetch the repository information, so the Broadcom driver packages aren't showing up in Synaptic.</p>
<p>Is there any way to get Wi-Fi working?</p>
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8547 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T19:46:29.873 | 4 | 600 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3678/make-my-own-dropbox-ubuntu-one-server-at-home">Make my own Dropbox / Ubuntu One server at home</a> </p>
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<p>First of all I should define what I mean with "distributed" - I mean to have the same file copy on each associated computer. If I change the file on one machine, all other copies have to be actualized automatically. Furthermore each client saves a local revision.</p>
<p><em>(I know that's practically the same as Dropbox, but Dropbox doesn't allow me to use my own root server and I have terabytes of space there I intend to use)</em></p>
<p>Now to the problem: </p>
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<li><p><a href="http://rsync.samba.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rsync</a> for example can recursively synchronize folder contents. I doesn't store revisions.
Git could act as a content tracker (it's not necessarily just source control), but it is definitely not supposed to handle large files or binaries at all. An approach like <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unison</a> sounds interesting, it doesn't synchronize if files are changed. It just schedules rsyncs and takes revisions.</p></li>
<li><p>Is there anything in FUSE like an rsync filesystem? - There are approaches for backups, but backups and file-sync are two very different use-cases: a backup can be scheduled at a specific time, like at night or so. A synchronization occurs if a file is changed, which is handled as an event </p></li>
<li><p>if this really doesn't exist: do you consider it being possible to have an rsyncfs like <a href="http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">curlftpfs</a> or <a href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">sshfs</a>, acting as a FUSE mount point?</p></li>
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8549 | 1 | 9670 | 2010-10-20T19:50:44.633 | 1 | 431 | <p>I have a RAID 5 system, ICH10R, on a eVGA classified x58 motherboard. The RAID failed because of an application failure in Windows 7 (dual boot) which forced a hard restart. </p>
<p>I rebuilt the array using the Intel Matrox Storage Manager app in Windows 7 (all automatic), but now the random characters changed and my drives won't mount. Basically the random prefix changed and now Kubuntu doesn't know where to look. I have labeled the volume "STRIPE" and it had:</p>
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<p>where # is the number of my partition. Now the device shows up as:</p>
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<p>so I had to change all of the entries in /etc/fstab. The reason for my asking here is two fold:</p>
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<li><p>Is there approach I could've taken so that the characters wouldn't be random and wouldn't change after a rebuild? Specifically, I had to [go through hell] (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/568050) just to get the system to boot. So I've already exhausted my googling skills, just curious if anyone knows of unpublished settings or things I may have missed?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks!!!</p>
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8554 | 1 | 9693 | 2010-10-20T20:21:11.117 | 3 | 576 | <p>Ubuntu 10.10 does not allow double-click execution of files such as binaries or Python scripts if they are on a flash drive, even when the file is marked as executable.</p>
<p>I believe it is probably a security measure new to 10.10; 9.10 allows double-click execution.</p>
<p>How can I revert this behavior?</p>
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8556 | 1 | 8597 | 2010-10-20T20:30:43.807 | 3 | 4520 | <p>I have a lenovo thinkpad and the center scrolling button isn't working with the trackpoint anymore... it worked in prior versions of Ubuntu with GPointing Device Settings, but not with 10.10.</p>
<p>Now, it works when I log in, but if i close the lid to my laptop and reopen it, it no longer works. I have to log out then back in. also, i can not uninstall GPointing Device Settings and reinstall because of this error:</p>
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<p>There seems to be a programming error
in aptdaemon, the software that allows
you to install/remove software and to
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error at
<a href="http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+filebug" rel="nofollow">http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+filebug</a>
and retry.</p>
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File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 768, in simulate
return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 936, in _simulate_helper
return depends, status, self._cache.required_download, \
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 218, in required_download
pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic-pae package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
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<p>Any ideas? Also, the center click is working like clicking the center of a scroll button it seems. Like, in Chrome, clicking a link opens it in a new tab, etc. How can i fix this?!</p>
<p>===HOW I FIXED IT===
As per the answer i checked as correct i did the following steps in Ubuntu 10.10 and it seemed to work.</p>
<p>First: Go to (in terminal)</p>
<pre><code>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
