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<p>How do I make it show in a wide screen resolution?</p> <p>The Camera is a Logitech C270.</p>
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2011-06-07T02:52:56.503
Widescreen web camera will only show in standard definition in Cheese
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<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 its installed using Wubi, dual boot with Windows. It's fresh install. </p> <p>Randomly mouse cursor freezes and can't click anything on the screen. I can move mouse but can't click. </p> <p>"It causes when select a text something" So I'm using keyboard to to reboot system. Then it back to n...
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2011-03-22T21:39:41.907
2012-01-18T11:37:21.730
Mouse cursor freezes randomly with Intel GMA 950
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can try to add the <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates\" rel=\"nofollow\">X-Updates PPA</a> to your software sources.</p>\n\n<p>To do so you only need to enter</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates\n</code></pr...
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2011-01-30T10:34:13.697
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<p>Is it possible to control horizontal letter spacing in Vim (Ubuntu)?</p>
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2013-09-19T01:02:16.753
Is it possible to control horizontal letter spacing in Vim?
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<p>A recent update to Xorg broke my desktop, which now looks like this: </p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VY9Mg.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VY9Mg.jpg" alt="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbBxh.jpg"></a></p> <p>In short, the desktop background is not updating on the secondary...
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2012-06-22T13:27:44.107
2012-06-22T13:27:44.107
How can I roll back xserver-xorg-core and xserver-common?
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<p>I just downloaded Emacs 23 and installed the nXhtml add-on.</p> <p>I opened speedbar with <code>M x : speedbar</code>.</p> <p>I can see almost all file types <strong>except</strong> PHP.</p> <p>Any suggestions?</p>
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2011-01-31T06:29:03.760
2011-06-10T01:59:46.897
Can't see PHP files in Emac's speedbar?
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<p><em>Let me add some context:</em> I am currently using Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit (Desktop) on a relatively powerful stationary PC (Intel Core i7 920, 12GB ram). My purpose is highspeed imaging with a pointgrey Grashopper machine-vision camera (for research, PhD project). This camera is capable of 200 fps at full VGA (640x4...
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2011-01-30T16:30:35.483
2011-01-30T16:30:35.483
Can certain system-hungry modules be disabled?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Depending on how long the experiment is you could temporarily hold back the other processes with <a href=\"http://cpulimit.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">cpulimit</a>. You might have to experiment a bit to find out who the big users are before putting the brakes on them....
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<p>I am searching for software and hardware for scanning slides to import to digitize my old pictures..</p> <p>I have already a scanner working in Windows, but I would like to scan them directly in Ubuntu.</p> <ul> <li>Ubuntu 10.10</li> <li>Scanner: :ZOLID</li> <li>lsusb output: OmniVision Technologies, Inc. VEHO Fil...
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2011-07-08T02:19:58.030
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Software and scanner for scanning photographic slides?
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<p>A new feature was added recently that adds an invisible border around the windows to grab for resizing (although i thought the new resize grip solved any big issues).</p> <p>This annoys me because it destroys the usefulness of the grid plugin of compiz.. i'm not sure if the border is part of compiz or gnome, but i'...
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2011-01-31T06:32:01.370
2011-03-31T05:54:11.217
How do I disable the new invisible border feature (ruins Compiz' Grid plugin)?
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<p>Is it possible to reload the kernel using kexec after a kernel upgrade without doing a complete reboot? The Ubuntu wiki <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RapidReboot" rel="nofollow">RapidReboot</a> page explains how to perform that using init.d commads, any fast way (i.e. a script) for doing that only on explicit req...
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2011-03-02T15:04:11.777
How to reboot using an updated kernel with kexec?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>That method IS the fast way that does it on explicit request. First you load the new kernel with kexec, and then you reboot and the modified script launches the new kernel instead of actually rebooting. The actual launch needs done in the reboot script because you need to c...
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2011-01-30T13:21:44.947
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<p>Do anyone know if there is drivers for Sound Blaster X-Fi HD ?</p> <p>And if not, is there any other good external soundcard that includes headphone amps?</p> <p>I bought some Sennheiser 595 HD Headphones, and need a card that can drive them.</p>
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2011-06-29T22:02:07.497
Driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi HD
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<p>Using <strong>Sound Juicer</strong> I am able to rip CDs very conveniently. I would like to rip them in about 256 kbit/s variable bitrate. To accomplish this I have defined the settings for mp3 in <code>gnome-audio-profiles-properties</code> (from <a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-media-profile...
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2017-03-11T18:59:56.407
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Sound Juicer doesn't respect Lame's codec settings when ripping CDs
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2011-01-30T14:00:24.570
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<p>Can somebody recommend me hardware and software to import VHS Videos to DVD's?</p>
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2012-05-21T02:54:57.903
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How do I import/convert VHS videos to DVD?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The beauty of Linux is that there are many ways to do something. Here is a basic solution:</p>\n\n<p>Hardware</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Hauppague PVR-150 - PCI card providing MPEG capture in S-Video, Composite, and NTSC broadcast</li>\n<li>VCR</li>\n<li>Cables to connect VCR to PVR-1...
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<p>This has been problematic for me in Ubuntu since I live in the UK but want the week to start on a Sunday (because that is the system my work use). I've faffed about in the last couple of versions of Ubuntu to no avail (it changes in Evolution but not on the desktop calendar etc.) and don't want to be editing locale ...
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2011-10-20T10:48:32.387
2011-10-20T10:49:40.777
Will there be an option in the GUI to change the week-starting day in Unity?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As per Jorge Castro's suggestion, this has been reported as a bug on Launchpad:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/878767\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/878767</a></p>\n", "...
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<p>I have a Dell Vostro V13, which Canonical claim is <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/make/Dell/laptops" rel="nofollow">"Certified" for Ubuntu</a>. So it surprises me that the synaptics trackpad isn't recognised as such and defaults to psmouse emulation. This means no multitouch, no gestures, and more imp...
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2011-01-30T16:18:51.750
2011-02-19T22:02:40.343
Mouse wheel on Dell Vostro V13
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<p>I'm working on a Ubuntu system, and my client has completely forgotten his administrative password. He doesn't even remember entering one; however it is there.</p> <p>I've tried the suggestions on the website, and I have been unsuccessful in deleting the password so that I can download applets required for running ...
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How do I reset a lost administrative password?
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11538/long-wait-time-on-login">Long wait time on login</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I am using PuTTY to log into my local server, but it takes about 1.5 seconds to log in (from the click on 'Connect' to working comman...
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<p>Due to a bad update to 11.04 i had to completely reinstall Ubuntu, now i got everything pretty much the way it was before, except for plymouth.I've tried every script i found, every turorial i've found, </p> <p>i've installed Plymouth Manager, i've installed a plymouth theme that worked before...and still, just pla...
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2011-01-30T20:38:50.943
2011-01-31T18:03:21.957
Can't fix Plymouth resolution by any means
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<p>I've created a chroot system in my Ubuntu using schroot and debrootstrap, based on minimal ubuntu. However whenever I can't seem to add a new user into this chroot environment. Here is what happens.</p> <ol> <li>I enter schroot as root and add a new user 'Bob'.(Tried both adduser and useradd commands)</li> <li>The ...
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Adding user to chroot environment
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2011-01-30T16:38:29.100
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<p>I keep getting the error message "Didn't understand the response from the server" when I open the music library tab in the Ubuntu One Music app for Android. I can do random play or random albums from the main page, but I can't view my whole library. I am using a Motorola Droid 2.</p>
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2011-04-27T06:18:25.500
Music Library will not load in Ubuntu One Music app for Android
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Could you look up your mobile username (available at <a href=\"https://one.ubuntu.com/phones/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://one.ubuntu.com/phones/</a>) and email it to me? martin.albisetti@canonical.com</p>\n\n<p>I'll look into these issues for you.</p>\n", "commentCount":...
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<p>I want to backup all the repositories I added to the Ubuntu Software Center, but apparently <code>sources.list</code> contains only the ones which belong to Canonical.</p> <p>So where do I find the other ones?</p>
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2020-07-12T15:54:39.460
2020-07-12T15:54:39.460
How can I back up my repositories?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There's a directory, <code>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/</code> that contains individual entries for each PPA you've added with <code>add-apt-repository</code>. Those are the files you need to back up.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": ...
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user9912
24025
1
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2011-01-30T17:18:53.820
2
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<p>I have installed apache2. But there is a problem with starting apache2 after update.</p> <blockquote> <p>apache2: Syntax error on line 215 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Cannot load /System/Library/Apache/Modules/mod_include.so into server: /System/Library/Apache/Modules/mod_include.so: cannot open shared object f...
