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11668 | 1 | 11677 | 2010-11-06T00:45:32.853 | 17 | 1413 | <p>A while back there was a lot of talk about Canonical implementing subtle transparency in GTK for Ambiance and Radiance themes - Is this no longer on the agenda? Was there a hold up?</p>
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11673 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T01:48:02.013 | 9 | 20657 | <p>To help me practice music, I'd like to make a sound (hum, sing or whistle into my microphone) and have the corresponding note displayed on screen. A program that gives feedback live (while I play) would be ideal, but giving feedback on a recording would also be acceptable.</p>
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<p>I'll document progress here after exams if someone doesn't come up with a better solution.</p>
<p>OK I've tried:</p>
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respawn limit 10 5
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<p>but I can't seem to get the job to start, it just hangs? nothing shows up in <code>ps aux | grep manage</code> or the syslog, I'm guessing upstart isn't catching the fork properly. Is it because I'm using <code>manage.py</code> instead of <code>gunicorn</code> directly? I'll give running it directly a shot as soon as I get a chance.</p>
<p>Clarification: <code>manage.py</code> is from a django 1.2 instance with <code>gunicorn</code> as an installed app, but no special settings in settings.py (I don't know the syntax for specifying gunicorns port/address/workers in settings.py so I was planning to just use cmdline args)</p>
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11678 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T02:56:22.203 | 0 | 1561 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7850/remove-set-up-mail-from-message-indicator">Remove “Set Up Mail” from message indicator</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I would like to remove all the mail-related options from the top panel while keeping the chat and broadcast options on the Unity top panel.</p>
<p>How can I do this?</p>
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11688 | 1 | 11691 | 2010-11-06T03:57:23.403 | 2 | 340 | <p>Is the order of <code>..-backports</code> repositories in sources.list significant?<br>
...or does <code>..-backports</code> take precedence over the standard entries, regardless of placement? </p>
<p>Are the two following examples effectively the same? </p>
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<p>vs.</p>
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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates main restricted universe multiverse
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11689 | 1 | 16914 | 2010-11-06T04:01:19.670 | 2 | 2384 | <p>I recently installed KDE in Ubuntu, and to my surprise, Docky works in KDE (dunno really). After two minutes of testing, I realized that I wanted GNOME more, so I decided to uninstall KDE Desktop. Before uninstalling, I tried to make Nautilus the default file manager in KDE, clicking apply and everything After getting back to pure gnome...</p>
<p>Docky won't open my bookmarks, except the Computer Icon... The bookmarks were the ones in the sidebar.</p>
<p>How can I fix it so that I can use my bookmarks in GNOME again?</p>
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<p>I tried running it from the terminal and after clicking a bookmark, here's this error:</p>
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<p>Runing it from docky --debug</p>
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[Info 09:48:12.249] Kernel version: 2.6.35.22
[Info 09:48:12.250] CLR version: 2.0.50727.1433
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[Debug 09:48:15.171] [UserArgs] NoPollCursor = False
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[Info 09:48:16.190] [DockController] Setting theme: Smoke
[Info 09:48:17.677] [PluginManager] Loaded "Docky.Widgets,1.0".
[Info 09:48:17.685] [PluginManager] Loaded "Docky.Widgets,1.0".
[Info 09:48:17.685] [PluginManager] Loaded "Clock".
[Info 09:48:17.712] [PluginManager] Loaded "Trash".
[Info 09:48:17.873] [PluginManager] Loaded "Battery Monitor".
[Debug 09:48:17.943] [BatteryMonitorProcItem] Hiding battery item (capacity=0) max_capacity=-1) (OnBattery=False)
[Info 09:48:17.999] [PluginManager] Loaded "Mounter".
[Debug 09:48:18.238] [MountProvider] Adding 116 GB Filesystem.
[Info 09:48:18.241] [PluginManager] Loaded "Bookmarks".
[Debug 09:48:18.247] [BookmarksItemProvider] Updating bookmarks.
[Info 09:48:18.531] [PluginManager] Loaded "CPU Monitor".
[Info 09:48:19.412] [Helper] Starting banshee_control.py
[Info 09:48:19.693] [Helper] Starting deluge_badge.py
[Info 09:48:19.700] [Helper] Starting gajim_badge.py
[Info 09:48:19.716] [Helper] Starting liferea_badge.py
[Info 09:48:19.738] [Helper] Starting pidgin_control.py
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[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/deluge_badge.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/gajim_badge.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/gtg_menus.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/liferea_badge.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/open_terminal_here.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/pidgin_control.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/rhythmbox_control.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/tomboy_menus.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/zeitgeist_docky.py
[Info 09:48:19.779] [HelperService] Helper added: /usr/share/docky/helpers/zeitgeist_journal.py
[Info 09:48:20.376] [DrawingService] Could not find 'gajim', using fallback of 'extension'.
[Info 09:48:22.865] [Helper] deluge_badge.py :: No module named deluge.ui.client
[Info 09:48:22.892] [Helper] deluge_badge.py has exited (Code 0).
[Error 09:48:33.678] [SystemService] Error opening files. The application doesn't support files/URIs or wasn't found.
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11690 | 1 | 11695 | 2010-11-06T04:02:06.970 | 9 | 16155 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7377/how-to-start-an-app-with-always-on-top-set">How to start an app with “Always On Top” set?</a> </p>
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<p>Every time I use the terminal I have to right click on the title bar and click "Always on top". Is there anyway of making it do this automatically?</p>
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11694 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T04:13:35.413 | 1 | 412 | <p>I've been having flash troubles with my firefox. someone from some place suggested trying gnash. It worked for a while but while it re-enabled flash player on youtube, it is still incompatible with other flash apps out there. </p>
<p>when i tried to remove it, it says it will also remove gnome-desktop-environment. why? why should removing gnash, a mere flash plugin, remove my desktop environment?</p>
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11699 | 1 | 11720 | 2010-11-06T04:54:55.670 | 3 | 186 | <p>If I create a new user account, with different themes, icon sets, sounds, cursors and different programs, will it affect the original user's settings?</p>
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11703 | 1 | 11707 | 2010-11-06T06:04:07.110 | 3 | 990 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.4. I installed a nvidia gigabyte geforce 210 graphic card because the intel graphic card is a disaster. I use a terminal and basic, fiddly adjustments were successfully made to get the window to fit the screen. The new card is a roaring success. Nothing freezes and visuals can be set to Extra. But, from that point on, my main menu bar misbehaved and icons kept disappearing. Logon and logoff usually helped. R-E-I-S-U-B was needed when the actual logoff icon disappeared. My full name, Anthony Burman, appeared in the main menu bar. It was alonside Wanda, the Fish , the Oracle.... My name disappeared and I cannot get it back. It can't be found anywhere in the 'add to panel' section. Indicator applet session also can't bring it back. How do i re-insert my name on the toolbar?
