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29651 | 1 | 29683 | 2011-03-09T12:56:37.023 | 3 | 12402 | <p>Is there any way to improve the subtitle rendering capabilities of Totem? The subtitles positioning seems to be hard-coded in it and even though the style is user-customizable, it does not confirm to the formatting in subtitle data. In some scenes where writings appear, the subtitles are supposed to appear next to those along with what is being said at that moment. However, on those scenes the translations of text onscreen appears on the default subtitle area with nothing about the things being said.</p>
<p>The correct rendering are according to the open-source Windows video player, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema. There is no Linux port as far as I'm aware.</p>
<p>If VLC's subtitle support is the same as in Windows, it won't work for me, period.</p>
<p>Please suggest anyway to improve subtitle rendering in Totem, other video players, or a way to port MPC-HC.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong></p>
<p>I've determined that the subtitle rendering issue is not video player-specific. As suggested in the answers, I tried MPlayer, and again the subtitle formatting was overridden by default settings somewhere. I ran SMPlayer in Windows with the same videos, but this issue is not reproducible on it.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong></p>
<p>SMPlayer on Ubuntu renders subtitles perfectly. I am at a loss to understand why the core MPlayer could not do so. Additionally, anyone know how to disable the while seek bar that appears in the center when moving forward/backward?</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong></p>
<p>With my interaction on MPlayer's mailing list, I discovered that <code>-ass</code> flag is required for correct ASS/SSA subtitle rendering.</p>
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"text": "It reads subtitle data, and renders them accordingly - that's enough. Does the raw MPlayer do file type association? And which package do I install? As I said, I need no GUI as long as I can go full screen, pause/play, and forward/backwards. Or if the shortcuts are absent, please instruct me on how to set them on config files.",
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"text": "About the basic keys I've already written, space is to pause & continue. I am not sure if I understand your question about file type association. If you try to play a file, mplayer will try to identify the container format and the streams inside it, regardless of the filename or such. Or did you mean something different with that question?",
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"text": "I think the question is \"how to get the the media files to automatically open in mplayer when double clicked on\" Try this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=815127",
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"text": "@jwernerny,that even I know - is there no way to do it universally, like all the supported file types will be associated with MPlayer?",
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"text": "Oh well, file association is not the task of the player at all, but for example the file manager (like nautilus) so it's nothing to do with mplayer directly since eg nautilus launch mplayer, mplayer tiself can't do anything about \"associations\" it's not its task, simply. I think you should use \"Preferred applications\" in the preferences menu, and on the multimedia tab, you can choose mplayer (or you can enter \"custom\" if it's not in the menu). So it's a configuration task of the gnome desktop environment, not related to the mplayer package itself.",
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29654 | 1 | 31089 | 2011-03-09T13:44:18.267 | 9 | 478 | <p>I'm currently putting together ideas for my master's project which I'll be working on over the summer, and I would like to be able to use this time to help Ubuntu in some way. I have the freedom to come up with pretty much any project in the field of software development/engineering provided it</p>
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<p>I was hoping to use this project as an opportunity to get some experience with the underbelly of Linux, so that I can mention on my CV that I have 'experience in developing for *NIX in C++', which I'm noticing more and more companies are looking for these days, probably because stuff's moving to cloud servers and that's where Linux rules the roost.</p>
<p>My problem is that, since I don't have the experience to begin with, I'm not sure what to do for such a project, and I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I've noticed from <a href="http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=635" rel="nofollow">Daniel Holbach's blog</a> that Ubuntu participated in the Google Summer of Code 2010, and that project ideas for that can be found <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2010/Ideas" rel="nofollow">here</a>. However, I have not been able to find anything related to Ubuntu and GSoC 2011, but I have noticed from the <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline" rel="nofollow">GSoC timeline</a> that the list of mentoring organisations will not be published until March 18th. </p>
<p>I have two questions here. Has Ubuntu applied to be a part of Summer of Code 2011, and what is the status of the 2010 project list linked to earlier. Were they all implemented or are there still some that can be picked up now, should I not participate in GSoC? I'd like to do something for Ubuntu, but I'd rather not spend my time reinventing the wheel.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: Jono Bacon has <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon" rel="nofollow">confirmed on his weekly Q&A</a> that Ubuntu has filed it's application for GSoC 2011. I'll leave this question open until the wiki page for the project ideas is available. That said, ideas are still welcome ;)</p>
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29655 | 1 | 32318 | 2011-03-09T13:46:13.883 | 6 | 702 | <p>At the moment I use xscreensaver with <a href="http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/" rel="nofollow">xdaliclock</a>. Now I want to replace xscreensaver with gnome-screensaver. Now my question is: How to configure gnome-screensaver to use xdaliclock?</p>
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"text": "It worked for me. What do you mean by seems to have no effect? Can't you see the xdaliclock option? May be I can help further. Look: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/xdaliclock.1.jpg and http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/xdaliclock.2.png",
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"text": "Would you please download this file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/XDalibydesgua.sh and this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/XDaliClock.desktop into your home folder (~/) and the run this command: \"sudo chmod +x ~/XDalibydesgua.sh && ~/XDalibydesgua.sh\" without cotes on the terminal?",
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"text": "@desgua: Thanks. I tried it, however there is no xdaliclock entry in the screensaver-preferences dialogue",
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"text": "The terminal showed some error? What is the content of your folder /usr/lib/xscreensaver/? The file /usr/bin/xdaliclock exist?",
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"text": "Thanks, now it works. I think the point is, that one has to reinstall gnome-screensaver to apply changes done manually in /usr/share/applications/screensavers/ !? Is it possible to change the background color to black and the font color to white? I added-bg black and -fg white to the Exec line, however there is no effect.",
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29656 | 1 | 29657 | 2011-03-09T13:52:46.707 | 22 | 14115 | <p>Or does it overwrite the existing data in the mountpoint? Or is it just un-accessible?</p>
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29660 | 1 | 29702 | 2011-03-09T14:33:49.420 | 30 | 2291 | <p>Why was <code>aptitude</code> removed in favor of <code>apt-get</code> by default? I read it somewhere, but forgot - anyone bother to clear it up? And doesn't Debian prefer <code>aptitude</code> and Canonical <code>apt-get</code>?</p>
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<p>From the answers I understand aptitude was removed because it was no longer used for installation, but why does the installer use <code>apt-get</code>, when <code>aptitude</code> is supposed to be better?</p>
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29663 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T15:00:36.043 | 17 | 133370 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu in a VM. How do I disable ntpd? </p>
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29665 | 1 | 358937 | 2011-03-09T15:23:26.080 | 38 | 146383 | <p>I was trying to get a game working. But I have Lucid Lynx on amd64 running while the game binary was 32 bit (no 64 bit version available and nobody was in the mood for recompiling). It lacked libfsml-windows1.5 to run, and apt-getting it failed. So I have to manually download the i386 packages and force install them. (No, not part of ia32libs.)</p>
<p>Now I'm wondering if there is an automated way to have x86 packages downloaded at least on a 64-bit installation. <code>apt-get -o apt::architecture=i386</code> did not work. (If you switch the architecture mode it doesn't find the package or assumes missing dependencies for existing packages all around.)</p>