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1067
2011-01-30T21:00:11.847
2011-01-30T21:07:54.677
Can't start apache2?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-30T17:29:19.413", "id": "26048", "postId": "24025", "score": "0", "text": "How can I repair these files and directorys? My distro is 10.04 LTS", "userDisplayName": "user9913", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-30T19:58:40.190", "id": "260...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I agree with @Lekensteyn. The module in question should be at <code>/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_include.so</code>. You need to replace this (and any other modules with invalid paths) pathname on the <code>LoadModule</code> line for include_module.</p>\n\n<p>But without see...
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user9913
24027
1
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2011-01-30T17:23:32.490
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<p>How can I increase the size of the root partition of a system at runtime? </p> <p>I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is also ext4), how can I add that unallocated space to the space allocated to the root partition without having to shutdown the server?</p>
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2013-12-11T11:05:06.127
2022-11-28T07:40:13.060
How can I resize an ext root partition at runtime?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2013-09-30T17:28:01.950", "id": "451054", "postId": "24027", "score": "4", "text": "I hate to sound like a stick in the mud, but this entails a fair bit of risk? Why does this need to happen? Is uptime the main constraint?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "196707" ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It is possible to do a on-line resize of a ext4 filesystem, even if it's your root partition. Use the <code>resize2fs</code> command.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>EDIT: On-line shrinking is not allowed:</p>\n\n<pre><code>root@brunojcm-htpc:/...
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24029
1
24033
2011-01-30T17:36:31.840
2
5124
<p>I have installed a pci 7.1 sound card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2, on my 10.10 Ubuntu 64 bit installation. I have disabled the on board sound card from bios. I boot and the system cannot recognize my "new" sound card.</p> <p>When I execute </p> <pre><code>aplay -l </code></pre> <p>I get this responce:</p> <p...
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1067
2011-01-30T21:28:42.960
2011-01-30T21:28:42.960
How to detect Creative Sound blaster Audigy 2?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2019-08-03T20:11:57.750", "id": "1938432", "postId": "24029", "score": "0", "text": "Just as a heads up, this used to work. But now appears it's broken. Additionally lspci doesn't report it correctly, and shows it as a firewire device.", "userDisplayName": null, "userI...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>See <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems</a> for the troubleshooting steps. These steps include actions to retrieve information that describe your sound hardware in detail.</p>\n", "commentCount":...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>See <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems</a> for the troubleshooting steps. These steps include actions to retrieve information that describe your sound hardware in detail.</p>\n", "comm...
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24032
1
24036
2011-01-30T17:54:27.270
1
2978
<p>Currently Ubuntu shows the weather information of your selected cities in the calendar indicator. There is also an applet for GNOME Panel that shows forecast for US &amp; Canada cities only.</p> <p>What is the best option to add more weather information including forecast (such as five-day forecast) on the Ubuntu d...
4124
4124
2011-01-30T19:27:58.053
2011-01-30T19:46:40.003
How to add weather forecast on desktop?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is a lovely indicator applet that is not in the repositories but is <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/weather-indicator\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">here</a> on launchpad.</p>\n\n<p>Here is a picture of it in action:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHmcw.png\" alt...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is a lovely indicator applet that is not in the repositories but is <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/weather-indicator\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">here</a> on launchpad.</p>\n\n<p>Here is a picture of it in action:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHmcw.p...
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24034
1
null
2011-01-30T18:04:02.653
3
2944
<p>I cannot adjust my laptop's brightness. What can I do?</p>
9918
3037
2011-01-31T06:45:54.547
2013-03-28T03:12:38.220
I cannot adjust the brightness of my Acer Travelmate 4740 laptop
[ "10.10", "acpi", "gnome-power-manager", "edubuntu" ]
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-30T21:26:44.177", "id": "26073", "postId": "24034", "score": "0", "text": "Have you tried adding the brightness applet to your desktop panel?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6252" }, { "creationDate": "2012-02-25T13:54:19.633", "id": "125678",...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I also have an Acer laptop that would not adjust brightness properly.</p>\n\n<p>The following worked for me.</p>\n\n<p>Open up a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and type the following in:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksu gedit /etc/default/grub\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This wi...
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24044
1
24745
2011-01-30T21:20:59.520
10
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<p>I'm on a general energy saving mission. I've finally swapped my old CRT monitor for a LCD, so the next step it to optimise the PC power usage. It's using an AMD 64 X2 4600+ CPU which I know can trottle down, but seems to be running at a constant 2.4GHz.</p> <p>A while back I heard about <a href="http://grano.la/" r...
947
947
2011-01-31T09:14:01.407
2016-06-22T23:41:24.467
Cutting desktop power usage
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5
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-30T21:41:33.870", "id": "26076", "postId": "24044", "score": "0", "text": "Can you please provide some additional information: Are the lines you quote the only messages relating to granola? Which kernel version are you running?", "userDisplayName": null, "userI...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I'm not sure what the exact sequence of events was, but I just noticed that granola is running now. I know I tried installing cpufreqd and powernowd, but either caused Granola to be uninstalled. It may just be that the PC needed to restart.</p>\n\n<p>It would be nice if the app showe...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This page offers some suggestions:\n<a href=\"http://grano.la/help/install.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://grano.la/help/install.php</a></p>\n\n<p>Have you verified that those cpufreq files and folders mentioned in the error file exist?</p>\n\n<p>Also, ensure that DVFS is enabl...
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24048
1
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2011-01-30T22:28:39.040
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<p>Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 removed hibernate option for me and introduced the problem where by after entering standby (being indicated by blinking amber LED on my laptop) I cannot resume my session. Instead I get a crash and system reboots (crash comes instantly on trying to resume). </p> <p>Tried clean install t...
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1067
2011-01-30T22:30:48.647
2017-05-20T06:16:03.603
Suspend fails (reboot on resume) and no hibernate option
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T07:22:15.463", "id": "29642", "postId": "24048", "score": "0", "text": "did you ever get this solved? How? Please update (or delete?) your question - thanks!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5786" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T11:14:20.597", ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I've solved a similar issue (reboot on resume) with a Sony Vaio VGN-FW51ZF by changing the last line of the file <code>/etc/acpi/sleep.sh</code> from <code>pm-suspend</code> to <code>pm-suspend --quirk-radeon-off</code> (guess it was a problem related with ATI proprietary dri...
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user9926
24051
1
null
2011-01-30T22:53:07.740
4
5740
<p>Somehow gnome-open and xdg-open are now hopelessly broken. Setting my default browser in System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications changes nothing. When I click on any link that points to a webpage, it opens a New Tab Page in Chromium (Or my Home page if I set one). Is there any way to fix this?</p>
9812
8844
2012-11-21T17:17:39.917
2012-11-21T17:17:39.917
How do I reset gnome-open/xdg-open to actually open with my preferred browser?
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2
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T02:55:23.180", "id": "26095", "postId": "24051", "score": "0", "text": "Are you saying you are always clicking on something to open, and never running `gnome-open` or `xdg-open` directly? Where are you clicking on a link, from a running browser? And what browser ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There are several ways to control what browser will open links, and a given application can also choose to prefer a different method, apart from the usual conventions.</p>\n\n<p>If you are clicking on an html file from the desktop or from within Nautilus, you can control how ...
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24053
1
24655
2011-01-30T23:30:44.607
4
689
<p>PowerTOP reports that the majority of wakeups are being caused by <code>[Rescheduling interrupts]</code>, <code>[kernel scheduler]</code>, and <code>[kernel core]</code>.</p> <p>What are these, and can I do anything to reduce the number of wakeups they are causing?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/AHB42....
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null
2011-02-03T19:36:03.493
Why is kernel "rescheduling" causing so many wakes-from-idle?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Seems to be normal... at least last time when I tried to hunt down this problem I read somewhere the exact explanation... And as far as I can remember it was not a problem.</p>\n\n<p>Tough you can find a documentation here: <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReschedulingInte...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Seems to be normal... at least last time when I tried to hunt down this problem I read somewhere the exact explanation... And as far as I can remember it was not a problem.</p>\n\n<p>Tough you can find a documentation here: <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Reschedu...
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24057
1
null
2011-01-31T00:26:24.710
3
1695
<p>Rhythmbox is located in the sound menu (the tray applet where you monitor volume), however when I click it, it doesn't respond whatsoever. When I open Rhythmbox through Applications > Sound &amp; Video, it loads just fine. The only problem here is that the control buttons are missing from the sound menu applet in th...
