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2419 | 1 | 6668 | 2010-08-16T20:12:26.467 | 12 | 15954 | <p>I've just bought an Asus laptop which is equipped with two graphics cards; one integrated in the intel i3 CPU and a Radeon Mobility HD5145.</p>
<p>Will Ubuntu switch between the cards to balance power/performance? i.e. only use the Radeon when the demands placed on the integrated card are too great?</p>
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"body": "<p>That sounds like special software or configuration needed. I wonder if tools like <a href=\"http://www.grano.la\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.grano.la</a> take that into account.</p>\n",
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2424 | 1 | 2426 | 2010-08-16T20:47:35.400 | 1 | 1036 | <p>I have a work computer. I have a home computer. I want to be able to share files between with scp, both our computers are behind routers, which assign a local ip. <code>198.168.0.*</code></p>
<p>As well as knowing their outside IP, I would like to know how to browse and share files and log in to one another with ssh, public keys as well please. </p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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"text": "\"Alternatively\" ah SSH, what can't it do?\n\nI think the key here is that both computers need to have port 22 forwarded by the router.\n\nIf you are on windows machines https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/ hamachi can create your tunnels for you.",
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2428 | 1 | 2429 | 2010-08-16T21:15:05.327 | 5 | 1987 | <p>I am running 10.04 and I am unable to get a tray applet to appear for Ubuntu One. I am sure there was an applet in 9.04 (Jaunty) and 9.10 (Karmic).</p>
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"text": "Aha, thanks. It is there, but just brings up the preferences window, it isn't the status icon that pops up notifications like \"Synchronisation complete\". Is that applet gone now? You could click on it and open the folder or web interface etc.",
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2433 | 1 | 2441 | 2010-08-16T22:05:49.840 | 3 | 1920 | <p>Is there a tool like Hamachi which works on Ubuntu? Bonus points if it can be paired with something running on Windows/Mac.</p>
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2434 | 1 | 2437 | 2010-08-16T22:17:39.040 | 7 | 1047 | <p>I'm not very fluent with bash... what I'd like to do is copy the content of a DVD-R to two different hard drives in the fastest possible way.</p>
<p>(UI-based solutions are welcome too)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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"text": "Hmmm... this doesn't look well: `tar: one_of_the_files_being_copied: File shrank by 131757636 bytes; padding with zeros`. Ideas?",
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"text": "@Diego: sorry about the missing argument, I've put `.` which is slightly better. I've never seen that error message before; after googling a little, I wonder if it could be due to a “copy protection” scheme that I've seen on some DVDs: the filesystem structure is invalid, with some files extending beyond the claimed extent of the DVD. If you run both `du` and `df` on the DVD, do they report approximately equal sizes (last line of `du`, leftmost numeric column of `df`)?",
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2436 | 1 | 2439 | 2010-08-16T22:54:20.730 | 20 | 22720 | <p>I have this run.sh file, and I've create a symbolic link into my desktop. </p>
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2444 | 1 | 2446 | 2010-08-17T01:44:58.447 | 5 | 897 | <p>How do I keep CD/USB automounting (works fine) BUT without auto-opening in Nautilus?</p>
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-- ------ ----
22480/tcp LIMIT IN Anywhere
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<p>When I <code>nmap -PN -p 22 192.168.0.0/24</code> to find all the SSHes running on my NATed (working fine) inside network, I get the following: </p>
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0 ports scanned on 192.168.0.0
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.1:
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp closed ssh
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.2:
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp filtered ssh
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.3:
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp filtered ssh
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.4:
PORT STATE SERVICE
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<p>Note that there are not machines at those other IPs (2, 3, 4, ...).</p>
<p>Why is this UFW rule causing this?? Why should a UFW input rule mess with the ability to nmap out from the router into the internal network? That's not an input, and ufw is set to the default config (except as above) of blocking input ports and not blocking output to ports.</p>
<p>Also, how can I get it to stop logging all the crap that isn't important that it receives? I do want it to log stuff destined to my IP, but not broadcast traffic from Windows machines on the outside (routable) network. The logging of this stuff is really making the logs huge.</p>
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2470 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T09:32:25.427 | 7 | 864 | <p>The clock applet drifts in time.
Clock is set to "synchronize with internet ..." so it is correct at startup, but then if I stay inactive for some time, may be 5 min as well as 1 hour, the clock stops ticking.
If I start to be active again, then the clock applet moves again, but the time is now late.</p>
<p>And it is not only the applet that is wrong, but the whole system date, because when I run <code>date</code> in a terminal, the time is also wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Clarification :</strong>
Sorry, may be my question was not clear. Here is my <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/619677">bug report</a> to ubuntu :</p>
<p><strong>Expected Behaviour :</strong><br>
Clock-applet displays the correct time,</p>
<p><strong>Observed Behaviour :</strong><br>
Displayed time is drifting</p>
<p><strong>How to reproduce :</strong><br>
If I get away from my computer for some times, the time displayed by the clock applet drifts. But the date command also show the wrong time. Moreover, sleep interval also get wrong. To debug this, I tested the following script :</p>
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<p>Must be run as root because of hwclock.
Il launched it : </p>
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<p>and got away from my computer</p>
<p>Here is the output log :</p>
<pre><code>1 mardi 17 août 2010, 12:42:12 (UTC+0200)
2 mar. 17 août 2010 12:42:13 CEST -0.346882 secondes
3 mardi 17 août 2010, 12:47:13 (UTC+0200)
4 mar. 17 août 2010 12:57:13 CEST -0.080965 secondes
5 mardi 17 août 2010, 12:52:13 (UTC+0200)
6 mar. 17 août 2010 13:02:14 CEST -1.002776 secondes
7 mardi 17 août 2010, 12:57:18 (UTC+0200)
8 mar. 17 août 2010 13:07:18 CEST -0.063633 secondes
9 mardi 17 août 2010, 13:02:18 (UTC+0200)
10 mar. 17 août 2010 13:12:19 CEST -0.361501 secondes
11 mardi 17 août 2010, 13:07:19 (UTC+0200)
12 mar. 17 août 2010 13:17:20 CEST -0.987434 secondes
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<p>Line 1 and 2 show the first time through the loop.<br>
Line 3 and 4 show the bug : while date (and sleep) thinks 5 minutes have elapsed, hwclock shows that 15 minutes have elapsed.</p>
<p>Line 5 to 12 shows normal behaviour, except now date is late by 10 minutes.
Behaviour is normal because I was back at my desk using the computer.</p>
<p>Having clock applet displaying the wrong time is one thing, but having the whole system time wrong (since sleep gets confused too) is a major bug.</p>
<p>Hardware :
It is a fujitsu siemens amilo xi 2550 notebook.
