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13112 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T00:14:33.757 | 4 | 2284 | <p>here's the output after trying to run banshee from terminal:</p>
<pre><code>jayjay@jayjay-desktop:~$ banshee
** (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:7909): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.Services.dll could not be loaded:
Assembly: glib-sharp (assemblyref_index=11)
Version: 2.12.0.0
Public Key: 35e10195dab3c99f
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/usr/lib/banshee-1/).
** (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:7909): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'glib-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' or one of its dependencies.
** (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:7909): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.Services.dll could not be loaded:
Assembly: NDesk.DBus (assemblyref_index=14)
Version: 1.0.0.0
Public Key: f6716e4f9b2ed099
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/usr/lib/banshee-1/).
** (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:7909): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'NDesk.DBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f6716e4f9b2ed099' or one of its dependencies.
</code></pre>
<p>Stacktrace:</p>
<p>Native stacktrace:</p>
<pre><code>banshee-1() [0x80c9774]
banshee-1() [0x80f5753]
[0xb783d40c]
banshee-1() [0x80893db]
banshee-1() [0x8061698]
banshee-1() [0x8062e78]
banshee-1() [0x806374f]
banshee-1(mono_runtime_exec_main+0xde) [0x8103e9e]
banshee-1(mono_runtime_run_main+0x15a) [0x810461a]
banshee-1(mono_main+0x18c4) [0x80b2744]
banshee-1() [0x805ad75]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xb75b9ce7]
banshee-1() [0x805acb1]
</code></pre>
<p>Debug info from gdb:</p>
<pre><code>Could not attach to process. If your uid matches the uid of the target
process, check the setting of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope, or try
again as the root user. For more details, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
================================================== ===============
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
================================================== ===============
Aborted
</code></pre>
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<p>However those informations seem to be given once and for all, as there is no 'Edit station' option in the contextual menu. So how can I modify the information associated to the saved stations, for example their name?</p>
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13119 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T01:50:54.230 | 0 | 182 | <p>I mainly use my netbook for writing and browsing. So I have set the brightness to a minimum level. Sometimes when I watch videos I increase the brightness using hotkeys. But when increased after few seconds it reverts back to the default level I have set. Is there any way in which the brightness level I have set using hotkeys can be retained untill the machine is shutdown?</p>
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13120 | 1 | 13134 | 2010-11-14T01:55:51.310 | 5 | 2979 | <p>In my video folder I have some music clips in .flv I would have liked to tag with information as artist, song title, album, cover, etc.</p>
<p>Is this operation possible ? Which programs are able to do that graphically (equivalent of EasyTAG)?</p>
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13121 | 1 | 13126 | 2010-11-14T01:57:07.143 | 2 | 101 | <p>I saw something similar in Windows for Ubuntu at <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemRestore" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemRestore</a>.</p>
<p>I was wondering if it has been available now?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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13131 | 1 | 13148 | 2010-11-14T02:57:27.597 | 8 | 380 | <p>When I go to System -> Preferences -> About me, I am able to give all sorts of informations, like my name, my e-mail address, an avatar, <em>et cætera</em>.</p>
<p>What is it made for?</p>
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13133 | 1 | 14406 | 2010-11-14T03:18:24.360 | 9 | 4044 | <p>I often use the Gnome Character Map accessory to find characters I didn't know, with a view to surprising friends with exclusive drawings. However the program is not complete and lacks some characters like the Mongol or the Birman ones.</p>
<p>How do I install all of them in one time? Notice that I don't care what precise font it is.</p>
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13135 | 1 | 13138 | 2010-11-14T03:53:15.343 | 2 | 282 | <p>Good evening all, </p>
<p>I am having a problem with RhythmBox on Ubuntu 10.10. I freshly installed Ubuntu almost a week ago and everything was great right off the bat. However, tonight I am having a small issue. In RhythmBox, I went into the Preferences section and went to check the quality level of the the CD Quality, Lossy profile (the ones that uses ogg) and it is missing from the Preferred Formats list. If I click the Edit button, I see it in the list of available profiles along with many others and it is set to active. Why would it not be in the Preferred Formats list, and more importantly, how could I get it back in the Preferred Formats list so I can rip a CD with it? Just as a side note, RhythmBox is playing ogg files without problem.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help anyone can provide!</p>
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13137 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T04:18:38.207 | 8 | 703 | <p>How can I get here using keyboard shortcuts?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBMlN.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
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13140 | 1 | 13311 | 2010-11-14T05:15:58.237 | 8 | 30984 | <p>I am using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I installed it using the feature 'Install within Windows'. I got a simple though difficult problem.</p>
<hr />
<p>The touchpad and external mouse movements are working fine.</p>
<h2>I am able to :</h2>
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<li>Maximize, minimize, and close an opened window using the buttons on the window.</li>
<li>Drag a window by double-clicking and holding it.</li>
<li>Rise up a context menu with a right-click on the window border.</li>
<li>Scroll through a page with the Mouse wheel.</li>
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<h2>I am not able to :</h2>
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<li>Left-click or right-click on a panel.</li>
<li>Open a menu item from the menu bar using a click.</li>
<li>Open a folder by double-clicking it.</li>
<li>Rise up a context menu for a right-click inside the window area.</li>
<li>Click an item in the side pane.</li>
