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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/47522/how-to-bypass-try-it-install-screen-when-booting-from-usb-live-session-wit">How to bypass “Try it / Install” screen when booting from USB Live Session? (without installing in the USB)</a> </p>
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21641 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T09:46:40.513 | 0 | 499 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/12909/how-do-i-upgrade-to-the-development-release-aka-ubuntu1">How do I upgrade to the development release (aka. Ubuntu+1)?</a> </p>
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<p>How do I upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to the latest development version ... | 6032 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:59.520 | 2011-01-15T14:31:45.023 | How to upgrade to the development version of Ubuntu 11.04? | [
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21645 | 1 | 22355 | 2011-01-15T10:31:44.840 | 28 | 7869 | <p>A couple of weeks ago a popup has appeared whenever I startup telling me that an application wants to access the keyring but it doesn't say which one. I'm used to seeing the application name on the popup but here it just says 'application'. </p>
<p>I haven't changed any passwords or did anything that might have so... | 8938 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:13.193 | 2017-03-13T04:26:04.887 | An application asks to unlock the keyring on startup, but it doesn't say which one | [
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21647 | 1 | 21664 | 2011-01-15T10:50:50.863 | 4 | 4373 | <p>Until two days before today my Ubuntu 10.10 Server updated fine.</p>
<p>The output of <code>sudo aptitude update</code> <strong>→</strong> <a href="http://codepad.org/tkvXq66j" rel="nofollow">http://codepad.org/tkvXq66j</a> </p>
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21650 | 1 | 21698 | 2011-01-15T11:36:25.320 | 6 | 5103 | <p>I understand that it may be a rare situation for an executable to have spaces in it, but it could happen. </p>
<p>An example may be the best explanation.. </p>
<p>Using standard tools, I want to determine the location (on the file system) of the executable which owns(?) the current window... </p>
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21651 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T11:45:42.723 | 16 | 1125 | <p>How can i upgrade all the 50 desktops to Maverick Meerkat. Is there any netinstall method ? </p>
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21652 | 1 | 21656 | 2011-01-15T12:14:39.250 | 1 | 1160 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 10 on a VMware player running on Windows 7.
I have an Geforce 8800 card.</p>
<p>Currently I can't run visual effects, and I wasn't able to find any answer except for changing the VM to VirtualBox.
Since I already use VMWare for other purposes, I don't want to use VirtualBox.</p>
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21654 | 1 | 21655 | 2011-01-15T12:26:53.307 | 7 | 20734 | <p>The network interface should not make a request for an IP over DHCP. So, what is the command to turn off NetworkManager in Ubuntu? </p>
<p>Update:</p>
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21657 | 1 | 21658 | 2011-01-15T13:04:59.770 | 146 | 172611 | <p>Is there a way to show the history of packages that were changed by apt-get via command line?</p>
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21662 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T13:38:22.230 | 4 | 9430 | <p>I have an external drive with two partitions - one encrypted, the other not so.