It was working fine with ubuntu 8.04</p>
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2473 | 1 | 2481 | 2010-08-17T11:12:42.050 | 5 | 556 | <p>As I'd seen it recommended in <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/974/how-can-i-install-software-offline">How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)?</a> tried to install <a href="http://keryxproject.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Keryx</a> but I am not able to open it. When I run it in a terminal it prints these warnings:</p>
<pre><code>(keryx:4127): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule (/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu/engines/libmurrine.so) initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf", line 9: invalid constant used : lcddefault
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 17: invalid constant used : lcdlegacy
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File "<string>", line 132, in <module>
File "keryx/build/pyi.linux2/keryx/outPYZ1.pyz/lib.wxkeryx", line 49, in Start
File "keryx/build/pyi.linux2/keryx/outPYZ1.pyz/wx._core", line 7912, in __init__
File "keryx/build/pyi.linux2/keryx/outPYZ1.pyz/wx._core", line 7487, in _BootstrapApp
File "keryx/build/pyi.linux2/keryx/outPYZ1.pyz/lib.wxkeryx", line 27, in OnInit
File "keryx/build/pyi.linux2/keryx/outPYZ1.pyz/lib.log", line 46, in info
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-8: ordinal not in range(128)
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<p>How can I solve this problem?</p>
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2484 | 1 | 2485 | 2010-08-17T14:12:01.307 | 51 | 46407 | <p>What's the point of the <code>examples.desktop</code> file?</p>
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2493 | 1 | 2496 | 2010-08-17T15:52:40.800 | 46 | 70828 | <p>Is there an equivalent to the yum "whatprovides" option in apt-get? </p>
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<p>Tells me </p>
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<p>Can I get similar functionality on the command line in Ubuntu?</p>
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2495 | 1 | 2498 | 2010-08-17T15:58:39.223 | 18 | 13249 | <p>I am using dolphin as my file manager and when I download something via firefox, I right click the download dialog and choose "open folder", I always get nautilus. </p>
<p>Why doesn't firefox open the folder with dolphin?
Thanks</p>
<p>Note: I tried adding the tag "dolphin" but because of my low rep I can't create new tags :(</p>
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2501 | 1 | 2555 | 2010-08-17T17:07:49.787 | 4 | 1663 | <p>I'm going to connecting two LAN's in some way, I imagine some form of VPN tunnel between the gateway/router on each side. Both routers have Ubuntu-server 10.04 installed, but the only vpn-like experience I have is setting on-demand TCP-port forwarding with ssh, but I want this to work for windows clients as well.</p>
<p>The two networks are only connected through an Internet connection, and I don't want my private traffic exposed (traffic like samba).</p>
<p>So how can I do this?</p>
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2502 | 1 | 2515 | 2010-08-17T17:14:49.213 | 24 | 4162 | <p>Apart from those themes in the repository and Gnome-look.org, are there other places to get themes for my Ubuntu Desktop?</p>
<p>Also, are there any 3rd party repositories of themes and other eye-candy?</p>
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2507 | 1 | 2512 | 2010-08-17T18:45:59.197 | 6 | 1542 | <p>I've seen <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/852/why-are-flash-applications-so-sluggish-in-ubuntu">complaints</a> about flash performance. Would it be possible to use WINE as a plugin to firefox in order to get better performance out of flash? (Hopefully WINE would utilize some sort of hardware optimizations) Would using WINE even give better performance?</p>
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2508 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T19:00:18.687 | 5 | 1827 | <p>I like to watch flv videos during downtimes using my ipad. Whats a good tool for converting video files and then tossing them onto the ipad. Primarily I've grabbed a few flv tutorials off you tube. I know ffmpeg can do the transform, but it's got one of those "needs a phd in video" to sort out...</p>
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2517 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T20:04:39.363 | 4 | 3163 | <p>I want my Ubuntu box to boot directly into a tty login screen and after it does that I want it to automatically run <code>startx</code> how would I go about doing this?</p>
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2522 | 1 | 2745 | 2010-08-17T21:18:10.283 | 14 | 5118 | <p>There are no video chat plugins supplied by Google for Ubuntu. They are availabe just for PC and Mac. Are there any alternatives?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.google.com/chat/video" rel="noreferrer">http://www.google.com/chat/video</a></p>
<p><a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-too.html" rel="noreferrer">http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-too.html</a></p>
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2528 | 1 | 2529 | 2010-08-17T23:21:18.983 | 12 | 8755 | <p>Playing around with Terminal, I noticed that there are many ways to create <strong>permanent</strong> aliases.</p>
<p>I'm a Linux newbie, and from what I know, doing:</p>
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<li>adding <code>desired_alias = '/path/to/executable'</code> to <code>~/.bashrc</code></li>
<li><p>uncommenting those lines in <code>~/.bashrc</code>:</p>
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<p>and putting <code>desired_alias = '/path/to/executable'</code> into the <code>~/.bash_aliases</code> </p></li>
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<p>all have the same effect.</p>
<p>What is the difference between the first and second methods?</p>
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"text": "You may think it's working the same, but it's not. Please read the materials on symlinks that I referred in my answer. Symlink and aliases serve different purposes and were created with different purposes in mind. To give you an example why symlinks are not working like aliases try this -- define an alias like: alias px=\"ps axu\". Now try to accomplish the same with symlinks.",
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2536 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T01:45:36.053 | 6 | 8030 | <p>My Toshiba Satellite m505-s4940's fans do not turn on automatically, so it was overheating before I learned how to do it manually by using this keyboard-shortcut:<kbd>fn</kbd>+<kbd>F3</kbd> </p>
<p>I have to do this every time I use my computer!</p>
<p>I really like the performance of Ubuntu, and I just began to use and love it, but I would like to solve this problem.</p>
<p>Hopefully someone can help me, and sorry about my English. It is not my native language <strong>: )</strong></p>
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2538 | 1 | 2541 | 2010-08-18T02:14:55.033 | 11 | 6388 | <p>I'm going through some programming tutorials and for every session, I have to start up at least 3 terminal windows (one for a log file tail, one for testing output, one for running various shell commands in, etc.)</p>
<p>Right now I start them all up manually: click the Terminal icon, cd to the right folder, type in the commands, and change the window title to something meaningful.</p>
<p>Is there a way to write up a script or something that would automate that for me? And if so, how?</p>
<p>(I'm cool with not getting a complete script as an answer. A pointer where to start reading would work too.)</p>
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2540 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T03:24:16.480 | 4 | 1993 | <p>I wish to be able to see and stream music to my Ubuntu 10.04 installation through Rhythmbox. I have enabled media streaming in Windows 7 and I can see Rhythmbox as an allowed device.</p>
<p>I have installed the Coherence plugin for Rhythmbox. I can see my Windows 7 PC under the Shared folder in Rhythmbox, but I do not see any of my music.</p>
<p>Is there a step along the way that I missed or something else that I have to enable?</p>
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2544 | 1 | 2545 | 2010-08-18T05:07:13.827 | 12 | 16244 | <p>I installed Google Chrome. This is the first thing I did after installing Ubuntu. I went into firefox, and went to chrome.google.com, and hit the button. I don't like package managers, and avoid the command line like the pox.</p>
<p>Then, I started using Google Chrome. I went to Kongregate, and clicked on a game. It told me I didn't have flash. A few different websites told me the same. I assumed that they must have been wrong. I hit the link to Adobe, to install Flash, and it reassured me; of course, Google Chrome includes Flash. I checked my version - Chrome 5.0.375.126. Of course, I just downloaded it.</p>