<li>Scroll through a page by dragging the scroll bar.</li>
<li>Select <strong>OK</strong> or <strong>cancel</strong> in the pop-up windows with a click. [To do so, I have to use <code>tab</code> to go to the option and press enter].</li>
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<hr />
<h2>It happened as follows :</h2>
<p>I finished installing the packages <code>planets</code>, <code>sugar-emulator</code>, <code>rlplot</code>, <code>gsynaptics</code>, then opened the package <code>planets</code>, and added a planet in the opened window.</p>
<p>**The <code>planets</code> window said to press <code>Ctrl + Shift</code> to release the mouse from its window to a normal ubuntu environment. I doubt my keystroke was wrong. I am not sure what I pressed. Something wrong went from there. **</p>
<p>I thought a restart would clear the problem, but it didn't. I removed all the installed packages and their dependencies and restarted my laptop. Still, the problem exists.</p>
<p>I am using my laptop with all the keyboard shortcuts I know. And I have to press <code>tab</code> many times to select something and it is really bad.</p>
<h2>Solution?</h2>
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<li>Should I install any drivers for my touchpad?</li>
<li>Is there any option to restore my system to an earlier point in time as is possible in windows?</li>
<li>Should I change any settings?</li>
<li>Can I recover using any bootup installation?</li>
</ol>
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13142 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T05:29:50.893 | 2 | 8119 | <p>The following error shows every time I sign into Gmail. On the contrary, I can open Gmail in Windows.</p>
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<p>Please help.</p>
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13150 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T07:10:01.187 | 8 | 19622 | <p>Installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an old laptop and I noticed that the system is trying to show the CLI below my screen. This means that if I run a script or a program with a bunch of output, once it is done, I have to press return several times to bring the output to the point where I can actually see it on the screen. I also have to clear the screen to be able to see what I am typing at the current command prompt.</p>
<p>The laptop is an EliteGroup 536S with a native screen resolution of 1024 x 768</p>
<p><strong>How can I adjust the resolution for Ubuntu Server 10.04?</strong></p>
<p><strong>What file do I need to edit if editing a file is the solution?</strong></p>
<p>I've seen posts on how to change the resolution on the desktop version of Ubuntu but not the server version.</p>
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13154 | 1 | 13167 | 2010-11-14T07:37:31.570 | 1 | 302 | <p>In System --> Preferences --> Visual Effects it always says None.
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13157 | 1 | 25017 | 2010-11-14T07:54:06.110 | 2 | 1267 | <p>Having recently moved to Linux/Ubuntu, I'm looking for a good editor, and <strong>GNU Emacs</strong> seems to fit the bill. </p>
<p>One thing I want from a text editor is the ability to handle Unicode Input Method Editors in a "normal way", across the board. For Ubuntu, the "normal way" is via <strong>IBus</strong>.<br>
However, emacs does not support IBus "off the shelf". </p>
<p>I found a launchpad project: <a href="https://launchpad.net/ibus.el" rel="nofollow">IBus client for GNU Emacs</a>: <strong>ibus-el</strong>. </p>
<p>I've installed ibus-el and set it up as per the <code>Customize</code> section of <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IBusMode#toc1" rel="nofollow">this emacswiki IBusMode</a> page. I included the suggested "toggle" keybinding: <code>;; Use s-SPC to toggle input status</code> </p>
<p>It seems to have installed okay, but I have no idea how to invoke IBus and switch IMEs. </p>
<p><strong>s-SPC</strong> doesn't fire up the IBus language panel... I'm stuck :( ...so close, yet so far....</p>
<p>Here are the startup *messages* </p>
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No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading debian-ispell...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done
Loading debian-ispell...done
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50festival.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gtk-doc-tools.el (source)...done
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13170 | 1 | 13171 | 2010-11-14T10:30:58.287 | 6 | 1149 | <p>In Nautilus by default I have very nice default previews of different file types, for example JPEG, Png, Svg, text or PDF.</p>
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13172 | 1 | 729971 | 2010-11-14T10:31:53.433 | 6 | 7800 | <p>Is there a proper way to run more than one tomcat instance on an Ubuntu server? </p>
<p>I've done some searching and found two options:</p>
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<li>Download a zipped tomcat and manually deploy it. The obvious con is that it won't be upgraded using <code>apt-get</code>.</li>
<li>Use some <a href="http://brian.pontarelli.com/2007/09/17/multiple-tomcat-instances-on-ubuntu/" rel="nofollow">advanced scripting</a>, which is dangerous in a production server.</li>
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<p>Any other ideas to cleanly run another instance?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Adam</p>
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13179 | 1 | 13189 | 2010-11-14T11:48:36.970 | 6 | 1060 | <p>I'm planning to start a new project. However, I can't find a really simple documentation to getting started with launchpad.net.</p>
<p><strong>What should I do to create a new project?</strong> </p>
<p>I will appreciate any kind of suggestion of good documentation. So feel free to give all your help answering the following. Thanks!</p>
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13180 | 1 | 13764 | 2010-11-14T11:53:34.380 | 3 | 930 | <p>Can someone familiar with Ardour 2.8 please make a video / youtube guide showing precisely how to use SC3 Side Chain Compression? I've read every guide online currently and side chain is simply not working, very frustrating. <a href="http://ardour.org/node/1013" rel="nofollow">http://ardour.org/node/1013</a> seems to be the main one people go by, however when I have the sends coming into the bus there is simply no effect from SC3. Thank you for your time.</p>
<p>Here is another relevant thread: <a href="http://ardour.org/node/3882" rel="nofollow">http://ardour.org/node/3882</a></p>
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13184 | 1 | 13376 | 2010-11-14T12:00:12.360 | 1 | 7686 | <p>I installed <strong>Windows server 2008</strong> and <strong>SQL Server 2008</strong> on VirtualBox, now I want to remotely connect to it via php.