I'd like to move all the data to the encrypted partition, and then resize it to take up the whole drive.</p>
<p>If I use gparted on a truecrypt-encrypted partition, will that destroy the data?</p>
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21666 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T13:55:57.847 | 1 | 2466 | <p>I have a Samsung R430 notebook that has been running Ubuntu for close to a year, now. Since I've upgrated to Maverick, I've been dealing with little, but increasingly annoying issues, that put my faith to question.</p>
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21669 | 1 | 21672 | 2011-01-15T14:19:00.463 | 14 | 445 | <p>Is there an API set for Ubuntu One? For example, an API to sync contacts, bookmarks, etc.</p>
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21671 | 1 | 21676 | 2011-01-15T14:29:58.967 | 3 | 353 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ka634.jpg" alt="2 shortcuts"></p>
<p>After updating Ubuntu One, I'm stuck with 2 shortcuts to Ubuntu One in my Places menu. How can I remove it?</p>
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21673 | 1 | 21767 | 2011-01-15T14:42:30.927 | 5 | 2912 | <p>Summary: I'd like to use two Ubuntu computers to extend/compliment an existing wireless access point.</p>
<p>I have a network which currently looks a bit like this:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1prvP.png" alt="Network"></p>
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21674 | 1 | 21775 | 2011-01-15T14:43:09.990 | 6 | 138 | <p>Something weird happened today, and I dont know how. Within a folder, all folders have a file by the same name, with a colon appended to it. And all the files from the most inner-most directory in my home, have been dumped to ~, with a size of 0 bytes. </p>
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21679 | 1 | 21704 | 2011-01-15T14:50:24.057 | 4 | 14757 | <p>I use the following script to make my netbook a full-fledged wireless access point. It creates a bridge with eth0 and wlan0 and starts <code>hostapd</code>. </p>
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ifconfig eth0 up #ensure the interface is up
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21681 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T15:13:51.253 | 8 | 30132 | <p>As soon as a Windows application creates a shortcut/directory in Wine Start Menu Programs directory (in particular I do this manually by means of Total Commander and it works), it gets reflected in Ubuntu Wine Programs menu. But when a shortcut/folder is removed (manually, by means of Total Commander again),the Ubun... | 2390 | 42136 | 2012-03-06T23:56:06.313 | 2016-05-12T07:40:49.373 | How do I correctly remove items from Wine Programs menu? | [
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21686 | 1 | 64236 | 2011-01-15T16:28:02.670 | 45 | 64150 | <p>I <a href="https://bfiller.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/unity-2d/">read</a> that there is now a 2D version of Unity built on <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/">Qt</a>. How do I install it, and once it's installed, how do I switch to it?</p>
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21689 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T16:40:00.673 | 7 | 1672 | <p>Trying to copy the content of a DVD on a Asrock ION 330 running Maverick, i.e. with:</p>
<p><code>dd if=/dev/sr0 of=dvdcopy</code></p>
<p>...I get errors in /var/log/messages:</p>
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Jan 15 17:18:15 asrock kernel: [ 2616.445966] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code<br>
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21690 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T16:40:47.427 | 0 | 1742 | <p>After installation it asks me to restart or continue using live system and im going to use live system but afer wards i can't shut down my computer there is only restart or hibernate available. I think it is a designing fault.</p>
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21692 | 1 | 21716 | 2011-01-15T16:44:39.200 | 10 | 160 | <p>I'm attempting to forward <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/625837">this</a> bug report in Launchpad to the appropriate project, but I'm not sure which one that is. The issue is with the user's keyboard, and the issue is that some multi-key keyboard shortcuts are not being recognised if the u... | null | 1992 | 2011-01-15T16:49:40.850 | 2011-01-15T18:36:46.953 | What package is responsible for the functionality of the keyboard | [
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21695 | 1 | 22715 | 2011-01-15T16:58:41.040 | 12 | 8563 | <p>Often, when I start up a new terminal, I get the message:
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21697 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T17:07:08.627 | 5 | 1772 | <p>I would just like to know the reason(s) behind this decision (Pros./Cons. of using Qt and NUX). Thank you very much and keep on the awesome work! Ubuntu rocks! :D</p>
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21700 | 1 | 21703 | 2011-01-15T17:14:42.673 | 19 | 44717 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu Lucid Netbook Remix on my laptop and I need to be able to share my desktop for a Skype call. Does anyone know how to get this done?</p>
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21701 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T17:20:39.390 | 5 | 2722 | <p>There's another post about this, but I don't have enough 'points' to say anything on that thread. So I'll start my own ... with more details!</p>
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21707 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T17:50:32.660 | 11 | 1229 | <p>Jonathan Ridell said in a <a href="http://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/so-canonical-ported-unity-to-qt%E2%80%A6/#comment-578" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> that there were accessibility problems with Qt. I would just like to know what those problems are. Thank you very much and keep up the excelent work. Ubuntu... | 8963 | 8844 | 2011-03-06T22:07:10.953 | 2011-11-02T15:50:50.330 | What are the accessibility problems of Qt? | [