Thanks,
Ant.</p>
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11713 | 1 | 11717 | 2010-11-06T07:25:13.673 | 35 | 40116 | <p>When I do</p>
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<p>I close all the windows and make sure all shell are pointing to other directories. How can I find which process is preventing the umount?</p>
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11719 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T08:04:00.083 | 5 | 401 | <p>I am stuck with that keyboard, unfortunately, the <kbd>^</kbd> and <kbd><</kbd> are switched. Makes it hard for me to write code.</p>
<p>The <kbd><</kbd> right now is next to <kbd>1</kbd> and the <kbd>^</kbd> is next to the <kbd>Y</kbd>. I want them switched back to their normal positions. I have picked the German layout and the Apple Aluminum Keyboard in my system prefs. Didn't help.</p>
<p>This problem also exists in Ubuntu 12.04 with an Apple aluminum keyboard (Swiss Layout). There are no options to switch these two keys.</p>
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11723 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T09:41:41.213 | 0 | 7388 | <p>can I use the <code>dd</code> command to backup a file on a ftp server rather than network share?</p>
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11724 | 1 | 11745 | 2010-11-06T09:46:42.557 | 1 | 585 | <p>I would like to have Skype appear in Workspace 4 only, but sill have its Panel icon showing in all workspaces. </p>
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11729 | 1 | 11876 | 2010-11-06T11:11:20.917 | 2 | 276 | <p>This is less a question to the developers of Unity and Canonical than a question about Ubuntu itself so please excuse me if this question doesn't belong on this site.</p>
<p>While the question seems to speak for itself, maybe the word install script is a little abstract; I'm talking about a script which not only checks for the required dependencies but also patches gnome libraries and such.</p>
<p>As a programmer, I know this is a lot of work and I can't ask the Ubuntu developers to spend their time on other distributions but, in the case that an install script is entirely impossible, there should at least be a document with guidelines on how to install Unity, patch Gnome and what is required to take the necessary steps.</p>
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11730 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T11:26:46.667 | 1 | 1160 | <p>I am trying to get e-text editor to run. I read <a href="http://www.e-texteditor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14953#14953" rel="nofollow">http://www.e-texteditor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14953#14953</a> and Compile e-text editor on Linux as well. But on my 10.04 Lucid it fails at the following step:</p>
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<p>what am I missing?</p>
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11732 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T11:48:37.493 | 2 | 474 | <p>I am trying to edit 720p mov video footage in Pitivi, and when I place 1 clip in the timeline it plays fine in realtime. The problem begins when I add another clip and try to edit. Besides the 1st clip (that continues to run in realtime), all the other clips or cuts are choppy. I currently have 3gigs of ram and an Intel duo core processor. And using 10.10.
Is there something I can try? I've heard of Kdenlive, is it better that Pitivi in handling 720p footage?</p>
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11737 | 1 | 11983 | 2010-11-06T12:21:59.227 | 2 | 145 | <p>Ubuntu isn't detecting my samsung f480T when I plug it in. After a bit of Googling, I found nothing. Do Samsung phones require a driver to be installed to work?</p>
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11738 | 1 | 347199 | 2010-11-06T12:26:18.293 | 39 | 59358 | <p>I have two monitors attached to my video card. Primary monitor has a resolution equal to 1280x1024 and the second has 1920x1200. My <code>gdm</code> login screen always appears on the second monitor even if it is switched off. My question is how to force <code>gdm</code> to show the login screen always on the primary monitor with resolution 1280x1024?</p>
<p>I use Nvidia GT9500 videcard in Twinview mode. I can't use Xinerama because vpdau doesn't work correclty in this mode.</p>
<p>What I have found is that mouse pointer always appears in the center of union of the screens and center is always on the monitor with higher resolution. Login screen always shows where mouse cursor is.</p>
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<p>Now my primary monitor has a resolution equal to 1920x1080. The problem still persists, mouse cursor always appears in the right-bottom corner of the second monitor. </p>
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11740 | 1 | 11742 | 2010-11-06T12:56:11.400 | 3 | 999 | <p>I often copy fully qualified filenames from Nautilus... </p>
<p>However I get a different paste result when I paste it into a Terminal vs. when I paste it into a "normal" text field (eg. a text editor, or web page). </p>
<p>I do know that the clipboard can contain any number of "paste formats"... from Standard-locale text format, to specialized Word-processor rich-text format, to a full URI format of a file-object, etc... </p>
<p>So there is nothing "wrong" here;<br>
I just want a workaround to allow me to copy a filename from Nautilis, and paste a "normal" text format into the Terminal... </p>
<p>Assuming this file <code>/home/fred/a c</code><br>
Here is a copy/paste example ...(copy it in Nautilus, using <code><Ctrl>C</code> ) </p>
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/home/fred/a c
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<p>Is there some way I can copy <strong>only</strong> a simple text format into the clipboad in Nautilus...<br>
...or is there a way to paste the simple text format into Terminal, rather than the URI format? </p>
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"text": "Thanks.. option 1. is close but it still requires some re-editing which I'm trying to avoid.. copy/paste has no \"human factor\" typos ... I do :) .... option. 2.. Thanks for the suggestion, but again, it is typo prone, and too many twiddly steps :) ... getting close though... maybe there is a decicated utility or script for this, so I'll hang out for that for a while....",
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the programs' title bar just dissapear and I can't move the windows, maximize, etc.
It occurs when I turn on the computer, but not always.
Is it a bug or something??</p>
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<p>I've searched and I found that the command <code>metacity -replace</code> worked for my problem
anyone knows why it happened.
I have compiz but I had it dissabled when it happened.</p>
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<p>I mean there's no option to do that in rclick clock > preferences or in system > admin > time & date.</p>
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<p>What's the difference? They look very similar!</p>
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<pre><code>$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby # wtf???
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<p>or installing RubyGems from source rather than from Ubuntu packages, and then using <code>gem install</code> to install vagrant itself.</p>
<p>I'm not feeling comfortable just following those instructions. Is there perhaps a PPA? Are there, perhaps, alternative tools that are packaged for Ubuntu?</p>
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11774 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T15:49:15.560 | 6 | 442 | <p>I am using the most recent ubuntu desktop edition 10.10. Everything works fine, except the screensaver. Instead of going to the screensaver the OS forces a logout and all my apps are shutdown. </p>
<p>Forums suggested checkboxing the 'Lock screen when screensaver active' box, as well as using non gl 3d graphics screensavers, both of which i have tried to no avail. BTW: I can preview screensavers just fine.</p>
<p>thanks for any recommendations!</p>
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11775 | 1 | 11829 | 2010-11-06T15:55:30.423 | 7 | 5166 | <p>So here's the thing.
I have two partition in my netbook (plus swap):</p>
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<p>I use Ubuntu obviously. Centos is there because I need to run some test on that distro. The problem is Centos uses Grub and Ubuntu uses Grub2.</p>
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<p>The <code>/boot/grub/grub.cfg</code> from Ubuntu:</p>
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<p>This was generated running <code>update-grub2</code> and <code>grub-install</code> under Ubuntu.