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13197 | 1 | 13385 | 2010-11-14T12:56:37.220 | 23 | 5575 | <p>The application in question does some action (here connecting audio to network streams) and runs minimized if these actions were successful. Therefore a status icon is needed to display the state of the connection (e.g. CONNECTED/DISCONNECTED). Only when clicking the icon the application window will open to give access to further options.</p>
<p>Using Python 2.6 and pyGtk I conveniently realised this by using <strong>gtk_status_icon</strong>. I deliberately wrote the application to run on as many distributions as possible including the various Ubuntu versions. I took care to use possible dependencies only after the user had installed them.</p>
<p>However now I hear that gtk_status_icon will no longer be supported in future Ubuntu releases. Developers are asked to use Application Indicators instead. What is then best practise to make sure that:</p>
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<li>The application will still run and display it's icons in future Ubuntu releases.</li>
<li>The application will <strong>also</strong> run and display it's icons in other environments where <strong>indicator-applet</strong>, <strong>libappindicator</strong>, and <strong>python-appindicator</strong> are not provided.</li>
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<p>Application Indicator fallback mechanisms to gtk_status_icon won't work if <strong>indicator-applet</strong> is not running. Python interpreters will not run if there was no <strong>appindicator</strong> module to import from. Do I need to develop different versions for different distributions or is there a better way to come around this.</p>
<p>Where do I find a documentation on how to use ApplicationIndicator other than in the example given in <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators">Ubuntu Wiki</a>? What commands are provided to check if indicator-applet is running to avoid programming different source codes for Ubuntu vs. non-Ubuntu distributions?</p>
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13200 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T13:19:29.860 | 2 | 644 | <p>I have four drives. I want that whenever user tries to mount drive it should ask for password. I know password protecting ALL drives is possible through user previlages but I dont want it for all drives. I want it for single drive.</p>
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13201 | 1 | 13529 | 2010-11-14T13:24:58.720 | 0 | 1255 | <p>I have heard and read many rumors about Skype but very few tangible informations. Skype is said to be engaged in censorship in China according to the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeEthics" rel="nofollow">official Ubuntu Wiki</a>, and to have very serious security threats according to <a href="http://www.01net.com/article/289360.html" rel="nofollow">French Defense classified information files</a>. Therefore, although it is widely used in companies, Skype is forbidden in universities.</p>
<p>What is the part of trueness of those statements? In the end, am I exposed to security threats if use Skype?</p>
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13204 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T13:57:42.900 | 3 | 577 | <p>I installed ubuntu server 10.04 on a PC with two HD drives 500 GB each. I used raid1 to provide data protection. The <code>/boot</code> partition is installed also on a mirrored device <code>/dev/md0</code>.</p>
<p>After the installation has completed, the system did not boot properly. I got the following error message:</p>
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<p>Any idea what could cause such a problem?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>:</p>
<p>I booted into rescue mode using the installation CD. Executing fdisk showed me the partitions, but it said <strong>"Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary."</strong>. Can this be related to the problem at hand?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE2:</strong></p>
<p>I re-installed ubuntu server without the Raid at all. The system booted as it should be! Also, I got the same error from fdisk after booting. So, this error should not be related to this problem of not being able to boot.</p>
<p>It is puzzling me. Can't I install ubuntu server 10.04 with raid1?!!</p>
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13205 | 1 | 25589 | 2010-11-14T14:05:20.400 | 6 | 10500 | <p>I am attempting to debug a SIGSEGV on PHP on my Ubuntu 9.10.</p>
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13211 | 1 | 13237 | 2010-11-14T15:07:13.223 | 4 | 2998 | <p>My 10.04 machine uses three partitions: 5 GB for <code>/boot</code>, 25 GB for <code>/</code> and 120 GB for <code>/home</code>. <code>/</code> and <code>/home</code> are encrypted with LUKS passphrase.</p>
<p>I've downloaded the alternate installer in order to reinstall the machine. I want my <code>/</code> partition to be rewritten, but to keep my existing <code>/home</code>. </p>
<p>Any way to tell the installer my <code>/home</code> already exists in a separate LUKS partition?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
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13212 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T15:17:02.163 | 4 | 3266 | <p>I have deleted a partition which had an incomplete ubuntu install using Windows 7 partition manager.</p>
<p>Other than that I had a different partition with a working ubuntu but when I deleted the partition and restarted the computer I have found out that grub wont let me enter any operating system so I used the fixMbr command in the windows 7 disc and it seems like grub has been gone and when I boot I don't receive a choice of an os but it automaticlly loads windows 7.</p>
<p>So my question is how can I get ubuntu back?</p>
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13216 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T15:36:56.667 | 6 | 14541 | <p>openSUSE is known by it's YaST control center, a powerful tool that centralizes all the system configurations. It makes it a lot simpler to configure the system, why doesn't Ubuntu make use of such a thing?</p>
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13220 | 1 | 13421 | 2010-11-14T15:50:06.353 | 5 | 1746 | <p>I've seen many topics on the subjects but they are too complicated for me. I'm not confident in compiling stuff.
Is there some headache-free way to make it work under Ubuntu?