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21708 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T17:55:40.513 | 5 | 4154 | <p>Most of the time when I share a folder from Ubuntu, the name field is made yellow and it says "Share name too long". But even if I keep this name, it works fine. So what is it too long for? What is the limit?</p>
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21711 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T18:07:08.253 | 78 | 78767 | <p>I connected my laptop to my LCD. Using the laptop display hotkey I can switch between different modes - only laptop monitor on, only LCD monitor on, both on and display the same view, both on and the desktop is stretched (divided).</p>
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21714 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T18:22:58.257 | 5 | 852 | <p>A picture is worth a thousand words...</p>
<p>Screenshot (gVim) -</p>
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<p>Screenshot (LibreOffice) -</p>
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<p>The Appearance Preferences dialog -</p>
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21717 | 1 | 21720 | 2011-01-15T18:45:20.123 | 3 | 3613 | <p>I have tried to completely remove apache2.2 from my system. But the only thing that happens is that apt-get will remove "apache2-mpm-prefork" and install "apache2-mpm-worker".</p>
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21718 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T18:53:33.287 | 5 | 2010 | <p>i have a 500gb external drive (Maxtor One Touch) some days ago i moved some files from the destkop to it.
the operation failed (on the disk there are only 4 or 5 incomplete files ) and i can't remove those files.
i tried through nautilus and from the command line but nothing..
any idea?
thanks</p>
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21719 | 1 | 21723 | 2011-01-15T19:06:22.713 | 65 | 409206 | <p>I have a laptop with win7 installed. I have now made a 60gb partition which I want to install ubuntu into. The question I have, before I do the installation, is how large each of the root, swap, and home partition should be? I have read some place that root could be as small as 8GB, but isn't that too small? Since I... | 8498 | 186134 | 2014-08-03T16:24:05.427 | 2021-07-28T07:16:07.917 | How large should I make root, home, and swap partitions? | [
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21721 | 1 | 21785 | 2011-01-15T19:13:13.533 | 5 | 528 | <p>I want to set up global hotkeys in Audacious as follows. When I try and set these up it doesn't allow two mask keys.</p>
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<li><kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Home</kbd> for pause. </li>
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21724 | 1 | 21727 | 2011-01-15T19:23:21.660 | 10 | 1646 | <p>How do I make 33% "list view" in Nautilus be the default view for the system? </p>
<p>If there isn't a way, another thought I am questioning: Is there a way to set a view to go recursive into all child folders? What if I want my Music folder to have a certain style of view permanently?</p>
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21730 | 1 | 21734 | 2011-01-15T19:42:23.987 | 99 | 50921 | <p>We get various distros like kubuntu/ubuntu/lubuntu/edu/etc... for free.
We get critical updates constantly. We can download any programs we want from Ubuntu repos.
Gee, I can't even imagine what kind of a CDN network you gotta have to support all this. Also, Ubuntu has a lot of people working for them:
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21733 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T19:47:56.840 | 1 | 2889 | <p>I'm trying to set permissions for folders on USB drives that I've mounted with Nautilus, but when I change the permission, it just changes right back again. No error message or any other explanation. I've tried "Open as administrator" and it still doesn't work. How do I set the permissions so that they can be acc... | 5032 | null | null | 2011-01-15T20:03:05.440 | Can't set permissions for USB drives? | [
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21741 | 1 | 21746 | 2011-01-15T20:40:03.527 | 12 | 9248 | <p>A friend just complained to me about Ubuntu being slow. </p>
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21742 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T20:54:01.647 | 4 | 1922 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4408/what-should-i-do-when-ubuntu-freezes">What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?</a> </p>
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<p>I have a problem with my Ubuntu 10.10 system which regularly freezes and can then only be switched off via ... | 8230 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:27.937 | 2011-04-16T10:40:29.523 | How to troubleshoot system freezing? | [
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21747 | 1 | 21799 | 2011-01-15T21:43:26.833 | 3 | 387 | <p>When I minimize programs to gnome-panel, I now have white vertical lines separating them, this never used to happen.</p>
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21749 | 1 | 23260 | 2011-01-15T22:10:41.787 | 5 | 1404 | <p>The computer freezes when i shutdown. I have tried the ACPI options <code>acpi=off</code> and <code>acpi=force</code> but they don't work.</p>
<p>The computer is a MSI U130. The only way to shutdown is by long pressing the power button. It is running Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10.</p>
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21751 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T22:18:58.803 | 1 | 6537 | <p>I bought this 2tb Segate GoFlex this last Black Friday and since then every 15 minutes or so the drive spins down, and then a little while later completely dismounts. Very annoying.