<p>I scoured the internet for solutions. None worked. Many seemed to involve re-enabling Flash, or something like that. But insofar as I can tell, there is no Flash anywhere in my Chrome. I feel like I bought a Reese's cup, and found solid chocolate. I checked in the Chrome plugin manager, and everything. A few solutions told me to copy some garbage into my command line and hit enter (as almost all solutions to problems on linux entail). I did it, reluctantly, and it did nothing.</p>
<p>I thought Flash was supposed to come with Chrome. But it didn't. Sooooo... What gives?</p>
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2547 | 1 | 2550 | 2010-08-18T06:17:25.587 | 4 | 706 | <p>When I click a link to a PDF in Chrome instead of displaying the PDF in the browser I see a blank page with "Missing plugin" written over it. Is it possible to get this plugin somewhere or am I condemned to downloading the PDF first and then displaying it using standard PDF viewing software?</p>
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2554 | 1 | 3072 | 2010-08-18T06:40:11.173 | 5 | 2004 | <p>Is this currently possible in either Lucid or Maverick?</p>
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2557 | 1 | 2565 | 2010-08-18T07:19:07.903 | 24 | 19630 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T60. Is there a way to get the middle button to act like a scroll like it would when it runs Windows?</p>
<p>I'd like to be able to hold the middle button down and scroll down a webpage using the red button.</p>
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2558 | 1 | 2559 | 2010-08-18T07:38:29.073 | 4 | 24541 | <p>First of all, I'm a linux noob (I've been using linux for a about four-five years, but only fixed problems as I got them though usually I just reinstalled everything).</p>
<p>I have recently installed kubuntu 9.04, then upgraded to the latest Kubuntu (10.4). Everything went smooth and I have used it OK for about two weeks.</p>
<p>After the latest security/bugfixes update, the bootloader got corrupted.</p>
<p>My questions:</p>
<p>Can I restore it from the 9.04 boot CD/DVD, or do I need a special rescue system?</p>
<p>Should I get a new live DVD for 10.4 and fix it from there?</p>
<p>Also, <strong>what do I need to actually fix?</strong> What utilities do I need? (What should my steps be?)</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
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2567 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T08:52:10.223 | 10 | 915 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/67758/deactivate-bluetooth-on-startup">Deactivate Bluetooth on startup</a> </p>
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<p>After every boot Bluetooth is on by default. I only very occasionally use Bluetooth so I would really like this to be defaulted to off but be able to start it without a reboot or some command line change which I probably wont remember in 4 months time when I need it.
Any help greatly appreciated</p>
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2573 | 1 | 109533 | 2010-08-18T10:48:32.760 | 47 | 105527 | <p>First, the problem: I'm using a Cowon MP3 player as my main music player with basic earplugs.</p>
<p>It offers A2DP & I'd like to have my netbook (running UNE 10.04) act as receiver. </p>
<p>Some resources on the web about a2dp, but most are out of date:</p>
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<li><a href="http://fosswire.com/post/2008/10/better-bluetooth-audio/">http://fosswire.com/post/2008/10/better-bluetooth-audio/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jprvita.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/1-2-3-4-a2dp-stream/">http://jprvita.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/1-2-3-4-a2dp-stream/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dpillay.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/ubuntu-10-04-a2dp-awesome-headset-music/">http://dpillay.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/ubuntu-10-04-a2dp-awesome-headset-music/</a></li>
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"text": "hi theree and thank you for the detailed guide. The command `pactl load-module module-bluethooth-discover` fails in ubuntu studio 14.04. So I do not see any `bluez` sources in `pulseaudio`, even though my phone correctly sees the pc as an audio sink. Any ideas?",
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"text": "if `pactl list sources short` doesn't show the bluez source for you, I've found two possible solutions:\n\ncall `gdbus call --system --dest org.bluez --object-path /org/bluez/XXX/hci0/dev_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX --method org.bluez.AudioSource.Connect` where (the path includes the device BD address and the adapter path wich you can get with `gdbus call --system --dest org.bluez --object-path / --method org.bluez.Manager.DefaultAdapter`). Or use d-feet as [explained here](https://jprvita.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/1-2-3-4-a2dp-stream/).\n\nOtherwise connect on phone side, and start playing something.",
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"text": "Very comprehensive, thanks! Nowadays PulseAudio also provides the `module-bluetooth-policy` which can load loopbacks automatically.",
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"text": "Wow! with minimal changes(/etc/bluetooth/main.conf instead of audio.conf) this works on Rasbian. Thank you!(no loopback configuration is needed in that OS)",
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"text": "This is really cool if this works, but is there also a out-of-the-box solution (for ubunutu-server on rpi4)?",
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2578 | 1 | 2585 | 2010-08-18T13:13:52.650 | 0 | 1755 | <p>On my Acer Aspire One netbook, I have noticed that acpid starts /etc/acpi/lid.sh multiple times a minute. This script should only be started when the lid is closed or opened. How can I stop theses unnecessary starts from happening without switching off acpi or disabling the lid event?</p>
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"text": "sounds quite similar. Unfortunately it looks like a BIOS bug, so applying the patch would nor really help since it would have to be done with every kernel update.",
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2580 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T13:39:33.163 | 2 | 377 | <p>I am using an Asus 1005P netbook. What happens is when I wake up the machine from hibernate state, a while later x crashes and goes to low graphics mode.</p>
<p>I stumbled on solutions in ubuntuforums but none of them seem to work:
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1498447" rel="nofollow">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1498447</a></p>
<p>Does anyone have another solution for this?</p>
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2582 | 1 | 2584 | 2010-08-18T14:35:56.570 | 1 | 266 | <p>This question has been spun off from my question about <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2408/where-do-i-even-start-if-hibernate-un-hibernate-is-slow">hibernate being slow</a>.</p>
<p>I know I can run a script when I resume the computer by putting it in <code>/etc/acpi/resume.d</code>, but that will only run it once. What I was hoping for was a "starting wakeup" script and a "finished wakeup" script, so each one would log it's time somewhere and I could see how long resume works.</p>
<p>I figure this is a long shot, since the "starting wakeup" script would have to run really early, so even if it was possible, there might not be a disk to write to.</p>
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2586 | 1 | 2594 | 2010-08-18T15:25:14.887 | 5 | 2394 | <p>At one point I switched from GDM to slim and now I can't seem to get past the splash screen. After pressing <code>Esc</code> I can see that it is stuck on <code>Starting X Display Manager: Slim</code>. I need to get back to GDM or just figure out what it is doing.</p>
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2587 | 1 | 2589 | 2010-08-18T16:40:39.703 | 38 | 19779 | <p>I write code. I use terminal a lot. I ofter use many terminal windows. I hate how tabs look.</p>
<p>Are there any applications that allow me to keep multiple terminal windows in focus to streamline my development?</p>
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2593 | 1 | 2599 | 2010-08-18T17:26:02.273 | 5 | 9887 | <p>I know how to check hard disk integrity, and how to check RAM integrity (with live cd), but is there a way to check if others hardware is working well or is broken?</p>
<p>For example graphic card, audio card, etc.. ?</p>
<p>I'm not trying to check in an hardware works well with ubuntu (aka driver question), i need to check if an hardware is broken or not</p>
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2596 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T17:30:40.393 | 343 | 304445 | <blockquote>
<p>This question exists because it has historical significance, but <strong>it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site</strong>, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. While you are encouraged to help maintain its answers, please understand that "big list" questions are not generally allowed on Ask Ubuntu and will be closed per the <a href="https://askubuntu.com/help/dont-ask">help center</a>.</p>
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<p>Backup is incredibly important. Obviously there's no best backup tool, but a comparison of the options would be very interesting.</p>