Where do I start?</p>
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It doesn't seem to work.</p>
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<p>I am a bit confused. Am I right to type it in the terminal?</p>
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13224 | 1 | 13226 | 2010-11-14T16:17:04.053 | 26 | 22900 | <p>When I create a new document aimed at containing only plain text, I am not obliged by Ubuntu to add a .txt extension to its name. It works indeed very well: gedit opens it without problem, understanding very well that it is only text.</p>
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13227 | 1 | 13262 | 2010-11-14T17:02:09.553 | 4 | 751 | <p>After updating to Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome), KMyMoney now opens in fullscreen mode by default, and I can't find any option to get out of fullscreen. I've tried pressing F11, and I've taken a pretty good look through the view options, but I can't find any way to turn off fullscreen mode. After a little looking, it seems like KMyMoney's preferences can't be found in gconf-editor, and there doesn't seem to be a command-line switch for turning fullscreen on or off. So I'm at a loss, and any help would be much appreciated, thanks!</p>
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13232 | 1 | 13934 | 2010-11-14T17:14:34.267 | 7 | 7312 | <p>My evil plan is to serve rdp from an AWS ubuntu instance so I can have a permanent xubuntu desktop as I roam from windows computer to windows computer (or any computer really). It is as easy as running mstsc -v {aws.public.url}.</p>
<p>How, through, ssh, can I have the instance serve a remote desktop?</p>
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13235 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T17:21:40.217 | 2 | 1486 | <p>I'm using Maverick "10.10" Meercat on a HP Pavilion tx2110. This machine has an NVidia Go6150 graphics card, and sports a 1280x800 display. I have an external monitor which can do 1280x1024 resolution. FWIW I'm using openbox as my window manager; as I understand it this shouldn't be a factor.</p>
<p>I'd like to clone the display to the monitor, so that the size of the desktop remains at 1280x800, and there is a horizontal blank area on the external monitor. I.E. I want to avoid having to pan the display of the desktop on either monitor. So the actual resolution of the monitor would be 1280x1024, but the resolution of the section of the monitor where stuff was actually being displayed would be 1280x800.</p>
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<p>Is this achievable? Ideally I'd like the external monitor's blank area to be at the top of the screen, i.e. for it to align the display with the bottom of the screen.</p>
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13238 | 1 | 13247 | 2010-11-14T17:52:04.157 | 11 | 5867 | <p>When I am watching videos on youtube and toggle the screen to full screen or switch back from full screen to normal mode, the video stops and sometimes stops loading or starts loading from the start again.
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13248 | 1 | 13569 | 2010-11-14T18:44:46.383 | 7 | 1059 | <p>My laptop has a broken screen (for a while now) and unfortunately I won't be able to fix/replace it for a little while longer than I hoped. Is there some way that I can get VT's to show on the external monitor? (I can't ssh into it, I don't have another computer to do that with).</p>
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13249 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T18:45:25.280 | 3 | 603 | <p>I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 tablet multitouch computer with a docking station to use DVD player. Can Ubuntu 10.10 or other versions recognize my docking station and DVD player without any special configuration? --This is very important when I install the OS through DVD or CDs.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
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<p>If it can't work, I understand, as that is what I already know to be the case (but you never know =P)</p>
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13251 | 1 | 13289 | 2010-11-14T18:51:43.773 | 1 | 321 | <p>I want to enable Hybrid suspend on my system. Can someone point me to the right info? Plus, I read something about it not working, but is that really true? Or just a system by system issue? Thanks for any information.</p>
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13253 | 1 | 13258 | 2010-11-14T19:05:00.417 | 5 | 131 | <p>I just started my new project right now, however I can't find any documentation on how I should proceed to accept translations on it.</p>
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<li>how I should proceed to accept translations through the launchpad.net?</li>
<li>I really need to create a Translation group to start accept this kind of contribution?</li>
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<p>I do not care if you are a translator or developer, I'm really interested in hearing from both sides. So, go make your answer below and don't forget to suggest best practices too. Thanks!</p>
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13254 | 1 | 15026 | 2010-11-14T19:21:31.327 | 18 | 76236 | <p>So I do a vanilla install of 10.04 Lucid Lynx, and login. The display resolution is clearly smaller than it should be.</p>
<p>I did a quick Google search, and then run <code>xrandr</code>:<br>
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VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
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<p>Looks great- all I have to do is add a higher mode, 1360X1020. So I run <code>cvt 1360 1020</code> and get this:<br>
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Modeline "1360x1020_60.00" 114.75 1360 1448 1584 1808 1020 1023 1027 1058 -hsync +vsync</code></p>
<p>Alright. I copy the modeline, run <code>xrandr --newmode</code> with the modeline that I have, and there's no errors. However, here's the problem. When I try to use the new resolution, this is what happens:</p>
<p>$ <code>xrandr --addmode VGA1 1360X1020_60.00<br>
xrandr: cannot find mode "1360X1020_60.00"</code></p>
<p>I can't figure out why I'm getting this error, because I seem to have done all of the steps right. If it helps, the monitor is an Acer AL1714 running on a Dell Optiplex GX520. Thanks for any assistance in advance.