It's not working. It gives me something like <em>bad magic number</em>.</p>
<p>How can I convert the grub1 entry in a grub2 shape?</p>
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11776 | 1 | 11797 | 2010-11-06T15:56:24.967 | 5 | 11340 | <p>Linux sound is generally very confusing to me, especially when two different machines running the same version of Ubuntu don't behave at all the same way.</p>
<p>I'm trying to use mencoder to record a video stream to an AVI file. From one of my laptops (an HP dv7) it works exactly as some random Ubuntu wiki post says it should with this command:</p>
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<p>On another laptop (a Lenovo Ideapad U460), that fails because there's no /dev/dsp1. There's no /dev/dsp or /dev/audio anything. There <em>is</em> a /dev/snd directory with various cryptically-named files in it, but I have no idea which is which.</p>
<p>The webcam on the lenovo does work; I've tried it with Cheese. I would however like to at least understand why the systems would be different. (I have not done a side-by-side installed package comparison, I confess.)</p>
<p>Any suggestions on packages to install or diagnostics to perform are welcome. Thanks.</p>
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11783 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T16:42:56.150 | 2 | 345 | <p>Is there any utility available to convert ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso to alternate cd image file?</p>
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11787 | 1 | 11898 | 2010-11-06T17:03:20.390 | 6 | 4117 | <p>We are building a multi-seat or multi-user system. The budget for the entire system is around $2000. The tower should be around $800. Each user will probably only use the computer for web browsing (keeping flash to a minimum), however, there can be almost no lag. The system should support at least eight, preferably a maximum of 12, depending on how much of the budget is left ($160 per user). The central tower computer itself will be assembled manually. </p>
<p>What hardware should be used? So far, the plan is:</p>
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<p>Are these good choices? Would other hardware be better?</p>
<p>Also, each user requires a video card. Would it be possible to share a two output multi-monitor video card between two users?</p>
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11789 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T17:06:22.057 | 15 | 132698 | <p>How to pretend to browse from a different country for view Streaming Online Television From Another Country or to use programms that don't work in my country or to Buying (shop). </p>
<p>Edit:
The best solution until now (11/2012)I thing, is to use the add-on <a href="http://www.anonymox.net/en">AnonymoX</a> with firefox. </p>
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11790 | 1 | 22594 | 2010-11-06T17:15:17.730 | 1 | 3181 | <p>I need to print on CD/DVD with my Epson R285. Please indicate a method or Ubuntu software for printing on CD/DVD surfaces.</p>
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11793 | 1 | 11799 | 2010-11-06T17:37:47.753 | 3 | 1858 | <p>When I use the Elementary theme 2.0 the default Caffeine icon is displayed in my top-panel. I found some <a href="http://0rax0.deviantart.com/art/Caffeine-mono-MegaPack-169089645" rel="nofollow">nice icons</a> that’ll fit the theme better. I followed the instructions on the page and they’re not working for me. Any tips how I can make these icons show up in my panel? </p>
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11798 | 1 | 11984 | 2010-11-06T18:02:10.593 | 5 | 2011 | <p>For the past one month I am facing random freezes on my Asus 1005px EEEpc. Here I have filed a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/671443" rel="nofollow noreferrer">public bug report on launchpad</a>. There I was informed that it is a duplicate of an <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/671374" rel="nofollow noreferrer">already reported bug</a>. I was adviced not to shift to ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition in an answer to the question <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11205/generating-an-app-list-from-the-old-installation-to-run-it-on-the-new-installatio">I posted here</a>. By turning off the network services, wireless and also after some tests, I strongly believe that it is caused by the wireless driver. The wireless card is: Atheros AR2427. I have to install the drivers manually by executing this command: </p>
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<p>There is no response on the bug report page. The issue has become a big pain. Many times I have lost very imprortant work because of that bug. Please suggest some solution. If there is no solution, atleast tell me how can I avoid system freezes.</p>
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11800 | 1 | 11802 | 2010-11-06T18:51:41.247 | 1 | 753 | <p>Is there any way, to change the Deskbar-applet-panel icon? I have checked in <code>/usr/share/deskbar-applet/art</code>, but none of those icons seem to change the panel icon or is there a different path for the icon(s) to be found.</p>
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11801 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T18:54:27.093 | 3 | 1257 | <p>I just love the indicator-applet and other parts of the Ayatana-project and think Ubuntu has done an awesome job there. And as the question about applet compatibility seem to be answered as a 'no' I'd like to take the question to the next level - the 'why' and 'why not'.</p>
<p>How come these Ayatana-applets today work in gnome-panel but gnome applets won't work in the Unity panel?</p>
<p>And - as it's connected - why not make them compatible? Isn't it all about usability?</p>
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11804 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T19:12:29.150 | 4 | 925 | <p>When I do</p>
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<p>I am affraid that killing Thunar is going to impact other process running in other terminal. How can I tell it that I don't need this usb key anymore so it stop using it?</p>
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11805 | 1 | 11864 | 2010-11-06T19:14:50.660 | 9 | 8972 | <p>I want to open link like "ssh://username@hostname" with ssh.<br>
I think xdg-open can help me(xdg-open ssh://username@hostname), but I don't know how.<br>
How can i do it?</p>
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11811 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T19:28:54.510 | 4 | 9700 | <p>There is a <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/ubuntu-ambiance-theme-for-windows-xp-wine/" rel="nofollow">great ambiance theme</a> for wine and windows that I use. But when I create a new wine prefix (or use PlayOnLinux to do so) it uses the default ugly grey-and-blue windows 95 theme. </p>
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11815 | 1 | 11822 | 2010-11-06T20:09:37.510 | 10 | 8138 | <p>I have a new Wacom Bamboo Pen. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit.</p>
<p>After googling a little bit, I checked that xserver-xorg-input-wacom was installed. I plugged in my tablet. I rebooted my computer. Nothing special happened. I opened Inkscape. The tablet didn't work. I opened Inkscape's Input devices dialog. I didn't understand anything. I tried to blindly click some options in that dialog but nothing seemed to have any effect. Same with Gimp.</p>
<p>After googling some more I found the linuxwacom website with source code, this didn't seem to work.</p>
<p>So... any help?</p>
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Bus 005 Device 002: ID 056a:00d4 Wacom Co., Ltd
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[ 492.961267] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 493.144862] input: Wacom Bamboo 4x5 Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/input/input6
[ 493.158854] input: Wacom Bamboo 4x5 Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.1/input/input7
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11816 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T20:13:11.640 | 9 | 6251 | <p>What is the Gnome version of <a href="http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/">KDirStat</a>? I read some 2006 post about program named Baobab , but it looks like it's not included in 10.04 any more, and the home page is not available any more.</p>