<p>Is there another tool to automate that? Possibly one which downloads the i386 packages and relocates contained libraries into /usr/lib32/ implicitely?</p>
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29671 | 1 | 29672 | 2011-03-09T16:03:27.110 | 7 | 7145 | <p>What are the functions and capabilities of <code>xdg-user-dirs</code>? In particular, I'm interested to have the folders it creates on a different partition instead of the whole Home.</p>
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29675 | 1 | 29684 | 2011-03-09T16:31:01.567 | 12 | 10242 | <p>I use <code>ssh -X user@IP</code> to connect to an Ubuntu Server which has had <code>gnome-terminal</code> installed on it.</p>
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<p>I have to press <kbd>ESC</kbd> to get back into the normal mode.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me what key combination I may have hit, and provide links or useful hints for the things I might be able to do with "vi mode"?</p>
<p>I have tried searching Google but haven't found anything particularly good - most pages refer to "vi mode" inside vi.</p>
<p>For information, I am using a French AZERTY keyboard, and the key combination I think I hit is <kbd>AltGr</kbd>+<kbd>-</kbd> (on AZERTY keyboards the number keys provide punctuation unless <kbd>Shift</kbd> is pressed - the key I am pressing has the 6 on it), so that I can get the <code>|</code> character.</p>
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29677 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T16:36:04.583 | 4 | 119 | <p>I was wondering if the Ubuntu One mobile client for Android has an integrated music store? I installed the client but I do not seem to be able to access the store.</p>
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29688 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T17:09:06.343 | 1 | 118 | <p>I deleted about 900 files, when I connected my computer they all started downloading again.</p>
<p>I don't want them to come back. In file management I only see an option to delete one file at a time. I am currently using the Windows beta on Windows 7. Once all the data is off I can switch OSs.</p>
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<li>How do I define a separate partition for Home? </li>
<li>How does it affect systems with multiple users?</li>
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"text": "The same way as always. There is no change in structured. It will still be like:\n\n/home/cyrex, /home/oxwivi, /home/zelda, /home/rambo....",
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"text": "Yeah, now I got it. I forgot the user folder and was thinking that Download, Music, etc folders were directly under Home, hence my confusion.",
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"text": "No problem buddy. At least you did not confuse /root with /dev/null hehe",
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"text": "No but i have 2 cases where the user started to save EVERYTHING to / instead of the /home/user folder because it was thinking that it was like windows and after a couple of months decided to do spring cleaning on the / so you can imagine poor linux looking for boot and etc and not finding it out. The other case was somebody that started cleaning /usr because he ALREADY had a user directory in /home/user.",
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29701 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T18:54:00.803 | 10 | 580 | <p>I really have this feeling that after changing the theme on my Ubuntu (10.10 - but it also happened on a different version) the system is much quicker, or to say more precisely, the system is not loaded anymore. Maybe it's just a <em>feeling</em> and nothing more but I hope that I'm not the only one seeing this!</p>
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29706 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T19:31:09.793 | 2 | 323 | <p>I had installed Gnome Activity Journal, Zeitgeist and Tracker but borked the install by mixing the PPAs with the universe repos. I removed all the packages, did <code>apt-get remove --purge</code>, then did a <code>locate</code> to manually <code>rm</code> everything else.</p>
<p>Then I reinstalled from the PPAs properly. Now I can't tag files anymore, either in Nautilus or GAJ. What packages are involved in tagging? What else might I be missing?</p>
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29707 | 1 | 29712 | 2011-03-09T19:32:02.040 | 14 | 18701 | <p>I have a old Athlon X2 based system with an attached floppy drive. I had some old floppies which are now safely backed up on CD's. </p>
<p>Is there a way to simply disable the floppy drive, so that it wont be accessed in any way by the OS? I would not have bothered, but ubuntu seems to continually access the drive, and it is annoyingly noisy. Thanks in advance.</p>
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"text": "Or you can go into the bios and shut it off. If you don't actually have a floppy, you shouldn't configure your bios to think you do.",
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"text": "Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I have searched everywhere in the bios and there is no way of disabling it from there, and i do not want to remove it, coz i still have some old floppies lying around which i may need in the future, so temporarily disabling it is my only option.",
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29715 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T20:19:18.713 | 0 | 2640 | <p>I have a Samsung N150 Netbook and I installed Unity 11.04 to make some tests. But some functions do not work like backlight and vertical scroll on the touchpad.</p>
<p>There are drivers for samsung notbooks and I know that there is a PPA. But not for Natty. Will the drivers be avalible some day in the kernel by default? Will Canonical add these drivers in the kernel, if the Kernel developers wont?</p>
<p>I think this would be very useful because Unity is great for Netbooks and Samsung Netbooks are really nice. </p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/28099/how-to-restore-a-system-after-accidentally-removing-all-kernels">How to restore a system after accidentally removing all kernels?</a> </p>
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<p>I've been running Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop for quite some time. When I went to boot it up this morning, BAM! kernel panic (which immediately lead to human panic) when loading the kernel.</p>
<p>So I've spent much of the day troubleshooting, and my current theory is that the FS is fine, but that the kernel image may be corrupt. Let's go with this current theory for the sake of this question, as I am interested how it is done.</p>
<p>How can I replace the kernel image if I have no bootable kernels?</p>
<p>Can I boot to a 10.04 live CD, copy the the vmlinuz-2.6.3x... to the HD and go from there?<br>
Wouldn't I want to copy the initramfs as well, but configured for the desktop system?<br>
Can I generate this from the live CD?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4834/how-do-i-rebuild-a-corrupt-dpkg-status-file">How do I rebuild a corrupt dpkg status file?</a> </p>
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<p>I just discovered that <code>/var/lib/dpkg/status</code> is corrupted (<a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/578042/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">details</a>):</p>
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dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1888 package `libssl0.9.8':
field name `' must be followed by colon
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<p>Its <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/578056/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">backup</a> does not appear to be corrupted, but it is outdated and I'm not sure what the consequences of reverting to an earlier version are.</p>
<p>What is the safest way to fix this?</p>
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29724 | 1 | 29756 | 2011-03-09T22:17:58.940 | 8 | 566 | <p>I am hoping that this question would help other ubuntu users when migrating to a newer version of ubuntu. This should have all the info that they need. So please when you answer try to phrase them into points for easy understanding. I understand that some questions that I ask might have been asked before by other users. In that case just provide the links to those questions.</p>
<p>I am running <em>ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat</em> in case that is important. I can say for sure that a clean install is definitely better than an upgrade since it gives you an opportunity to clean your system and get a fresh start. However some of us like to retain certain software configuration or files etc. </p>
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<li><p><strong>How do you save the configuration files of certain application like for instance Thunderbird, firefox</strong>, etc...so that you can basically paste in the new version of ubuntu? (Thunderbird for instance has all my mail, so I definitely would like to backup its configuration and then use it the new installation that I do)</p></li>
<li><p><strong>I have some applications like MATLAB and Maple (Based on JAVA) installed</strong>. When I migrate, <strong>can I just copy the entire installation folder to the new version of ubuntu</strong>? Would it still work as now if I do that?</p></li>
<li><p><strong>When doing a backup which folders should be backed up?</strong> Obviously your personal files would be backup. But other than that, is it necessary to back up stuff in the home folder, /usr/bin etc?</p></li>