9931
235
2011-01-31T01:19:34.073
2013-12-05T12:23:27.277
Why are my Rhythmbox controls (Pause, Play, etc.) missing from the sound menu?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>When in Rhythmbox select <code>Edit -&gt; Preferences</code>, you should have in the in the <code>General</code>-tab on the bottom a drop-down menu called <code>Toolbar Button Labels</code></p>\n\n<p>Try changing the value of this drop-down, and see if the control button reap...
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24058
1
null
2011-01-31T01:23:29.577
1
336
<p>I need a way to customize my system automatically either at install time or right after.</p> <p>Example (system just finished installing):</p> <ul> <li>Install a custom list of packages (e.g. gimp, inkscape, certain plugins)</li> <li>Uninstall others (e.g. evolution)</li> <li>Set certain options (e.g. +ntp)</li> <...
9932
null
null
2015-09-20T06:11:54.103
How to set up a default system configuration (packages, config)?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I would advise you to make a shell script.</p>\n\n<p>basically you will enter all the commands you would normally use to accomplish these tasks in a file. You copy this on the pc right after installation and execute it. \nthere is lot's of good tutorials out there <a href=\"h...
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24059
1
43686
2011-01-31T01:25:14.153
22
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<p>I have a video that I want to create subtitles for. Is there a program that can perform rudimentary speech-to-text in order to</p> <ol> <li>Set the correct start/stop of each individual subtitle</li> <li>Create rudimentary text subtitles (using some sort of speech-to-text)</li> </ol> <p>I know about <a href="http://...
4124
349837
2022-07-04T19:39:14.370
2024-03-14T18:14:22.733
Automatically generate subtitles/close caption from a video using speech-to-text?
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CC BY-SA 4.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T04:11:54.797", "id": "26098", "postId": "24059", "score": "0", "text": "there's an application called magpie that does something like this I think.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I did not find a way to get the subtitle program to automatically add rudimentary subtitles, by analysing the voices in the video.</p>\n\n<p>Therefore, the alternative that I use is</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the video to Youtube (for example, privately) and use the in-build facility to...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I used <a href=\"http://www.aegisub.org/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Aegisub</a> on Windows some years ago, and was really happy with it. Apparently it is available for Linux. It is pretty self explaining.</p>\n<p>Aegisub only creates the subtitles file, e.g an .srt file. T...
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24060
1
24062
2011-01-31T01:43:59.537
14
21739
<p>I need to download an FTP site (a web site source code actually) containing a very high quantity of relatively small files (downloading it with FileZilla took more than a day, but I believe it could be downloaded much faster if many files were downloaded at once). Unfortunately there is no SSH access to the site and...
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2019-04-27T15:01:40.490
How to download a whole FTP site using command line?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try the following:</p>\n\n<pre><code>wget -r ftp://username:password@myserver.com\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>this will go to 5 depth levels; to increase, add the <code>-l</code> option</p>\n\n<p>Some servers don't like this behavior, and you risk getting blacklisted because of the load on ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try the following:</p>\n\n<pre><code>wget -r ftp://username:password@myserver.com\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>this will go to 5 depth levels; to increase, add the <code>-l</code> option</p>\n\n<p>Some servers don't like this behavior, and you risk getting blacklisted because of the ...
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24063
1
24066
2011-01-31T02:56:26.377
3
3038
<p>I have 10.10 cd iso image. I want to add ubuntu manual to this iso image such that, after burning this iso image to cd, in live cd mode and after installation that ubuntu manual should appear in the desktop. I am using acetoneISO. I wanted to know the location in iso image where to add the manual.</p>
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3037
2011-01-31T06:52:22.490
2011-01-31T06:52:22.490
How do I add content to an ISO image?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You need to extract not only the CD image (iso) but also the squashfs which contains all the system files, please see this guide for remastering ubuntu cds:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You need to extract not only the CD image (iso) but also the squashfs which contains all the system files, please see this guide for remastering ubuntu cds:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/co...
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24064
1
24065
2011-01-31T03:04:27.267
1
816
<p>I just can't seem to figure this out. I tried AcetonISO, but the file is only 43MB (the folder is ~ 800MB). I also tried a Windows tool called ImgBurn, but same thing happened. How can I add the folder to a bootable ISO image, (it's a remastered Ubuntu)?</p>
4203
3037
2011-01-31T06:51:23.647
2011-01-31T06:51:23.647
How do I integrate a folder into an ISO image?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T03:57:05.823", "id": "26097", "postId": "24064", "score": "1", "text": "The process of constructing an ISO image of a bootable live CD is not quite the same as simply creating an ISO from the contents of a folder. The answers to [this question](http://askubuntu.com/...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I think you should follow the 'How to Remaster Ubuntu' guide that ændrük has pointed to in his comment:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/5458/how-to-easy-remaster-ubuntu\">How can I easily remaster Ubuntu?</a></p>\n\n<p>It explains how to get the folder into an iso...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I think you should follow the 'How to Remaster Ubuntu' guide that ændrük has pointed to in his comment:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/5458/how-to-easy-remaster-ubuntu\">How can I easily remaster Ubuntu?</a></p>\n\n<p>It explains how to get the folder int...
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24068
1
null
2011-01-31T04:32:03.313
2
12007
<p>I have the exactly same problem as in <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2835/403-forbidden-error-when-accessing-enabled-virtual-host">403 Forbidden Error when accessing enabled virtual host</a>, but I tried the provided solution and still receiving 403 Forbidden, my site is called <strong>project</strong>, an...
9937
-1
2017-04-13T12:23:27.200
2012-04-23T05:46:13.957
VirtualHost and 403 Forbidden problem with Apache
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6
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T04:34:06.707", "id": "26102", "postId": "24068", "score": "0", "text": "I'm a bit confused because the owner of \"/var/www\" is root, shouldn't it be \"apache\" or something like that?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9937" }, { "creationDate": ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You need to have Read and Execute permissions on your home folder. If you do <code>sudo chmod o+rx /home/joarobles</code> This error should then be resolved.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3...
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24070
1
531697
2011-01-31T04:52:25.437
10
2470
<p>After searching for a file in Nautilus, how can I open its parent folder?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NgP1.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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2014-11-14T07:45:40.710
How can I open the containing folders of items in Nautilus search results?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The GNOME 3 Nautilus component in its version 3.10 (provided with Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr) has a new option \"Open Item Location\" in the item selection context menu of a search. It opens the parent folder of the selected item, and differs from jadonchristensen's Nautilus custom act...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It's not possible with the default nautilus that is currently shipping with Ubuntu. If you'd like to see this feature, you have two options:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Ask nautilus or nautilus-elementary projects to add the feature. (go to their project website to get in touch with the...
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24072
1
24095
2011-01-31T05:08:39.170
52
19059
<p>I recently learned that there is a huge pile of documentation in <code>/usr/share/doc</code>.</p> <p>It seems like much of it is gzipped so that it is not directly accessible without administrative privileges:</p> <pre><code>$ gunzip examples/letter.tex.gz gzip: examples/letter.tex: Permission denied </code></pre...
1859
1859
2011-07-10T14:32:19.983
2021-12-06T15:35:00.770
How are typical users expected to read the documentation in /usr/share/doc?
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7
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-01T04:46:15.690", "id": "26283", "postId": "24072", "score": "0", "text": "Just to be clear, are you interested in dealing with any documents in the /usr/share/doc directories, or just the TeX/LaTeX ones?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" }, { ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Most has been said and very nicely explained by <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/24076/644416\">jgbelacqua</a> for use in terminal. Just adding this for people that are on a desktop manager:</p>\n\n<p>From a graphical desktop (here GNOME) the easiest way to read docs from <code>/usr...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There are at least two issues here: </p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>reading the .gz files painlessly</li>\n<li>permissions on the directories</li>\n<li>(optional for tex files)</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>For <strong>#1</strong>, there are a number of applications that will cope with the gzipped fil...
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1
24383
2011-01-31T05:13:16.327
0
7714
<p>How do I install the HP Deskjet F4280 All-in-One printer?</p>
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3037
2011-01-31T06:54:47.120
2016-12-23T02:01:49.540
How do I install the HP F4280 printer?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have an HP F4280 too and it works out of the box with 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10. Just \"start it up and plug it in\"... prints beautiful and scans great with XSane and SimpleScan. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC B...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><strong>HOWTO</strong>: Install HP Printers for Beginners\nThis is a little guide on how to correctly install an HP printer, since so many people seem to have trouble with this. I have also provided a very basic scanner start up guide. Here are the steps:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Pr...
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2011-01-31T05:16:49.033
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<p>I've noticed that the ubuntuone-syncdaemon hogs up the hard disk every time I log in to Ubuntu (10.04). This takes up to two or three minutes, which makes Ubuntu insufferably slow. Opening Firefox is okay, but the browser is constantly greyed out and lags horribly.</p> <p>Given that I often shut down my laptop when...