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11819 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T20:27:34.793 | 5 | 786 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4217/what-webcam-can-i-buy-that-works-out-of-the-box-with-ubuntu">What webcam can I buy that works out of the box with Ubuntu?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>What webcams work out of the box for 10.04 or Ubuntu?</p>
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11821 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T20:32:06.477 | 3 | 1989 | <p>I recently buy a 1366x768 laptop with nvidia gts 360m (asus G60Jx-rbbx05). I installed the nvidia driver version 256.53 for compatibility issue and now work great. I followed multiple tutorial to fix the very ugly plymouth boot, but no one support 1366x768, and only support 1024x768. Can I get a normal plymouth with the nvidia driver?</p>
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11823 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T20:45:33.383 | 1 | 487 | <p>I started my laptop one day and I got a warning message before the login screen saying (Use/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256).</p>
<p>Trust me, I checked Google and all Ubuntu forums to find the answer to this before posting my issue here.</p>
<p>I found that many people have had the same issue but none of their sulutions worked for me.</p>
<p><strong>mostly cause:</strong></p>
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<li><p>I can't login using gnome so I have to use the command line.</p></li>
<li><p>Everytime I <code>sudo</code> I get something about <strong>soduers mode not being 0440</strong> <em>(when I looked that up and tried to change the mode as some forums suggested, I got an error saying permission denied.)</em></p></li>
<li><p>I tried to 'su to root' to fix that but then i get something about authentication being wrong!</p></li>
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<p>So it looks quite shut from everywhere and I am REALLY lost.</p>
<p>I dont mind reinstalling Ubuntu and having all data erased, I already have everything saved on a hard drive, but when I put in the Ubuntu Install CD, it ejects it before booting from it and refuses to boot from any other CD as well.</p>
<p>Please help me out I have been trying for 3 weeks now and this is honestly my last resort .</p>
<p>Thank you so much in advance.</p>
<p>I love Ubuntu and I want it back.</p>
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11825 | 1 | 11831 | 2010-11-06T21:02:44.673 | 28 | 25514 | <p>Is the difference between <code>sudo cmd</code> and <code>gksu cmd</code>, the same as the difference<br>
between starting a shell with <code>sudo -i</code> and <code>sudo -s</code>? </p>
<p>... or put another way,<br>
Is <code>sudo cmd</code> the same as <code>sudo -i cmd</code><br>
and <code>gksu cmd</code> the same as <code>sudo -s cmd</code>?</p>
<p>EDIT: Based on what I read on an <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo">Ubuntu Documentation Page</a> where it says: </p>
<pre><code>You should never use normal sudo to start graphical applications as root.
You should use gksudo (kdesudo on Kubuntu) to run such programs. gksudo sets
HOME=~root, and copies .Xauthority to a tmp directory. This prevents files
in your home directory becoming owned by root.
(AFAICT, this is all that's special about the environment of the started
process with gksudo vs. sudo).
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<p>The <strong>"AFAICT"</strong> doen't really give me full confidence that there is nothing more to it. </p>
<hr>
<p>(..a belated <strong>UPDATE</strong>: I tested his commemnt today (2 months later) about:<br>
<em>"This prevents files in your home directory becoming owned by root."</em><br>
All files I created via sudo/gksu were all owned by "<strong>root</strong>", and the group was "<strong>root</strong>".) </p>
<hr>
<p>I've read parts of the <code>info sudo</code> and noticed the <code>-i</code> and <code>-s</code> <strong>seem</strong> to be doing the same thing as the <strong>AFAICT</strong> environment issue...<br>
but I hit overload.. so I've asked my question here. </p>
<p>PS.. My question is not about <strong>sudo</strong> vs <strong>gksu</strong><br>
.. It is more about: Is <strong>gksu</strong> the same as <strong>sudo -s</strong><br>
.. and if not, how do they differ?</p>
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"text": ". following up further, spurred on by your answer, it seems that `gksu` changes the XAUTHORITY folder, and `sudo` does not... I'm not sure what that's all about, but it seem significant!... This has solved my dilema... (details in my answer below)",
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11827 | 1 | null | 2010-11-06T21:21:26.530 | 5 | 2358 | <p>How can I disable automatic timeout entries in the login screen? Allow me to explain. My typical experience goes something like this: I put my laptop to sleep, then wake it. When it wakes, it comes up with the login screen. I type in my password and it will usually reject it, with a message indicating the login timer has expired. I then enter my password a second time and it logs in. Not the end of the world, but annoying nonetheless. Any suggestions?</p>
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11828 | 1 | 11838 | 2010-11-06T21:22:33.640 | 4 | 370 | <p>I am really struggling with this language issue.</p>
<p>I went to <code>System->Administration->Language Support</code> and moved Turkish (Türkçe) to the top. Then I clicked "Apply System-wide" and restarted.</p>
<p>However, after restarting, <code>echo $LANG</code> reported <code>en_US.utf8</code>, so I logged out and back in - and now it reports <code>tr_CY.utf8</code>.</p>
<p>Now here's the problem:</p>
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<li>I have a file 'xxx.po' in <code>/usr/share/locale/tr_CY/LC_MESSAGES</code></li>
<li><p>I run the following Python code:</p>
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gettext.bindtextdomain("xxx","/usr/share/locale")
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<p>Although 'sample' should be translated, it isn't.</p>
<p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
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11830 | 1 | 11832 | 2010-11-06T21:29:27.800 | 3 | 507 | <p>As you can see, mysql exists only in the <code>/etc/init.d</code> directory and not in <code>/etc/rcN.d</code>, therefore it shouldn't start on boot.</p>
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11835 | 1 | 11842 | 2010-11-06T22:26:33.380 | 1 | 172 | <p>I'm on an old desktop (see the hardinfo report): <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/240188/hardinfo_report.html" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
<p>Okay, the problem I have is, I'm forced to use root (which is not safe, obviously) to do anything! I can't log in as a user (except from a terminal), which is <strong>very</strong> bad, because I'm not the person who needs to use this system, <em>and</em> because we need to use wine to recover critical data. Basically... I need to find out where the freezing is coming from. noapci, noacpi, nomodeset, etc... don't make a difference to the situation. I can't tell if it's a kernel bug, because all that I can tell indicates that, but somehow it seems unrelated (I mean, startx works as root!).</p>
<p>Any ideas? I really need to get this working <strong>urgently</strong> for the person who needs to use it, to recover very <strong>critical</strong> data, and as we are not able to buy a new system... you get the point. Our previously working desktop got fried by Hurricane Tomas.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong> We gave up hope on this system... it start freezing under root, so we're going to try to backup the data to an external drive (if we can keep the system active long enough, or with a live CD) and try to recover the information from the databases etc on another system. Not the best solution, but the only one we have.</p>
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11839 | 1 | 11857 | 2010-11-06T23:08:26.823 | 0 | 1718 | <p>Im using ubuntu 9.10</p>
<p>I have the following mobo in the computer:
<a href="http://www.netonnet.se/art/dator/datorkomponenter/moderkort/intel-775/ASUS-P5KPL-AMSE/127329.4026/" rel="nofollow">http://www.netonnet.se/art/dator/datorkomponenter/moderkort/intel-775/ASUS-P5KPL-AMSE/127329.4026/</a>
(ASUS P5KPL-AM SE)</p>
<p>The mobo uses a Intel GMA 3100 integrated graphics card.</p>
<p>Now on the problem:
Running glxgears om the computer does not work. Googled on the problem and found out that Nvidia and ATI/Radeon drivers interference with the intel drivers.</p>
<p>So I uninstalled all Nvidida and ATI/Radeon drivers.