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21755 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T23:05:08.557 | 13 | 8030 | <p>In Unity 2D there isn't any multiple workspaces. How can add more than that 1?</p>
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21756 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T23:08:27.493 | 1 | 2230 | <p>I have an Acer Aspire One D250 with Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10. The internal microphone is not working. What can I do to fix this?</p>
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21759 | 1 | 21761 | 2011-01-15T11:47:52.093 | 14 | 557 | <p>the organization I work at wants to create a custom Ubuntu LiveCD, the customizations are: Pre-installed programs, plugins, some device drivers, and aesthetics such as icons and backgrounds, as well as changing Firefox's homepage and removing unneeded packages.</p>
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21766 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T01:26:40.567 | 3 | 6149 | <p>How can you get google sketchup to work on ubuntu?</p>
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21768 | 1 | 21772 | 2011-01-16T02:04:58.580 | 27 | 39362 | <p>I have a bunch of pictures I'd like to make into a basic slideshow, as a video (e.g. mpeg/avi). What software is available to do this?</p>
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21776 | 1 | 21777 | 2011-01-16T03:36:25.727 | 2 | 3827 | <p>CVS is being used in my workplace and I've no much knowledge of cvs other than installing and creating cvs users and I heard developers share their project with eclipse or something like that. I'm asked to check for best repositories which offers advanced features giving the hints SVN and GIT. If any one using these... | 3215 | 3215 | 2011-01-16T04:34:40.807 | 2011-01-16T09:42:40.707 | CVS vs SVN vs GIT vs anyother | [
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21781 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T04:28:17.077 | 8 | 1721 | <p>Currently, my window decorations are in the top left as per the default Ubuntu, but I have reordered them to "Minimize, Maximize, Close"
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21784 | 1 | 21794 | 2011-01-16T05:21:26.020 | 4 | 1253 | <p>How do I go about changing the white background on nautilus-elementary's side pane?</p>
<p>I want to change it specifically to match the color of the toolbar and status-bar.</p>
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21787 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T07:50:00.467 | 8 | 795 | <blockquote>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/134/how-do-i-create-a-desktop-wallpaper-slideshow">How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow?</a><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/174460/how-do-i-set-my-wallpaper-to-auto-change-periodically">How do ... | 2390 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:49.530 | 2012-08-22T08:51:46.967 | How to get desktop background picture changed periodically? | [
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21788 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T08:16:04.127 | 3 | 368 | <p>I want to only sync files with a certain prefix in a folder. Is there some way I can get Ubuntu one to only sync these files or ignore other files?</p>
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21790 | 1 | 21791 | 2011-01-16T08:32:56.073 | 4 | 530 | <p>Since Banshee is going to be replacing Rhythmbox in 11.04, is there a PPA for Rhythmbox so I can still keep up to date with the newest stable builds?</p>
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21800 | 1 | 23886 | 2011-01-16T10:42:35.330 | 2 | 3163 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition. Suddenly today /home became corrupted and I was prompted to run <code>fsck</code> manually. I ran <code>fsck -y /home</code> and rebooted the system. The system booted but I got no GUI interface (GNOME session) but a black screen with a user prompt instead. Any tricks here to... | 3215 | 5691 | 2011-01-16T15:25:58.807 | 2011-01-29T15:45:06.927 | GNOME session not starting after filesystem corruption | [
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21801 | 1 | 21806 | 2011-01-16T10:56:11.490 | 13 | 28895 | <p>I have a running Ubuntu Server 10.04.1. When I tried to login to the server via ssh, I could not. Instead, I got <code>connection refused</code> error. I tried to ping the machine and I got reply! So, the clear reason is that SSH daemon is stopped.</p>