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<p>Next: create a file named (as root)</p>
<pre><code>20-thinkpad.conf
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<p>Next: Add the following to the file:</p>
<pre><code>Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint|ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint|USB Trackpoint pointing device|Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
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<p>Next: Save the file</p>
<p>Lastly: Reboot your computer! (or manually save and reboot Xorg)</p>
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8560 | 1 | 8567 | 2010-10-20T20:43:30.547 | 295 | 247761 | <p>Is there a method or command which can tell from which repository a package is coming from?</p>
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8566 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T21:44:03.960 | 4 | 13620 | <p>I'm booting in recovery mode
Unmount crypto partition.</p>
<p><code>umount /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt</code> <strong>and i make</strong> <code>fsck -c /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt</code></p>
<p><strong>fsck output:</strong> </p>
<pre><code>fsck.LVM"_member: not found
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<p><strong>I make:</strong></p>
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fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
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<p><strong>I make:</strong> <code>fsck -c /dev/sda6</code></p>
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fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.crypto_LUKS for /dev/sda6
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8570 | 1 | 8579 | 2010-10-20T22:15:38.607 | 15 | 2237 | <p>What will this repository hold? What is policy for it?</p>
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8571 | 1 | 8574 | 2010-10-20T22:16:07.060 | 8 | 696 | <p>I want to remove the MeMenu, without removing the logout/shutdown/restart/etc. button next to it. I never use social networks, so I have no use for this function. Any tips?</p>
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8572 | 1 | 8575 | 2010-10-20T22:17:23.843 | 9 | 1135 | <p>I would like to use sites like <a href="http://www.last.fm/" rel="nofollow">last.fm</a>, but because I'm often moving from OS to OS, and mostly listen to music on an mp3 player, most of my listening data gets lost.</p>
<p>Is there any way I can backup Banshee's listening history, and restore it on a new install?</p>
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8586 | 1 | 8587 | 2010-10-20T23:38:32.340 | 5 | 3370 | <p>I used to go to "System >> Preferences >> Appearance >> Interface", but I can't find that tab on Lucid or Maverick.</p>
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8592 | 1 | 8596 | 2010-10-21T00:18:12.287 | 20 | 66781 | <p>I am in the process of building my first RAID5 array. I've used mdadm to create the following set up:</p>
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/dev/md1:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Wed Oct 20 20:00:41 2010
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1953514496 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 1
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Update Time : Wed Oct 20 20:13:48 2010
State : clean, degraded, recovering
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Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
Rebuild Status : 1% complete
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<p>While that's going I decided to format the beast with the following command:</p>
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mke2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
/dev/md1p1 alignment is offset by 63488 bytes.
This may result in very poor performance, (re)-partitioning suggested.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
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97853440 inodes, 391394047 blocks
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First data block=0
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11945 block groups
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8192 inodes per group
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root@bondigas:~# ^C
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<p>I am unsure what to do about "/dev/md1p1 alignment is offset by 63488 bytes." and how to properly partition the disks to match so I can format it properly. </p>
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8594 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T00:39:28.033 | 7 | 24299 | <p>I am looking for instruction on how to configure my Ubuntu 10.04 box to allow samba shares access through Active Directory users and groups. I have joined the Ubuntu machine to my AD domain using Likewise-open, however when I enable 'security = ads' in my smb.conf I am getting access denied errors when trying to view shares in windows explorer. Any sugestions?</p>
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8600 | 1 | 8615 | 2010-10-21T01:45:20.180 | 2 | 208 | <p>I'm hoping I'm not imagining things, but I'm fairly sure that I saw a clean 10.04 install with a key icon displayed in the menu bar. I believe it appeared when sudo was active for updating, etc. I don't seem to have this icon anymore, and I was wondering if it was something I removed inadvertently, or a problem because of the number of upgrades I've done.</p>
<p>If you know of this icon/functionality, please let me know.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6586/what-native-games-are-available">What native games are available?</a> </p>
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<p>I know only 2 games... quake 4 and Doom 3
Have any others you know ?