Then I runned Xorg :1 -configure , and then cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf</p>
<p>But then after a reboot, im notice the login screen graphics are much better. <strong>But im unable to login, I only get kicked back to login screen all the time when I enter correct password.</strong> (Theres no problem with the password, the system "senses" if the correct or incorrect password is specificed).</p>
<p>I had to go in via SSH, and add "skljsfjsljfssf" at the end of xorg.conf to make it "munged".
After a reboot, the computer went into low graphics mode and Im able to login normally.</p>
<p>Whats the problem with logging in after having configured Xorg?</p>
<p>My /etc/X11/xorg.conf:</p>
<pre><code>Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
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Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri2"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
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#Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
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#[arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
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Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
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Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
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EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
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Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
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Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
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11840 | 1 | 11843 | 2010-11-06T23:12:49.240 | 165 | 312807 | <p>I have a script that I need to execute on an NTFS partition. The script's permission is set to 600.</p>
<p>I attempted to modify the permissions by running <code>chmod 755 script.sh</code>, which doesn't report a failure or anything - but it also doesn't change the permissions on the file:</p>
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Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 35515 Links: 1
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<p>As you can see, it remains unchanged.</p>
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11846 | 1 | 31294 | 2010-11-06T23:58:09.210 | 15 | 28768 | <p>I've been able to change the default font of Grub, by using </p>
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<p>And of course</p>
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<p>And the new font did show up and everything (remember to chose a monospaced font). <strong>But</strong>, the "box" characters (around the entries) are never displayed correctly. I guess most fonts simply don't have that character set. Is there any way that I can add these characters? Maybe even copy them from the default unicode.pf2 font?
If this is not really possible, do you know of any fonts that have got these characters?</p>
<p>Update:</p>
<p>I have tried a lot of different things, such as converting from ttf to bdf and then to pf2, and I have tried converting only the ascii characters with the option <code>--range=0x0-0x7f</code>, but none of them seemed to make it work perfectly. I have a feeling that it is because I'm generating a larger font than the default, and the default glyphs therefore cannot be used. </p>
<p>I will try to see if I can get it to work with a smaller font size, though this were one of the reasons I wanted to change the font.</p>
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11850 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T00:15:09.887 | 2 | 345 | <p>I have two HDD on my ubuntu machine. One is a maxtor 320Gb and the other is a verbatim 1.5Tb. While it automatically recognizes the first one as sdb1 it doesn't recognize the latter. I can't see it on fdisk either. </p>
<p>How can I fix this? </p>
<p>Edit: Forgot to mention that is an USB with NTFS filesystem. </p>
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11854 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T00:38:29.070 | 1 | 394 | <p>Does anybody know what are the Wacom Bamboo Fun CTH-661 correct values for BottomX/BottomY and TopX/TopY? I got the tablet to work under 10.10, but when I move the cursor over the edges of the screen, it jumps a lot...</p>
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11859 | 1 | 11868 | 2010-11-07T02:11:31.783 | 3 | 999 | <p>I have installed ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop using wubi. My laptop also has vista installed. Would it be possible to somehow run ubuntu (virtually?) while windows is running without having to restart the laptop?</p>
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11863 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T03:01:08.463 | 18 | 4509 | <p>BURG looks a lot better and user friendly than GRUB, at the same time it get the job done. </p>
<p>Why Ubuntu have not switched to it?</p>
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11867 | 1 | 11918 | 2010-11-07T04:06:53.040 | 2 | 946 | <p>I'd like to use the Cell processors in a PS3. Given the changes to PS3 firmware recently, what is the best way to get Ubuntu installed on a PS3?</p>
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11887 | 1 | 11959 | 2010-11-07T08:01:05.160 | 13 | 850 | <p>My Update Manager is set up to download and release security updates silently in the background. Therefore release notes are no longer displayed. I wonder if there is a way to read the release notes later. How could I find out which updates were installed recently and what bugs are fixed?</p>
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11889 | 1 | 11891 | 2010-11-07T08:23:00.583 | 1 | 19377 | <p>What is the command I ran and now I have no ubuntu left...</p>
<p>When I which the computer on, the monitor comes on, it goes passed the grub screen, it does not show anything after that. How do I fix this?</p>
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11892 | 1 | 20803 | 2010-11-07T08:53:53.747 | 0 | 1058 | <p>I have BOINC Manager installed from the PPA, version 6.10.17, and I am about to upgrade my Ubuntu install with a clean install. I would like to know how I can backup my work done on BOINC so I don't loose what I have already done and have to start from scratch again. For example I am running the Climate Prediction project and it runs for a year or so, I'm at 30% work done so I want to backup that 30% work done.</p>
<p>Also as an addition to this, can someone advise me the best way to upgrade BOINC when new versions are released on their website but are not available on the PPA yet. I know you can install BOINC anywhere, but I want to install it to the same place the PPA install does so all my settings and work done is recognised.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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"text": "This seems to be the solution, thank you so much for taking the time to inform me of this. If you could, would you be able to tell me the command line commands to copy these two folders to my Home folder. I have only been able to copy them to my Root Home folder usinf gksudo in Nautilus and now I have to log in as Root to back them up to disc. I don't like the idea of loggin in as Root. I am sure there is a better command line way of doing this, I just don't know the commands.",
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"text": "I can tell you how to copy it to your home folder, but you still wouldn't be able to back them up to disk without being root - some of these files are owned by someone else (like 'root' or 'boinc') and not readable by others. You could change ownership and/or permissions, but then the backup might not work when you restore it - since boinc depends on owning the files it is using - so you would have to remember changing it back on restore. I would suggest that you stay with being root for these backups, it's the simplest and how it is intended to work.",
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"text": "@Stephen But you don't need to login as root; open a terminal and type `sudo su`, then you are root in that terminal only, can copy whatever you like (ex. `cp -R /etc/boinc-client/* /media/my-usb-disk/boinc/etc/`) and stop being root by typing `exit` or merely closing the terminal window.",
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11893 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T08:56:53.200 | 2 | 685 | <p>I've primarily used Windows, but recently switched to Ubuntu/GNOME at work.</p>
<p>In my Windows setup, the context menu is triggered on the <em>release</em> of the right mouse button; in my Ubuntu/GNOME setup, it's triggered on the <em>press</em>. This is causing me pain because apparently I've developed a habit in Windows of right clicking a bit early, i.e. while still moving the cursor. This has no undesirable side effect in Windows, but in my Ubuntu/GNOME setup, the click immediately brings up the context menu, and the residual movement can sometimes highlight a menu item, and the button release will then act on that selection.</p>