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13255 | 1 | 13261 | 2010-11-14T19:23:37.113 | 27 | 4905 | <p>I have a new project hosted at launchpad.net. My project can be useful for both: Ubuntu and Debian. However, I can't find a documentation to start host my project at launchpad.net and get my package mirrored back to Debian.</p>
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<li>How to propose my project to be part of Debian too?</li>
<li>What is the difference between a Ubuntu and a Debian?</li>
<li>Can I keep it hosted at launchpad.net but ask it to be cross-hosted (and packaged) at Debian too?</li>
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<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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13259 | 1 | 13282 | 2010-11-14T20:15:27.337 | 2 | 2847 | <p>Today when booting my computer (10.04 32-bit, System76 lemur) Ubuntu ran the hard drive scan -- as it was finishing the screen went black with this message:</p>
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<p>No key functions seemed to work. I restarted the computer with the power switch and it has since been functioning fine... what happened? Is there something wrong?</p>
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13265 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T20:42:30.500 | 16 | 32939 | <p>I recently (re)stumbled upon this: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/linux-trojan-goes-unnoticed-for-year.html">Linux Trojan Goes Unnoticed For Almost A Year</a> (Unreal IRCd) </p>
<p>Yes, I know that adding some random PPA/software from an untrusted source is asking for trouble (or worse). I never do that, but many do (many Linux blogs and tabloids promote adding PPAs for fancy apps, without warning that it may break your system or worse still, compromise your security.) </p>
<p>How can a trojan horse or a rogue application/script be detected and removed?</p>
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13266 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T20:53:12.600 | 6 | 1830 | <p>Maby my question is not related to this forum, but I want to ask. I want to change my OS from Windows XP to Ubuntu 10.6. But I like some programs in Windows, so is there a GOOD programs in Linux(Ubuntu) to change this list of programs? And I'll be apprishiated for some links where I can download GOOD software for Linux. I need such programs, that I could open their files in Windows OS environment. For example: .doc, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .txt and others. Thanx!</p>
<p>Musical players: Aimp Winamp Sound forge</p>
<p>Kodecks for video, audio etc.</p>
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<p>Messangers: QiP, ICQ, Skype</p>
<p>Browsers: Opera, Mozila</p>
<p>Antiviruses!! NOD32, Avast, Kaspersky?</p>
<p>Translators: Lingvo 12, Pragma</p>
<p>BitTorrent, Download Master.</p>
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13270 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T21:27:36.990 | 3 | 862 | <p>Does anybody knows why Ubuntu's NM does'n use native implementations for networking ? </p>
<p>For example if I set up a pppoe connection in the network manager (using nm-applet) it has it's own way of storing connections and doesn't use native debian networking sheme, for PPPoE use pppd and store settings in <code>/etc/ppp/pears</code>. I once configured a wired connection that didn's show up in <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code> but was visible in NM ... This is BAD for me because if I don't start X, from CLI I cannot connect to my network connections configured in NM ( or not as easy I would expect), for example in CLI I could do pon "dsl-provider" or poff to turn on or off pppoe connection, but my NM's pppoe connections are not visible to pppd and if I configure a pppoe connection using pppd is not visible in NM.</p>
<p>Maybe I am missing something and don't know how to use it ...</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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13271 | 1 | 13276 | 2010-11-14T21:30:29.820 | 2 | 907 | <p>I heard that we can now run Evernote with Wine. May I know what is the configuration to do so ?</p>
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Wine version :
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Evernote Version :
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Wine Configuration (Win XP, Win 7) :
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<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
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13278 | 1 | 13280 | 2010-11-14T22:07:49.077 | 20 | 70335 | <p>Is there any easy and open source backup/restore solution for installed (after clear install) Ubuntu system, like Acronis Home backup ? </p>
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13285 | 1 | 13295 | 2010-11-15T00:08:43.733 | 1 | 1446 | <p>I am running the latest version of Ubuntu. Going back at least 3 versions and across updates and re-installations I have never and can still not get open office's spell check to work. This renders the package almost unusable.</p>
<p>So my question is 2 fold:</p>
<p>1) How can I get the spell check working or is it even possible</p>
<p>2) What is a good alternative that:</p>
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"text": "thanks Nixnotwin, I thought OO.o didn't have this capability at all by itself, I had selected Indian English and I was not working, Now UK English and works fine.",
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13287 | 1 | 13291 | 2010-11-15T00:12:01.807 | 2 | 1085 | <p>I am not sure if its only me or someone else has experienced this as well. I moved to Ubuntu from windows and everything is rocking except the touchpad mouse sensitivity. I have tried keeping it to a low level but its still super quick. How do I make is move across the screen just like windows.</p>
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13290 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T00:22:52.047 | 0 | 432 | <p>I am preparing to make a significant investment into a new desktop computer. It will be used for work and play. I would like to see if any embers of the community have used any of the components and if anyone can let me know if these will work ok with Ubuntu.</p>
<p>The system is to support 3 screens as one giant desktop rather than 3 separate desktops. Windows should be able to be moved from screen to screen.</p>
<p>If anyone can suggest superior alternatives(and why they would be superior) that would also be apprecaited</p>
<p>Here then are the components I am buying</p>
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<p>I should say, I am not overly familiar with the innards of a PC so I have no idea if I have been oversold. I am also limited on the parts I can get (for example the sound card is the only sound card that shop had in stock) though I can order parts if I know what to order.</p>
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13294 | 1 | 43812 | 2010-11-15T00:47:34.687 | 7 | 1376 | <p>I'd like to know if Clutterflow can be enabled by default every time I open the Nautilus file manager. It's a really good looking plug-in.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> In 11.04 The Icons shown by Clutterflow are corrupted.</p>
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"text": "i'm there but...\nOnce opened you will see your category tree.. There is one called Other, click it and on the right you will see the one called Open Folder\n\nSelect it and right click>properties or Click properties on the right hand side and you will see a box where you can edit the launcher.",
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"text": "ok one question, the script will only work IF i launch nautilus from that launcher?, for example if i use synapse to open a new nautilus window will it open with clutterflow enabled?",
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13296 | 1 | 13297 | 2010-11-15T00:57:58.513 | 131 | 106600 | <p>I was wondering if it was possible to check what package another package is a dependency of.</p>
<p>For example, jetty is mysteriously installed and running on my system and I'd like to check whether it is a dependency of something else.</p>
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13298 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T01:07:20.840 | 9 | 3800 | <p>Please post your less-known, but useful apt commands involving apt-*, dpkg, or aptitude.</p>