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<li>Graphical Interface? Command line?</li>
<li>Incremental backups?</li>
<li>Automatic backups?</li>
<li>Install method: In standard repositories? PPA?</li>
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2601 | 1 | 2909 | 2010-08-18T18:23:33.817 | 4 | 3071 | <p>I am trying to make <code>gnome-mplayer</code> play a video in fullscreen on my second screen. I am using a Nvidia card with xineramascreen. Below is my ~/.mplayer/config file.</p>
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msglevel=all=5
alang=English,eng,en
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<p>The options have no affect, it plays on my primary screen as usual.</p>
<p>Running <code>mplayer -xineramascreen 1</code> works perfectly, I just want <code>gnome-mplayer</code> to work since it's nicer to use with GUI and Nautilus integration etc.</p>
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2605 | 1 | 2607 | 2010-08-18T19:50:27.747 | 2 | 646 | <p>After Reboot no Windows Partition is found and installation cannot start. How can we solve this, in order to try Ubuntu ?</p>
<p>It says I only have free space available, but that isn't true. I'm on the demo now. </p>
<p>If I try to install from the demo, I do get:</p>
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2606 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T20:11:40.987 | 7 | 2887 | <p>byobu cannot connect to ssh-agent socket well. actually I can make just one connection via ssh-agent but if I try to establish another ssh connection using the agent, it doesn't work.
I've tried </p>
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<p>in <code>~/.byobu/profile</code> but it didn't work as well.</p>
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2608 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T20:43:56.793 | 13 | 14936 | <p>I've removed totem and installed VLC instead. Now video files thumbnails are gone. Is there any way to get thumbnails back without reinstalling totem?</p>
<p>I know I can have both totem and VLC, but I really don't want to have more soft than I need :)</p>
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2613 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T21:21:40.977 | 4 | 5896 | <p>I am running 10.04 LTS on a desktop PC with a Belkin G-Plus MIMO Wireless network card.</p>
<p>Ever since running Ubuntu on the machine I have noticed fairly slow network speeds (about half the speed I get when running the same card through Windows) I did some research I found out that by and large wireless network cards aren't that well supported on most Linux distros.</p>
<p>I was wondering though if there is anything I could be tweaking on the system that could help squeeze a little more out of the card?</p>
<p><strong>Here is some more information</strong></p>
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<p>*-network:1</p>
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physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1c:df:24:5e:54
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2616 | 1 | 2620 | 2010-08-18T22:17:21.893 | 2 | 222 | <p>Let's say we install ubuntu side by side with a windows installation.
At that time, we will NOT have much space to play with so:</p>
<p>/ - 5gb
/swap - 1gb
/home - 5gb</p>
<p>After that, we decide to remove windows. And we have much more space to play with.</p>
<p>Question:
What program can we use, in order to easily change all partition sizes after windows removal?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,
MEM</p>
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2622 | 1 | null | 2010-08-19T00:36:50.540 | 35 | 231476 | <p>Occasionally my Ubuntu 10.04 PC won't boot properly. It gets past Grub and then stops at a blank screen and blinking cursor. From what I've read, this blinking cursor screen is presented by Ubuntu itself and not Grub, so I assume the boot process gets halted for some reason. Has anyone any guidance on how to diagnose this issue or what the cause is likely to be? Normally I need to press the reset button to reboot the PC and often it will reboot fine. The fact that it is intermittent is what confuses me.</p>
<p>Any pointers on diagnosing the problem would be much appreciated.</p>
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<p>It's been a while, mainly because my server has been up for a long time. It looks like I've captured a recurrence of this issue, I copied the <code>messages</code> file and the <code>dmesg</code> file and had a look where processing seems to have stopped and found the messages below. I'm going to do some research on Google etc. but figured I'd put it up here in case anyone can help and wants to earn themselves some points. I should mention that the <code>ondemand governor failed</code> message happens on successful boots but the other two don't appear to.</p>
<pre><code>Oct 11 23:17:21 linux kernel: [ 98.905370] ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency of HW, fallback to performance governor
Oct 11 23:21:48 linux kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Oct 11 23:21:48 linux rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="697" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on signal 15.
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<p>I found a few vague references to rolling over of logfiles at boot time being the cause.</p>
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2624 | 1 | 2625 | 2010-08-19T02:57:37.783 | 24 | 61128 | <p>Sometimes it happen that some application crash without give no output error (<strong>conky</strong> in my case, probably is one of my configuration that is incorrect).</p>
<p>Is there somewhere a error log that I can check to understand why it is crashed?</p>
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2628 | 1 | 2746 | 2010-08-19T03:55:35.047 | 2 | 1719 | <p>I know the easy ways to remap caps lock, etc, but I haven't found out how to change my <kbd>Menu</kbd> key to be an additional <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> key. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks.</p>
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2631 | 1 | 2632 | 2010-08-19T04:57:58.610 | 24 | 25902 | <p>I have a mixed network with mostly Windows machines, a Mac, and a few Linux boxes. There is no DNS or WINS server, and adding one is outside of my control. If I put a clean install of 10.04 desktop on a computer, then all other machines on the network can get to that machine by hostname just fine. </p>
<p>However, if I put 10.04 server on the same computer, then the other machines can only get to it by IP address. The hostname does not resolve. What do I need to do on the server so that all the other machines on the network can get to it?</p>
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2635 | 1 | 2668 | 2010-08-19T06:38:15.510 | 3 | 743 | <p>I'm ahving a Dell Inspiron 1525.</p>
<p>I installed there a stock Ubuntu 10. However I can see no "hibernate" item in the shutdown menu.</p>
<p>Is <code>ACPI</code> supported on <code>1525</code>? If it is, how can I make hibernate work there?</p>
<p><strong>Solved:</strong> my bad, swap wasn't on.</p>
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2637 | 1 | 2645 | 2010-08-19T08:38:24.417 | 2 | 1800 | <p>Is it possible set the size of a navigator or web browser window to exact pixel dimensions in Ubuntu?</p>
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2647 | 1 | 2650 | 2010-08-19T11:55:46.113 | 7 | 875 | <p>When adding several keyboard layouts to Ubuntu (lucid), I experienced that any control key combination refers to the "default" keyboard layout. </p>
<p>Specifically, on a machine I have to prepare for others, I would like to set a default keyboard to a common layout. Me myself, I like to type in dvorak, and therefore set this as a secondary layout (in the System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layouts menu) so that I can switch to it when i am using the setup. </p>
<p>Throughout the system, the control key combinations refer to the default layout. I.e. to type <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>R</kbd> for a reverse search in a terminal, I'll have to hit the <kbd>R</kbd> key on the common layout. </p>
<p>Any ideas how to fix this? </p>
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<p>I have the team-xbmc ppa added however they have no packages, is there an older deb or is there somewhere where i can get the source and build myself?</p>
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2655 | 1 | 2656 | 2010-08-19T14:42:13.123 | 2 | 428 | <p>I am starting emacs remotely over an ssh connection. </p>
<p>But on the emacs window I cannot find a way to resize or move it. There is no fluxbox title bar visible, and I guess the title bar is above the visible viewport, because emacs starts vertically with more height than the screen has. The lower border of the emacs window is also below the viewport border, so I cannot resize the window.</p>
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<p>The remote system that runs emacs is 10.04 Lucid Lynx amd64. The local system is running 9.10 Karmic Koala 32 bit and Fluxbox 1.1.1-2 </p>
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2659 | 1 | 2662 | 2010-08-19T17:56:55.133 | 3 | 3092 | <p>I'm having a 250gb disk and 4gb ram.