Paid/proprietary games... (commercial games )
These type of games i would like to know...</p>
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8620 | 1 | 8639 | 2010-10-21T07:25:50.440 | 16 | 4462 | <p>Is it at all possible to have a forwarded X11 session be styled with something other than the default X button styles? It doesn't even appear to use my server's actual styles seeing as both computers are running Ubuntu 10.10. However, the window on the left is from the local machine, and window on the right is forwarded via <code>ssh -X</code>.</p>
<p>Is there any way to change this behavior to mimic the native button style or change it at all? Thanks.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eOGKc.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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8624 | 1 | 8692 | 2010-10-21T08:24:44.943 | 1 | 2431 | <p>I'm writing a post about how the software updates Apple sent out have been on Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) for ages (like the app store and the new "Mission Control" feature) from here: <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/</a></p>
<p>I was wondering if i can show that Ubuntu has had apps to match the other two features: Fullscreen apps and "LaunchPad"? Are there?</p>
<p>This would be useful for helping Apple users switch to Ubuntu also when I'm trying to convert them ;)</p>
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8637 | 1 | 8646 | 2010-10-21T10:50:00.490 | 2 | 2547 | <p>I've started playing around with remote X sessions and really like it so far as it allows me to use GUI tools to configure my server (sometimes, I just don't feel like editing text files).</p>
<p>One thing that bothers me though, is that unlike my desktop Ubuntu, I have no way to discover which application to launch for a given task. </p>
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<p>2) Launch "gnome-system-monitor" and find the name of the binary </p>
<p>3) Launch the binary from my ssh session</p>
<p>Is there any better way to do this (apart from using a full fletched remote desktop solution as FreeNX)? For instance, isn't there any standalone application that can act as the desktop menu which I could launch from my remote X session?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I just found out I could launch gnome-panel remotely. It does exactly what I need (the applications/places/system menus). The draw back is that it's messy because my local applications get mixed with the remote ones.</p>
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8642 | 1 | 9893 | 2010-10-21T11:10:40.153 | 10 | 8312 | <p>My PC has 3 NTFS partitions (main and backups) plus Ubuntu on dual boot. I want to keep the NTFS partitions available, but mounted as read-only by default, so that other users (and accidentally even me) do not modify them in a harmful way. I see that I can't change permissions for the NTFS partitions, which is understandable.</p>
<p>If possible, I'd like that only root can change the default permissions, so that none of the other users could modify them without switching to Windows. If that's not possible, making NTFS unmountable would be OK too.</p>
<p>This is mostly a protective measure to avoid corrupting my Windows system, as I'll still use it quite a lot.</p>
<p>Edit 1: this is my fstab</p>
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proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=4a5ff937-5220-4b4e-b994-304ba37d3448 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
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<p>So, I'd like to set all my 3 NTFS HDs to read only (no auto mount). Also, please tell me where to find the <code>/path/to/ntfs</code> of each partition.</p>
<p>Additionally, can I comment the floppy entry? I don't have one anyway =)</p>
<hr>
<p>Edit 2: relevant part of 'mount -v' </p>
<pre><code>/dev/sda1 on /media/1A7099D97099BC47 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
/dev/sda5 on /media/Stuff type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
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<p>Edit 3: Ok, so I installed pysdm (Storage Device Manager), set all my NTFS partitions as mountable my any user, and as read only, and restarted. Now I can't mount the partitions:</p>
<pre><code>Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
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<p>After some reading it seems that mounting the partitions as root is not a good idea. So, how can I allow the mounting (by any user)?</p>
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8644 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T11:28:24.890 | 4 | 584 | <p>I need to get a scientific software running but it requires older libs and I don't want to screw my current system.