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21805 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T11:55:22.833 | 5 | 9390 | <p>I have tried installing <a href="http://code.google.com/p/asusfan/" rel="nofollow">asusfan</a> and lm-sensors but I'm unable to control my fans to cool my laptop down sufficiently. Currently it overheats at about 100 degrees celsius and my sensors output somehow does not have any fan information on it: </p>
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21811 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T12:20:29.280 | 20 | 29737 | <p>I want to convert text to an audio file containing synthesised speech that reads out that text. What free (libre+gratis) software is available for this and how do I install and use it?</p>
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21814 | 1 | 22012 | 2011-01-16T12:29:54.577 | 12 | 5875 | <p>I have hundreds of passwords, since I use a different random one for each website/service.
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21819 | 1 | 21821 | 2011-01-16T13:55:12.057 | 4 | 11366 | <p>I want to add some lines which should execute every time Ubuntu boots up, so I don't have to change them manually everytime. I've read in some place that you should edit this file <code>/etc/rc.local</code>. However when I add the lines I want to execute at start up it doesn't run those lines.</p>
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21823 | 1 | 21825 | 2011-01-16T14:38:04.970 | 10 | 46673 | <p>How do I create a shortcut to start a Windows application with Wine?</p>
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<p>and I would like to have a shortcut to it on the desktop.</p>
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21824 | 1 | 21838 | 2011-01-16T14:42:24.443 | 6 | 271 | <p>I just want to copy and paste the bit of text that describes the panel in my other user account. Which textfile can I paste that into?</p>
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21833 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T15:26:17.427 | 8 | 2343 | <p>My Acer Timeline has a "Disable touchpad button" which works <em>too well</em>. That is, once I've pressed it, pressing it again won't re-enable the touchpad. I've tried a couple of things like:</p>
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21836 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T16:13:16.857 | 4 | 351 | <p>I just upgraded to Maverick, and now I can't change my theme except for the cursor and window border/decoration. I've just reinstalled the themes I want to use (Dust + Dust extra) successfully, and while the window border/decorations change properly when I select them, nothing else changes. The icon set doesn't chan... | 8473 | 169736 | 2014-05-26T20:23:14.137 | 2014-05-26T20:23:14.137 | Upgraded to Maverick; can't change theme | [
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21840 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T16:25:43.950 | 28 | 947 | <p>Let me quote from <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/308#comment-324337" rel="nofollow">Mark's blog</a> almost one year ago:</p>
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Mark, will there be an update to the sound theme to match the updated visual brand?</p>
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21841 | 1 | 21848 | 2011-01-16T16:35:01.220 | 1 | 231 | <p>I tried to run it from total commander, I tried to make a link to it</p>
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<p>but it says </p>
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21842 | 1 | 21844 | 2011-01-16T16:38:13.697 | 9 | 1585 | <p>I just discovered that I couldn't add more than 4 layouts for my keyboard. Googling revealed that it was a universal limit (at least for GNU/Linux) and the only way(s) to get around it was to use some hackish way with scripts. Is there really a technical reason behind this? If yes, what is it?</p>
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21851 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T17:31:19.807 | 7 | 4612 | <p>I hate how when I turn on the computer it just (after the hp logo, which I hate having also), shows white text on a black background. I'm wondering if there's easy ways to customize this (I'm choosing between Windows 7 and two separate Ubuntu 10.10 installs). I've read a little about some complicated ways to do this... | 9023 | 235 | 2011-01-16T18:21:34.110 | 2021-07-12T11:19:15.867 | How can I customize my bootloader to make it prettier? | [
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21855 | 1 | 22002 | 2011-01-16T17:58:52.877 | 3 | 6330 | <p>I need to provide an FTP service that needs to be web-managed in the simplest way possible. My customer wants to create folders and users, and give them read only or read/write access arbitrarily.</p>