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<p>My question is, for root and home, what file system should we choose. I see to many options... should I go for FAT32?</p>
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2674 | 1 | null | 2010-08-19T22:31:52.480 | 6 | 838 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16988/how-do-i-install-ubuntu-to-a-usb-key">How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key?</a> </p>
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<p>I want to carry around a persistent installation of Ubuntu on a USB stick with all my favourite bits of software. What's the simplest way to do this?</p>
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2677 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T00:17:53.303 | 5 | 19624 | <p>Good Evening All,</p>
<p>I just got my HP Laptop Back from the factory and then I tried to install Ubuntu.</p>
<p>It got through the whole installation, however, when I restarted and chose Ubuntu a quick screen flashes that says:</p>
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<p>Try (hd0,0) NTFS5: no wubildr<br>
Try (hd0,1) NTFS5:</p>
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<p>Then it quickly goes to the Boot Loader which I am presented with:</p>
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Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda2)<br>
Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda3)</p>
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<p>Of course if I click Win 7 it'll go to the main screen to choose between Win 7 or Ubuntu, if I choose Vista, it'll come with an error of sorts.</p>
<p>The strange thing is, I looked in my C:/ Drive and I see wubildr and wubilder.mbr</p>
<p>Idk if it makes a difference but I am running a 64-bit processor. Installed the 64-bit desktop version and am presented with ultra-fail.</p>
<p>I've gone to: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=4d54a8d3760f6fe805156524b7ab9acf&t=798283&page=1" rel="noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=4d54a8d3760f6fe805156524b7ab9acf&t=798283&page=1</a></p>
<p>But have had no luck.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14686/kindle-for-pc-via-wine">Kindle for PC via Wine</a> </p>
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<p>I've 'installed' Kindle using Wine but it doesn't work. The menu item is there but nothing seems to happen when I click it. I have set the application settings in Wine config to run Kindle as Windows 98 as I've seen suggested... still no luck.</p>
<p>Any experience with this?</p>
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I don't have a kindle, but I use kindle for android. I was wanting to be able to read my books on my pc without having to use windows.</p>
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2684 | 1 | 2706 | 2010-08-20T02:22:43.137 | 6 | 482 | <p>I'm running an older Dell GX280, with a new 500GB drive and 2GB RAM. Fresh install with my <code>~</code> directory copied from an older HD I got the 500GB to replace. I think I'm running ext4 on both my <code>/</code> and <code>/home</code> partitions. </p>
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<p>What is it? Where do I start looking for problems? I don't know where to start Googling for the answer.</p>
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<p>I'm reading some online stuff and it says now run kControl, but I'm on gnome, so what is the program for gnome that serves the same purpose.</p>
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<p>PD: I have an NVidia card, I've talk with people that have ATI cards and appears to be easier...</p>
<p>PD2: I'm using Ubuntu 10.04</p>
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2708 | 1 | 2718 | 2010-08-20T11:59:47.587 | 4 | 1723 | <p>Hopefully the title sums it up, but I'm looking for a way of being able to switch the Appearance Preferences' Visual Effects option to 'None', from a terminal/script (and optionally later to be able to switch back to 'Normal', though that's not such a big deal).</p>
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"text": "Thanks - I haven't tried scripting this yet but the metacity --replace command certainly seemed to kill the desktop effects (and thus allow me to use VNC properly). Cheers!",
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"text": "+1 @Li Lo - thanks for that. That would certainly be useful when I'm using VNC on the same local network. In this particular instance I'll be remoting into a machine across the internet, behind a slow broadband connection, so I'll stick with the 'faster' side effect.",
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2710 | 1 | 2796 | 2010-08-20T12:13:15.713 | 15 | 4836 | <p>I am using 10.04 and I use the 'Print to File' feature a lot but it's annoying to have to change the output option to to PDF each time. Is there a way to make it the default? </p>
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2711 | 1 | 2715 | 2010-08-20T12:15:55.570 | 4 | 235 | <p>My ISP offers a freezone Ubuntu mirror (http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu/) however Ubuntu is constantly pulling updates from a US server that is</p>
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2719 | 1 | 2812 | 2010-08-20T13:22:19.467 | 20 | 29067 | <p>A few iterations ago, I think this was Jaunty but could've been before, I would plug a 1/8" audio cable from the line-out of a Windows netbook to the line-in of my Ubuntu machine, so I would have all the sound from both machines without having to plug both into a mixer which I don't have. I didn't do this much, as I was pretty-much happy with Banshee at the time. But with Karmic, and still with Lucid, I can only get the output if I'm recording with Audacity. Which I'm not going to do from my web-development and systems programming workstation.</p>
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2721 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T13:39:40.593 | 15 | 15007 | <p>I would like to utilize Ubuntu server as web server, but I want to make sure I follow best practices for setting things up. I want to ensure I set the directory up in the best location and understand how to configure the appropriate security on that folder. I would like to be able to FTP to the server and push files into the web folders, so I would like to under stand how to ensure that my PureFTPd user can manipulate files/directories within the web folders.</p>
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2724 | 1 | 2727 | 2010-08-20T14:07:05.283 | 55 | 171081 | <p>Kind-of like <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/386/how-can-i-most-easily-migrate-all-my-apps-and-settings-from-one-ubuntu-install-to">this question</a> but slightly different (I think), in that I have 6 identical Acer Aspire Revo R3610 machines. One is (almost) configured to my requirements - when I'm done preparing it I'd like to make the other 5 machines absolutely the same. I'm very new to Ubuntu, what's the most straightforward (easiest) way of doing this?</p>
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2728 | 1 | 2731 | 2010-08-20T14:31:51.443 | 12 | 2872 | <p>I know I could use VirtualBox or VMWare, but does anyone know of a way to run iTunes without having to run Windows virtually on Ubuntu? </p>
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2755 | 1 | 2804 | 2010-08-20T17:24:49.313 | 6 | 2025 | <p>I know this will be an odd question, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to install the Ubuntu Installer package in an Ubuntu installation. To clarify, when you boot up to an Ubuntu LiveCD, it's got the installer program available so that you can install Ubuntu to a drive. Naturally, this program is not present in the <em>installed</em> Ubuntu. Is there, though, a way to download and install it like other packages?</p>
<p>Invariably, someone will ask what I'm trying to do, and the answer is that I don't really know. I just kinda want to tinker around with the installer and look at it and play with it; no particular reason. Curiosity, mostly. Thanks in advance for the help!</p>
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2759 | 1 | 2762 | 2010-08-20T17:35:18.470 | 3 | 4388 | <p>Each time my 3G Vodafone k4505 Pen get's mounted by the system, I get a icon on my desktop.