<p>In other words, in Ubuntu/GNOME, where as my intention is just to bring the context menu, I instead accidentally selected some menu item (usually the top most) and execute it. How can I prevent this from happening? Can I make Ubuntu/GNOME bring the context menu on <em>release</em> of right mouse button, the way I'm used to in Windows?</p>
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<p>Another habit I've picked up is that I use Alt-F,S to save documents. Now, some editors (e.g. Eclipse) are "smart" in that it knows if a file doesn't need saving, and will disable the Save menu item in that case. Regardless, Alt-F,S would "work" in that it's a no-op (just like Ctrl-S would be). That is, even though Save is disabled, hitting S would still close the File menu, it just wouldn't save the document.</p>
<p>However, in Ubuntu/GNOME, when the Save menu item is disabled in Eclipse, Alt-F,S would get "stuck" on the File menu. Since Save is disabled, S would just not do anything, and the File menu stays open.</p>
<p>I know I can just try to switch to Ctrl-S instead, but can I just configure Ubuntu/GNOME to let me try Alt-F,S even if that particular menu item is disabled? (just ignore the action, just like Windows does).</p>
<hr>
<p>By the way, I'm open to using another window manager if necessary.</p>
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11894 | 1 | 11913 | 2010-11-07T09:04:45.013 | 4 | 164 | <p>In the Software Centre, under Installed Software, I have a number of packages marked as coming form "other". Where might these have come from? The <code>libdvdcss2</code> entry does not surprise me, but I have no idea where the qt and update-manager entries have come from.</p>
<p>As far as I'm aware I have never installed these packages from a PPA, or installed them manually.</p>
<p>Update: After taking the screenshot I removed the qt packages because I don't actually need them. However the output of <code>$ apt-cache policy update-manager</code> is:</p>
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Installed: 1:0.142.21
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<p>I'm wondering if it could be to do with the maverick-proposed repository.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tFYmD.png" alt="Screenshot of problem"></p>
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11897 | 1 | 13773 | 2010-11-07T09:26:26.100 | 6 | 2934 | <p>I want to edit quickly lots of pictures in Shotwell. It already has some shortcuts, like <kbd>]</kbd> for Rotate. However, I work on a Qwertz keyboard, where <kbd>]</kbd> is typed as <kbd>AltGr</kbd> + <kbd>9</kbd>, which means I have to hit two non-home-row buttons with the same hand. It is slow, awkward, and bad for the tendons. </p>
<p>I would like to map it to some easy key like <kbd>R</kbd>. Is there a config file somewhere which I can edit? </p>
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11899 | 1 | 11901 | 2010-11-07T09:30:06.547 | 7 | 14842 | <p>I would like to backup my email that I have already downloaded and stored in Evolution. I know there is an option in Evolution to backup your Evolution settings but how can you backup your mail accounts and mail.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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11908 | 1 | 11912 | 2010-11-07T10:47:05.873 | 18 | 3346 | <p>Sometimes I mount my NTFS drives in Ubuntu but forget to unmount them before shutdown.</p>
<p>So does Ubuntu unmount them before shutdown or do I have to unmount them manually before shutdown?</p>
<p>I am asking this because I have forgot to unmount my NTFS partition many times and when I boot into my Windows, windows starts scanning for my disk sometimes.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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11916 | 1 | 12127 | 2010-11-07T13:02:10.433 | 9 | 23033 | <p>I'm using Lubuntu with WinXP in dual boot for several weeks. Today I've ran update and GRUB now does not show WinXP menu entry in GRUB.</p>
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11920 | 1 | 11922 | 2010-11-07T13:15:53.700 | 6 | 3147 | <p>How can have a shortcut to a compiled mono program (.exe). The execution command in command line is "mono MYPROGRAM.exe"</p>
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11925 | 1 | 11927 | 2010-11-07T13:47:02.257 | 153 | 204423 | <p>In Windows I used command-line clipboard copy-and-paste utilities... </p>
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<p>These were UnixUtils ports for Windows (but they only handled plain text). There were a couple of other <strong>native</strong> Windows utilities which could write/extract any format. </p>
<p>I've looked for something similar in Synaptic Package Manager, but I can't find anything. </p>
<p>Is there something there, that I've missed? ... or maybe this is available in Bash scripting? </p>
<p>The type of utility I'd like will be able to read/write via std-in/std-out or file-in/file-out, and handle Unicode, Rich Text Format, picture, etc. clipboard formats... </p>
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11931 | 1 | 11954 | 2010-11-07T14:14:25.117 | 7 | 348 | <p>I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.10 on a system. It works very good but I did a lot of tuning (it's a server) to get it working. I'm aware that I need to upgrade to a new LTS version of Ubuntu if I have time.</p>
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11934 | 1 | 12005 | 2010-11-07T14:44:09.673 | 8 | 6686 | <p>I want to remove Firefox (with <code>sudo apt-get purge firefox*</code>) <strong>but without installing the Epiphany browser</strong>. How can I do this?</p>
<p>I want to remove Firefox because I want to use Google Chrome as my default and only web browser.</p>
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crc32c 2531 1
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usbhid 36882 0
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<p>Output of ifconfig:</p>
<pre><code>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:60:ae:4f:df
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9120 (9.1 KB) TX bytes:9120 (9.1 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d8:5d:4c:89:7c:d8
inet6 addr: fe80::da5d:4cff:fe89:7cd8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17137 (17.1 KB) TX bytes:6535 (6.5 KB)
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<p>Output of lshw -C Network:</p>
<pre><code>WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82541EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:03:0b.0
logical name: eth0
version: 00
serial: 00:0d:60:ae:4f:df
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.21-k6-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=52 mingnt=255 multicast=yes
resources: irq:16 memory:e8100000-e811ffff ioport:2000(size=64)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:7
logical name: wlan0
serial: d8:5d:4c:89:7c:d8
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt73usb driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
</code></pre>
<p>The output of cat /etc/network/interfaces</p>
<pre><code>auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
</code></pre>
<p>The output of iwconfig</p>
<pre><code>lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=9 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
</code></pre>
<p>The output of lspci:</p>
<pre><code>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
03:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
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<p>As requested here is the output of lsusb</p>
<pre><code>Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b3:3108 IBM Corp. 800dpi Optical Mouse w/ Scroll Point
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 090c:1000 Feiya Technology Corp. Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501/RT2573 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
</code></pre>
<p>Can somebody help me solve this problem?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance and best regards!</p>
<p>As suggested by outofstep, I downloaded the RT2501USB(RT73:RT2571W/RT2573/RT2671) firmware from <a href="http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501" rel="nofollow">http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501</a> and copied the file rt73.bin to /lib/firmware unplugged the usb adapter, plugged it in again but to no avail. A reboot of the computer didn't help either. But thanks anyway.</p>
<p>This is the output of dmesg | grep rt73</p>
<pre><code>[ 15.540677] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0::radio
[ 15.540720] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0::assoc
[ 15.540763] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0::quality
[ 15.541515] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
</code></pre>
<p>Thanks for the support so far, outofstep and hhlp.</p>
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11951 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T17:21:44.377 | 5 | 802 | <p>Ubuntu 9.04 (JAUNTY JACKLOPE version)Installation Guidance REQUESTED.</p>
<p>I am a quite new user (more proper to say “..a learner”) of Ubuntu. I am a Sr. citizen.