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21857 | 1 | 21858 | 2011-01-16T18:29:24.800 | 1 | 2414 | <p>I've had a problem with <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/17873/problems-with-cisco-quickvpn-client/18336">making QuickVPN work with Ubuntu</a>. I've got a feeling that it's because the Windows only application needs to listen on port 500, which it cannot without privileges. As you should never run Wine as ro... | 615 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:26.167 | 2016-12-05T23:42:14.917 | Giving Wine applications more privileges (like listening on ports below 1024) | [
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21859 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T19:01:34.607 | 3 | 686 | <p>In <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/11/30/testing-natty-and-unity-safely-with-a-usb-stick/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a blogpost</a> Jono explained a nice way to test the latest version of Natty. Under point four he proposes:</p>
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21860 | 1 | 26583 | 2011-01-16T19:14:58.780 | 5 | 2039 | <p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1403/whats-the-state-of-multi-seat-in-10-04-lucid">I've asked about multiseat before</a>. The answer (for 10.04) involved doing it the proper way (eg through <code>gdm</code>, multiple server layouts). The problem was that <code>gdm</code> needs to be patched or reverted to 2... | 449 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:48.743 | 2011-02-16T05:01:20.307 | Simple multi-seat | [
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21862 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T19:16:38.463 | 3 | 6060 | <p>Would like a script, when run, it should connect to a hidden wireless network with these details:</p>
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21863 | 1 | 21875 | 2011-01-16T19:23:57.757 | 0 | 1693 | <p>For some reason when I plug in the AC the laptop fun will always run, and it is quite noticable also. Is it supposed to be like that, is it some fix for it? My laptop is a thinkpad T400</p>
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21864 | 1 | 21869 | 2011-01-16T19:33:56.713 | 3 | 6407 | <p>For example, I want all avi files to be associated with mplayer <strong>in Wine</strong></p>
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21868 | 1 | 21872 | 2011-01-16T20:01:19.050 | 12 | 6278 | <p>Running <a href="http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/">PowerTOP</a> on an Ubuntu 10.10 system, one of the suggestions are</p>
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21871 | 1 | 21873 | 2011-01-16T20:12:48.733 | 2 | 497 | <p>I recently messed up my Master Boot Record and my system is not booting. I was dual booting Windows and Ubuntu. Both of them are not loading now. I don't care if I lose my windows, but I want my Ubuntu back!!</p>
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21877 | 1 | 21883 | 2011-01-16T20:41:48.567 | 0 | 1270 | <p>I tried code from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/21864/how-to-associate-a-file-type-within-wine-with-a-native-application/21869#21869">this question</a> and for some reason they do not work, why and how to fix them?</p>
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21879 | 1 | 21885 | 2011-01-16T20:48:16.577 | 4 | 2098 | <p>I recently bought a new laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon 5470HD graphics card in it and installed Ubuntu. Everything works just fine, but at the startup, no Plymouth splash screen comes up, just a black screen with a white dash. The splash screen on shutdown works fine though.</p>
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21880 | 1 | 21882 | 2011-01-16T20:56:01.217 | 6 | 9645 | <p>On Ubuntu 10.10, I have recently started to experience this problem:</p>
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21886 | 1 | 21887 | 2011-01-16T21:31:33.153 | 37 | 43487 | <p>Is there a way to get java apps to use my gtk theme?</p>
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21891 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T22:13:49.497 | 0 | 788 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15318/how-to-remove-the-unwanted-entries-from-the-boot-menu">How to remove the unwanted entries from the boot menu?</a> </p>
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21892 | 1 | 22482 | 2011-01-16T22:25:23.430 | 5 | 5064 | <p>I'm having a nasty problem with the Sound Menu on my Ubuntu 10.10 Installation.