I would like to NOT have that icon each time I connect this 3g usb pen.</p>
<p>How can we accomplish this?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,
MEM</p>
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2766 | 1 | 2769 | 2010-08-20T19:36:41.123 | 3 | 5733 | <p>Is there a way to set the screen brightness on a Samsung R519 with Ubuntu 9.10 and the nvidia drivers?</p>
<p>I know that there is a way when using <strong><a href="http://www.voria.org/forum/" rel="nofollow">voRia's</a></strong> repository and the <strong>nouveau</strong> drivers. But switching between one and dual-screen mode takes too much time for daily use on a notebook.</p>
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2772 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T21:47:05.983 | 5 | 1578 | <p>In Windows XP, you can find out how often an installed application was used by going to the <strong>Add/Remove Programs</strong> section. You can also get an estimate of how often the application was used.</p>
<p>Is there a way to do this in Ubuntu?</p>
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2773 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T21:51:22.940 | 11 | 2845 | <p>I've got an old computer that I put Ubuntu on for my kids (11, 9, and 7). They're always fighting for who can get on the computer and I'm sick of trying to figure out who has had enough time.</p>
<p>Anyway, they each have different accounts on the computer and I would like to find something similar to an Internet café type of solution that gives each user an allotted amount of time per day or week that they can be logged in. Once the time is used up, they're kicked off and can't log in again until their time is automatically reset. </p>
<p>An example of how I would like this to work would be:
child 1 gets 120 minutes per week.</p>
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<li>Day 2: 0 min
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<li>Day 4: 30 min
<li>Day 5: 30 min
<li>Day 6: Can't log in
<li>Day 7: Can't log in
<li>Day 8: 30 min (day one fell off the 7 day revolving time period).
<li>etc.
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<p>Is there anything like that available for Ubuntu?</p>
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2779 | 1 | 2780 | 2010-08-21T00:39:13.693 | 9 | 893 | <p>What is the best way to get the latest version of mono on ubuntu?</p>
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2781 | 1 | 10713 | 2010-08-21T00:49:50.317 | 4 | 852 | <p>In what Ubuntu release will gnomeshell become the default interface.</p>
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2784 | 1 | 2789 | 2010-08-21T02:22:05.250 | 3 | 168 | <p>While trying to install openJDK to start installing <strong>netbeans 6.9</strong> - I'm getting this: </p>
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because of an error in the
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was cancelled in an unfriendly way.
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<p>I read it... and I have no clue what to do next. :(
<strong>how can we repair that?</strong></p>
<p>I have forget openSDK and I'm trying the java one. All seems to go well... but know I'm stuck here:
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pGJqs.png" alt="jdk on terminal"></p>
<p>And here is the amazing question:
<strong>How can I click or hit, or push or something, that OK?</strong></p>
<p>Arrows, Page Up and Page Down work.
Enter and Click don't.</p>
<p>Anyone?</p>
<p>K. Regards,
MEM</p>
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2786 | 1 | 2791 | 2010-08-21T02:40:11.577 | 9 | 1430 | <p>Canonical operates at least two OpenID based login services within the Ubuntu online world: <a href="https://login.ubuntu.com" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu Single Sign On</a> and the <a href="https://login.launchpad.net/" rel="nofollow">Launchpad Login Service</a>. According to the information in the footer of both sites they share the same backing software which is called <a href="https://launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider" rel="nofollow">Canonical SSO provider</a>.</p>
<p>My question is whether these two sites are entirely separate implementations or do they share the same user database? Alternatively, is there some other less direct relationship between the two services?</p>
<p>In other words, if I didn't have an account with either service and I created a new account with Ubuntu Single Sign On would I then <em>also</em> have a Launchpad Login Service account? What about the inverse scenario?</p>
<p>I know that the Launchpad Login Service existed earlier than Ubuntu Single Sign On. I also know that I was able to use my existing Launchpad login details with the Ubuntu SSO when it was launched. However, I've never been clear if these are the same account or if my Launchpad account was copied to the newer service and they are now separate.</p>
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2792 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T03:26:33.503 | 15 | 3136 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/34572/how-can-i-reduce-or-increase-the-number-of-workspaces-in-unity">How can I reduce or increase the number of workspaces in Unity?</a> </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=494" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This video</a> from a Unity developer shows him clicking on the workspace button in the launcher to use multiple workspaces (aka virtual desktops). On my 2 netbooks clicking on that button only invokes the expose-like effect.</p>
<p>Is there a setting somewhere I can use to get this functionality, and if so, what is the keyboard shortcut to go along with it? </p>
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2793 | 1 | 100953 | 2010-08-21T03:37:01.843 | 768 | 1254818 | <p>Every time I install a new Linux kernel, it gets left in the grub_config, making the boot menu longer each time. </p>
<p>I know I can manually search through the installed packages and remove them.</p>
<p>Does Ubuntu provide any easier way to clean them up or keep them from showing in the boot list?</p>
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"text": "Removing old \"linux-image*\" packages using synaptic, worked well with 10.04 too. (I mention it because the title suggests it may only be for 11.10 and up)",
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"text": "the `-y` switch at the end of the `apt-get` line is necessary, otherwise apt-get just asks for confirmation and since the input is a pipe, it just aborts. So it should end in: `| xargs sudo apt-get purge -y`",
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"text": "if you recommend to keep at least two kernels, you could have written your script to do exactly that ;) (I was just looking for a script that does that, but it seems that I’ll have to write it myself)",
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"text": "Removing about 20 versions of old `linux-image` and `linux-headers` freed 4.5GB of space on my machine.",
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"text": "This method works well, but deletion of every kernel excessively regenerates grub.cfg, which takes time. Is there any way of disabling this for batch deletion, then regenerating it once?",
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"text": "You may want to keep newer kernels on your machine - you can check that `dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'\"$(uname -r | sed \"s/\\(.*\\)-\\([^0-9]\\+\\)/\\1/\")\"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \\([^ ]*\\).*/\\1/;/[0-9]/!d'` doesn't include any kernels newer than the kernel shown by `uname -r`",
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"text": "Note that the commands to delete kernels also deleted this package on my machine - `linux-libc-dev` - which is undesired behaviour. You could use `dpkg -l 'linux-image-*' ...` instead, to avoid that.",
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"text": "I second the question from @spacediver - this is a crazy-slow process when you have 38 unneeded kernels, since as each one is uninstalled it goes thru all the remaining ones while generating a new grub.cfg. That is what we call an N^2 operation - it processes a kernel about (38^2 / 2) = 722 times, and is very slow. Surely Ubuntu can come up with something better....",