I thought about using an old ubuntu version in a VM. But which would I need?</p>
<p>The software can be obtained <a href="http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/photomontage/release/" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
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<p>An application (Komodo Edit) is asking me to identify an application to be used as a web browser. I've become used to just entering the application name as a command for situations such as these, but this scenario got me thinking. </p>
<p>I know in Windows it would just be the relevant application folder in the 'program files' folder, but I'm assuming things are a bit different on Linux?</p>
<p>I thought somewhere like <code>bin</code> would be logical but this appears to standard Linux/Unix applications. Where would I find the binary executable for applications stored on my system?</p>
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"text": "@CraigM Use `screen -x -r [screenname]` or `screen -rx` for short if you have only one screen session active. This allows you to attach an existing screen instance.",
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"text": "This advice helped me with the same problem but I think it includes a typo. I am pretty sure that you need to type `Ctrl-b` and then `d` in order to leave/detach the `tmux` session. Certainly that is the case for the version of `tmux` on my Ubuntu 12.04.",
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"text": "I can't give you enough points for this, I share the *unlikeness* for screen and didn't knew this whole new world with tmux.Thanks!",
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"text": "I made a mistake while following the above instructions. I will share it if anybody might fall into the same mistake: I started tmux in the shell of my own computer instead of the shell of the remote computer. One needs to start tmux in the shell of remote computer.",
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"text": "I wish that I thought of this before starting to make Sage on my remote system. Now I feel grounded until it completes.",
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"text": "Screen is now being developed again: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2014-04/msg00024.html Could you update your answer?",
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"text": "tmux has this idiot idea that calling free(2) shouldn't actually free memory, which results in long-running tmuxes gradually consuming more ane more memory, whether they actually do anything or not. tmux refuses to fix this last time I checked. Screen supports the last 3 features in your list (I use most of them) and doesn't leak all your memory away.",
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"text": "can you splut a tmux over SSH? Meaning 1) SSH in, 2) TMUX, 3) split so you now have two effective SSH? I tried ctrl-b split",
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"text": "I use `top` to hold the session. Next time I need session I just exit the top and SSH session keep alive.",
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"text": "@AndrewMacFie: Does `tmux detach` always work? I tried detaching tmux while running a process, had no effect while the shortcut detached.",
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8659 | 1 | 8963 | 2010-10-21T12:24:39.140 | 3 | 4312 | <p>I seem to remember hearing about a special version of Wine that was optimized for games. What is this Wine called and where can I get it?</p>
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8664 | 1 | 8667 | 2010-10-21T12:29:20.597 | 10 | 17788 | <p>My numeric keypad has somehow got into a "mouse emulation" mode where the number keys just move the mouse pointer around (2 = down; 8 = up, 6 = right, etc). Anyone know how to make it work normally again?</p>
<p>None of the other numpad keys work either (I first noticed the whole thing when Ctrl + ÷ (numpad division sign) no longer produced "line comment" in IntelliJ IDEA). Toggling num lock doesn't affect this (though the indicator LED works as usual). </p>
<p>I'm using GNOME on Lucid Lynx (10.4).</p>
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8669 | 1 | 37110 | 2010-10-21T13:03:52.027 | 6 | 2205 | <p>Is there any end user documentation for the Unity launcher?</p>
<p>Failing that, is there at least something as tips&tricks or reference materials (for example, a list of available keyboard shortcuts, etc.)?</p>
<p>Failing that, is there any specification and/or developer documentation from which one could derive some useful information?</p>
<p>I'd especially like to have some reference about the way search works.</p>
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8677 | 1 | 8679 | 2010-10-21T13:35:31.197 | 1 | 392 | <p>I've just switched to Ubuntu 10.10 from OS X, and the one thing I'm really missing is that I previously had set up a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts to launch applications. For example, apple-ctrl-f would launch / switch to Firefox.</p>
<p>I've looked around, but I can only find lots of references to Gnome Do, which isn't what I want - I don't want a "type start of application name", launcher, but rather a "explicitly set custom shortcuts" one. Does such a thing exist?</p>
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8680 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T13:42:56.970 | 2 | 10439 | <p>How can I set my eth card to 100 Mb/s?</p>
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8681 | 1 | 8684 | 2010-10-21T13:43:59.013 | 4 | 135 | <p>Let's say I installed regular Ubuntu Desktop edition using the liveCD. The I installed both Kubuntu and UNR on the same partition as Ubuntu desktop, by doing:</p>
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<p>I'm using Kubuntu and UNR as examples, but this question extends to all spin-offs. Does every installed version get upgraded when I upgrade one? Or do I have to manually upgrade them individually?</p>
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8694 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T14:36:09.827 | 3 | 1918 | <p>I have an <strong>ASUS Eee PC 901</strong> that came with Windows XP installed on it. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu on it? Also does anyone know if Ubuntu would work on it? Would it recognize the webcam, the microphone, etc?</p>