What happens is that the sound control icon is blocked, and I can't control the master volume.<br>
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21895 | 1 | 21921 | 2011-01-16T23:32:34.360 | 3 | 4693 | <p>I have a laptop with broken video card. It has two operating systems installed - Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition. </p>
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21897 | 1 | null | 2011-01-16T23:36:05.047 | 7 | 661 | <p>Ubuntuone is correctly synchronizing selected files between two computers running Ubuntu 10.10. When I open Ubuntuone Preferences, Account tab, on one computer it does not display the usage, name e-mail or current plan. On the other computer all information is shown correctly. On the Devices tab the 2 computers a... | 9160 | 235 | 2011-01-28T16:52:04.723 | 2017-03-14T14:05:39.387 | Ubuntu One Preferences does not show usage, name, e-mail, current plan | [
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21899 | 1 | 21900 | 2011-01-17T01:29:57.700 | 2 | 670 | <p>Recently I decided to test <strong>natty</strong>, so i download it and try to install it on VirtualBox <em>(v4.0 - 3D Acceleration Enabled)</em> but have problem in using unity <em>(It says to change my desktop to classic...)</em><br>
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21902 | 1 | 21907 | 2011-01-17T02:38:30.673 | 8 | 7302 | <p>Is it possible to run Windows 7 64 bit from a 32bit ubuntu OS? </p>
<p>I can reinstall Ubuntu as a 64bit OS, but would prefer not to if it is not necessary.</p>
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21903 | 1 | 21938 | 2011-01-17T02:47:45.467 | 14 | 3864 | <p>Is there anywhere one can get a copy of Ubuntu's man pages in e-reader (preferably Kindle/mobi, epub can be handled)format?</p>
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21910 | 1 | null | 2011-01-17T01:41:21.867 | 7 | 7317 | <p>I am using Ubuntu 10.04 as ftp server, when I upload file using Filezilla client, I always got "550 Permission denied".</p>
<p>How to configure my server?</p>
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21914 | 1 | 22166 | 2011-01-17T03:37:11.510 | 25 | 62314 | <p>I do not want NetworkManager to list or manipulate my wireless card. Can I hide its interface from NetworkManager somehow?</p>
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21915 | 1 | null | 2011-01-17T03:42:21.567 | 2 | 118 | <p>The mouse stops and moves jerkily, and sometimes won't register clicks. Gnome stopped responding a few hours ago--everything looks fine, but no clicks on menu items do anything.</p>
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21917 | 1 | null | 2011-01-17T03:44:05.757 | 3 | 1564 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/75887/how-do-i-add-a-canon-pixma-mx860-network-printer">How do I add a Canon Pixma MX860 network printer?</a> </p>
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21923 | 1 | 21927 | 2011-01-17T04:59:40.633 | 16 | 109958 | <p>I don't have a .Xauthority file in my home folder. I want to create it, please tell me the steps to do so in ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p>Thank You!</p>
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21924 | 1 | 21926 | 2011-01-17T05:19:03.917 | 6 | 2019 | <p>In Thunar I could easily switch between Vista-style graphical location bar and editable textual location bar (which doesn't look so eye-candy but is far more convenient for me). Can I configure this in Nautilus?</p>
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21928 | 1 | 21937 | 2011-01-17T06:15:18.940 | 6 | 207 | <p>One of the problems with recommending Ubuntu to potential future users, especially those not particularly given to technical endeavours, is that there is a chance that upgrades will break their machine, and they'll have to pay or otherwise coerce some knowledgeable person into fixing them.</p>
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21929 | 1 | null | 2011-01-17T06:15:19.523 | 3 | 4464 | <p>I have got this issue with Ubuntu 10.10. I have been with Ubuntu 8.04 and then decided to try out Ubuntu 10.10 . </p>
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21931 | 1 | 21933 | 2011-01-17T06:30:53.337 | 10 | 59809 | <p>On a colleagues computer, everytime I use a sudo command, I get this error:</p>
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"text": "Can you post the output of `ls -l /usr/bin/sudo` ?",