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"text": "Simpler command for listing old images `dpkg -l 'linux-image-*' | awk '/^ii/ { print $2 }' | grep -iv $(uname -r)`.",
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"text": "@Łukaszniemier your script may list a package named `linux-image$(uname -r | sed -r 's/^[0-9.]+-[^-]+//')`, which depends on latest kernel image available, so you probably don't want to remove it.",
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"text": "@Dimitar, yes, the script is faulty. But changing the script the way you did prevents it from removing desired header packages.",
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"text": "I made a script that aims to keep given number of kernels and remove extra ones: [link](http://askubuntu.com/a/571360/21005)",
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"text": "@ŁukaszNiemier, you may want to see the end my [answer](http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-or-hide-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu/571360#571360)",
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"text": "@Lynn - it is a community wiki - anyone can edit and add more information.",
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"text": "@Lynn `apt-get autoremove` has been around forever, at least since 10.04. Any particular reason to mark it 16.04 and above?",
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"text": "@muru I saw the [other answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/623687/636143) mark it as 16.04+ and trusted it to do so for a reason. (Maybe in old versions it isn’t smart about kernel version removal? I don’t know. I’m just boosting the solution that worked for me on 16.04)",
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"text": "`autoremove` not works form me to remove the old linux images.",
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"text": "I tried to remove the linux image using synaptic but instead got ```dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.15.0-74-generic (--remove):\n installed linux-image-4.15.0-74-generic package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1\ndpkg: too many errors, stopping\nErrors were encountered while processing:\n linux-image-4.15.0-74-generic\nProcessing was halted because there were too many errors.\nE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)``` Please help, I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and now I am not able to download anything.",
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"text": "I just wanted to add that removing kernels over time left my /lib/modules folder filled with leftover data. To purge removed kernel data, this command worked: `sudo apt purge $(dpkg -l | grep '^rc linux-image' | awk '{print $2}')`",
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"body": "<p>Personally, I like using <code>Synaptic</code>. It makes me feel more secure about what's going on. The only app I've used that has an option to remove old kernels is <a href=\"http://ubuntu-tweak.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu Tweak</a>.</p>\n\n<p>How to remove the kernels ... | 2013-11-08T12:51:46.270 | null | null | null | null |
2799 | 1 | 2805 | 2010-08-21T06:11:28.963 | 590 | 701291 | <p>There are a lot of software in Windows to merge PDF files but how can we do the same in Ubuntu?</p>
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"body": "<p>PDF Arranger formerly known as PDF-Shuffler.</p>\n<p>If you want a tool with a simple GUI, try <em>pdfarranger</em>. It allows for merging of PDFs as well as rearranging and deleting pages. For batch processing and/or more complicated tasks, pdftk is of course more powerful.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=181783\" alt=\"Screenshot of PDF-Shuffler\" /></p>\n<p>To install PDF Arranger in Ubuntu 20.04 and later open the terminal and type:</p>\n<pre class=\"lang-none prettyprint-override\"><code>sudo apt install pdfarranger\n</code></pre>\n",
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"text": "Installs and works like a charm on 14.04. Thanks a bunch!!",
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"text": "This works well in many cases but I noticed that it stripped out hyperlinks. Using pdftk does not strip out hyperlinks. So, if there is any complexity to the PDFs that you are concatenating, I would use the command line tool; at the very least, thoroughly test your output file.",
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"text": "just tried for one case but I got an error \"multiple definitions in dictionary\" so it could not create an output. their issue tracking on that is open for quite some time without resolution so I assume the project is not very active, would not recommend!",
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"text": "Tried PdfShuffler 0.6.0 (`apt-get install pdfshuffler`) on Ubuntu 14.0 64-bit and it works with one caveat - It has problem dealing with some special characters in the filename (in my case pdfshuffler cannot load filename with `#`)",
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"text": "This tool has been renamed to `pdfarranger` as of Ubuntu 20.04. You can still install `pdfshuffler` via apt, but it is just an empty pointer to `pdfarranger` which is also the command you'll need after install.",
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"text": "@CarlZulauf maybe you or I have a manually added an apt repo to pdfshuffler? I'm not seeing anything. Here is the [pastebin](https://pastebin.com/raw/0iKY4nJN) of the output from `apt show pdfshuffler`. This is after running `sudo apt update` just in case. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 with `apt -v` returning `apt 1.6.14 (amd64)`. The only docs on pdfarranger I found were the [github repo](https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger) which doesn't appear to give any apt based instructions for installation but rather via pip.",
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2806 | 1 | 2811 | 2010-08-21T10:23:23.467 | 1 | 1501 | <p>A recent update to Ubuntu changed the way the workspace chooser panel applet worked. It used to highlight the choosen workspace as orange, and other workspaces would be not colored. Now it is the reverse. Is there a way to change this to set it back to the way it used to be?</p>
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2807 | 1 | 2821 | 2010-08-21T10:26:03.697 | 4 | 1039 | <p>The old workspace chooser allowed you to move application windows between workspaces by dragging them around in the workspace chooser. I much prefer that to the new workspace chooser's method of dragging them off the side of the screen. For one thing, in order to drag a window from a different workspace into the one I'm working in, I have to switch workspaces twice and unmaximize a maximized window with the new method, where with the old I simply had to drag. Is there anyway to get this old functionality back in Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
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"body": "<p>Turn off desktop effects. This works fine with Metacity in 10.10, and I'd be really surprised if it was removed for one release.</p>\n",
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"text": "It works with Metacity & Bluetile in 10.04, so certainly seems to be a compiz issue. (IIRC compiz doesn't use workspaces, technically, but something that looks/behaves more or less the same?)",
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"text": "Yep, Compiz uses viewports. It's all one workspace (you're just seeing different parts of it). If you have windows on multiple viewports in Compiz then switch to Metacity, they all collapse onto one Metacity workspace.",
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2815 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T12:56:39.293 | 6 | 622 | <p>I see entries in /etc/apt/sources.list that say:</p>
<pre><code>deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
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<p>I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and I don't know what "hardy" means, though I suspect it has something to do with version?</p>