<p>Also, how do I reinstall Windows XP if something goes wrong? Is it stored on a hidden partition? It didn't come with any software CDs.</p>
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8695 | 1 | 8857 | 2010-10-21T14:37:21.960 | 3 | 326 | <p>Whenever I boot into Ubuntu, as soon as I login, I get a dialogue window pop up that says <em>Couldn't find "/media/[long string here]". Please check the spelling and try again."</em></p>
<p>Upon looking at my <code>/etc/fstab</code> file I found out that long string is actually the UUID of the root partition.</p>
<p>I also found out that exactly the same thing happens if I do <code>nautilus -q</code> in the terminal. I then created a folder <code>/media/<long string here></code>. Now, instead of getting that error dialogue box, a regular nautilus window opens at that folder (on both situations described above).</p>
<p>It is clear that whenever the nautilus process starts (which happens on login and on <code>nautilus -q</code>) it tries to access that folder instead of starting quietly. What's going on here, and how can I fix this? It doesn't really break anything else, it's just annoying.</p>
<p>EDIT:<br>
Here is the output of <code>ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/</code></p>
<pre><code>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 180 2010-10-21 10:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2010-10-21 08:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 221643331643076F -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 34e5211a-ad8f-4ffe-b3f8-b70b767fd993 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 4b41a6d6-0a8b-4ece-a7c4-712901fbf7b0 -> ../../sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 7c1303c4-02c0-4970-b653-1c6bd78938fa -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 9480DE4180DE2A0E -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 c8c3aef2-360d-4fbc-ac31-a4e4dc57c110 -> ../../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-10-21 10:02 e08c11e3-1c5c-474c-a9d6-b7e7ba095fa7 -> ../../sda7
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<p>The fifth line of this output contains the UUID that nautilus keeps trying to open. <code>/dev/sda8/</code> is my root partition.<br>
Here is the output of <code>/etc/fstab</code></p>
<pre><code># /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
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# / was on /dev/sda8 during installation, with UUID=4b41a6d6-0a8b-4ece-a7c4-712901fbf7b0.
/dev/sda8 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
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<p>As you can see I've got an encrypted home partition, a swap, and a root partition on the fstab file. Again, that UUID on the tenth line is the one nautilus keeps trying to open as <code>/media/<UUID></code>.</p>
<p>Here's the error message I get, for reference:
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p3G1f.png" alt="Error message."></p>
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8696 | 1 | 9170 | 2010-10-21T14:38:16.240 | 3 | 5038 | <p>I can't seem to be able to connect to google talk using either pidgin or empathy after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install). </p>
<p>I do not know why... empathy just writes "Connecting ..." forever and never connects. What can I do from there?</p>
<p>Google talk's web interface works just fine for me so I doubt it is a firewall issue.</p>
<p>EDIT: In fact sometimes it's able to connect (empathy), it just takes a LOOONG time (I'd say about 5 mins), longer than I am willing to wait. On the other hand, the web interface is able to connect in seconds.</p>
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<p>I have created a modified xkb symbols keymap that I want to use in my xubuntu installation but I can't see it in the list of layouts in the settings dialog.</p>
<p>I put the following into <code>/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/se</code></p>
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<p>to no effect.</p>
<p>I also tried to regenerate symbols.dir according to <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/problem-creating-custom-xkb-layout-605568/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/problem-creating-custom-xkb-layout-605568/</a> and while xkbcomp says there are no faults in my file, nothing else changes. It isn't available in the gui and setxkbmap (with its very confusing syntax) only responds with 'couldnt find file' or 'error loading new keyboard description'.</p>
<p>I did manage to create a console key map and load it using loadkeys...</p>
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keymaps 0-2,4-6,8,12
alt_is_meta
strings as usual
keycode 1 = Escape
alt keycode 1 = Meta_Escape
keycode 2 = one exclam
alt keycode 2 = Meta_one
keycode 3 = two quotedbl at
control keycode 3 = nul
alt keycode 3 = Meta_two
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<p>... but it only seems to work in the <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>Alt</kbd>-<kbd>F1</kbd> console.</p>
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8698 | 1 | 13860 | 2010-10-21T14:41:53.103 | 12 | 2788 | <p>I occasionally use Ubuntu One for purchase music; I would like to find a way to import my music from the cloud to my MacBook (which of course is not running Ubuntu). I wonder if, for this purpouse, I must download each track individually, or if there is a way to download a whole folder (tipically, the album).</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance ;)</p>
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8700 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T14:45:57.667 | 0 | 3859 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3934/is-it-possible-to-use-remote-desktop-from-windows-7-to-ubuntu">Is it possible to use remote desktop from Windows 7 to Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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<p>Hi,
I have just finish installation of desktop Ubuntu 10.10 on my new machine.