<li><p><strong>I have BURG installed.</strong> I am guessing that would be erased when I do a clean install along with the program's configuration and everything. <strong>How can I do a backup of it?</strong></p></li>
<li><p>I am dual booting my ubuntu alongside with Windows 7. <strong>When I perform the clean install of ubuntu, would GRUB (bootloader) be removed and in anyway jeopardize my windows installation?</strong> </p></li>
<li><p>Over time I have added a lot of PPA which are of course compatible with my current ubuntu version. <strong>How do I make a backup of all my PPA and would they be compatible to the newer version of ubuntu when I restore them?</strong></p></li>
<li><p><strong>Is there a way to get the entire list of user installed application and if possible automate the installation of those applications in the new system?</strong> For instance I have application like VLC,ubuntu tweak etc. installed, and rather than have to install everything from scratch it would be nice to have a program do it.</p></li>
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<p>I hope this covers all the questions or doubts that a user might face when thinking about performing a clean install of his system. If I missed anything please mention it as a comment and I will add it to my question.</p>
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"text": "When I copy the entire .mozilla and .thunderbird folder and paste them in the new ubuntu installation would all my bookmarks and extensions that I added be there when I open the respective applications later on?",
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"text": "@nik, When you copy the app folder, you copy ALL your preferences, history, etc, so yes, your bookmarks and extensions would be saved. Regarding your second question, in my case, I have modified a few files, like the Samba configuration, the SSH server configuration, the hosts file, and some other configuration that you can also have changed without knowing and would be better to keep rather than go back to the defaults ones (like the updates preferences, etc)",
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"text": "Could you add this description to your answer..would be quicker for the user to read..thnx...I intend to grow the list of questions when users have any other questions. But I fully accept your answer and will mark it in a day or two. :)",
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29726 | 1 | 29728 | 2011-03-09T22:37:09.750 | 4 | 707 | <p>I love Ubuntu, and as I am searching the internet, I am finding that some questions I have have not been answered yet. </p>
<p>One of them is if there is a preferred way to set up a virtual server. I look through the Ubuntu Software Center, but found nothing from the search "Virtual Server" I then searched the internet and found lots of posts to trouble-shoot VMWare virtual servers. So, like a good researcher I looked in the Software center for VMWare. Sure enough I found "user agent" and "view open client".</p>
<p>I didn't get sufficient info from the software center. And searching the website only left me scratching my head.</p>
<p>I want to install Ubuntu Server Edition. I already have a server, but am cautious "trying out" things on it. So a virtual server sounds like what I need.</p>
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"text": "This is great. Thanks. I am setting one up now. How do I ensure that the virtual machine is connected to the internet?",
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"text": "Uh? VirtualBox is open source AFAIK. Because it's not in Ubuntu's repositories doesn't mean it's closed source... Actually, I just doubled check and _it is_ available from Software Centre. Edit: Apparently you are right, there is also a closed source edition.",
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"text": "@Olivier I'm not sure it's closed source but it's certainly not a FOSS license. The PUEL version comes with fancy things like USB host emulation, an RDP server and PXE booting (for netinstalls). I use it just for the USB.",
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29731 | 1 | 29734 | 2011-03-09T23:33:27.807 | 13 | 19834 | <p>After an hour or two of manpage and Google searching and finding no solution or good resources, I've come for help!</p>
<p>I have set my <kbd>Caps Lock</kbd> key to <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> using <code>setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps</code> - this works perfectly fine.</p>
<p>However, since I use [awesome][1], and an IBM model M which lacks the meta key, I need my left alt key to replace the windows key. Using <code>xkeycaps</code> I was able to get this to work, except it killed my arrow keys and <kbd>End</kbd>. Problematic.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, documentation on setxkbmap options are sparse. and I can't find the proper option to use.</p>
<p>Thanks for any links/solutions.</p>
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29732 | 1 | 29741 | 2011-03-09T23:36:21.330 | 2 | 1029 | <p>Hardware: Logitech Access Keyboard, PS2, 867209-0102</p>
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<p><code>xev</code> didn't show me the key command - is there an other way to get the key command name?</p>
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29733 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T23:46:45.153 | 1 | 959 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Precision T3500 Desktop machine. Last week, when I ran the regular updates, upon restart my video disappeared. I could not even see the Dell startup screen or enter the BIOS.</p>
<p>When I swapped out the video card (for an older one I had around), the system worked again. So Dell sent me a replacement video card. I put that in and everything appeared to be working again.</p>
<p>Then, I ran updates again, and the same thing happened. Replacement video card appears to be broken. No startup messages, no BIOS, no video at all.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how Ubuntu updates might be ruining the video cards?</p>
<p>The card that keeps "breaking" is an FirePro MV2260.</p>
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29738 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T01:34:13.233 | 2 | 11362 | <p>i'm using a AT3IONT-I motherboard with integrated card. If I ethtool it to 1000 full duplex it wont work!
Here is sudo ethtool eth0:</p>
<pre><code> Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
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Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
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PHYAD: 0
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MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
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<p>here is sudo lshw -C network:</p>
<pre><code> *-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: bc:ae:c5:8b:7d:33
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8168 driverversion=8.021.00-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.0.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:42 ioport:e800(size=256) memory:f8fff000-f8ffffff memory:f8ff8000-f8ffbfff memory:fbff0000-fbffffff
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<p>And lspci -nn:</p>
<pre><code> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge [10de:0a82] (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller [10de:0a88] (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge [10de:0aad] (rev b3)
00:03.1 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller [10de:0aa4] (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus [10de:0aa2] (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller [10de:0a89] (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor [0b40]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor [10de:0aa3] (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:0aa5] (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:0aa6] (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:0aa7] (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:0aa9] (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio [10de:0ac0] (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge [10de:0aab] (rev b1)
00:0b.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 RAID Controller [10de:0abc] (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0ac4] (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0aa0] (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0ac6] (rev b1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation ION VGA [10de:087d] (rev b1)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
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<p>If i use </p>
<p>Code:</p>
<pre><code>sudo ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
</code></pre>
<p>then in ethtool speed is Unknown and it doesn't work; if I set it via pre-up it wont work either...</p>
<p>Please help!!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>Thank you</p>
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29747 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T03:44:43.327 | 6 | 2540 | <p>Ubuntu has announced his own 'shell' called unity. I have the idea that Ubuntu adds a new list for it's desktop versions, with Gubuntu, a pure Gnome 3.0 edition of Ubuntu (just like Kubuntu), so the entire list of Ubuntu may be like this:</p>
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<p>Actually, I prefer a version that looks like this:</p>
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<li>Ubuntu Gnome Edition</li>
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<li>Ubuntu XFCE Edition</li>
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<p>so, the name of Ubuntu will be more unified and simple for all versions.