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2817 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T14:40:02.110 | 4 | 853 | <p>I'm a packager, so I often need to use <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/cowbuilder" rel="nofollow"><code>cowbuilder</code></a> or <a href="http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder.html.en" rel="nofollow"><code>pbuilder</code></a> to build packages either for my own use or when I'm sponsoring somebody elses' work. </p>
<p>On my laptop, my disk isn't the fastest in the world, so I'm considering using <code>tmpfs</code> for the build area, <code>/var/cache/pbuilder/build</code>, to speed up the build process. Files in there can get fairly large, for example right now I've <em>2.2GB</em> of data in that folder. In addition, cowbuilder works by making shallow COW copies (using hardlinks I think).</p>
<p>Would it be feasible to mount the build directory under <code>tmpfs</code>? </p>
<p>I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 <em>Lucid Lynx</em>, but will be moving shortly to the prerelease of <em>Maverick Meerkat</em>. My machine has 4GB of RAM.</p>
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2822 | 1 | 2865 | 2010-08-21T18:21:20.160 | 5 | 194 | <p>I've only been a member of Launchpad for about 3 months and I still am having trouble figuring out the terminology.</p>
<p>I have created a project with one branch - trunk. I have committed a few times to this branch.</p>
<p>I created a series called '0.1' and I want to provide a download. Last time I did that, I had to create a milestone or something. Whatever it was, I don't get it.</p>
<p>Can someone please explain:</p>
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<p>and the purpose of each?</p>
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"body": "<p>I think Launchpad uses these words as they're more \"generic\" - they can be used for various styles of development without forcing a project to manage source code, develop and release in certain manner.</p>\n\n<p>I see mainly two ways of developing a project on Launchpad:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Your project's development is <em>non-linear</em> (not sure if this is the correct word). This is generally true if it is important for you to support more than one version at a time, while developing on an unstable/development branch. (Think developing two versions in parallel)</p>\n\n<p>For example, GNOME has versions <code>x.y.z</code> with odd <code>y</code> implying a development series and even <code>y</code> implying a stable series. GNOME releases <code>2.30</code> as stable for the world to use. After the release, developers start working on <code>2.31.x</code> which is unstable. If they find any important bug that they'd like fixed for users running <code>2.30</code> without providing a huge number of unpolished new features, they fix just that bug in <code>2.30</code> and release <code>2.30.1</code>. If you're familiar with <code>bzr</code> you should be able to understand this in terms of <code>2.31</code> being developed on trunk, while <code>2.30</code> is a branch of trunk (branched when <code>2.29</code> became stable and was released as <code>2.30</code>) where only bug-fixes are made.</p>\n\n<p>In this case, you should make one series for each <code>2.29</code>, <code>2.30</code>, <code>2.31</code>, etc and one <code>trunk</code> series. <code>2.29</code> and <code>2.30</code> will share the same <code>bzr</code> branch (since <code>2.30</code> is <code>2.29</code> after it is polished). <code>2.31</code> and <code>trunk</code> will share the same <code>bzr</code> branch. When you release <code>2.32</code>, then branch trunk and call this branch <code>2.32</code> (that will be the <code>bzr</code> branch for both <code>2.31</code> and <code>2.32</code> series).</p>\n\n<p>An example of a milestone in this case is <code>2.30.2</code> (in the <code>2.30</code> series). A milestone differs from a release in that a milestone is a future release and once that version is released, the milestone becomes a release. This is why is makes sense to target a bug for a milestone (future) and you can make a bug affect only (say) two out of five series because it affects only two of them and should be fixed on their respective branches (probably the current stable release and trunk)</p></li>\n<li><p>Your project's development is <em>linear</em>. This means that you will release version <code>1.1</code> for everyone to use, keep developing features and fixing bugs until you are ready for <code>1.2</code> or <code>2.0</code> (or whatever you like). Then you release the latest available code. In this case, you aren't developing different versions in parallel, as illustrated by the series diagram on Launchpad).</p>\n\n<p>In this case, you have only one series, one bazaar branch (both called <code>trunk</code> presumably) and all your milestones and releases are in this one series (whether <code>0.1</code>, <code>1.0</code>, <code>1.1</code> or<code>2.0</code>)</p></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>The later is simpler. The former more apt when you need to provide bug-fixes while you work on big changes for a later version (more necessary when it isn't a solo project).</p>\n\n<p>HTH</p>\n",
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"body": "<p>I agree it is quite confusing and not particularly well documented.\nThis is my understanding:</p>\n\n<p>A series is basically a set of releases. Normally you have a main development branch associated with a series called 'trunk' or something similar. You can have other serie... | null | null | null | null | null |
2825 | 1 | 2854 | 2010-08-21T20:06:44.783 | 13 | 15946 | <p>I am using various KVM domains on a Ubuntu server. Both the host and guests run 10.04.1, 2.6.32-24 kernel, virsh reports version 0.7.5, KVM 0.12.3. The guests boot automatically when the host boots and they have <code><features><acpi/><features></code> in their configuration.</p>
<p>I could never manage to make <code>virsh shutdown MyDomain</code> on the host to have any effect. It responds with <code>Domain MyDomain is being shutdown</code> and the domain keeps happily running. <code>virsh list</code> still lists them in the state <code>running</code>.</p>
<p><code>virsh destroy MyDomain</code> works fine, but of course that's not really what I want, so most of the time I log into each one and shut them down manually, which is pretty annoying.</p>
<p>I couldn't really find any information on how <code>virsh shutdown</code> tries to shut the domain down. Pointers to useful bits of documentation are welcome.</p>
<p>What could cause this? How is it supposed to work?</p>
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"body": "<p>Check to see if you have the <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/acpid\">package acpid</a> installed on each of the guests.</p>\n\n<p>I generally create new virtual machines using <a href=\"http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man1/vmbuilder.1.html\">VMBuilder</a> with the parameter <code>--addpkg acpid</code> and the only time I've had trouble shutting down Ubuntu guests using <code>virsh</code> was when the guest vm had crashed in some way.</p>\n",
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"text": "Awesome, that's all it took! I added that to my VMBuilder script as well now. \n\nDid I miss an important piece of documentation here, or are you just magically assumed to know that? In retrospect, it makes sense to me, I guess `virsh shutdown` is just the equivalent to pressing the power button on a physical box. But that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere either, or I might have connected the dots and investigated more in that direction... \n\nEither way, thanks a lot! (Will upvote when I get the necessary rep.)",
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"text": "I know that it is mentioned in the Server Guide section on vmbuilder very close to the end of the article. I'm not aware if it is mentioned elsewhere. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/jeos-and-vmbuilder.html",
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2826 | 1 | 2828 | 2010-08-21T20:34:27.050 | 3 | 420 | <p>I'd like to be able to either make my own sound theme or perhaps find one that's completely customizable i.e. how windows sound is customizable from the get go.</p>
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