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2011-01-31T06:55:15.917
2011-02-01T13:27:34.937
High I/O wait after login
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T19:05:15.523", "id": "26213", "postId": "24074", "score": "0", "text": "It is possible to limit the bandwidth for each computer you have attached to Ubuntu one.\n\nIf you open the Ubuntu One control panel and go to the devices tab you can set a specific maximum uplo...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is a known issue in ubuntuone-syncdaemon versions prior to what's currently in Natty. We're working on getting backports of the fix to this (and many more) issues backported to 10.04; unfortunately we didn't make it in time for 10.04.2, but we'll try to get things into a PPA soon ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is a known issue in ubuntuone-syncdaemon versions prior to what's currently in Natty. We're working on getting backports of the fix to this (and many more) issues backported to 10.04; unfortunately we didn't make it in time for 10.04.2, but we'll try to get things into a P...
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2011-01-31T05:39:56.637
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<p>This was posted in the <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1667598" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu Forums</a> but received no response, so I'm re-posting it here (with minor updates) in hopes that it will at least get some comments.</p> <p>Recently, I moved a large amount of contents (a few GBs) within the Ubu...
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2011-01-31T05:44:31.060
2011-01-31T17:33:36.833
Synchronising Cut-and-Paste Activities in Ubuntu One
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>At the moment Ubuntu One does re-upload files on move, which I agree is not great. There's no other way to cut and paste without triggering this.</p>\n\n<p>We are fixing this for Natty, I expect the fix to land within the next 2 months along with many more performance improvements.</...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>At the moment Ubuntu One does re-upload files on move, which I agree is not great. There's no other way to cut and paste without triggering this.</p>\n\n<p>We are fixing this for Natty, I expect the fix to land within the next 2 months along with many more performance improve...
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2011-01-31T06:23:05.983
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<p>I want to change the update interval of the hardware-monitor applet. There's no setting for it in preferences...</p>
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2011-03-09T02:04:48.760
Can you change the update interval for the hardware-monitor applet?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The hardware monitor applet gets its data from lm-sensors, the data is taken raw from the system and lm-sensors does not limit the amount of times it collects this information so unless you are good at programming and want to help the hardware monitor team add the function yo...
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2011-01-31T06:32:27.813
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<p>Is there any version of Vim which uses the libxft library to render fonts?</p>
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2011-03-25T11:43:59.860
Is there any version of Vim which uses the libxft library to render fonts?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>GVim users FreeType to render fonts.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-03-25T11:43:59.860", "id": "31978", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-25T11:43:59.860",...
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24079
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2011-01-31T06:40:42.480
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<p>Ubuntu 8.04 and later provide encryption using LUKS and eCryptfs.</p> <p>The question is how to configure preseed to do it automatically? There is an option in preseed to encrypt user's <em>home</em>, but no option for full disk encryption:</p> <pre><code>d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false </code></pre> <p...
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2011-01-31T07:02:40.603
2011-02-14T06:43:50.357
Full disk encryption with-preseed?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T22:03:30.307", "id": "26252", "postId": "24079", "score": "0", "text": "If you could do luks automatically, how are you expecting to provide the initial password? You either would need to have it as enter it, or put it ino your preseed file, effectively making the ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>it seem i have to solve my problem on my own,but i put notes to guide others.\nthe error caused on:</p>\n\n<pre><code>d-i partman-auto/method string crypto\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to prevent such error first try \n d-i partman-auto/method string lvm\nand solve errors, a sample is:</p...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>it seem i have to solve my problem on my own,but i put notes to guide others.\nthe error caused on:</p>\n\n<pre><code>d-i partman-auto/method string crypto\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to prevent such error first try \n d-i partman-auto/method string lvm\nand solve errors, a sampl...
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2011-01-31T07:00:46.033
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<p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop (an Asus G73j), dual-booting Windows 7 if that matters. After using the computer for couple of hours or so, I get a popup complaining that a file was unmounted, then my GNOME desktop panels disappear. I can't save any unsaved work (the file browser shows "Filesystem" as totally ...
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2012-06-12T16:34:23.453
2012-06-12T16:34:23.453
Why is Ubuntu unmounting my primary hard drive?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T09:19:59.810", "id": "26112", "postId": "24081", "score": "0", "text": "Please post the output of the dmesg command, or the last lines from syslog in System->Administration->Log File Viewer. You can also check the SMART status in System->Administration->Disk Utility...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The <code>dmesg</code> output shows filesystem errors. Therefore, the message you got was probably about <code>remounting the root filesystem as read-only</code>, and not allowing you to write on it, until it gets fixed.</p>\n\n<p>What you need to do is provide S.M.A.R.T. information...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The <code>dmesg</code> output shows filesystem errors. Therefore, the message you got was probably about <code>remounting the root filesystem as read-only</code>, and not allowing you to write on it, until it gets fixed.</p>\n\n<p>What you need to do is provide S.M.A.R.T. inf...
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2011-01-31T07:21:45.590
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<p>Not a fan of Evolution or Thunderbird.</p> <p>Is there a decent alternative to Outlook on Ubuntu?</p>
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2014-02-17T17:10:16.607
Recommend an Outlook replacement
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T08:32:29.940", "id": "26106", "postId": "24083", "score": "5", "text": "What are your requirements? Do you need particular functionality, and are there particular thinks you don't like about Thunderbird and Evolution?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Kmail(requires kde libraries and qt4...obviosly)\nClaws(GTK)\nSylpheed(GTK)\nBalsa(GTK)\nPersonally I'm a die hard Thunderbird fan for Gnome and Kmail for KDE</p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T08:27:06.670", ...
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2011-01-31T07:23:17.557
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<p>I tried <a href="http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/">f.lux</a>, and I like what it does (automatically adjust the color balance of your monitors depending on time of day), but it seems to work on only 1 of my monitors.</p> <p>Can I configure it to work on all of them? If not, what other apps can I use that do?</p> <p...
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2011-01-31T07:44:37.990
2012-05-09T11:13:05.767
Where can I find an automatic day-night color balance adjuster similar to f.lux/Redshift that works with multiple monitors?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I tried Redshift, and was able to get it to affect all monitors by running multiple instances targeting specific screens.</p>\n\n<p>Basically I have something like this in a script:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/zsh\n\nfor i in {0..3} \ndo\n redshift -m vidmode:screen=$i -t ...
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2011-01-31T08:06:49.550
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<p>I am using Ubuntu as desktop and server OS. When I am logged in to the server via SSH on the terminal to change the smb/afp configuration, I can only test the configuration from the server over terminal.</p> <p>Is there a way to tunnel the connection over SSH (no VPN, only one SSH port is open on the firewall) so t...
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2011-01-31T08:14:45.353
2011-01-31T09:16:19.953
How to test samba/afp configuration remote server?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can use ssh to tunnel any port under SSH.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo ssh -L 139:localhost:139 user@server\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Now if you try to connect to the 139 port in your computer you will be connecting to 139 in the server. Notes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>You need to use sudo to open ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can use ssh to tunnel any port under SSH.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo ssh -L 139:localhost:139 user@server\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Now if you try to connect to the 139 port in your computer you will be connecting to 139 in the server. Notes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>You need to use sudo ...
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2011-01-31T09:12:29.360
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<p>After I have done an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu server 10.04, the server stops with a GRUB rescue message, how can I recover my GRUB without reinstalling?</p>
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2011-01-31T09:39:44.260
2011-01-31T09:45:10.960
How to recover GRUB after upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can try to restore GRUB2 by following <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB%202\" rel=\"nofollow\">these detailed instructions</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T10:24:20.783", "id": "2...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can try to restore GRUB2 by following <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB%202\" rel=\"nofollow\">these detailed instructions</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T10:24:20.783"...
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2011-01-31T09:16:06.313
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<p>On a production web server I have to produce letters based on a template I got in MS-Word binary format. I use PHP and for the search and replace task I found PHPWord, which can handle Docx files, so I converted the template to OpenXML on my local workstation. Unfortunately the output also is Docx.</p> <p>The goal ...
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2011-02-01T07:50:04.280
2013-01-15T20:24:06.637
Handle Doc/Docx Templates on a headless server to produce PDFs preferably without using OpenOffice.org
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-01T00:14:06.210", "id": "26272", "postId": "24096", "score": "0", "text": "Can you edit your question and integrate your updates into the question? It would make it easier to read, see here, thanks: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/908/i-dont-think-people-are-gettin...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To my knowledge there is no application that can do this without some dependency from Libre Office.</p>\n\n<p>However you don't need to install the whole office suite when only performing commandline conversions. </p>\n\n<p>You can try if the tool <a href=\"https://apps.ubuntu.com/ca...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try with PyODConverter (<a href=\"http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter\" rel=\"nofollow\">see here</a>)</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T10:12:09.700", "id": "26119", "postId": "2410...