What do you think?</p>
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29750 | 1 | 29755 | 2011-03-10T04:12:14.453 | 7 | 1447 | <p>The nvidia driver that I got from Ubuntu repository is 260.19.06 . I was having some problems with videos, so I checked the nvidia site, and the version available there was 260.19.44. Is there a way to get the same driver version using <code>apt-get</code> , or something similar, so that the driver remains managed?</p>
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29752 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T05:38:37.003 | 1 | 2919 | <p>I tried to install ubuntu 10.10 on my Lenovo S10 netbook. While installing, we have to add user name and password etc. But my keyboard does not support at that time. Why? Also I installed trial version, at that time also my keyboard is not working. Mouse works better. Please guide</p>
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29754 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T05:55:59.937 | 2 | 1431 | <p>For some reason, my Wifi connection frequently drops everywhere except at home. I didn't have this problem with Windows 7 so I guess it's not a hardware problem. My best guess so far is that my connection timeout is very low so if my connection isn't able to reach the router after a few second, the connection drops. Is that likely to be the problem? If so, how could I fix this? Otherwise, what would be an alternative cause for this strange behavior?</p>
<p>Update: I just noticed my home connection is WEP whereas my university connection is WPA.</p>
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29757 | 1 | 39829 | 2011-03-10T06:38:44.757 | 118 | 82980 | <p>I'm used to having System monitoring in the top Gnome Panel: CPU, Temperature, Net, Fan-Speed. (see screenshot below)</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fdiDF.png" alt="screenshot of Gnome 2 panel showing the system monitor applets"></p>
<p>In Unity, the Top Panel is locked for window name and global menu, so I can't add panel applets.
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29759 | 1 | 29777 | 2011-03-10T06:43:14.177 | 7 | 334 | <p>I have used ubuntu for a long time, and have collected a lot of Ubuntu <code>.deb</code> packages which I may need for future installs. Most of these are grabbed from outdated or obsolete PPAs or from outside official sources.</p>
<p>I have a old system lying around, too old to run Ubuntu, and I am mulling installing Debian Squeeze with LDXE or something to convert it into a file/print server.</p>
<p>I know it is possible to install Ubuntu debs on Debian, but some will simply not install because of dependencies. Is there a easy way to install Ubuntu debs on Debian? How can I determine which will safely install and which have the potential to break the system? Is there a script for this?</p>
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29762 | 1 | 29770 | 2011-03-10T07:06:15.770 | 4 | 26758 | <p>How can I read file in shell script , then assign each line to an variable that i can use later ,,,(am thinking in way to load an default setting from file)</p>
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29764 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T07:47:29.777 | 3 | 175 | <p>I want to create a softlink for a file between two servers. The file is present on a server 1 and a softlink should be created for it on server2.</p>
<p>How can I do that?</p>
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29767 | 1 | 29769 | 2011-03-10T08:00:47.720 | 1 | 368 | <p>Considering that I run a low memory VPS, should I configure Apache to use mod_fcgi, PHP APC or both? As I understand it, the APC will not be shared between processes so I wonder what would produce the best result on busy sites: mod_fcgi, APC or a combination? </p>
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29771 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T08:34:30.697 | 1 | 472 | <p>Trying to follow the instructions <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/mh-e/Picture.html#Picture" rel="nofollow">here</a>, I'd like to be able to insert my picture in the 'From:' header field, but I'm at a loss.</p>
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29780 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T10:55:13.130 | 3 | 1544 | <p>When I send an e-mail with Evolution the recipient reads,</p>
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<p>I want to it like this</p>
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<p>How I can change this?</p>
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29781 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T11:00:27.153 | 2 | 138 | <p>I would like to put a calender on our Cloud so that our small team is able to connect wherever they are in the world. Ideally it would be good if it could be the calender from Thunderbird. I am not the tech person just a screen gnome and our man is currently deep under the flu. Any suggestions to an illiterate like me would be welcomed. Jack.</p>
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29782 | 1 | 29791 | 2011-03-10T11:09:41.023 | 5 | 3391 | <p>I'm aware that Network Manager is going to be replaced by ConnMan. How can I try it out?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong> I installed <code>indicator-network</code> and it's dependencies, so how do use it? Oh, and I'm on 10.10's Unity.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong> Got it to work with a reboot.</p>
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29783 | 1 | 29809 | 2011-03-10T11:12:37.200 | 4 | 680 | <p>I saw a lot of recommendations claiming that for hibernation the swap partition/file must be at least as large as the main memory. This makes no sense to me. Lets assume I have 8 GB of main memory and 8 GB swap area and want to hibernate:</p>
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<li>case 1: I'm using 4 GB of virtual memory -> 8 GB of swap is unnecessarily large.</li>
<li>case 2: I'm using 8 GB of virtual memory -> 8 GB of swap is just right.</li>
<li>case 3: I'm using 12 GB of virtual memory -> 8 GB of swap is too small.</li>
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<p>The outcome is: A swap area of size equal to the memory size is sufficient for hibernate IFF it doesn't get used for swapping at all. <strong>So what is the reason behind the claim that you need at least as much swap area as main memory for hibernate to work?</strong></p>
<p>I know that virtual memory gets used for caching too, and that the cache may be simply discarded, but <strong>what happens to hibernation if a program allocates 12 GB of virtual memory</strong> (given the above memory and swap sizes)?</p>
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29786 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T11:43:04.303 | 3 | 1036 | <p>How can I take Ubuntu Certification Exams online? No dates and no information about exams are specified on their website.</p>
<p>I want to take, at the very least, the exam in the course <a href="http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=481" rel="nofollow">Training: Deploying Ubuntu Server Edition</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110322015326/http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=481" rel="nofollow">archive link</a>), but the information I want is not included on the page.</p>
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29787 | 1 | 29789 | 2011-03-10T12:08:28.433 | 9 | 2307 | <p>Is there an application for Ubuntu that can play audio faster but maintain its pitch?</p>
<p>This is possible in Windows using an application like PowerDVD.</p>