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13301 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T01:38:36.427 | 1 | 1228 | <p>Can't the developers finally in 2011 move away from the flawed concepts of selections and private clipboards in applications and create a working clipboard service under X window system? </p>
<p>I'm terribly frustrated because of losing my content after closing applications, because of weird middle button behaviour and for other cases of inferiority of Linux clipboard when compared to Mac OS X or Windows. </p>
<p>Neither Glipper, Klipper, nor xfce4-clipman can heal my wounds.</p>
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13313 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T03:27:05.353 | 7 | 23200 | <p>I browsed through the default set of screensavers and the most are ugly, a couple are decent and the only quality ones are Flurry, GLSlideshow, MetaBalls are PopSquares. Where does one find more nice screensavers for Xubuntu? APT repository or xfce-look.org doesn't seem to have it. Or would you recommend running gnome-screensaver instead of xscreensaver? What options are there so that my screen doesn't display rough (not antialiased) visualizations of mathematic obsessions?</p>
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13317 | 1 | 13324 | 2010-11-15T04:21:40.797 | 59 | 39583 | <p>Sometimes I want the last line of a text file to be a simple string of text with <strong>no newline</strong> character appended: ...eg. to concatenate another file to it. </p>
<p>Several editors <strong>automatically</strong> modify my text by adding a newline character, even though I have not pressed <strong>Enter</strong>. </p>
<p><code>Remains unmodified:</code> Emacs, SciTE, Kate, Bluefish, Notepad(wine) </p>
<p><code>Newline is added:</code> Gedit, Gvim, Vim, Nano</p>
<p>I would like to know if there is some way to tweak Gedit, Gvim, and Vim to only save what I have typed.... and even Nano might come in handy</p>
<p>I currently use Gedit, and I'm dabbling in Gvim/Vim.. so it would be useful to know how to "toggle" these on/off... </p>
<p><strong>PS</strong>. Upon re-opening the same file in Gedit, Gvim, and Vim, the cursor's end-of-file placement is at the end of the text, whereas it should really show up on the next (empty) line. This is misleading (but that's because of what I'm used to). </p>
<p>I used a hexeditor to check the above observatons. </p>
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"text": "Thanks Marco, a great answer...The \"Why shoulds...\" is an interesting collection of \"whys\"... I'm personally very \"newline aware\" (that's why I noticed it :) but it is certainly a good reference for everyone (myself included)... but I do prefer to know **that I added, or did not add** it... Maybe there is an obscure plugin for Gedit...",
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13318 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T04:38:37.953 | 2 | 3842 | <p>A simple Microsoft Optical mouse 1000 (USB) that runs perfectly on Windows, freezes up under Ubuntu 10.x and Fedora 1x after about 10 minutes of using the OS.<br><br>Rebooting, the same problem comes up again in a few minutes.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the <em>problem does not occur when Ubuntu is installed in Oracle VirtualBox</em> VM. Installing Ubuntu "as usual" (i.e. not in a VM), causes the problem to occur.</p>
<p>Has any one here faced the same problem or have a solution for it? Maybe using a different mouse that is <em>known</em> to work with Ubuntu 10.x?</p>
<p>If it helps my system is: Asus P5NSLI motherboard (nVidia nForce 570 chipset), 4 GB RAM<br>
Ubuntu 10.10 refers to "32 bit" version of Ubuntu</p>
<p>It seems that Ubuntu has a lot of <a href="http://people.canonical.com/~brian/reports/gt5comments/linux.html" rel="nofollow">all types of freeze issues</a>.<br>
Can someone recommend a version of Ubuntu that is fairly recent and stable ? I intend to use Ubuntu for Ruby on Rails development.</p>
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13327 | 1 | 13342 | 2010-11-15T06:09:22.177 | 8 | 3845 | <p>I have read a lot of talk about how OpenSUSE is using a "Desktop" kernel. This kernel utilizes a 1000hz timer and full preemption among other things. The feature request here goes into more detail about the subject.
<a href="https://features.opensuse.org/305694">Open Fate OpenSUSE Desktop Kernel</a></p>
<p>I know how to compile and configure my own kernel, though I do not understand the real advantages to it. Would perhaps disabling nohz, or unused featured such as hyperthreading (on my cpu anyway) and virtualization. (As well as the settings above). Would it really improve interactivity or response in a game?</p>
<p>If so, does anyone have any suggestions in configuring my kernel for such a purpose?</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
<p>I did some digging by reading a few mailing lists, and it seems voluntary preemption is best. It has less issues with some drivers as does full preemption and still offers good latency. 1000hz seems like a solid choice considering if the kernel is compiled with no_hz. This means that it will only fire ticks when they are needed.</p>
<p>I am strongly assuming optimizing the kernel for your arch will help, as well as specifically disabling unused modules. It states in kernel documentation that if you do not have a SMT (hyperthreading) system, that you can improve throughput by disabling that option. I have no evidence that this is the case, however it seems like it would not hurt.</p>
<p>Also after some testing it seems the new CFQ is a good scheduler for desktop/gaming use, it seems to offer good performance when running something disk heavy like creating a DVD tree.</p>
<p>Really the Ubuntu generic kernel is set up well for good soft latency. Adding the 1000hz should be under review though.</p>
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13328 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T06:12:56.800 | 2 | 318 | <p>I installed Ubuntu on multiple computers by following <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5938/how-can-i-do-mass-installs-on-multiple-computers">this guide</a> . Now many of my users complain that while playing video (xvid or mp4), after few minutes videos go into a paused state, and only resume playing if the mouse cursor is moved.</p>
<p>It happens on vlc and movie player as well. I have installed codecs from the mediubuntu repository. The systems are fully updated.</p>
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13334 | 1 | 13338 | 2010-11-15T07:19:47.943 | 1 | 673 | <p>I have three mails boxes. While downloading mails with large attachments, thunderbirds freeze (going gray). anything is fine when downloading is finished but by the way i can't read my mails in this time.</p>
<p>Has someone had this problem ?</p>
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13335 | 1 | 13422 | 2010-11-15T07:47:14.543 | 0 | 3432 | <p>I run Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit desktop edition and I have Panasonic networked printer KX - MX2000 printer. </p>
<p>There are no 64 bit drivers available from Panasonic for Ubuntu/debian. They only have 32 bit drivers for RHEL :( So - there is no way I can print from my computer to that networked printer directly.</p>
<p>So - my idea was to install printer drivers onto Windows XP VirtualBox guest and just printer from virtual machine.</p>
<p>I've installed XP drivers onto guest, VirtualBox network adapter set to Bridged, I can see printer in the browser from guest, I can ping printer from guest but when I try to print nothing happens. </p>
<p>What am I doing wrong. IS there something else I have to configure?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
<p>Panasonic Red Hat drivers:
<a href="http://panasonic.net/pcc/support/fax/common/table/linuxdriver.html" rel="nofollow">http://panasonic.net/pcc/support/fax/common/table/linuxdriver.html</a></p>
<p><strong>TO INSTALL THEM ON UBUNTU</strong></p>
<pre><code>sudo alien --scripts -k libjbig-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm libtetra-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm rastertogdi-1.0.1-9.i386.rpm
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<p>now - there will be some errors during execution which shouldn't affect anything.</p>