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2011-01-31T09:47:22.847
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<p>I am getting errors that my disk is nearly full, but i am using three logical volumes, and would need to know which i need to extend. I still have 50GB unassigned.</p> <p>Up until now i always extend all logical volumes together, but now i wanted to really only extend the needed volume. </p> <p>[EDIT: output from ...
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2011-02-01T11:04:31.863
2011-02-01T12:08:07.800
Using LVM, how can I tell which logical volume is near full?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>From the data you provided, the size of your logical volumes is as follows:</p>\n\n<p>partition : size : filesystem size </p>\n\n<p>/dev/nvaws/home : 60 : 60</p>\n\n<p>/dev/nvaws/usr : 40 : 20 </p>\n\n<p>/dev/nvaws/db : 5: ...
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2011-01-30T23:00:45.990
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<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. It's installed using Wubi, dual booting with Windows. It's a fresh install.</p> <p>At random times, the mouse cursor freezes and I can't click anything on the screen. I can move the mouse but I can't click.</p> <p>An example:<br> <em>Occurred when selecting text.</em><br> So I use the keyb...
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2011-03-09T00:33:48.463
2011-03-09T00:33:48.463
Mouse Cursor Freezes Randomly with Intel GMA 950
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It happens to me sometimes too.</p>\n\n<p>I just click something using the touchpad (not the mouse) at it returns to normal. I'd open a bug, but I can't replicate it, seems to be random. Likely it's related to some weird touchpad/mouse driver combination.</p>\n", "comment...
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2011-01-31T11:14:35.017
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<p>Can someone make a simple zenity script for zsync which just takes the location of the file to be synced and the zsync file and show progress ?</p>
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2011-06-22T16:08:40.370
2011-06-22T16:08:40.370
zenity script for zsync
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>zsync has terrible output for parsing. You'd be crazy to attempt that.</p>\n\n<p>That said, I'm apparently crazy.</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\n\nurl=$1\nseedfile=$2\n\ntempdir=$(mktemp -d)\nmsgfile=$tempdir/message\ntrap 'rm -rf \"$tempdir\"' EXIT\n\ndown_filter() {\n local mess...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>zsync has terrible output for parsing. You'd be crazy to attempt that.</p>\n\n<p>That said, I'm apparently crazy.</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\n\nurl=$1\nseedfile=$2\n\ntempdir=$(mktemp -d)\nmsgfile=$tempdir/message\ntrap 'rm -rf \"$tempdir\"' EXIT\n\ndown_filter() {\n lo...
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2011-01-31T11:28:34.743
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<p>Is there a ppt to text/html converter for Ubuntu/*nix?</p>
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2011-01-31T15:36:49.697
2021-09-29T10:59:44.880
Is there a Powerpoint (PPT) to text/html converter?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Just found a python based command line converter called <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unoconv\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">unoconv</a> (install from Software Center or with <code>apt-get</code>)\n which will allow you to convert from and to anything openoffice can d...
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2011-01-31T11:54:06.850
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<p>gnome-session and gconfd-2 are each using about 10% cpu, with me doing nothing on the desktop. The other day gnome-session got up to 25% (I suspect it was maxing out a single core of the quad core cpu), and I needed to reboot to get it back to normal. </p> <p>It seems to creep up over a few hours or so. How can I t...
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2011-08-29T12:59:26.213
Why is gnome-session and gconfd-2 using 10+% CPU each?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>found the problem of gconfd-2, I am running vncserver and it was starting metacity, stopped that from happening and now its all good.</p>\n\n<p>gnome-sessions is behaving for now.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "conten...
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2011-01-31T11:56:54.757
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<p>I'm not sure all accounts are disabled on my computer, including samba-guest, and I need to disable all accounts except the one I'm using. How can I disable them all? </p>
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2011-01-31T21:15:00.647
2011-11-16T13:25:21.730
Disable all user accounts?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You should be able to set accounts to use /bin/false to prevent login.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo usermod -s /bin/false &lt;account&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>So, for user \"baduser\", use <code>sudo usermod -s /bin/false baduser</code> .</p>\n\n<p>You can also edit the password file direc...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man5/nologin.5.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><code>/etc/nologin</code></a> ?</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T15:49:26.003", "id": "26168", "postId": "2...
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2011-01-31T12:31:02.077
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<p>When I type </p> <pre><code>set | grep -i proxy </code></pre> <p>I see all environmental variables which refers to proxy settings. I understand the meaning of <strong>http_proxy</strong> and <strong>ftp_proxy</strong> but what is <strong>all_proxy</strong> used for and where can I change it ?</p> <p>It has been ...
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2011-01-31T14:34:55.433
2011-02-09T06:16:45.033
What is the all_proxy environment variable used for?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I found a post in a mailing list which says:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>We already export http,ftp,https proxy environment variables. Some environments,\n GNOME for instance, place the socks proxy in ALL_PROXY and all_proxy. Export it\n as well. </p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Here is the...
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2011-01-31T12:31:50.983
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<p>I'm not sure if Unity has a design problem. If the Launcher is hidden you can bring it to front by moving the mouse over the home button or hit the Super Key. So far, so good.</p> <p>But what is on Tablet Devices with touch panel? Intuitively I would "click" in the corner to show the launcher, but a click will open...
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2011-01-31T15:32:00.653
2011-02-02T07:58:19.997
How will the launcher/button work on a touch panel?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The launcher can be revealed using a four-finger drag, starting in the left half of the screen, dragging to the right. Or, it <em>should</em> be able to be revealed that way, I don't believe that work's been done, patches welcome :-)</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ ...
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2011-01-31T13:18:54.310
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<p>The primary design goal of PackageKit is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions. Has Ubuntu any plans for adoption?</p>
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2011-01-31T14:32:10.790
2011-05-04T19:52:02.777
Will Ubuntu make use of PackageKit?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There is tentative agreement to move Ubuntu Software Center to PackageKit, it was in the news last week:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/cross-distro-unified-installer-is-on.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/cross-distro-unified-install...
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2011-01-31T13:52:59.713
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<p>I'm planning to buy a new PC and I am thinking about using an SSD as the main disk. I'd also use a standard spinning disk and I'd mount it to /home.</p> <p>To the people already using such a setup: does this induce a practical, noticeable enhancement in performance? I think that access times, rather than transfer r...
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2014-05-15T07:25:30.890
What about the performance enhancement when using an SSD as the main disk?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<blockquote>\n <p>I think that access times, rather than transfer rates, are the more useful feature of SSD's.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>That's certainly one massive improvement. Yes, the random-access time on my current and past SSDs have both been around 0.2ms. I upgraded from a <em>f...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Speeds up boot and application launch significantly. I keep my main /home on it as well and mount the bulk storage elsewhere so that when I'm not using it, that disk can spin down.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31...
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2011-01-31T14:43:55.593
4
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<p>I recently discovered avahi. It help you when you when to resolve hostname for the local network. But in my situation I've got a issue.</p> <p>I decided to host a machine called <code>a.alpha</code> and a another called <code>b.alpha</code>. In a near future I will also use some machine called <code>a.beta</code> a...
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2017-05-04T19:30:45.787
About the use of dotted hostname with avahi
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>see <a href=\"https://serverfault.com/questions/229331/linitation-in-linux-hostname-about-dot\">https://serverfault.com/questions/229331/linitation-in-linux-hostname-about-dot</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "conten...
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2011-01-31T15:16:56.937
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<p>My office had a break-in over the weekend, and several laptops were stolen. Mine wasn't one of them, but I'm curious - the owners of the stolen computers (Windows and Mac) are all talking about remote wipe software. Is there anything like this for Linux? Something that would allow me to remotely wipe my system if it...
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2011-01-31T16:50:14.593
2011-01-31T18:39:05.903
Is it possible to do a remote wipe of a system?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Yes. Several solutions exist, and I guess a relatively simple one would be to use dyndns or some sort of dynamic dns service combined with an ssh server on your laptop: then, as soon as the stolen laptop is connected to the internet, you can connect to it and erase its conten...
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24137
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2011-01-31T15:30:31.090
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<p>I can't get my LG Optimus One to sync with Banshee. I read somewhere that the root needs to have an empty file called '.is_audio_player'.</p> <p>I did that and it still doesn't mount.</p> <p>I ran dmesg however and it appears that the card is unmounting before I even have a change to run Banshee.</p> <pre><code>[...