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29788 | 1 | 29848 | 2011-03-10T12:15:16.383 | 0 | 1278 | <p>I installed google-chrome today, when i open any page including askubuntu i got this error message. </p>
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<p>i see my memory usage is normal(Memory 56% and swap 4.8%) also I reload and i go to another page same problem
What is the problem? </p>
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[34597.395334] chrome[18112] general protection ip:17c85bf sp:7fff514aa4f0 error:0 in chrome[400000+3082000]
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29797 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T14:18:09.703 | 11 | 38696 | <p>I've plugged in a projector into my laptop and I'm attempting to extend the desktop onto it (so that I can run a full screen app on the projector and have the controls on my laptop).</p>
<p>I'm able to mirror the screens effectively (it does this by default) but I can't extend it. When I untick "Mirror screens" and press apply it asks me to log out and then back in again but it goes back to mirroring the screens.</p>
<p>I'm able to extend desktop on to my external monitor at home, just not this projector. Is there a manual way or other way to do this other that through Monitors setting?</p>
<p>My computer model is Dell Studio 1555: Pentium Dual Core T4300(2.1GHz,800MHz,1MB), 4096MB 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel, 512 MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4570 using the ATI proprietary driver. My screen resolution is 1366x768 (16:9)</p>
<p>The projector that it wont connect properly is a <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001B6JFF8">Hitachi CPX3</a>. That page specifies that it's especially designed for projectors that use 16:10 aspect ratio, but considering my external monitor at home uses 4:3 should the differences in aspect ratio matter or be causing this error?</p>
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29799 | 1 | 29804 | 2011-03-10T14:39:08.170 | 6 | 7208 | <p>I want to edit the /etc/sudoers file so that a non-admin user can install software via the Software Center in Linux Mint 10. The reason for this is that I want a user to have the capability to install programs, but not make any other configuration changes to the system. </p>
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<p>So far, it allows me to do updates without asking for my password, but it will not let me install software without entering an admin password. </p>
<p>I am aware of this question, <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3/how-can-i-set-the-software-center-to-install-software-for-non-root-users">How can I set the Software Center to install software for non-root users?</a>, but this goes the route of modifying the PolicyKit, whereas I'm interested in a sudo solution, because it seems a simpler way to go.</p>
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29805 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T15:17:04.777 | 1 | 1217 | <pre><code>Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: cannot open /dev/sdb1: Read-only file system
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<p>This what I get when I try to format my MicroSD. How do I remove the Read-only file system on the mmc with ubuntu , so I can format it?. Thanks.</p>
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29806 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T15:34:39.363 | 11 | 20123 | <p>How do I enable opengl in vlc as video output. It's not listed as a alternative. </p>
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29816 | 1 | 29822 | 2011-03-10T17:19:46.127 | 4 | 12962 | <p>How can I change the resolution in the VirtualBox (Ubuntu guest and host)?</p>
<p>I remember long time I ago I had used it and just by changing the guest system resolution it worked. But now it's not working.</p>
<p>Any idea?</p>
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<p>Related to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29632/guide-to-particulars-in-preseeding-ubuntu-installer">this question</a>.</p>
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29826 | 1 | 30340 | 2011-03-10T19:10:51.827 | 8 | 2293 | <p>I'd like to create an updated version of the network-manager-openconnect package in Ubuntu. Apparantely I need to get the latest package source:</p>
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<p>Then what? The package seems to have a way to update itself from the latest upstream code using git. But how do I get it to do that?</p>
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29827 | 1 | 30951 | 2011-03-10T19:59:29.977 | 7 | 4395 | <p>I know this a recurrent topic but I just can't find a decent solution--although I found one for Chrome. </p>
<p>Just take look at the following screenshots:</p>
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<li><p>Firefox 4 </p>
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<p>See the slight difference? I can't identify the exact difference but I can tell fonts in Chrome look smoother. </p>
<p>Here are my system preferences (prefer to show a screenshot as I don't know the <em>exact</em> translations in English): </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjcCA.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>Anyone got a solution? Thanks. </p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: from my point of view, it doesn't seem to actually be a hinting problem. I'd say Firefox uses subpixel rendering instead of grayscale rendering. (yet I can't find the setting in <code>fontconfig</code>) But <em>this is a subjective opinion</em>, can you confirm?</p>
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29831 | 1 | 31709 | 2011-03-10T20:55:15.823 | 7 | 5366 | <p>I have a very large Maildir I am copying to a new machine (over 100BASE-T) with rsync. The progress is slow. VERY SLOW. Like 1 MB/s slow. I think this is because it is a lot of small files that are being read in an order that essentially is random with respect to where the blocks are stored on disk, causing a massive seek storm. I get similar results when trying to tar the directory. Is there a way to get rsync/tar to read in disk block order, or otherwise overcome this problem?</p>
<p>Edit: I tried tar cf /dev/zero Maildir/ and on the old system, this took 30 minutes! On the new system when the rsync finally finished, the same test took 18 minutes. Dumping the same directory on the old system took 8 minutes, and on the new system, dump -0f /dev/zero -b 1024 /home/psusi/Maildir/ finished in only 30 seconds.</p>
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29832 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T21:03:24.473 | 11 | 72994 | <p>Can anyone help me configure Transmission to download torrent files behind a proxy?</p>
<p>I have <code>http_proxy</code> set in my <code>.bashrc</code>.</p>
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29836 | 1 | 29846 | 2011-03-10T21:37:09.047 | 0 | 2262 | <p>I have cipher BF-CBC uncommented in both server and client and wireshark is listening to tap0 but it is not showing any encryption. Am I doing something wrong here?</p>
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29839 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T21:45:23.880 | 7 | 251 | <p>I would like to know if it is currently or will be possible to translate the Ubuntu One web UI, because I know people, and I'm sure there are lot of them, who don't understand any English words, and so don't use it.
I really that think it is very important to make it translatable, to have it used by the most people possible.</p>
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29842 | 1 | 29845 | 2011-03-10T21:48:47.180 | 4 | 5832 | <p>I am trying to install Subclipse plugins for eclipse IDE.