<p><strong>BUT THE PROBLEM IS</strong></p>
<p>I cannot get it to work on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 64 bits (or any other 64 bits distro for that reason. Only tried on Ubuntu 10.10 64 though.). Any sugguestions guys? :) Thanks</p>
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<p>It is being used as a file and media server, so most of the time it will be reasonably idle. It is also running as a headless server, so all I am interested in, is the server itself.</p>
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13348 | 1 | 13349 | 2010-11-15T11:00:15.853 | 300 | 423577 | <p>There's got to be some simple way I'm missing, but for the life of me I can't find it. How do I check my version of GNOME-Shell?</p>
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13350 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T11:27:46.480 | 3 | 1524 | <p>I'm looking for a color duplex printer for Ubuntu. My favourites are Epson B-310N and Brother HL 4050CDN. The latter should be work with linux, but I'd prefer the first one, because printing costs are cheaper. </p>
<p>The epson printer has "Epson ESC/P Raster", "PCL3", and "Epson ESC/P2" emulation. Can I use the printer with one of those emulations under linux? Were there any restrictions (like unusable duplex)?</p>
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13351 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T11:35:32.493 | 0 | 2975 | <p>I am looking for Horoscope or Astrology software in ubuntu especially for 9.04 or 10.04 version.</p>
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13352 | 1 | 13355 | 2010-11-15T11:36:00.890 | 0 | 815 | <p>There is no deb package. How can I install it anyway?
<a href="http://www.steel-storm.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.steel-storm.com/</a></p>
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13359 | 1 | 13600 | 2010-11-15T12:38:47.383 | 6 | 9385 | <p>I'm running 2 ubuntu 9.10 servers. I have to synchronize the changes between these two machines. The following are the directories I've to synchronize:</p>
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13362 | 1 | 13367 | 2010-11-15T12:59:02.600 | 7 | 3717 | <p>I'd like to have my own Ubuntu-based home network. That means, that I can access all my multimedia files from each computer.</p>
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13363 | 1 | 13366 | 2010-11-15T12:59:50.957 | 66 | 163773 | <p>I am working on my project using network simulator2. I installed it and everything is fine. I attempted to create a symbolic link between this installation and <code>/usr/bin</code>, so I could invoke the software by running <code>ns</code> from the command-line. Namely, I ran:</p>
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"text": "@Pawel I created a symlink to folder succesfully. I can even remove as u said above. But, when i type *fold* [created symlink for a folder] name in terminal it gives an error. What i actually thought was by creating a symlink to a folder and just typing the link name terminal would open that in nautilus. I am not sure whether it is possible or not..?",
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"text": "@Vinaychalluru no, that is not the point :) `sudo ln -s /home/vinayc/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/ /usr/bin/fol` and then `cd fol` or `nautilus fol`. These are 3 separate commands!",
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13370 | 1 | 13371 | 2010-11-15T13:49:50.720 | 3 | 3405 | <p>Pretty new to Ubuntu, I tried to change some keyboard shortcut.</p>
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<p>Someone does know how can I put it back please?</p>
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"text": "Just did it. So now no Shortcut is assigned to Ctrl+T but the new tab is not back to chrome. Any idea ?",
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13382 | 1 | 13586 | 2010-11-15T14:59:00.310 | 103 | 129904 | <p>I want to download a file from an active SSH session. In many cases I probably <em>could</em> just use SFTP, <code>scp</code>, <code>rsync</code> et al but there are times where I have elevated permissions on the remote server in a way I cannot use these methods.</p>
<p>If you're struggling to understand what I mean, imagine that you wanted to download something from <code>/root/</code> or <code>/var/log/auth.log</code>. Root login is disabled (because we're not idiots). How do you get that file? Copy it out somewhere less protected and then move it? This is clunky. There are also scenarios where the remote path is complex or temporary, or isn't even a path because I want the output of a remote command stored locally. Store remotely, then copy? Clunk!</p>
<p>There are several more clunky ways to achieve versions of these but in an ideal world, I would have something akin to local write access from the remote server, using the existing SSH session as a conduit. Something like (this is just an artist's impression):</p>
<pre><code>$oli@remote: cp /root/cheesecake /local/
</code></pre>
<p>And it just appears in my local <code>cwd</code>. And bidirectional access wouldn't be a bad thing.</p>
<hr>
<p>It's been eight long years since I asked this question and we've seen a real range of clunk, but it remains a problem that I still struggle with occasionally.</p>
<p>I've refactored the question into something a lot more idealistic. I fully understand that there may not currently be a perfect answer. All past and future efforts towards my ideal are appreciated.</p>
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13384 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T15:23:16.767 | 3 | 192 | <p>I logon to my server successfully and can transfer files off the server to my desktop. But I can't put any files back. I get a "permission denied" error. I know I have full access to the network server because on a mac after I mount the server, I can do whatever I want. How do I change permissions?</p>
<p>It is an SMB server. I am logged in as a user with administrator privileges. When I check for permissions in Nautilus, it says it can't determine them.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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13389 | 1 | 21847 | 2010-11-15T16:52:19.257 | 1 | 488 | <p>I have this script (or rather a set of commands which has permission to execute) to enable <strong>two finger scrolling</strong> and <strong>two finger tap = right click</strong>
The script is located in <strong>/home/gaurav/Multigesture/multigesture</strong>.</p>
<p>When I run the following command in terminal, <strong>two finger scrolling</strong> and <strong>two finger tap = right click</strong> start working. I have to run this command each time I boot my laptop. </p>
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<p>So I put this command in the <strong>startup applications</strong> so that I dont have to run the command each time I boot but when I reboot <strong>two finger scrolling</strong> is not working, only <strong>two finger tap = right click</strong> works.</p>
<p>What could be the problem, If the command works fine from the terminal then how come it is working partially when i put it into startup applications.</p>
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<p>xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics
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<p>PS. the file which has all the commands (script's) name is <strong>multitouch</strong> </p>
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13390 | 1 | 13392 | 2010-11-15T16:55:30.660 | 6 | 12518 | <p>Ive decided to switch from my existing dual boot solution, to just running ubuntu and having windows 7 in a virtual machine for those times that it absolutely has to be windows.</p>
<p>Ive been looking at my options for doing this, and one solution ive come up with is to take an image of my windows 7 install, reformat, and install my windows 7 image on a virtual machine. Would this be possible?</p>
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13398 | 1 | 13406 | 2010-11-15T17:49:42.420 | 6 | 308 | <p>I want my screen to flash red so that it looks similar to getting hit by a rocket in Doom II, preferably using cli tools. I've seen that <a href="http://jonls.dk/redshift/" rel="nofollow" title="redshift">redshift</a> does something similar just way too slow so I tried using xrandr but couldn't figure out how to do what I want properly.