Please guide and help me in the matter mentioned below. My system is a Pentium III, 804 MHz processor, Asus CUSL-2 Mother board, 512MB RAM SD TWO hard-disks 80 GB & 20 GB.
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a separate HD of 20 GB using CHIP's Live DVD to install.</p>
<p>It is JAUNTY JACKLOPE version. It is successfully installed. On starting the system, it also displayes booting options as under:</p>
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<li>Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.28 – 11 genuine</li>
<li>Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.28 – 11 genuine (Recovery Mode)</li>
<li>Ubuntu 9.04 memtest86+</li>
<li>Other Operating System:</li>
<li>Microsoft Windows XP Professional</li>
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<p>If Win.XP is selected, it starts. But if Ubuntu 9.04 option is given, it starts booting, checks all parameters and gives [OK] to all but stops at "Checking battery...." it stops and after 2 to 3 flickers the monitor screen becomes blank/dark... nothing comes on it. I have tried with all the three options as displayed above. The result is the same- i.e. nil.</p>
<p>Please help me in the matter and provide guidance in a very simple detailed way and oblige. Thanking you in anticipation.</p>
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11955 | 1 | 11971 | 2010-11-07T17:29:58.827 | 8 | 5173 | <p>My CPU usage keeps spiking a lot. I can be sitting on my desktop and my CPU usage will go up to around 90%, according to Conky.
Here is the output of top:</p>
<pre><code> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3183 thomas 25 5 868m 66m 19m S 12 1.7 1:14.99 chromium-browse
1151 root 20 0 149m 45m 19m S 11 1.1 8:07.03 Xorg
5739 thomas 20 0 190m 19m 12m R 6 0.5 0:00.19 nvidia-settings
1891 thomas 20 0 134m 34m 4436 S 4 0.9 1:35.87 beam.smp
4840 thomas 20 0 433m 18m 12m S 3 0.5 0:01.13 gnome-terminal
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:46.66 kacpid
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<p>And right now my CPU usage is around 70%. It's as if there is some malicious process or something hidden away just eating up my CPU usage.</p>
<p>If it helps to know, I'm running a Core 2 Duo with the nvidia drivers installed, version 260.19.06.</p>
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11956 | 1 | 11960 | 2010-11-07T17:32:39.357 | 3 | 6657 | <p>I wanted to stop particular user names appearing in the list of names at the log in screen. I remembered reading that this could be achieved by changing the user id of the account to something less than 1000 (I think I made it 990). So I did this. That worked fine, but now when I wanted to change it back, the name is not appearing in the list of user accounts in the <code>users and groups</code> menu under administration.</p>
<p>How do I modify the phantom account?</p>
| 702 | null | null | 2013-11-02T15:55:16.620 | users disappear from options menu when given uids under 1000 | [
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11957 | 1 | 11972 | 2010-11-07T17:39:35.487 | 5 | 5464 | <p>I have installed squid as my proxy server in <strong>Ubuntu 10.04 standalone system</strong> which has a single <strong>NIC</strong>. Why i have installed Squid in a standalone system is because of my friends who uses my system to browse sites and download files. So I have installed Squid to block porn sites and downloads. But they simply bypass the proxy settings by disabling it in browser..I know there is some way to force all browsers to go through proxy using iptables. But how? I have searched everywhere for the answer but cant get the right one yet. Can somebody help me?</p>
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"text": "@karthick87: When you say it didn't work, do you mean that squid can't access the internet? I've just tried installing, and the user is actually proxy. I've updated my answer to reflect that. If it still doesn't work, please say what is not working. Also please post the output of `sudo iptables -L -nvv` aswell.",
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11962 | 1 | 11963 | 2010-11-07T18:04:41.623 | 5 | 2933 | <p>I have a VM of Ubuntu 10.10 x86, and I need to build a Mercurial installation against Python 2.4. I have to do this because the web host I am working on has Python 2.4 as the latest copy of Python.</p>
<p>In Ubuntu 9.10 it was a simple as editing two make files to target the <code>python2.4</code> executable, and doing a <code>make local</code> against it. However since Ubuntu 10.10 does not have 2.4 I need to install the base, libraries, and dev tools for 2.4.</p>
<p>How do I go about doing this? I wasn't able to find a good walk-through via Google.</p>
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11976 | 1 | 11979 | 2010-11-07T19:55:18.783 | 16 | 11586 | <p>How do i create RAM drive under ubuntu. And would he automounted at startup?</p>
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11986 | 1 | 11991 | 2010-11-07T20:57:34.403 | 6 | 678 | <p>Now I can't run Banshee, because of Banshee automatically quit after some time.