I have installed it but on restart of the IDE, it throws up the following error:</p>
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These are the errors that were encountered:
no libsvnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
no svnjavahl-1 in java.library.path
no svnjavahl in java.library.path
java.library.path = /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/jre/lib/i386/client:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/jre/lib/i386::/usr/java/packages/lib/i386:/lib:/usr/lib
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<p>How do I get past this error? </p>
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29844 | 1 | 30839 | 2011-03-10T22:09:25.560 | 5 | 1252 | <p>I really really want to find this package. Because after I saw the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWd1FOgr18" rel="nofollow noreferrer">youtube clip</a> I realized it's just one of those things I must have done before I die.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-sun-looking-glass-desktop-environment-in-ubuntu.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This tutorial</a> would be great if the repository were online.</p>
<p>My question is:</p>
<p><strong>Where can I find the file, and how can I install it without changing my current desktop?</strong></p>
<p>The project was called "project looking glass" and was released in 2007. It is now an "inactive open source project", according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass" rel="nofollow noreferrer">its Wikipedia article</a>.</p>
<p>by using my answer I managed to make a boot able device and </p>
<p>I had an error while booting so I will ask that question on <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/">https://unix.stackexchange.com/</a> .</p>
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29849 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T22:22:16.667 | 2 | 5814 | <p>The Steam client crashes after I login. After submitting my credentials, Steam displays a dialog box informing me the client is 'connecting'. I then see the Steam main page and news page displayed for roughly a second or so before the client crashes.</p>
<p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 (I think..what's the best way to verify? uname only displays Linux) which I've installed on a usb flash drive using a capser-rw file for persistence.</p>
<p>wine-1.3.14</p>
<p>I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. How do I identify if the problem is with wine or steam or the video card driver, or what? Any ideas?</p>
<p>Hardware:</p>
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<li>motherboard: ECS Elitegroup 945GCT-M</li>
<li>sound: integrated audio</li>
<li>video: ATI Radeon X1950</li>
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fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation ((nil),0x32e488): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x1010c00,0x32e488): stub
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
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fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x1009a, 3, 0x32d338, 4) stub
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x1009a, 4, 0x32d33c, 4) stub
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29851 | 1 | null | 2011-03-10T22:35:47.030 | 1 | 11760 | <p>Complexity of installation of IPSec is not an issue. I would like to know which one will provide a faster connection for tunneling.</p>
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<p>I've tried to restart to no avail. I even tried to remove, followed by clearing the password keyring and starting over. Still nothing. I've run out of buttons to push.</p>
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29856 | 1 | 45257 | 2011-03-11T00:04:46.820 | 34 | 20347 | <p>I've read about how source-based linux distros like Gentoo can have considerable performance increases when compared to pre-built distros like Ubuntu because they install from source with optimizations for your particular system. Is is possible to build Ubuntu from source to get the same kind of benefit?</p>
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29863 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T03:19:48.147 | 2 | 663 | <p>Okay guys, here's a tricky one. I'm running 10.10 on my pc but i've had this issue for some time now.I'm having strange issues with the mouse. What happens is when I get into Ubuntu, I can click anything, but as soon as I click something to open a window, run a program, I can no longer click anything EXCEPT the last thing I clicked. When I right click the last thing I clicked, it allows me to click everything normally, but only until I open something new.
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29866 | 1 | 29893 | 2011-03-11T04:41:52.007 | 11 | 56237 | <p>I have a 320 GB harddrive with three partitions / , /home and swap. What I want to do is change the size of swap which now is 8 GB to 5 GB and append that 3 GB to my /home partition. I have searched through the web for this but don't seem to find a proper way to increase my home partition. Can anyone help ? By the way, I know how to decrease size of swap I just need the proper way to append that unallocated 3 GB of space to my /home partition without loosing the data. Thank You</p>
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<p>gparted</p>
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29867 | 1 | 47009 | 2011-03-11T04:56:28.327 | 1 | 1261 | <p>I am using Unity 2D with Compiz. And I want the workspaces button to trigger the expo view mode in Compiz. Can anyone help me?</p>
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29871 | 1 | 29937 | 2011-03-11T07:53:59.850 | 3 | 3634 | <p>I've installed ubuntu on a USB stick, which took about 2 hours. After booting from USB, the system was extreme slow, during write operations.</p>
<p>The problem seems to be the cache mode <code>[sda] Assuming drive cache: write through</code>.</p>
<p>How can I change this during and after the installation? Which is the cache mode with the fewest/laziest write operations?</p>
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29872 | 1 | 29883 | 2011-03-11T07:54:44.337 | 130 | 215437 | <p>Yesterday one of my friends asked me if there is some torrent client that runs on the command-line.</p>
<p>I had no answer for him, but I think that you have some.</p>
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seems not working !</p>
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"text": "Okay, knowing that already helps because I did not want to lose any data. Is there anything more that I might have to perform? For example, the HDD was also renamed to \"PENDRIVE\", how do I revert that? Thanks a lot for your answer :)!",
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"text": "Ubuntu of course ;) I only had to use Pendrive on Windows when I bought a new computer, and then replaced MS by Ubuntu",
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29889 | 1 | 29896 | 2011-03-11T10:24:06.867 | 22 | 14832 | <p>I'm in the process of adding my OpenPGP key to Launchpad and I just uploaded it to Ubuntu's keyserver. Now I can only continue once the key is available through the keyserver. Is there a way to check if that's already the case?</p>
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29891 | 1 | 29915 | 2011-03-11T10:30:57.183 | 7 | 5277 | <p>I read <a href="http://mvogt.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/apt-btrfs-snapshot/">on the planet</a> that <code>apt-btrfs-snapshot</code> would be available for Natty. The brief description of what it does sounds very nice:</p>
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<p>But before I convert my entire life to <code>btrfs</code> for the sole purpose of gaining a built-in backup system, can anybody tell me how <code>btrfs</code>'s snapshots work. To my layman's brain, it sounds like this would eat a devastating amount of disk space if you're taking snapshots every time you install or upgrade something (I do this more than once a day).</p>
<p>I assume the system is smarter than I'm allowing it but I really don't know. How do the snapshots work?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29553/how-can-i-configure-unity">How can I configure Unity?</a> </p>
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<p>will it be possible to edit the panel in unity?</p>
<p>to add and remove apps (weather, date, main-menu, shut-off-button).</p>
<p>the main menü-button would save a lot of space instead of the normal menü-button. same with the shut-off-button. you can turn off the pc with 2 clicks instead of 3 clicks.</p>
<p>will it be possible to change the positions of the panel and the unity-panel? maybe both panels at the bottom.</p>
<p>it would be user-friendly if changes would be possible (individuality).</p>
<p>will there always be a choice between unity and the old desktop design?</p>
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29897 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T11:13:24.277 | 2 | 1689 | <p>I'm totally newbie to Ubuntu after years of MS Windows. Please excuse my mitakes. The icon was located in Gnome Panel 2.30.2. and it adjust the level of sound.</p>
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29898 | 1 | 29899 | 2011-03-11T11:20:01.497 | 4 | 1457 | <p>I think I'm mixing up and I need some one to clarify things for me!</p>
<p>What is the differences between GStreamer and FFmpeg.
What I need is a command line to convert file(s) from one format to another.</p>
<p>I know I can do that with installing ffmpeg but I read and I saw allot of talk about Gstreamer.