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"body": "<ul>\n<li><p>Reboot the computer,choose recovery console and type the following commands</p>\n\n<p><code>chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo</code></p>\n\n<p><code>chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo</code></p></li>\n<li><p>Reboot the machine.</p></li>\n<li><p>Also have a look at this <strong><a href=\"... | [
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21934 | 1 | 26820 | 2011-01-17T06:42:46.953 | 15 | 17326 | <p>Currently, I am using the Unity Qt panel in my Gnome desktop, and when I press the Windows key, the Unity's dash launches, and I can't use any compiz based shortcuts. </p>
<p>Same behaviour is exhibited when I log in to Unity 2D as well, as the Windows key launches the dash.</p>
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"body": "<p>It is not planned for now to make it configurable though it is planned to deactivate that shortcut by default, see <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/705076\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug #705076</a></p>\n",
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21935 | 1 | null | 2011-01-17T07:06:25.930 | 4 | 1474 | <p>When trying to Activate, Broadcom B43legacy wireless driver I get the following error,</p>
<pre><code>SystemError: installArchives() failed.
</code></pre>
<p>Please help.</p>
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"body": "<p>I've found these bug reports:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/626320\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/626320</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/... | null | null | null | null | rwdubs reviews |
21939 | 1 | 21943 | 2011-01-17T08:11:24.710 | 10 | 1264 | <p>I keep typing in the wrong place because of the pad getting touched while I am typing causing a click that re-place the cursor in another position. In Windows, I can easily disable that so the pad is only used to move the mouse cursor, but I didn't find similar option in Ubuntu. Any help?</p>
| 7280 | null | null | 2012-05-01T17:09:42.250 | Disable pad click | [
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"body": "<p>Isn't this doing what you want?</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/IeQN0.png\" alt=\"mouse preferences window\"></p>\n\n<p>This is in System / Preferences / Mouse.</p>\n",
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21942 | 1 | 21945 | 2011-01-17T09:30:51.663 | 3 | 478 | <p>I have started writting rss reader in Vala, but I don't know, what database system should I use, I cannot connect to couchdb and sqlite works fine, but I would like use couchdb because of ubuntu one. I have natty with latest updates</p>
<pre><code>public CouchDB.Session session;
public CouchDB.Database db;
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"text": "OT: Don't know Vala, but wouldn't you run the whole code block in the try-clause and then catch all the different Errors? http://paste.ubuntu.com/555107/",
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"body": "<p>From a performance point of view, I'd just like to say that CouchDB perhaps isn't the fastest solution when compared to something more mature like SQLite. A gwibber comparison puts SQLite as <em>just</em> <a href=\"http://blogs.nemein.com/people/piotras/view/1274453113.html\" rel=\"n... | [
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21948 | 1 | null | 2011-01-17T10:50:28.707 | 1 | 1365 | <p>I'm trying to install <code>opensync-plugin-synce</code> to sync my wm6 phone with Evolution, but when I try (from synaptic, also with ap-get), is:</p>
<pre><code>Depende: opensync-module-python but it is not installable
</code></pre>
<p>In fact, I haven't found opensync-module-python in repositories.</p>
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"text": "Forgot to mention I'm using Maverick, in case that changes anything",
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"body": "<p>You can use the following PPA to overcome that problem, the missing package is in here.. </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~opensync/+archive/opensync-0.22?field.series_filter=maverick\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://launchpad.net/~opensync/+archive/opensync-0.22?field.se... | null | null | null | null | null |
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