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2011-02-23T01:27:53.473
2011-03-25T07:38:05.227
Cannot mount Android phone and sync with Banshee
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T15:46:42.813", "id": "26167", "postId": "24137", "score": "0", "text": "After you've plugged in the android device, are you hitting the usb symbol and setting mass storage mode?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" } ]
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24149
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24160
2011-01-31T16:46:09.453
2
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<p>I use Ubuntu on my Mac with VMWare Fusion. I setup share folders.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XU2oQ.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>However, I don't have anything in /mnt/hgfs</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ktZJD.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>I did hav...
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2014-01-31T18:02:53.353
Sharing directories are not shown
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I reinstalled the 'vmware tools' (Virtual Machine -&gt; Install VMWare tools', and it's working now.</p>\n<p>I remember the menu was 'Update VMWare tools', but I found it changed to 'Install VMWare tools' when I had the trouble.</p>\n<h2>ADDED</h2>\n<p>I could use sshfs to access the...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I reinstalled the 'vmware tools' (Virtual Machine -&gt; Install VMWare tools', and it's working now.</p>\n<p>I remember the menu was 'Update VMWare tools', but I found it changed to 'Install VMWare tools' when I had the trouble.</p>\n<h2>ADDED</h2>\n<p>I could use sshfs to ac...
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24151
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2011-01-31T16:49:05.613
3
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<p>Has anyone been able to get <a href="http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Danger From The Deep</a> (Dangerdeep) to work under Ubuntu 10.04 for longer than 5 minutes or so without crashing &amp; hanging up??? </p> <p>The graphics are superb &amp; it looks like it would be a great game, if it would just...
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2011-01-31T16:51:14.173
2011-02-28T13:23:07.460
How do I get Dangerdeep to work?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You're (maybe) in luck, it appears as though someone is packaging Dangerdeep in a PPA here (last update was in November):</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~aegirxx-googlemail/+archive/dftd-latest\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">https://launchpad.net/~aegirxx-goo...
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2014-06-30T19:57:10.097
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24156
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2011-01-31T17:05:34.237
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<p>How can I set up two-finger scrolling on an ALPS touchpad that doesn't support multiple fingers?</p> <p>The relevant output from <code>xinput list</code> is as follows:</p> <pre>⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave ...
8724
8724
2011-11-17T04:38:09.933
2013-04-05T11:39:29.837
Enable two-finger scrolling on ALPS touchpad
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CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-03-10T21:58:40.587", "id": "33327", "postId": "24156", "score": "0", "text": "My apologies to everyone who generously contributed their time to this question. My free time for playing around with things like this has virtually disappeared, so I am unable to test any of t...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>First of all, to identify which touchpad you have, run</p>\n\n<pre><code>xinput list \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If it shows something like</p>\n\n<pre><code>...\n↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=14 [slave pointer (2)]\n...\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>then you most proba...
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24157
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2011-01-31T17:07:45.797
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<p>I've just set up UbuntuOne, and am ready to sync. My Documents folder has the option to sync, but not the individual subfolders. I don't want to sync my entire Documents folder - is there any way to select only specific subfolders to sync?</p>
2664
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2011-01-31T17:29:40.707
Sync only selected subfolders to UbuntuOne?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There should be an option to do so when you right click on a folder: </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/htxKH.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T17:38:27.750", "id": "...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There should be an option to do so when you right click on a folder: </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/htxKH.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T17:38:27.750...
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2011-01-31T17:51:55.057
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<p>My desktop's PCI wireless card is always scanning for available wireless networks, but I only rarely use it. Can I keep the radio turned off until I need it?</p>
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2014-07-02T00:20:52.917
2017-03-05T22:13:56.257
How can I keep a wireless card's radio powered off by default?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There are at least two Upstart jobs that affect the default wireless state:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><code>/etc/init/rfkill-restore.conf</code> restores the soft block state for all radios to what they were at last shutdown, as recorded in <code>/var/lib/rfkill/saved-state</code>.</li>\n<li>...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Personally I use <a href=\"http://www.jupiterapplet.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jupiter</a> the power management applet to disable the wireless on my laptop as it is controlled by a special button. I don't think is in the main repo I had to add a ppa from Andrew at <a href=\"http...
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1
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2011-01-31T18:14:42.147
3
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<p>Is there any plugin to make Banshee start playing, pause tracks smooth? Rhythmbox has such an option, but U can't find it in Banshee.</p>
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2011-01-31T18:39:53.713
2011-01-31T18:39:53.713
Banshee smooth start/pause playing?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There is no option to do this, as Banshee does not yet support crossfading.<br>\nSee <a href=\"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524300\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 524300</a> for more information.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDat...
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2011-01-31T18:31:22.870
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3678/make-my-own-dropbox-ubuntu-one-server-at-home">Make my own Dropbox / Ubuntu One server at home</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I think with time it will become possible to use a Dropbox locally on my Linux/Unix/Wind...
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2017-04-13T12:24:29.360
2011-01-31T21:22:54.740
How to create file/folder sync functionality (similar to Dropbox)?
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2012-03-18T09:15:30.920
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24182
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2011-01-31T18:55:47.653
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<p>I'm relatively new to Eclipse. I'm currently running bzr 2.2.1 and Eclipse 3.5.2 (Galileo). Following the directions at:</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrEclipse/Installation" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrEclipse/Installation</a></p> <p>I get to the point where it tells me ...
2059
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null
2011-06-18T05:03:45.807
Bzr Eclipse Plugin not configurable
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There's a bug filed in Launchpad on this issue:\n<a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-eclipse/+bug/709210\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-eclipse/+bug/709210</a></p>\n\n<p>Currently, I'm trying to install bzr-eclipse in Maverick 64bit running in Virtual ...
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24185
1
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2011-01-31T19:26:19.013
4
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<p>I want to have the same keybindings in gedit and in bash. Namely all the selections, also cut, copy and paste.</p> <p>I know there are some important ones that are already taken (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>W</kbd>, etc), still... I want to have the same workflow in my text editor and shell o...
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2011-01-31T22:29:01.000
2012-05-10T15:15:01.373
Bash keybindings that match those of gedit?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is impossible: on the one hand you have a terminal (which hosts a bash shell) and where - as you say - some combinations are already taken. On the other hand, you use gedit which doesn't allow changing key combinations. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [...
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2011-01-31T20:17:24.820
1
6103
<p>Has anyone been able to get a TrendNet TEW-643PI Wireless N card working under Ubuntu? If so, what drivers did you use and where did you find them? I have this card and would really like to be able to use it in my computer. I found drivers that may work but don't know how to get Ubuntu to recognize the drivers. I...
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8844
2011-03-26T19:19:24.113
2012-11-04T15:42:04.003
Support TrendNet TEW-643PI Wireless N network card
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>These two posts on the <em>Ubuntu Forums</em> talk about your wireless card and possible solution. Maybe give it a try.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1031999\" rel=\"nofollow\">trendnet tew-643pi wireless card not working</a></p></li>\...
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user9981
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1
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2011-01-31T21:23:41.633
2
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<p>In Ubuntu 10.10, when I insert a CD or DVD into my optical drive, the system mounts the CD in a folder called /media/XYZ where XYZ is the disk's label. This has cause problems with Wine, as in order for an application to verify that an application's CD is present, Wine uses a symlinks to point to a mounted CD's fol...
4715
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2012-08-14T03:00:20.240
How can I create a symlink to the location that Ubuntu 10.10 mounts a CD?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Tried /etc/fstab yet? For a CD-RW...</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo mkdir /media/cdrw\ngksudo gedit /etc/fstab\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Add a line...</p>\n\n<pre><code>/dev/sdc /media/cdrw udf,iso9660 users,noauto,rw 0 0\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Save and pop in a CD.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Would </p>\n\n<pre><code>ln -s /path/to/cd cdrom \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>work for you?</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-31T21:54:22.703", "id": "26250", "postId": "24200", "score": "0", "...
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24197
1
24198
2011-01-31T21:23:51.357
21
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<p>Is there a meta-package for installing commonly used developer tools such as cmake, autoconf, g++, etc.? The intent is to have roughly the same range of command-line tools as one has after installing XCode and the Mac SDK on Apple.</p>
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2013-06-14T02:17:50.673
2020-01-24T08:00:27.157
How can I install commonly used developer tools?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/build-essential\" rel=\"noreferrer\">build-essential</a> is the main one that springs to mind.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install build-essential\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "cont...