Can I use it the same way?</p>
<p>If yes, which one is better?</p>
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29903 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T12:02:23.343 | 20 | 20235 | <p>it was so easy to show the weather in the panel, without installing an app.</p>
<p>why won't that be possible anymore in 11.04?</p>
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29905 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T12:09:31.857 | 2 | 78 | <p>I planned to use <code>git</code> for the important files in my home directory, so I can revert bad settings or transfer them to another computer as needed. But there's too much chaos there, with each program mixing wildly temporary files, caches, logs, backups, and everything. </p>
<p>Finding anything worth saving is hard, and when I've found any settings done by myself, there were mixed with informations specific to the computer (so I could hardly take them to another one) and timestamps (so tracking useful changes is hard).</p>
<p>Is anybody doing it or is it just hopeless and how to filter out the garbage?</p>
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29909 | 1 | 48940 | 2011-03-11T12:22:40.193 | 5 | 3628 | <p>When I click on a PDF link on Chromium I get a 'Missing Plug-in' page.</p>
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<p>It used to be that it would download the PDF and then I could view it with Evince. To do this now I have to right click and click 'Save Link As...'. How can I get this to happen when I click on the link?</p>
<p>This is what about:plugins looks like:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/v3jl0.png" alt="about:plugins"></p>
<p>I am using Ubuntu 10.10 32bit with Chromium 9.0.597.107 (75357).</p>
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29918 | 1 | 29921 | 2011-03-11T14:00:10.857 | 7 | 4030 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/33413/how-to-create-a-meta-package-that-automatically-installs-other-packages">How to create a meta-package that automatically installs other packages?</a> </p>
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<p>I want to use Frescobaldi (an editor for Lilypond), but the packaged release of lilypond (2.12.3; lilypond is like TeX for scoresheets) in the official repos is a bit old, since I want to use some brand-new features. So I just cloned their git repo and installed it from there.</p>
<p>Now my question is, how can I tell apt, that I satisfied the dependency on lilypond manually, so that it doesn't tries to install another copy?</p>
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29923 | 1 | 29925 | 2011-03-11T14:34:16.400 | 1 | 2397 | <p>I recently read about next Linux Mint release using GNOME3 but without the shell. Does it mean the panel interface will be revisited? If so, is it possible to build it for testing?</p>
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29926 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T14:48:33.907 | 1 | 510 | <p>I installed the educational version of Ubuntu with Unity. This is for kids. The most important applications are the ones that the descriptions says are specially added for kids. Trying to find them is a pain in the applications directory. They are organized in the main menu, but Unity does not use the main menu information for anything.</p>
<p>Bottom line, I am now going to reinstall Ubuntu and NOT include Unity. The panels feature is nice, but there needs to some ability to organize the applications -- either with a menu or a directory structure that is read. The .desktop files indicate categories ... like education. Why does Unity not use this information?</p>
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29927 | 1 | 29936 | 2011-03-11T14:58:10.960 | 0 | 4797 | <p>I was trying to run Windows XP under Virtual Box (host system Ubuntu 10.04) and I've got an error message saying:</p>
<pre><code>Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Re-setup the kernel module by executing
'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.
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<p>This is terminal output: </p>
<pre><code>maria@maria-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules * done.
* Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules * done.
* Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS
* Failed, trying without DKMS
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules * done.
* Starting VirtualBox kernel modules * done.
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<p>After that I can run XP on Virtual Box, but when I try to log into user's account, I have the message that I have to register XP (I haven't done it yet, as each time I was cliking on pop-up window suggesting registration, nothing was happening). I click that I want to register it now and appears the message about error 0x80004005, which prevents Windows to check the license for that computer (the message is in Polish, so I don't post it here...). I forgot to install DKMS first, but I've done it after.</p>
<p>What should I do to run virtual machine? It was using it already, the problem occured only today.</p>
<p>Thanks for any suggestion</p>
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"text": "@ popey Thanks. XP is not asking to re-register, because I haven't registered it yet. When I try to register it now, there is that error message. I don't know how to call Microsoft with my license key handy...",
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29930 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T15:12:18.453 | 0 | 234 | <p>I upgraded from 9.04 to 10.10 a couple of days ago, and things are really messed up - X is crashing constantly.</p>
<p>Since then, I had an application segfault for no reason, when I was debugging, I found that it was <code>strlen()</code> that was causing the segfault (pointing to libc being the problem)! Upon investigation, I found that it was because I had a bad version of gcc and binutils installed in /usr/bin/local; I removed it, recompiled the application, and it no longer crashes.</p>
<p>Now, looking at my logs, I see that X is also crashing due to libc.</p>
<pre><code>Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80ef31b]
1: /usr/bin/X11/X (0x8048000+0x5d00d) [0x80a500d]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb77e240c]
3: /usr/bin/X11/X (0x8048000+0xbb0b6) [0x81030b6]
4: /usr/bin/X11/X (0x8048000+0xbc3ef) [0x81043ef]
5: /usr/bin/X11/X (0x8048000+0x26ee7) [0x806eee7]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X (0x8048000+0x1a5da) [0x80625da]
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8: /usr/bin/X11/X (0x8048000+0x1a1b1) [0x80621b1]
Segmentation fault at address 0x32156654
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
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<p>So, how can I recover from this?</p>
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29931 | 1 | 29989 | 2011-03-11T15:13:05.580 | 18 | 8639 | <p><strong>UPDATE: I found <a href="https://www.youneedabudget.com/features" rel="nofollow">YNAB</a></strong> which runs very nice in wine too. (The upcoming version 5 appears to be web-based instead.)</p>
<hr>
<p>I'm looking for something to replace my MS Money 2004 application. </p>
<ul>
<li>I've tried KMyMoney which seems pretty simple (that's good!) but it can't import the OFC files I get from my bank, so I would have to enter everything manually = not good.</li>
<li>I've tried GnuCash which does import OFC files but I can't wrap my mind around this double-entry philosophy. It may be good for accounting but not for home use.</li>
<li>I've tried to make MS Money run in Wine with some success but it was hard to make it work and I'd have to re-do that on my new machine. This is still a useful alternative for me though...</li>
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<p><strong>Is there a similar tool</strong> that <strong>can import OFC files</strong> and that <strong>doesn't do double-entry</strong> accounting? Tax capability is not needed for me, I only do after-tax numbers. Some nice dashboard views (upcoming bills, future cash flow, total net worth) and some graphs would be a definite bonus!</p>
<p><em>Update:</em> I'm in Austria (Europe!) so purely US-based tools like Mint aren't relevant. Also, I really DO mean <code>OFC</code> format, not <code>OFX</code>. I have to use whatever my bank offers, even if some say it's an old format.</p>
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"text": "I've finally begun using Skrooge seriously, and it is wonderful. Especially being able to make one change on several transactions at once (like setting category) is very useful. Reporting is confusing, and budgeting baffled me - but I'll spend more time with those features later on.",
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"text": "one thing that bothers me: all \"amount\" columns are formatted as \"US$ 12345.67\" and date fields as \"MM/DD/YY\" even though my system has other regional settings. Is Skrooge ignoring my regional settings because it's a KDE program running in Ubuntu/Unity?",
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"text": "installed Skrooge Ubuntu 17.04. Imported OFX without a problem. Will test Skrooge. But, regardless of whether I adopt it or not, thank you - from one developer to another! : )",
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29932 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T15:14:19.977 | 5 | 939 | <p>I used to do something similar with yum on CentOS. I think there was a --enable-repo and --disable-repo param.</p>
<p>Is there something that exists for <code>apt-get install <some pkg></code> that will restrict to <code>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/<somefile></code>?</p>