Can xrandr (cli) do this and if so, how?</p>
<p>Also I'm using compiz. Maybe there is a way to do it with compiz using dbus-send?</p>
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13401 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T18:03:19.613 | 5 | 1442 | <p>I want to try Ubuntu Natty with the Unity Desktop and the Compiz Support from the PPA in qemu. But I can't get the Graphic Support to run Unity. </p>
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13403 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T18:32:40.480 | 3 | 2343 | <p>I have a dual-screen setup with mu laptop screen as primary and my LCD screen as secondary placed over the laptop screen.
On my laptop screen I have a top-panel at the top of the screen and docky at the bottom.
When the LCD screen is off/disconnected, there is no problem when maximizing the window on the laptop screen, but when it is on, the top-window border gets hidden behind my top-panel.
How can I get it to only maximize to the panel and not below it? it is quite annoying that I cannot get to the min/maximize/close window buttons etc.</p>
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13407 | 1 | 13409 | 2010-11-15T19:47:13.360 | 18 | 8663 | <p>In Nautilus, I would like to add columns displaying metadatas contained in files.</p>
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<p>Columns would be editable in the standard 'View - Visible Columns' option in Nautilus</p>
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13412 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T20:53:14.993 | 6 | 2600 | <p>I have installed XBMC (team-xbmc PPA) on my laptop (Kubuntu 10.10) and the sound from 5.1 movies isn’t downmixed correctly to stereo, even though the option is enabled. I have already tried <a href="http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=587582&postcount=286" rel="nofollow">http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=587582&postcount=286</a> and it didn’t change a thing. Other players (VLC…) can do this correctly.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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13413 | 1 | 13414 | 2010-11-15T20:57:39.380 | 0 | 461 | <p>I recently lost all my Windows data. I tried running <strong>Photorec</strong> and I was able to recover some 18 GB of data back. Photorec threw an error after recovering 18 GB stating <strong>"Segmentation Fault"</strong>. Was it because my windows drive was hardly ever defragged? If so, what routines/precautions I can take to make sure if something like this happens again on Windows or Linux side, Photorec wont throw the <strong>"Segmentation Fault"</strong> error.(Of course one precaution being backing up data regularly :-) )</p>
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13415 | 1 | 13416 | 2010-11-15T21:20:22.940 | 21 | 35813 | <p>What exactly are <code>.run</code> files and what are they used for? I've seen a couple of those lately and I'm simply wondering what file format it is used for.</p>
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13418 | 1 | 13423 | 2010-11-15T21:38:48.870 | 6 | 747 | <p>What Windows Home Server equivalents are available for Ubuntu? I am specifically looking for file sharing, backups, media streaming etc...</p>
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<p>Thanks</p>
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13420 | 1 | 13664 | 2010-11-15T21:51:15.920 | 2 | 3717 | <p>There is new firmware available on the HP site for my printer, a HP Color LaserJet CP2025dn, but seems to be only available as a Windows executable.</p>
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13429 | 1 | 13430 | 2010-11-16T00:14:08.597 | 3 | 2897 | <p>I have a network attached storage (NAS) at home where I store pretty much all my media stuff (songs, videos, etc). I would like to mount it to a local directory in my notebook automatically every time I login at home so before mounting it I need to do a ping to see if it is answering (which means I'm home).</p>
<p>I already have the script to mount it (see below) but I have two questions:</p>
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<p>2) Where is the best place to put this script?</p>
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13439 | 1 | 13451 | 2010-11-16T02:01:14.110 | 5 | 11901 | <p>I'm running a web server and the <code>public_html</code> folder is in a windows network drive shared by samba on Ubuntu Server 10.04.</p>
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13441 | 1 | 13442 | 2010-11-16T02:43:01.750 | 84 | 309405 | <p>I have been playing around with Ubuntu installing new themes and and docks. Sometimes during the installation, whole screen just hangs. What is the best way in Ubuntu to Kill a process/application? Anything similar to Ctrl + Alt + Del of windows?</p>
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13447 | 1 | 181564 | 2010-11-16T03:11:49.233 | 123 | 184303 | <p>How can I change my default text editor from gedit to Emacs?</p>
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