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1
24420
2011-01-31T21:37:10.027
5
604
<p>My HDD is split into multiple partitions. They each have an icon on the Unity bar. Is there a way to remove them from the bar?</p>
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2011-05-08T18:28:14.330
How do I remove icons for other drives on the unity bar?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-16T23:40:21.780", "id": "29384", "postId": "24199", "score": "0", "text": "no even if its unmounted the icons are still visbl.\r\nand i dont know why those icons are having a question mark as if icon missing or something \"not recogniced", "userDisplayName": "user1...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I think this is something we should support. Please could you file a bug on Unity, I'll get it considered and a design for the various workflows worked out.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-02T20:03:40.680", "id": "26708", ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Permanently? Not that I'm aware of. What you can do is unmount them, then they won't show up in the sidebar. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-01T12:06:18.95...
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24201
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24214
2011-01-31T22:01:47.203
5
1009
<p>Over the time there is an increasing number of hidden .configuration folders in my home folder.</p> <p>Many of these come from applications I only installed for testing or from applications that I don't use any more. I would not mind really but these folders do clutter my home, and worse than that sum up to as much...
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2011-01-31T23:58:53.390
How can I detect and delete all lost configuration folders?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I can't think of a quick fix short of going through deleting what you know isn't installed and manually Googling what you can't identify. It's a horrible problem that I've just opted for the Etch-a-Sketch method and either deleted my whole profile or have deleted large chunks of it (...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Have you tried <a href=\"http://ubuntu-tweak.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ubuntu-tweak</a> for getting rid of old conf-files? :)\nYou can also use <code>sudo apt-get purge PACKET-NAME</code> to really get rid of the package. </p>\n\n<p>*Edit:\nYou can also try <code>sudo apt-get i...
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24202
1
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2011-01-31T22:03:40.860
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<p>I tried searching for answers but can't find any. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and have emacs22 installed:</p> <p>ii emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu9 The GNU Emacs editor (Emacs 22) ii emacs22-bin-common 22.2-0ubuntu9 ...
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2012-02-27T13:42:32.877
How do I resize my emacs22 window?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can set the emacs window geometry at startup -></p>\n\n<p>On you panel emacs icon or through the menu editor - set the command to run emacs like this -- emacs -geometry 135x42 </p>\n\n<p>See <a href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/92971/how-do-i-set-the-size-of-emac...
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user9987
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1
24209
2011-01-31T23:08:28.747
1
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<p>I've been trying to install Ubuntu on some unallocated space, but I'm getting confused with the manual partition setup. I didn't want to try the other options for it suggested that everything on my drive would be erased (but I might be wrong)</p> <p>I have an old(ish) laptop with a 60GB hard-drive. Theres a Windows...
9992
9992
2012-12-06T18:09:41.423
2012-12-06T18:09:41.423
Installing Ubuntu on unallocated space between many partitions
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You do not need to format the unallocated space. You can do this during the installation of Ubuntu.</p>\n\n<p>From what you mention, you have two partitions already (Win, Recovery), and you need two more partitions, the Linux partition and the swap partition. For the swap partition, ...
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2011-01-31T23:28:00.933
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<p>Sometimes I forget to enable mute before shutting down my laptop.</p> <p>Can I set it up to be muted by default every time Ubuntu boots, before the login screen is displayed?</p> <hr> <p>When I try DoR's suggestion of <code>sudo alsactl store</code>, the settings stored in <code>/var/lib/alsa/asound.state</code> ...
1859
1859
2011-02-01T04:45:05.973
2011-11-10T03:25:07.290
How can I automatically mute the volume at every boot?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I think this needs two parts:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>To mute the sound in GDM, put:</p>\n\n<pre><code>amixer sset Master 0\namixer sset Master off\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>in the file <code>/etc/rc.local</code> (make sure <code>exit 0</code> is the last line in that file). This will set the...
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24213
1
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2011-01-31T23:58:21.240
12
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<p>Why does LibreOffice look like this? Looks old... </p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Op42N.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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2011-02-01T08:31:23.040
2022-01-24T21:39:33.197
Why does LibreOffice look old?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You probably need to install <code>libreoffice-gnome</code></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/7373/how-to-install-libreoffice-replacing-openoffice-org\">How to install LibreOffice? (replacing OpenOffice.org)</a></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "0"...
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1
24323
2011-02-01T00:29:29.423
3
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<p>In USC, after I submit a review, my display name is "Bnxdcty"... a swell name, but where did it come from?</p> <p>I have checked the ubuntu single sign on page, verified my nickname on there, changed it to something else and back again for good measure, but still my reviewer name is somehow still "Bnxdcty". I even ...
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2012-05-10T10:24:59.407
2012-05-10T10:24:59.407
Why is my display name in Ubuntu Software Center some weird set of letters?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have noticed the same thing on 11.04. When reviewing an application it tells me my name is \"Greg Auger\" (which it is) but once the review is posted it shows up as belonging to \"fluteflute\".</p>\n\n<p>I suggest you go to <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferr...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I have noticed the same thing on 11.04. When reviewing an application it tells me my name is \"Greg Auger\" (which it is) but once the review is posted it shows up as belonging to \"fluteflute\".</p>\n\n<p>I suggest you go to <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/\" rel=\"nofollow ...
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24218
1
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2011-02-01T00:33:21.827
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<p>I used to have a monitor (Acer 20", AL2017) connected to the external video port of my laptop. Everything was great and I could get a rather high resolution available when setting it under Ubuntu (all versions). But since I connected it to a KVM, the monitor is no more recognized, and I cannot go beyond 1024x768.</p...
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2011-02-01T00:42:53.407
2012-09-21T19:16:39.940
Lost the config of my monitor once I connected it to a KVM switch
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You might want to have a look at this question which has a great answer already;</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-the-x-org-config-file-how-do-i-configure-x-there\">Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?</a></p>\n", "commentCoun...
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24222
1
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2011-02-01T01:29:33.133
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<p>The reason I ask is that, while suspend under lid closure and fn-F4 work perfectly in the Ubuntu (gnome) desktop, I cannot get them to work when using a different window manager (fvwm) on my thinkpad X201. I thought this was taken care of by gnome-power-manager, but when running gnome-power-manager within fvwm, I g...
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2012-03-01T17:09:42.107
How exactly does gnome manage laptop suspend events?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I been using the pm-* (power management) tools under xfce4. Call <code>sudo pm-suspend</code> or <code>sudo pm-hibernate</code> from a panel button. I do remember a little hiccup when I upgraded to 10.04, but no issues going to 10.10.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "c...
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2011-02-01T01:57:22.437
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<p>On my Dell mini with 10.10 netbook edition, I have run into a problem where firefox covers the whole screen and there is no way to get to any other windows except by minimizing. <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Space</kbd> does not allow me to move or resize. Rebooting did not help. I ended up removing the <code>.mozilla</code>...
3906
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2011-02-04T17:12:45.503
2012-08-25T13:43:41.040
On the netbook edition (Unity), firefox is taking up full screen, covering menu and its own controls
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>One thing you can do with any window that has important bits below or above the screen edge is hold down <kbd>alt</kbd> while click and dragging with your left mouse button. It will let you drag the window around wherever you need. You can also resize by holding down <kbd>alt...
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2011-02-01T02:44:53.467
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<p>Okay. So I am a supernoob to linux and consiquently Ubuntu (Version 10.10). I saw that I could use the synaptics manager to download the Unity interface. I didn't realize that when i went to install and apply Unity that it would not automatically unistall Gnome. Now everything is glitching within the Gnome/Unity int...
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2011-02-01T04:22:41.530
Accidentally overlapped the Gnome and Unity interfaces. Now they are causing my menues to glitch badly. Help!
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<ol>\n<li>Open Synaptic.</li>\n<li>On the bottom left, click the Status button.</li>\n<li>Above that, choose Installed. Now you should see a list of all your installed packages.</li>\n<li>Find the unity package.</li>\n<li>Right click on it, select Mark for Complete Removal.</li>...
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2011-02-01T03:03:55.653
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<p>A lot of torrent search engines have the ability to provide an RSS feed of matches, allowing you to set up torrent programs to download items which are published on the feed. This is useful for watching releases of things.</p> <p>The problem with doing this through a random search engine for Ubuntu is that you usua...
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2011-02-05T02:08:55.400
2017-08-29T18:47:38.327
Is there an RSS feed of Ubuntu Release torrent files
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I am answering this simply so it can have an answer...</p>\n\n<p>No, there is currently no RSS feed of releases.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T04:25:50.380", "id": "26...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't know if that helps but you could use the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/metalink\" rel=\"nofollow\">metalink</a> file which can be found here: <a href=\"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily- builds</a></p>\n\n<p>as you can see in t...