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29940 | 1 | 29941 | 2011-03-11T15:50:30.073 | 5 | 990 | <p>Nautilus seems to list all partitions under "devices". </p>
<p>On my system, this includes a Windows 7 partition and a "System Reserved" partition created by Windows.</p>
<p>I would prefer to hide those two partitions. Is it possible?</p>
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29942 | 1 | 29952 | 2011-03-11T16:22:22.763 | 447 | 203074 | <p>I frequently ssh into my box at home from school, but usually when I change classes and my computer suspends, the pipe will be broken. However, ssh simply locks up - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>c</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>z</kbd> and <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>d</kbd> have no effect. </p>
<p>It's annoying to have to restart my terminal, and even more annoying to have to close and re-create a new screen window.</p>
<p>So my question, is there an easy way to make ssh die properly (i.e. when the pipe fails "normally" it will exit with a message about a broken pipe)? Or do I have to figure out what the PID is and manually kill it?</p>
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"text": "@Hitechcomputergeek `Enter` `~` `~` `.` Since `~` `~` sends a literal `~` through your SSH session, the second SSH session will receive it as a single tilde and will interpret the `.` as part of the escape. To send to the 5th nested ssh session, just use 5 tildes in your escape sequence.",
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29950 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T17:07:52.070 | 5 | 7221 | <p>I installed Ubuntu on my notebook yesterday. All right except wi-fi connection.</p>
<p>I found wi-fi network (based on D-link dir-300) and connected. But it works too slow and disconnect every 1-3 minutes. You can say that maybe problem is in connection but on my notebook i have windows 7 and ubuntu 10.10 and in windows i have no such problem. Windows works well with wi-fi. But Ubuntu...</p>
<p>I have:</p>
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<p>DSL internet connection. modem is
connected to router. Router connected
with desktop by wire and with notebook
samsung R528 by wifi. Router - D-link
DIR-300.</p>
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<p>Rusult of lspci -k is:</p>
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Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e025
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
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<p>Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>P.S.</p>
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<p>I wrote this message from Windows 7. I
edited this message from Ubuntu but i
see that internet works more slower
than in Windows 7.</p>
<p>Firefox on Winddows 7 loads this page in ~ 2-3 seconds
Firefox on Ubuntu 10.10 loads this page in ~ 20 seconds</p>
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29957 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T18:11:14.887 | 2 | 2508 | <p>I recently bought a new HP DV6-3118SA laptop, but I am having a very discouraging problem with the graphics card. The graphics card is Radeon Mobility HD 5470. It doesn't install by default, but I do get some message suggesting to install the driver. If I install that driver, the next time I reboot, the screen goes blank and that's it! The same happens if I install the proprietary driver (fglrx) from ATI website.</p>
<p>Could you please help me with this?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong>: Following @Ronald and @Oli advice, I am dumping the output of <code>lspci -k</code>:</p>
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29958 | 1 | 29963 | 2011-03-11T18:21:10.480 | 30 | 119920 | <p>I'm confident that I do not need a password for my computer. How do I remove passwords for things like when the screensaver activates and installing software?</p>
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29959 | 1 | 39136 | 2011-03-11T18:29:35.793 | 3 | 319 | <p>I am not able to download packages through Ubuntu Software Centre when connected to Cisco VPN. However, I am able to do the same from Synaptic by adding proxy settings.</p>
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29961 | 1 | 30333 | 2011-03-11T18:33:36.520 | 9 | 1036 | <p>With regard to kernels and backports, I noted a backported kernel available to 10.04 LTS builds, slightly older than the cutting-edge kernels in 10.10. Any reason for a lack of backports for them? (although the currently backported kernel for lucid is 2.6.35, >= 2.6.36 is newer and seems to be in the 10.10 and later repositories)</p>
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29969 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T18:54:19.747 | 33 | 9561 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/126540/how-to-add-a-show-desktop-icon-to-the-launcher">How to add a “Show desktop” icon to the launcher?</a> </p>
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<p>I miss the symbol to show the desktop with just one click when using Unity instead of the classic desktop.</p>
<p>Is there a possibility to get the "Show Desktop" applet or an equivalent? There is a bug report on:</p>
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<li><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/681348" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bug #681348</a> <em>("Add 'show me the desktop' keyboard or Unity dock shortcut")</em></li>
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<p>Can people suggest any workarounds in the mean-time?</p>
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29973 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T19:17:00.443 | 5 | 1971 | <p>Is it possible to put a shortcut to a file (like a application launcher but opens a file instead of launching a program) in the Unity launcher, and if so, how?</p>
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29974 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T19:23:48.750 | 0 | 1446 | <p>I am trying to set up a VPN in a virtual box machine running Ubuntu 10.10. All attempts so far have failed and even when I set up the VPN it keeps saying failed connection. Any help at all here would be much appreciated.</p>
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29983 | 1 | 29987 | 2011-03-11T21:43:17.713 | 1 | 1345 | <p>Is the top panel of Unity transparent or solid by default at the moment?</p>
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29984 | 1 | 30026 | 2011-03-11T21:43:24.903 | 1 | 3505 | <p>I recently bought a new HP DV6-3118SA laptop, but I am having a very discouraging problem with wireless LAN. It simply doesn't work!</p>
<p>Could you please help me with this?</p>
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29990 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T22:11:19.683 | 0 | 1626 | <p>With Natty coming out soon, I've been at work updating my deployment and self-config script to make my desktop on 11.04 run and look the way I want it to.</p>
<p>One bummer is that dbus seems to have changed and does not permit, in the same manner Lucid and Maverick did, the authentication of the current user by terminal call using grep and cat.</p>
<p>Ideally, to run the script, I would sudo -s and then launch it as</p>
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<p>Instead of returning my user name.. it now returns root and applies changes to the root profile and aborts whenever paths do not correspond.</p>
<p>Here is my script header:</p>
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ON_USER=$(echo ~ | awk -F'/' '{ print $1 $2 $3 }' | sed 's/home//g')
export $(grep -v "^#" ~/.dbus/session-bus/`cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`-0)
if sudo -u $ON_USER test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ;
then eval `sudo -u $ON_USER dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi
RELEASE=$(lsb_release -cs)
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<p>How could I make it return the actual user now that natty is coming?</p>
<p>Thanks for the help</p>
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29992 | 1 | null | 2011-03-11T22:35:23.690 | 5 | 468 | <p>I have a "stop sign" instead of a language icon in my notification area. How can I fix it?</p>
<p>It also a stop sign instead of a language icon in the login window after suspend</p>
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29997 | 1 | 30001 | 2011-03-11T23:17:15.807 | 6 | 4922 | <p>First off, I've read through this question: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5558/how-to-install-minecraft">How can I install Minecraft?</a>. I'm interested in the free web-embedded version <a href="http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">(for demo purposes)</a>, not the paid and downloaded .jar file.</p>
<p>I removed the open-java whatever that Ubuntu prefers to use. I installed <code>sun-java6-jre</code>. Then I ran <code>sudo update-alternatives --config java</code> to ensure I was using Sun's Java. Restarted my browsers, then tried to start the game from: <a href="http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp</a></p>
<p>It pops a prompt to make sure I really want to allow direct interaction between minecraft.net and my computer, I agree. The in browser display mumbles something about loading a library, then darkness. The page doesn't crash, <code>ps</code> shows the java plugin process, all seems well except the game doesn't load.</p>
<p>I see the same behaviour on Chromium 11.0.662.0 (73963) as Firefox 4 RC1.</p>
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