<em>Question: Where is located banshee configs? Can i delete them to reset settings???</em></p>
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11988 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T22:00:49.140 | 5 | 2099 | <p><strong>Version: Ubuntu 9.10</strong></p>
<p>How I do to enable automatic login in Xvnc/XDMCP?</p>
<p>Im in the process of setting up a Xvnc kiosk, which will be a terminal server hosting multiple kiosk machines under separate sessions.</p>
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<p>What I want, is that when someone connects with a VNC client to the machine, the user who connect should immediately get logged in as the "kiosk" user without being asked for password or something else, just straight into as the user "kiosk".</p>
<p>As it is now, the user just gets a login screen asking for username/password.</p>
<p>Theres no problem running multiple sessions as the same user. I have tested it, all sessions are concurrent and does not affect each other, so theres no need to have a separate kiosk account for each kiosk machine.</p>
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11989 | 1 | null | 2010-11-07T22:01:48.887 | 1 | 653 | <p>What MPG4 converters are available for Ubuntu 10.10? </p>
<p>I have tried all that are in the Software Centre and none will work. I have a flip camera and it records in MPG4, which I have trouble with on Linux.</p>
<p>I don't mind whether the converters are graphical or command line.</p>
<p>thanks for all the help with this, finally got something to work, getting help is why i switched to Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Thanks everybody</p>
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11990 | 1 | 11992 | 2010-11-07T22:15:28.253 | 8 | 3431 | <p>My wifi connection drops sometimes and, for some reason, Network Manager attempts to connect to my neighbor's network, which requires a password that I don't know. The network in question is not listed in the "Edit Connections..." dialog and I can find no reference to it in any configuration file, but still the password dialog pops up every time my main connection drops. Is there a way to blacklist a wireless network so that the Network Manager will never attempt to connect to it? Or, equivalently, how can I remove the configuration data that causes the Network Manager to attempt to connect to this particular network?</p>
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11993 | 1 | 12109 | 2010-11-07T22:22:08.747 | 13 | 91318 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/how-to-install-broadcom-sta-wireless-card-bcm43xx">How to Install Broadcom / STA Wireless card (BCM43XX)</a> </p>
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<p>completely new to Ubuntu. How do I add Wireless driver for my laptop? I am running a Dell XPS M1330. Right now its acts as if I dont have a Wi-Fi card.</p>
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00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
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00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
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03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
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11997 | 1 | 12007 | 2010-11-07T23:00:40.413 | 6 | 2083 | <p>My <code>.bash_env</code> file sets several environment variables, including <code>PATH</code> and <code>EMAIL</code>, but in an Emacs session launched from the Gnome Panel (command: "<code>/usr/bin/emacs23 %F</code>") these variables do not have the expected values. I've run into this problem before (see <a href="http://procrastiblog.com/2007/07/09/changing-your-path-in-emacs-compilation-mode/">this blog post</a>). I fixed it then by sourcing <code>.bash_env</code> in my <code>.xsession</code> file. Obviously, this is no longer working. </p>
<p>The variables are set properly if I manually launch Emacs from a terminal. Oddly, they aren't set if I change the panel launcher to execute Emacs in a terminal (I would think this would start Bash before starting Emacs).</p>
<p>How can I make sure the regular Bash environment is set up for the Emacs session?</p>
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12009 | 1 | 12010 | 2010-11-08T00:26:15.677 | 19 | 36303 | <p>I have an external hard drive and since I only use Ubuntu and Fedora I decide to format my hard drive to ext4 everything is fine.</p>
<p>The problem is when I mount the drive I need to change the permission so I can read and write.</p>
<p>What kind of permission should I use? adm my user name?</p>
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"body": "<p>Lame though it may be of me, I'm going to have to answer the question with another question. If all we're talking about is for one OS, then it would be either </p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo chown -R (user name) /dev/(device name)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>(<strong><em>ubuntu</em></strong>)</p>\n\n<p>or just </p>\n\n<pre><code>chown -R (user name) /dev/(device name)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><strong><em>fedora</em></strong> - no <code>sudo</code>, just run the command from root.</p>\n\n<p>The noodle scratcher part, and the part I don't have any good answers for, is how to make it so you don't have to manually retype when you go back and forth between distros. I'd almost be tempted to add the line to my <code>~/.bashrc</code>, but there's probably a better way I don't know or haven't thought of yet.</p>\n",
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"text": "That what i tho i need to change the permission every time i change of distro",
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"text": "Just to make sure and satisfy my own intellectual curiousity, I went back and double checked with a USB EXT4 drive I have. I didn't know if taking ownership of the device is the same thing as taking ownership of the filesystem, and it is. sudo chown -R (user name) /dev/(device name) gets you ownership of all the files on the drive, even if you didn't create them.",
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"text": "Yeah, short of just adding the line to ~/.bashrc so it runs automatically every time you run terminal, I don't have an answer to that. Maybe could add it to cron? But it seems like there should just be a way to arrange for it to run when the distro boots.",
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12014 | 1 | 12016 | 2010-11-08T00:54:37.043 | 7 | 892 | <p>I've got a pure vanilla Lucid Desktop installation on a severely RAM limited laptop (with a slow drive for extra happy swapping).</p>
<p>I'm trying to remove packages that snuck in on ubuntu-desktop which I know I'll never use. For example</p>
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<p>Am I missing some deep Ubuntu mystique or would removing cups be bad? (I put the <code>--simulate</code> flag in my examples lest someone cut-paste-cry).</p>
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"body": "<p>Removing <code>cups</code> or <code>ubuntu-desktop</code> won't leave your package state confused. Only <code>--force-…</code> can do that.</p>\n\n<p><code>ubuntu-desktop</code> roughly means “all the basic functionality an Ubuntu user on the desktop should have without having to look for it”. Printing is included in that. If you don't want printing, you're sacrificing functionality. You can still remove <code>ubuntu-desktop</code>, but then it's up to you to make sure you know which of its dependencies you must keep.</p>\n\n<p>If you're only limited in RAM and not in disk space, you don't have to remove CUPS, you can just not start it. Under lucid, rename <code>/etc/rc2.d/S50cups</code> to <code>/etc/rc2.d/K50cups</code>, and similarly in <code>rc3.d</code>, <code>rc4.d</code> and <code>rc5.d</code>.</p>\n\n<p>But you're not going to gain much by not running CUPS; it would start, and quickly get into the swap and never come back as long as you don't print, and it's less than 2MB anyway. If you're RAM-starved, the best you can do is really to ditch Gnome (I see nautilus at 30MB, gnome-panel at 13MB, nm-applet at 11MB... Some of this is shared, but compared with the Gnome stuff, the system daemons are peanuts.)</p>\n",
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"text": "Ubuntu uses `upstart`, not some form of *SysV init*.",
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"text": "@JanC: The question specified lucid, and cups is started by a SysV-style script in lucid. (I did check before answering!)",
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"text": "All three answers were educational but this one spoke most clearly about the effects of the absence of a meta-package. Thanks all.",
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"body": "<p>Since you are not looking after free disk space, but rather free RAM (memory) you can work around by not launching those applications in the first place :). Use gnome-session-properties an un-check any service that is not needed by your session. </p>\n\n<p>If for example you ... | null | null | null | null | null |
12018 | 1 | 34662 | 2010-11-08T02:13:43.860 | 5 | 9650 | <p>When I use skype the video looks really dark (both to me and the other person). But it doesn't seem to be a problem with the webcam itself, because with Cheese the image looks fine.</p>
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"text": "i would look into color correction options within skype. i know cheese automagically adjusts for light on my box",
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"body": "<p>I had the same problem. Try this, it works on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and I think it'll work on your computer too :)</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://severity1.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/fixing-skype-webcam-is-very-dark-problem-in-ubuntu-karmic-and-lucid/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://severity1.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/fixing-skype-webcam-is-very-dark-problem-in-ubuntu-karmic-and-lucid/</a></p>\n",
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"body": "<p>This may be a bit of a hassle but Webcam Studio is an amazing piece of software that will allow you to stream multiple video inputs (your webcam, with color correction and effects) to a virtual device that you can use within skype. \nYou can get it/investigate here <a href=\"... | null | null | null | null | null |
12020 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T02:22:10.553 | 3 | 567 | <p>In order for Skype to work with the mic in my webcam, I need to change the <em>sound preferences -> Input</em> to "0825 Analog Mono" (default is "Internal Audio Analog Stereo"). However whenever I reboot this gets reset. How can I make it the default?</p>
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