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24231
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24234
2011-02-01T04:18:39.993
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<p>Often, I am listening to music of my choosing. Is there a way to preemptively turn off all sounds originating from websites? I don't want to click the 'mute' button once the page loads. And sometimes, it won't even have a mute. :-/</p> <p>I use Chromium and FireFox.</p> <p>~~EDIT~~</p> <p>I use XFCE, so my men...
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2011-02-01T14:25:34.003
2013-05-17T10:58:45.243
Turn off all sounds from websites
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>After an application has been launched and begun playing audio, you can mute it through the Sound Preferences menu:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGMZu.png\" alt=\"sound menu capture\"></p>\n\n<p>On the sound preferences tab you can selectively mute applications:<img...
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24232
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24237
2011-02-01T04:21:50.830
2
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<p>I've just joined the Ubuntu Unity developers Bazaar repository and am eager to get started on hacking the code! Do I need to run Natty to be able to do this? Or can I simply use Maverick? I'd prefer to be able to work on Maverick because it is stable.</p>
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2011-02-01T05:54:16.663
Can I develop Unity while running Maverick (10.10)? Or do I have to run Natty?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you're developing a <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Places\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Unity Place</a> then you can do that one either 10.10 or 11.04. </p>\n\n<p>However for most Unity development you need to be on 11.04 as it's changed significantly from 10.10. You can ...
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24235
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24318
2011-02-01T05:08:41.040
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9460/is-it-possible-to-get-dragging-working-on-a-macbook-multi-touch-touch-pad">Is it possible to get dragging working on a Macbook multi-touch touch pad?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>How is the hardware compatibility...
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-1
2017-04-13T12:24:29.360
2011-02-14T06:56:17.400
MacBook Pro Compatibility, Multitouch
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2012-06-26T13:30:47.653
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24236
1
76852
2011-02-01T05:17:33.930
1
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<p>I have a fairly specific issue that I'm hoping someone else out in the community has had to tackle with success.</p> <p>My company uses CheckPoint VPN clients on Windows XP machines with RSA SecurID software to generate the tokens. The beauty is that once you generate a token code on the software, you can enter it...
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2012-09-26T04:28:34.610
Using CheckPoint SNX with RSA SecurID Software Token to connect to VPN
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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24242
2011-02-01T06:09:35.087
3
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<p>I want to know why it is using so much space and why what is there is hidden?</p>
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2017-11-07T11:12:20.603
2017-11-07T11:12:20.603
Why is .Trash-0 using up so much space?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I'm thinking that is your trash can. If you open nautilus, right click the trash bin, and hit empty trash, its size should substantially decrease.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, I'm assuming it's a folder. Am I right, or is it a regular file?</p>\n\n<p>EDIT:</p>\n\n<p>Less than a minute of goo...
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24239
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24253
2011-02-01T06:24:14.377
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<p>Mono 2.8 was released on the 22nd August 2010 this is before ubuntu 10.10 was released however ubuntu 11.04 is shipping with mono 2.6 which is really very old now.</p> <p>Why is this?</p>
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2014-04-22T16:29:01.957
Why is ubuntu 11.04 not shipping with mono 2.8
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-04-17T10:52:39.267", "id": "39707", "postId": "24239", "score": "0", "text": "What do you mean by shipping? why ubuntu doesn't include mono package in it's installation CD or why updated Mono (version 2.8) isn't given on the repository?", "userDisplayName": null, ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Novell who is the major sponsor of mono has chosen not to provide Ubuntu packages. The packages used in Ubuntu come from the community. The Community has not yet packaged ubuntu 2.8 and so ubuntu 11.04 is stuck using the old mono 2.6 packages.</p>\n\n<p>Maybe this is a solution </p>\...
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2011-02-01T06:30:40.853
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<p>I have a laptop which is dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.10. On Windows it always logs into the domain and I am able to connect to over ethernet since it is based on the domain.</p> <p>However on my Ubuntu I use hostname as ubuntu which is default. How do I ensure that it uses the same hostname and domain ...
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2011-03-31T03:32:31.190
2011-03-31T03:32:31.190
Login to a network domain
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>To change the hostname:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksudo gedit /etc/hostname\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Replace 'ubuntu' with the new hostname. Save. Reboot.\nAnd for the domain name...</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksudo gedit /etc/hosts\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>which might look something like this:</p>...
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24250
1
24827
2011-02-01T08:34:42.303
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<p>Is there a way to get the kernel messages into the KDE notification system?</p> <p>I want to see a GUI notification when my kernel detected a problem.</p>
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2017-10-30T10:53:12.010
2017-10-30T10:53:12.010
How to feed kernel messages as KDE notification system
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CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-02T21:41:07.827", "id": "26719", "postId": "24250", "score": "0", "text": "Gold Star question. My 10 cents python (choose your fave) script to grep the kernel message log every x seconds and pipe the results to notify from x second to y second with possibly a filter to...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You could put this into your autostart:</p>\n\n<p><code>sh -c 'tail -n 1 -f /var/log/syslog | while read LINE; do notify-send \"$LINE\";done'</code></p>\n\n<p>or into a bash script watch_syslog.sh:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/sh\ntail -n 1 -f /var/log/syslog | while read LINE; do notify...
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1
24275
2011-02-01T08:36:52.817
4
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<p>I'm searching for a tiny application to register my working hours so when I come to work and power on my PC it registers my entrance and as I power off my PC it registers that I've left.</p> <p>I know it's as simple as adding a note in gedit but I want it automated, phproject has a timer application where, as you s...
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2017-03-14T16:43:31.640
2017-03-14T16:43:31.640
Tiny program to register work hours
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0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You could do something <em>really</em> simple like run a script on login/logout that did something like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>echo `date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` - login &gt;&gt; ~/time.log\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This would accumulate the list of timestamps into the text file 'time.lo...
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24256
1
24259
2011-02-01T10:33:04.903
3
5847
<p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 and installed XAMPP on it. Also I have Windows 7 installed via VMware Workstation 7.1.3. </p> <p>I do my delelopment work on Ubuntu.</p> <p>I want to use IE-Tester for testing on all versions of Internet explorer.</p> <p>I access my site in Ubuntu as <code>http://localhost/mysite</code></p> <...
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2011-02-01T10:54:46.420
Is it possible to access the XAMPP on vmware workstation?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>How you access it depends on the network settings on the virtual machine. If you use NAT, you should get an IP address, that would make it possible to access the machine. On my setup, I have set the connection to NAT.</p>\n\n<p><em>Share the Mac's connection (NAT)</em>, is it called ...
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24258
1
null
2011-02-01T10:37:49.513
3
1194
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/38009/how-do-i-remove-the-unity-launcher">How do I remove the Unity launcher?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I heard that unity launcher will have to be on the left side, but i like the OSX look with awn on the bottom. ...
10009
-1
2017-04-13T12:23:44.677
2011-02-01T11:14:35.693
Will I be able to turn off unity launcher
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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2011-04-29T22:52:57.817
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1
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2011-02-01T10:58:36.373
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<p>The cx8800 TV tuner is supported in the kernel but when computer starts it says that firmware is not found. There is an unofficial firmware that can be downloaded and copied into <code>/lib/firmware</code> to make the card work. Should I report this missing file as a bug?</p>
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235
2011-02-02T14:51:37.813
2017-02-23T15:39:38.760
How do I install a cx8800 TV tuner's firmware?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Firmware blobs (including the ones for tv tuner cards) typically live in the <code>linux-firmware-nonfree</code> package</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>I don't see anything for a CX8800 in the file, but it might be worth installing ...
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24265
1
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2011-02-01T11:35:03.457
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<p>I'm having a problem with Nautilus in Ubuntu 10.10<br> When I open Nautilus as common user, it shows bookmarks and the bookmarks that point to smb windows shares work fine.</p> <p>However, if I start Nautilus as root, it does not show bookmarks, and if I try to browse a smb share directly (<strong>by pressing Ctrl+...
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2011-02-01T12:50:28.133
Nautilus bookmarks and smb shares work with non-root user
[ "nautilus", "samba", "root", "bookmarks" ]
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is expected behaviour. Your root user doesn't have a full set of gnome settings and it would not be a good idea to have it automatically connect to smb shares. In that direction, madness.</p>\n\n<p>The root nautilus is only intended for use with your system files. It's not inten...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is expected behaviour. Your root user doesn't have a full set of gnome settings and it would not be a good idea to have it automatically connect to smb shares. In that direction, madness.</p>\n\n<p>The root nautilus is only intended for use with your system files. It's n...
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