Now i want to make remote desktop connection from my windows7 network laptop. I don't want to connect to monitor in ubuntu machine.</p>
<p>Is there any way to do this?</p>
<p>I want to do -
1. Start the ubuntu machine
2. Make remote connection on ubuntu machine from win 7 laptop
3. Start working </p>
<p>I have enabled remote connection on my ubuntu machine.</p>
<p>Thanks in advanve for help.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25409/how-to-emulate-winkeyarrow-windows-7s-maximise-shortcut-keys">How to emulate winkey+arrow Windows 7's maximise shortcut keys?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there anything that provides functionality in gnome/compiz/ubuntu similar to Window 7's new snapping features? This includes the following abilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dragging a window by its title bar to the top edge of the screen maximizes the window-</li>
<li>Dragging the window away from the top restores the window to its original size</li>
<li>Dragging a window by its title bar to either edge of the screen fills that half of the monitor - fully vertically maximized and half horizontally maximized.</li>
<li>Dragging the same window away from the edge restores the window to its original size</li>
<li>Double-clicking on the vertical resize edges of any window maximizes the window vertically with its current horizontal size</li>
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<p>I've come to really enjoy this feature of windows 7 and would love to have something identical in ubuntu.</p>
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8704 | 1 | 8714 | 2010-10-21T14:57:01.167 | 10 | 10932 | <p>After a clean install of 10.10 I'm finding DNS resolution takes quite a long time. Hitting any url takes a good few seconds (10 - 30) before the site is displayed. I'm thinking this is a DNS resolution issue due to the 'waiting' or 'looking up' text being displayed in Firefox and Chrome.</p>
<p>I do not get this issue with Slackware Linux or Windows 7 so it is not network or DNS server specific issue. It's something on the client side.</p>
<p>Looking around on Google I see there are a few other people with this issue. The ones that have reported a workaround by switching to openDNS are disabling IPV6 or dealing with another issue.</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>My network card is wired:
Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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8706 | 1 | 10799 | 2010-10-21T15:01:20.297 | 3 | 208 | <p>I've experiences some configuration "resets" after ubuntu crashes:</p>
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<p>In order to prevent those, I would like to know <strong>how exactly ubuntu recovers from crashes</strong>.</p>
<p><em><strong>Background</strong>: I'm particulary intereseted in this topic because I've ubuntu connected to displays showing information across a public building. And it's pretty embarassing when the display config is all messed up and sometimes going all black (resolution not supported).</em></p>
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8709 | 1 | 8723 | 2010-10-21T15:22:04.063 | 6 | 522 | <p>I want to use the Dictionary app (<strong>Applications>Office>Dictionary</strong>) bundled with Ubuntu in my own language, Portuguese (Portugal). </p>
<p>In the application preferences I've the option to add alternative dictionaries, but I've to get trough all sort of complicated and not user-friendly at all definitions. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/grCFi.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>In the <strong>Add Dictionary</strong> windows, I've a tab that should have the list of available dictionaries, but even after refreshing it only shows blank.</p>
<p>So, is there an easy way to add an alternative language (in my case, PT-pt) to the Dictionary application? </p>
<p><strong>Fact:</strong> Please don't suggest alternative programas. I really want to use the default application.</p>
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